Trades that hurt your club

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Chasing Mitch Brown like a lovesick teenager for two weeks last year, because both he and the Eagles kept stringing us along and we were foolish enough not to walk away and look elsewhere.

And now he has signed a new three year deal with them! :mad:
 

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On Sunday night, Fox footy are screening a special called 'Richmond - The Lost Years', which starts off with the disastrous trade of three players (Brian Roberts, Graham Teasdale and Francis Jackson) and $40,000 cash for South Melbourne Defender John Pitura, which sowed the seeds for 30 years in the footy wilderness

Has your club had any similar trades which have significantly hurt your club? For Adelaide, the 1998 post season trade of Tony Modra to Fremantle was very sad.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl...ent-tigers-broke/story-e6frf3e3-1226686182797
What was worse was trading Pick 2 and 18(?) for Carey.
Missed out on Daniel Wells in a fairly shallow draft.
 
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As you got him for absolutely nothing (because he absconded from the country rather than deal with St Kildas contract offer), I suspect trolling.

If you don't want him, we'll happily take him back. Add in Sammy Dwyer while you are at it, I'd prefer an ex-Borough player at my AFL club if he isn't in the red and blue.
 

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mckernan is a better full back than full forward, check out his game in 11 vs cats at full back, he could replace truck and let hartigan / shaw play 3rd tall

I dunno if I'd want McKernan playing in defence. For starters he has one of the lowest football IQ's going around. He's always giving away stupid free kicks. I wouldn't want him costing us goals with his brain fades. Secondly, he looks like tarzan but plays like jane. His tackling and physical presence is woeful for a guy his size. From an athletic point of view, he has the tools but I wouldn't back him to beat any of the leagues better tall forwards one on one.

All that said though, I'm convinced he's one of the worst tall forwards I've ever seen. At least there is still a possibility he might make a decent defender.
 

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To be fair, Brock wanted out ..so the club can't be blamed for that ...however, playing him out of position is another matter .
Yeah yeah a cheeky backhander about tanking from a carlton supporter

But really though we could have used a mid 20's midfielder right about now
 

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I dunno if I'd want McKernan playing in defence. For starters he has one of the lowest football IQ's going around. He's always giving away stupid free kicks. I wouldn't want him costing us goals with his brain fades. Secondly, he looks like tarzan but plays like jane. His tackling and physical presence is woeful for a guy his size. From an athletic point of view, he has the tools but I wouldn't back him to beat any of the leagues better tall forwards one on one.

All that said though, I'm convinced he's one of the worst tall forwards I've ever seen. At least there is still a possibility he might make a decent defender.
His free kick count for the year is shockin, that elbow against wce looked hideous from 30m away, him and S thompson give away half the teams frees, I dunno what it is about Thommo but he seems to enjoy getting on everyones back, mayby he is trying to be a really really bad ass tagger... and yes McKernan has a lot of developing to do in his game (big men always take longer... 4 years is a very long time in footy), he has shown glimpses as a good ruckman who can at best be a resting forward but thats about it, u never know he might have a break out year, but his best game was at full back! odd. Still not sure why Graham was recruited tho, besides being a back up for the back ups, worst case Mckernan and Jenkins have rucked but Graham??? I dont understand teams recruiting sometimes
 

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Thanks for Jack Newnes by the way... Win Win ;)
yeah hes turned out really good, both clubs got what each other needed... without lynch we would of won 3-4 games, without Newnes theres not much else in the saints future apart from steven, geary and a handfull of others who are kept out by the oldies
 

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I seem to associate the Ken Judge years with awful jumpers and trading in a plethora of hacks. But somehow we managed a flag a few years later.
 

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Surprised noone mentioned the Tippett trade/pick up. Since we signed him, he got knocked out in his first game, fell over onto Tom Mitchell and broke his back. His overpriced contract meant that Jetta, Hanners, Parker are looking to seek trades as they won't get enough moola at the Swans.

Not to mention his d!ckhead attitude is annoying the leadership group, and when they were in Perth last time, Tippett and the younger boys went and bashed Cousins in front of his family.
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The Jade Rawlings to the Dogs deal was both dodgy and bad for the club long term... As was Koops, Bandy, Sherman, Vez...
The Lachlan Veale Meal Deal torpedoed several clubs in one hit.

Nathan Brown wanted out. We were offered picks 6 and 20. Some thought this was poor compensation. I say not. We traded pick 6 to Hawthorn (who had been offered pick 9 for Jade Rawlings) for Lachlan Veale on the proviso they dump Rawlings into the PSD where we had pick 1. Inexplicably, they decided Danny Jacobs from Essendon was worth pick 6 and traded it on to the Bombers who used it to select Kepler Bradley, whom they delisted several seasons later.

Brown breaks leg in second year and is never the same.
Rawlings has a bung knee and plays reserves in his second season before being traded to North where he played two games.
Jacobs retires with a bung knee after a grand total of 33 games for the Hawks.
Bradley delisted after four seasons with Essendon (and has lasted six seasons on Freo's list somehow).

Then pick 20 - traded from Richmond to us, we passed it on to Geelong for Peter Street (who gave great comedy value at least before leaving us for the police force) who traded it for David Haynes (two seasons, 19 games) from West Coast who spent it on Sam Butler who, to his credit, has scraped his way to 100 games after never having played more than 16 games in his ten seasons.
 

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Caracella and Hardwick were losses, wouldnt called them disasters though. Blumfield and Heffernan were ordinary players.
They were all very important players in the 2000 premiership side, though.

The other way to look at it (and I don't want to take it too off topic) is to look at who replaced those players.

Basically, of all the picks we ended up with in exchange for giving up those four, the best player we netted was Andrew Welsh at pick 47.

So the fact the 2001 and 2002 trade periods was a disaster was equally a product of having to give up decent and good players, and poor recruiting with the picks we got.
 
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