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Dear oh dear Gralin. You aren't seriously suggesting where we finish this year has no bearing on what we paid for JOM are you?
We gave up this year's pick for St.Kilda's pick 10 which was was handed directly to GC for JOM. That we didn't know the value of what we were giving up at the time is ultimately irrelevant to its eventual value.
Certainly you can argue it was a calculated gamble in which some measure of leeway was expected, you can even suggest we had absolutely no way of knowing we'd be giving up such a valuable pick, but you absolutely cannot claim the eventual price will be irrelevant to future gauging of the trade's success of failure.
Otherwise, we may as well trade next year's 1st rounder for Tom Rockliff. Where we finish next year would be irrelevant to the value of the pick we'd be handing over according to your logic, so it'd be a perfectly acceptable trade if we happened to win the wooden spoon & give them pick 1 right?
We gave up this year's pick for St.Kilda's pick 10 which was was handed directly to GC for JOM. That we didn't know the value of what we were giving up at the time is ultimately irrelevant to its eventual value.
Certainly you can argue it was a calculated gamble in which some measure of leeway was expected, you can even suggest we had absolutely no way of knowing we'd be giving up such a valuable pick, but you absolutely cannot claim the eventual price will be irrelevant to future gauging of the trade's success of failure.
Otherwise, we may as well trade next year's 1st rounder for Tom Rockliff. Where we finish next year would be irrelevant to the value of the pick we'd be handing over according to your logic, so it'd be a perfectly acceptable trade if we happened to win the wooden spoon & give them pick 1 right?
Where that 1st rounder lands has no bearing on the HFC from the moment it leaves our hands, so I am with Gralin.
The only people who will revisit it are the *******s in the media(barrret and Ralph)and on bigfooty, with all their beautiful and pointless hindsight that means nothing. The deal will be long done and will be a success on the back of what JOM has done by the time he retires, not where we finish in 2017.
And this trade deal was never due for review in June/July or even August of 2017. Much like the Burgoyne trade, this deal was about the long term.

