your assuming 100% professionalism and no ego is involvedThere's absolutely no evidence of 'bluff' or 'gambling' except in the heads of some posters here. None whatsoever.
Dodoro would lose his job, there are innumerable other people who would know what was supposed to happen, and he would lose his job if he had lost access to a genuine target playing such silly bugger games with a relatively high pick. It's nonsensical to believe this is what happened. I understand stand some people being disappointed in losing Moz, but such fanciful explanations as to why Essendon picked him are nothing more than deluded defence-mechanisms to make ourselves feel better.
Doesnt he have form I think with the Swans to get them to pay more ?