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Post: # 1703129Post Drake Huggins »

Any way you add it up, it's hilarious. One can only hope he stuffs this year's trades up as badly. I know Schadenfreude is not a healthy thing to indulge in, but in this case, a little of what's bad for you is actually good.


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Post: # 1703130Post degruch »

Sainter_Dad wrote:
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Captain Impossible wrote:I thought Essendon used our pick 5 on Darcy Parish?
They did...Francis was #6. However, our #5 became #6 because of a change in the draft order...can't remember why.
No - no - no - no - no

Our pick 5 became pick 6 due to draft re-ordering (academy etc) Parish was always going with Essendons first pick (4 became 5) and Francis was the pick that we gave them - pick 6 (after adjustments for inflation - or whatever)

Essendon Pick 4 --> Pick 5 --> Darcy Parish
St Kilda Pick 5 --> Pick 6 --> Aaron Francis
:lol: Isn't that exactly what I've just explained?
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Post: # 1703132Post degruch »

Drake Huggins wrote:Any way you add it up, it's hilarious. One can only hope he stuffs this year's trades up as badly. I know Schadenfreude is not a healthy thing to indulge in, but in this case, a little of what's bad for you is actually good.
There's a hell of a lot of Schadenfreude to go under the bridge still.


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degruch wrote:
Sainter_Dad wrote:
degruch wrote:
Captain Impossible wrote:I thought Essendon used our pick 5 on Darcy Parish?
They did...Francis was #6. However, our #5 became #6 because of a change in the draft order...can't remember why.
No - no - no - no - no

Our pick 5 became pick 6 due to draft re-ordering (academy etc) Parish was always going with Essendons first pick (4 became 5) and Francis was the pick that we gave them - pick 6 (after adjustments for inflation - or whatever)

Essendon Pick 4 --> Pick 5 --> Darcy Parish
St Kilda Pick 5 --> Pick 6 --> Aaron Francis
:lol: Isn't that exactly what I've just explained?
It’s your first two words that don’t match the rest of what you wrote.


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kosifantutti wrote:
degruch wrote:
Sainter_Dad wrote:
degruch wrote:
Captain Impossible wrote:I thought Essendon used our pick 5 on Darcy Parish?
They did...Francis was #6. However, our #5 became #6 because of a change in the draft order...can't remember why.
No - no - no - no - no

Our pick 5 became pick 6 due to draft re-ordering (academy etc) Parish was always going with Essendons first pick (4 became 5) and Francis was the pick that we gave them - pick 6 (after adjustments for inflation - or whatever)

Essendon Pick 4 --> Pick 5 --> Darcy Parish
St Kilda Pick 5 --> Pick 6 --> Aaron Francis
:lol: Isn't that exactly what I've just explained?
It’s your first two words that don’t match the rest of what you wrote.
Ah, got it. In the spirit of the trade period, I'd much rather move up a thread and trade 'our', than offload 'they did', as they've brought some real X factor to the conversation.


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bergsone wrote:Lets hope we keep these bad trades coming
We could offer them Paddy for picks 11 and 28 (soon to be 29)


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Post: # 1703760Post beebarry »

Am I missing something ?

Essendon drafted Parish with out Pick 5 .....a definite winner there .....they drafted Francis at 6.

So Parish and Bird for Gresham and Carlisle ....we are still ahead on that one at the moment but not by as much as it would have been with Francis ....Parish will be a gun ....


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Am I missing something ?

Essendon drafted Parish with out Pick 5 .....a definite winner there .....they drafted Francis at 6.

So Parish and Bird for Gresham and Carlisle ....we are still ahead on that one at the moment but not by as much as it would have been with Francis ....Parish will be a gun ....


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Post: # 1703762Post Mr Magic »

beebarry wrote:Am I missing something ?

Essendon drafted Parish with out Pick 5 .....a definite winner there .....they drafted Francis at 6.

So Parish and Bird for Gresham and Carlisle ....we are still ahead on that one at the moment but not by as much as it would have been with Francis ....Parish will be a gun ....
Yes, you are missing something.
The pick we gave Essendon for Carlisle was originally #5 but it moved to #6 because of what transpired during picks 1-3.
Essendon already had pick #4 which became pick #5 - this they used on Parish.
Our pick (traded for Carlisle) became pick #6 (straight after the Parish pick) and was used on Francis.


