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.