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  • Industrial Fan
    Goodesgoodesgoodesgoodes!
    • Aug 2006
    • 3317

    Originally posted by Legs Akimbo
    How would we have felt if Goodes had done this? Probably still have Membrey on our list..
    no veterans list means this type of thing will happen more and more imo.

    It might have been better 'business' but I would have been horrified seeing Goodes run around in a different jumper.
    He ate more cheese, than time allowed

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    • The Big Cat
      On the veteran's list
      • Apr 2006
      • 2349

      Originally posted by Legs Akimbo
      How would we have felt if Goodes had done this? Probably still have Membrey on our list..
      Yep. Another list clogger who we'd be trying to offload this trade period.
      Those who have the greatest power to hurt us are those we love.

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      • jono2707
        Goes up to 11
        • Oct 2007
        • 3326

        Tom-a-hawk and Sam the Eagle - who'da thunk it?

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        • Doctor J.
          Senior Player
          • Feb 2003
          • 1310

          Originally posted by Ludwig
          Tom to Hawthorn for pick 14 ONLY.
          Screwed completely. Now you watch us use this pick to select another Meredith or Dan O'keefe.

          How in gods name does the club see Mitchell as only worth pick 14. Drafted with pick 21 wasn't he?. 5 Years in the system and is a proven elite midfielder. My faith in the recruiters has been blown away on the basis of this one trade if it is true.
          Last edited by Doctor J.; 12 October 2016, 09:44 AM.

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          • bungwahl
            Warming the Bench
            • May 2009
            • 173

            Originally posted by Ludwig
            Tom to Hawthorn for pick 14 ONLY.
            Only Greg Denham's word so far, so take that with a bucket of salt.

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            • Plugger46
              Senior Player
              • Apr 2003
              • 3674

              Membrey a list-clogger? Wow. We were toiling away with X as a forward in the back half of the year. Membrey is significantly better (and younger) than him at this stage of their careers.
              Bloods

              "Lockett is the best of all time" - Robert Harvey, Darrel Baldock, Nathan Burke, Kevin Bartlett, Bob Skilton

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              • Dosser
                Just wild about Harry
                • Mar 2011
                • 1833

                Originally posted by Doctor J.
                Screwed completely. Now you watch us use this pick to select another Meredith or Dan O'keefe.

                How in gods name does the club see Mitchell as only worth pick 14. Drafted with pick 21 wasn't he?. 5 Years in the system and is a proven elite midfielder. My faith in the recruiters has been blown away on the basis of this one trade if it is true.
                The alternative is that we dont trade him and it blows our salary cap out of the water. Unfortunately, nobody has sscrewed us but ourselves.

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                • Ludwig
                  Veterans List
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 9359

                  It will be interesting to see what Bryce Gibbs goes for. I think Gibbs is the better player, but Tom is a high production midfielder and 4 years younger. Their stats are about equal.

                  Looks as though we couldn't offload Tom quick enough. Harley must have really been pissed off with him for lying to Annie.

                  Another theory is that if we get too many good players the AFL will crack down on us and take something else from us; maybe the academy. So we have to placate Chris Langford and hand Tom Mitchell over to Hawthorn.

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                  • mcs
                    Travelling Swannie!!
                    • Jul 2007
                    • 8149

                    Originally posted by Doctor J.
                    Screwed completely. Now you watch us use this pick to select another Meredith or Dan O'keefe.

                    How in gods name does the club see Mitchell as only worth pick 14. Drafted with pick 21 wasn't he?. 5 Years in the system and is a proven elite midfielder. My faith in the recruiters has been blown away on the basis of this one trade if it is true.
                    Its probably the best we are going to achieve - plus maybe a swap of later picks perhaps. Hawthorn haven't got a lot else they can offer, and we are in a position that we don't want an established player. Best to get what you can get sometimes - despite it probably being unders.
                    "You get the feeling that like Monty Python's Black Knight, the Swans would regard amputation as merely a flesh wound."

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                    • AnnieH
                      RWOs Black Sheep
                      • Aug 2006
                      • 11332

                      Originally posted by Ludwig
                      Tom to Hawthorn for pick 14 ONLY.
                      Screwed by whorethorn.
                      Again.

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                      Originally posted by Ludwig
                      It will be interesting to see what Bryce Gibbs goes for. I think Gibbs is the better player, but Tom is a high production midfielder and 4 years younger. Their stats are about equal.

                      Looks as though we couldn't offload Tom quick enough. Harley must have really been pissed off with him for lying to Annie.

                      Another theory is that if we get too many good players the AFL will crack down on us and take something else from us; maybe the academy. So we have to placate Chris Langford and hand Tom Mitchell over to Hawthorn.
                      I'm really pissed off he lied to me.
                      Lucky I'll never see him again, because he's going to get a most-deserving bitch slap if I do.
                      Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
                      Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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                      • Ludwig
                        Veterans List
                        • Apr 2007
                        • 9359

                        I'm starting to think that there may be more to this than originally reported. The news first came from Greg Denham and seemingly confirmed by Anthony Hudson. But the fact that some time has passed without official confirmation makes me think that there may be more to the deal than pick 14. It seems that Hawthorn are waiting on the Chris Mayne to Collingwood deal to close, so Freo will know if they can send their compo pick 23 or so for Brad Hill. This implies that the finalisation of the Tom Mitchell trade may rely on the picks from the Brad Hill deal.

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                        • Markwebbos
                          Veterans List
                          • Jul 2016
                          • 7186

                          Originally posted by mcs
                          Its probably the best we are going to achieve - plus maybe a swap of later picks perhaps. Hawthorn haven't got a lot else they can offer, and we are in a position that we don't want an established player. Best to get what you can get sometimes - despite it probably being unders.
                          There's a possibility Hawks could swap their pick 14 for Weagles pick 12 as part of the S Mitchell trade, but based on all the murmurings looks like pick 14 plus something else, possibly pick 34 if that's what Freo give up for Brad Hill

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                          • waswan
                            Senior Player
                            • Oct 2015
                            • 2047

                            Clearly everyone is on the table at Hawks now.
                            Mitchell, plus picks for Rioli

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                            • 0918330512
                              Senior Player
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 1654

                              Surely it isn't that hard.

                              The AFL's waning golden child wants a gun recruit that will weaken the mid-field of the petulant Swans, but they don't have enough to trade currency to get the deal done.

                              Surely our list managers can say "Hey $#!+$patrick, if the Hawks give us their insufficient pick 14, and the AFL gives us back our COLA and removes that pesky points system that has hobbled our Academy recruiting - you know the Academy that we fund to develop local talent for all the other clubs to bid on? - we'll give Clarko his man. Oh wait, you stopped us trading for a year, you'd better throw in a priority pick - late first rounder will do and we want the Hawks to throw in a free ticket to their B&F ... and it must be a seat next to Tommy ... we'll pass on to one of our members ... she has a little catching up to do ..."

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                              Originally posted by waswan
                              Clearly everyone is on the table at Hawks now.
                              Mitchell, plus picks for Rioli
                              Mitchell, for Rioli plus picks.

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                              • dejavoodoo44
                                Veterans List
                                • Apr 2015
                                • 8491

                                Originally posted by AnnieH
                                Screwed by whorethorn.
                                Again.

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                                I'm really pissed off he lied to me.
                                Lucky I'll never see him again, because he's going to get a most-deserving bitch slap if I do.
                                You leave him alone, Annie. I mean, ruptured testicles would surely decrease his trade value.

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