Mega merged trading thread

[Melbourne_Blood]

Yes, yes i beleive he was haha

[ShockOfHair]

Freo bid their pick 16 for T-Mitch, hence we had to use our pick 21 to nab him.

Every year there's something in trade week that completely mystifies me. Is there any sound reason why Freo would have bid for Mitchell? Or is making the Swans use up a first-round pick considered normal practice?

[ABloodsMan]

Normal practice. It doesn't matter who, someone would have bid in the first round to make sure Sydney used their first round pick for a talent that could have gone top 10.

[Molly dooker]

Every year there's something in trade week that completely mystifies me. Is there any sound reason why Freo would have bid for Mitchell? Or is making the Swans use up a first-round pick considered normal practice?

Swans website says Mitchell senior (legend) has been the mids coach for Free'o for the past three years and resigned a month ago to move back to Melbourne.

He should just keep on moving right on up to Sydney with Junior and watch him become a star for us.

[ugg]

Normal practice. It doesn't matter who, someone would have bid in the first round to make sure Sydney used their first round pick for a talent that could have gone top 10.

Whilst I don't doubt the validity of that statement, I suspect that Freo wouldn't have been unhappy to nab Mitchell with pick 16. Nor would any of the other clubs below Freo in the draft order

[ABloodsMan]

No doubt, but that doesn't change the fact that realistically they had a 0% chance of getting him. Just making sure we paid a fair price for him.

[Bas]

Longmire's article interview here:

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/124864/default.aspx

Day 1 - Tom Mitchell Day

At the extent of the news out of trade week so far, Armstrong is the only person on the radar.

Longmire mentions a forward, I wonder who they have in mind, if anyone. Usually a fair bit of news comes out of Day 1 of Trade Week and then it goes quiet for a few days while Clubs wheel and deal.

So maybe the Swans might not be significant movers and shakers.

I've run out of cliches!!!!

[ugg]

So the Armstrong deal is still some way from being completed. Adelaide are reportedly wanting some players back after they trade out Gunston, Armstrong and Maric. Could this be a good opportunity for us to unload a Moore, Bevan or even Seaby if both Maric and Tippett leave the Crows. I don't place Sumner under this category as I think he has little to no trade currency, being a 1 game homesick player.

[Captain]

Not at the moment for Fev, Horse says.

I might be straw clutching, but that's not a definite no!

[Beesto]

We did the same thing to the dogs last year with Dimma, so we can't complain

[Beesto]

We can't complain as we did the same thing to the dogs last year. If it wasn't Freo it would have been one of the other clubs. Let's just be happy that we have been able to get a quality kid for pick 21.

[robamiee]

Not at the moment for Fev, Horse says.

I might be straw clutching, but that's not a definite no!

yes you are clutching at straws....Are you Fev's new manager you have been pushing for him hard on here....

[Primmy]

The rule this year is that if another club wants to bid for a father son player they can, and it makes the FS club make a decision - how much do we want him, what are we prepared to pay. We are not now getting something for nothing. There is a charge. In our case, our first round draft pick.

If we had decided he wasn't worth it, then Freo would have had him as they nominated a higher draft pick than we actually had. The ball was in the Swans court and a decision was made to keep him and pay up our first round draft pick. Our advantage is that he was in fact a FS, so we got first option. Makes sense to me. Still got him cheap.

[sharp9]

The bidding system is not to stop father son pick-ups (though that could happen one day if another club rates a pick much higher than the entitled club) but to stop absurdities like Gary Ablett - the #1 draft prospect - going to Geelong for pick 35....J. Brown the same. If Marc Murphy has said "yes" to Brisbane he would have gone for a pick in the 40s!!!!!

[ABloodsMan]

Sharp, Ablett was no where near the number 1 draft prospect when he was drafted. He was a small forward with a suspect tank. Would have went there abouts in the real thing, maybe even lower if he wasn't picked up through father son.