Worst Trades in History

[cambad]

One of recent memory perpetrated by the Bears....a certain N.Buckley for C.Starcevich.

Hilarious. I would hope that the club officials and agents involved had Dencorub applied to the sensitive areas.



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[Magpie-Fletch]

C'mon Cam, your forgetting the Lions got Troy Lehmann as well. haha

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[windyhill]

Lloyd,for williams,ridley,kickett,delaney.Did this deal on the proviso that freo would not trade with hawthorn who had lined Lloyd up.Thanks must also go to Ian blueboy collins for changing the father son rule which stopped Lloydy going to that carlton filth

 

[windyhill]

Has to be carey/longmire for 75,000 though would it not ? swans would have had the flag in 1996 with carey.

 

[QT]

How bout for both teams, Ian Downsborough went to the crows, and charlmers went to port. Pathetic trade, both players got delisted within 2 seasons......

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[RogerC]

to my memory, Buckley was going anyway. Nobody was in any doubt that he was a great player, but there was no way Brisbane could hang on to him. so I don't know that it qualifies aa a bad trade as such.

 

[Mr Ripper]

windyhill concludes:
Has to be carey/longmire for 75,000 though would it not ? swans would have had the flag in 1996 with carey.

But they wouldn't have had an opponent!

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[karnaby]

Ian Stewart, Brownlow Medal for Tiges
Bill Barrott, 2(?) games for Saints

There's a few more in our history I'm not too keen on thinking about either.

 

[Pride of the Bay]

Worst trade, easy
Andrew McLeod for Chris Groom
Freo had first choice and swapped Macca for Adelaide`s Groom and a lower draft pick.
Two premierships along with two Norm Smith medals, you guys tell me who got the thin edge of the wedge?

Pride

 

[Danny Chook Fan Club]

I've got a soft spot for Aaron Lord for Tim Hargreaves, if only for the fact that some other club wanted the great Hawthorn number 22.

Say what you like about our Aaron (I know I do), but he's good for 40 goals when fit. As for Hargie, any details on his current whereabouts would be greatly appreciated.

 

[The Dutchman!]

Neville Fields

for

Terry and Neale Daniher.

Nuff said

 

[Blues2001]

For us blueboys:

Best: Greg Williams for Simon Minton Connell
(we also lost Andrew Cavedon to Fitzroy in a complicated deal - and he was of far less use than Minton Connell!)

Worst: Just recently - Justin Murphy for no. 11 draft pick. Stupid Stupid Stupid. I hope Sporn (I think that's his name) proves me wrong and becomes a champion though.

 

[brissy_lionsgal]

Yeah, you're right RogerC. Buckley wanted to leave the Bears to play in the finals (at the end of 1994, i think, but don't quote me on that).

Great choice Apricot Jam.

 

[brissy_lionsgal]

Here, I've got another good one.

CALTHORPE for ANYONE. I don't know what the lions were thinking a couple of seasons ago, or what the Kangaroos were thinking since.

[This message has been edited by brissy_lionsgal (edited 28 February 2001).]

 

[Macca19]

Originally posted by cambad:
One of recent memory perpetrated by the Bears....a certain N.Buckley for C.Starcevich.

Hilarious. I would hope that the club officials and agents involved had Dencorub applied to the sensitive areas.

You need to get the full story to understand that properly. Collingwood i remember drafted Buckley, but because Buckley sort of rigged the draft (wrote letters to bottom clubs saying he would not play if drafted) the AFL sent him to brisbane for a year, then to join collingwood after 1993. Same thing with Chalmers, he got drafted by collingwood but got told he had to go to the crows

 

[AlfAndrews]

Until the other night I've been spewing over Collingwood's trade of Clinton King for McKee at the end of 1999.

But I thought McKee played well the other night and it has been revealed that he was actually suffering from a fairly serious illness last year. So he might not turn out to be the dud we all think he is after all.

Here's hoping, anyway.

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[Rooboy 96]

Fremantle's delisting of Peter Bell at the end of 95... two premierships later... Fremantle trade Jess Sinclair and draft picks 6 8 and 39... to Kangaroos... for something they already had...

Almost equal to Longmire/Carey Deal....

 

[BUBBALOUIS]

Originally posted by Magpie-Fletch:
C'mon Cam, your forgetting the Lions got Troy Lehmann as well. haha

From memory the Buckley deal also included a high draft pick which allowed Brissy to pick up Voss or Chris Scott, not sure, does anyone know?

 

[Frodo]

Best trade.

Mick Malthouse seen at a local pub at end of last season with 26 gold watches on the bar.

'Wot's them for Mick?'

'I got them for me best 26 players'

'Bloody good trade that mate'

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[The invisible mullet]

John McCarthy for John Blakey. Close to 200 games later...

 

[JUBJUB]

Originally posted by Danny Chook Fan Club:


Say what you like about our Aaron (I know I do), but he's good for 40 goals when fit. As for Hargie, any details on his current whereabouts would be greatly appreciated.

Danny
Thats the problem with FABIO Lord,he's injury prone.May the drugs his on will finally work.

Hargreaves was playing in the Ovens & Murray league.He plays for Yarrawonga I think.


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[ant]

Freo must have about 15 of the worst trades in the history of the game. Has anyone seen the team they could have had if they picked the right players??

 

[CURVE]

Mullet, you beat me to it. Are you the President of the "I love John Blakey" fan club??

 

[dees01]

Melbourne got Craig Turley from the Eagles. What a waste. Another was Scott Chisolm. Thank God he has gone now.

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[Grendel]

Danny, Tim Hargreaves was actually invited to the Blues pre-season training this year. They didnt pick him up though, damn.

Bubba, spot on re the Buckley draft pick, the (then) Bears picked up Scott, whos not quite the footballer that Bucks is, but still has been good for them.

Dud draft deals, Sharkey for Gibson. I challenge anyone to top that. Talk about lose/lose.

Yea that bloody Freo 3 way with the Dons. We got shafted, Lloyd was thhhiiisssss close to being signed. Still it could have been worse, he could have gone to Carlton!!