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I still rank the Carlisle trade as the best we've done in my memory. Carlisle and Gresham for pick 5 and what effectively became pick 29, which the dopers spent on Morgan, who looks like being delisted after just two years. Poor lad has chronic hamstring problems and hasn't been able to play. We are that far in front in that deal, they will never catch up.


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Post: # 1703769Post lewdogs »

Y'know what, on top of the Francis debacle, have to say I don't really rate Parish that highly either. Kicks the ball like Clint Jones; horrible action.


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Not sure we should be throwing stones. As far as I'm concerned, Lovett for 16 and getting sfa for Ball are both right up there.


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Drake Huggins wrote:I still rank the Carlisle trade as the best we've done in my memory. Carlisle and Gresham for pick 5 and what effectively became pick 29, which the dopers spent on Morgan, who looks like being delisted after just two years. Poor lad has chronic hamstring problems and hasn't been able to play. We are that far in front in that deal, they will never catch up.
+1
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Having lost him for 12 months really hurt, but we couldn't predict that.
Some might suggest the gap year gave him time to physically n spiritually freshen up,
so it might be a blessing in disguise.

The only sour point is revealing how hot we were for Jakey,
and just like a house auction, we drove the price up.


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Craig Bird has been delisted. I wont know what this means until I hear from David King.


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8856brother wrote:Not sure we should be throwing stones. As far as I'm concerned, Lovett for 16 and getting sfa for Ball are both right up there.
Normally I would agree, but Bomber fans took every opportunity to throw of stones.

Pick 16 for Lovett - yes, we're still the big losers on that one and it will always be arguably the worse trade in the history of the trade period. But what did the Dons spend pick 16 on? Williams from the Hawks, so they were hardly laughing all the way to the bank on that one. My Bomber mates are always very quick to change the topic when that gets mentioned.

They also dug the boot in after the WADA ban. "Thanks heaps for pick 5" and "how much are you paying Carlisle for not playing this year?", etc. Now they tell me how much they miss him.

The Bombers are standing in a glass house also. That being said, they're still ahead of us in being a "destination" club and make us look like rookies during the most recent trade period.


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parkeysainter wrote:But I thought the Saints were terrible at recruitment, trading and drafting? :)
:twisted: :twisted: :mrgreen:


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8856brother wrote:Not sure we should be throwing stones. As far as I'm concerned, Lovett for 16 and getting sfa for Ball are both right up there.
Yes. we have had our real bad ones. A really old trrible one was Billy Barret for Ian Stewart. Barret lasted a week, Stewart a Brownlow later.


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8856brother wrote:Not sure we should be throwing stones. As far as I'm concerned, Lovett for 16 and getting sfa for Ball are both right up there.
Typical victim mentality.

Who cares what's happened in the past.

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8856brother wrote:Not sure we should be throwing stones. As far as I'm concerned, Lovett for 16 and getting sfa for Ball are both right up there.


How much of Ball for SFA has influence the next St Kilda bloke requesting a trade... there's been none and if they do the clubs know they will have to pay up.

What Lyon lost in pick 30 for Ball he gained 100 times over getting pick 2 for Lachie Weller!


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Spinner wrote:
8856brother wrote:Not sure we should be throwing stones. As far as I'm concerned, Lovett for 16 and getting sfa for Ball are both right up there.


How much of Ball for SFA has influence the next St Kilda bloke requesting a trade... there's been none and if they do the clubs know they will have to pay up.

What Lyon lost in pick 30 for Ball he gained 100 times over getting pick 2 for Lachie Weller!
You do realise the comedy festival is over, Ross?
How is us gifting Collingwood a premiership compensated for by Freo receiving overs for Weller 7 years later?


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whiskers3614 wrote:
Spinner wrote:
8856brother wrote:Not sure we should be throwing stones. As far as I'm concerned, Lovett for 16 and getting sfa for Ball are both right up there.


How much of Ball for SFA has influence the next St Kilda bloke requesting a trade... there's been none and if they do the clubs know they will have to pay up.

What Lyon lost in pick 30 for Ball he gained 100 times over getting pick 2 for Lachie Weller!
You do realise the comedy festival is over, Ross?
How is us gifting Collingwood a premiership compensated for by Freo receiving overs for Weller 7 years later?


Incredible. The major reason we were reluctant to trade for 30 was that it WAS gifting a top 4 competitor... they actually did everything to avoid this and it was a massive result that Ball lasted until then.

The fact that your point contradicts your entire arguement yet you still write it is outrageous. Give me something better to work with :lol:


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