Worst Trades In AFL History!!!

Chambo

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Todd Ridley for Draft compensatory selection (Matthew Lloyd)

Tony Delaney for Pick #4 (Scott Lucas)

Andy McLoed for Chris Groom

Jess Sinclair and picks 6 & 8 for Peter Bell (when they had him in the first place)

Jeff Farmer for Phil Gilbert (14 games)

Pick #17 (james Kelly) for Jeff Farmer (they could have had him all along)

Phil Matera for David Hynes (13 games)

Pick #1 for Trent Croad (great player now, but offered Freo nothing) (pick #1 hodge ball judd????)

Adrian Fletcher for pick #5 (luke Power)

Darryl Wakelin for Douglas Headland (0 games)

David Wirrpunda for Tony Godden (11 games)

Chad Morrison for Brendan Krummel (1 game)

Steven King for Stephen O'Reilly (98 games)

All these trades involve Freo, gee they have made some massive blunders over the years LOL!!! given the draft picks given away for players such as Tony Godden and Brendan Krummel doesnt mean they would have wirrpunda and King etc, but those picks were used for those players.
 

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Pick 3 for McKee. Cost Collingwood dearly and they are will keep paying for another 8 to 10 years.
Pick 3 (Aaron Fiora) and Clinton King
FOR
Pick 7 (Danny Roach) and Steve McKee

We could've had Pavlich, yes, however, that trade actually does us favour in the results. McKee was a key player in getting us to the 2002 Grand Final. Danny Roach was probably the biggest mistake of a draftee though.
 

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And the point of this thread is? You won't hear any of us denying that we had rubbish management in the early years, even if the opening post relies on the myth that we "could have had Lloyd".


Great to see pies posters contributing though, who passed up Pavlich for featherweight Fraser again?
 

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Longmire ($40,000) and a kid named Carey ($10,000).
offloaded by Sydney to Kangaroos during one of Sydneys
'we need the bucks' deals in the late 80's.
 

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From a Brisbane perspective to get only Troy Lehman and Craig Starcevich for Nathan Buckley.

Cupido and Zantack to Essnedon
 

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From a Brisbane perspective to get only Troy Lehman and Craig Starcevich for Nathan Buckley.

Cupido and Zantack to Essnedon
Cupido is one more "crowd inciting jesture" away from being dumped from the South Adelaide senior side.

Cupido for a ham sandwich would have been fair
 

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Jeez, I've never had any of this brought to my attention before, we do suck don't we??!!!!:)



Is it that time of the hour already? :rolleyes:
 

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Pick 3 (Aaron Fiora) and Clinton King
FOR
Pick 7 (Danny Roach) and Steve McKee

We could've had Pavlich, yes, however, that trade actually does us favour in the results. McKee was a key player in getting us to the 2002 Grand Final. Danny Roach was probably the biggest mistake of a draftee though.
Mate in 100 years of trying you will never convince that giving up a pick we knew was either Haselby or Pavlich for a ruckman that couldn’t ruck was a good move let alone not a disastrous one.

Not only did we pass up a gun which ended up being Pavlich, we took a player that was incapable of playing his position to an AFL level as proven by his omission in 2003 and subsequent delisting. To say he was a key part of 2002 is just wrong. The truth is he was a key to us losing a flag in 2002. We lost that GF in the ruck. McKee did play a vital role in the QF v Port but contrary to popular belief he didn't beat Primus he made sure the ruck was a contest and the clearances went to the better contesting midfield. Had we not taken him in 1999 we may very well have been forced to have taken a real ruckman who we may have helped us win in 2002 and who we may still have today as the only decent ruckman on our list (Fraser’s very good around the ground work notwithstanding. At the very least we would have had Pavlich in 2002, 2003, today and for the next 8 or so years.
 

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#18
Chambo said:
Todd Ridley for Draft compensatory selection (Matthew Lloyd)

Tony Delaney for Pick #4 (Scott Lucas)

Andy McLoed for Chris Groom

Jess Sinclair and picks 6 & 8 for Peter Bell (when they had him in the first place)

Jeff Farmer for Phil Gilbert (14 games)

Pick #17 (james Kelly) for Jeff Farmer (they could have had him all along)

Phil Matera for David Hynes (13 games)

Pick #1 for Trent Croad (great player now, but offered Freo nothing) (pick #1 hodge ball judd????)

Adrian Fletcher for pick #5 (luke Power)

Darryl Wakelin for Douglas Headland (0 games)

David Wirrpunda for Tony Godden (11 games)

Chad Morrison for Brendan Krummel (1 game)

Steven King for Stephen O'Reilly (98 games)

All these trades involve Freo, gee they have made some massive blunders over the years LOL!!! given the draft picks given away for players such as Tony Godden and Brendan Krummel doesnt mean they would have wirrpunda and King etc, but those picks were used for those players.
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King , Lloyd, Morrison and Wirrapanda were never available to Freo and were infact equivilant to PP's to the respective clubs that got them.

Interesting that the Clubs that recieved these rorts make a big deal about "not bottoming out" along with the Kangaroos and Adelaide.
 

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Chambo said:
Todd Ridley for Draft compensatory selection (Matthew Lloyd)
Tony Delaney for Pick #4 (Scott Lucas)
Andy McLoed for Chris Groom
Jess Sinclair and picks 6 & 8 for Peter Bell (when they had him in the first place)
Jeff Farmer for Phil Gilbert (14 games)
Pick #17 (james Kelly) for Jeff Farmer (they could have had him all along)
Phil Matera for David Hynes (13 games)
Pick #1 for Trent Croad (great player now, but offered Freo nothing) (pick #1 hodge ball judd????)
Adrian Fletcher for pick #5 (luke Power)
Darryl Wakelin for Douglas Headland (0 games)
David Wirrpunda for Tony Godden (11 games)
Chad Morrison for Brendan Krummel (1 game)
Steven King for Stephen O'Reilly (98 games)

All these trades involve Freo, gee they have made some massive blunders over the years LOL!!! given the draft picks given away for players such as Tony Godden and Brendan Krummel doesnt mean they would have wirrpunda and King etc, but those picks were used for those players.
Bullsh*t post.

Most of these "trades" weren't trades at all. Freo picked up a lot of these players for nothing, as they were out of contract. The other clubs were then offered supplementary picks as compensation. They were never a chance to get Lloyd, King, Wirrpunda, etc.

Some of your other examples (McLeod, Farmer, etc) involve players who were never at Fremantle. The Dockers might've held the "rights" to these guys, but the players concerned simply didn't want to play for them and Freo did okay getting whatever they could in return.

Croad was not traded for the number 1 pick. The Dockers held out on this trade and were threatening to grab Luke McPharlin as their number pick in the February draft. The trade was Croad and McPharlin for picks 1, 20 and 36. (These picks netted Hodge and Mitchell for Hawthorn)

Freo have made some blunders but there is no need to exaggerate them.

Edit: You failed to mention one of their worst trades. Nuggety tagger, Chris Bond crossed from Richmond in exchange for pick 2 in 1997 (Brad Ottens) I could be wrong about the year, but I'm pretty sure it was a number 2 pick. The Dockers saw something in Bond they were lacking (toughness and leadership) but he never really gave them much of a return on their investment - 2 seasons I think, then he retired.
 

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mal michael for jarrod molloy
This one always comes to mind as I think it was a straight player for player swap only, doesn't happen very often.

Fantastic player Mal Michael, he doesn't get injured very often, how many games has he played.
 

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Whatever Geelong gave up for Brad Ottens :eek:
We gave up Moloney who hasn't exactly set the world on fire through the latter half of last year and the first half of this year, plus picks 12 and 16, which were used to get Danny Meyer and Adam Pattison, Meyer was good last week, Pattison has potential but not starring in anyone's imagination. We will only win out if we win a flag and at this point that looks unlikely this year!
 

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#24
Chambo said:
Pick #1 for Trent Croad (great player now, but offered Freo nothing) (pick #1 hodge ball judd????)
I'd do that trade again if I was Freo - They got Croad and McPharlin in that deal, and then traded Croad back for Pick #10 - Luke McPharlin and Pick #10 is still a pretty good trade.

But yeah, overall farcical thread, as most of these players weren't available to Fremantle, they were just over-compensation to the clubs that lost players to Freo - It would have made sense to just let Freo take some of those kids instead of letting the other teams take them because Freo picked up a fringe player.
 

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Yes, he is terrible. Hopefuly we can come up with a trade and secure someone like Zac Dawson who looks to have a bright future
You are correct, Zac is 19 with a very bright future....He will be better than Doull and Silvagni.........................................................................waits for the uproar:eek:
 
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