So this post is a continuation of our trade review segment. In our prior post we said we would review the last 5 years of trading, but we realized that it was a little difficult to review the trading of 2011 & 2012 as we havent seen the way things have panned out yet for many of those trades. Rather we have decided to review the trading from 2006-2010. Weve already done 08 but here is 2006. 2006 Trade Period: Bulldogs receive: Jason Akermanis Brisbane receive: Pick 34 (Chris Schmidt) Clearly the doggies are the winners here, off the account that Schmidt never quite amounted to anything. Akermanis was at least solid for the Doggies, but Im not sure he was all of what they hoped from him. The only downside for the Dogs couldve been the prospect of who they may have taken at pick 34, if they had looked past Chris Schmidt. Both Goldstein and Houli were selected in the next 10 picks and maybe the Dogs wouldve got lucky had they kept pick 34. We do have to remember that this trade was under the circumstances of disagreements between both Akermanis and Brisbane, so he was always going to go cheaply. Bulldogs receive: Andrew McDougall, Pick 34 (Traded onto Brisbane for Akermanis) West Coast receive: Pick 29 (Eric MacKenzie), Pick 59 (Traded onto St Kilda along with Michael Gardiner for Pick 43) Reasonably even trade here, the most notable player involved being Erik Mackenzie. The Eagles may have had the upper hand here, only because they received more youth. St Kilda receive: Shane Birss Bulldogs receive: Pick 59 (traded onto WCE and then from WCE to St Kilda) Shane Briss amounted to very little, playing just 20 games for the Saints, whereas Pick 59 was used as a small bargaining chip further on. No part of this trade really had a large eventual impact. Fremantle receive: Pick 8 (Traded onto Collingwood along with Paul Medhurst for Chris Tarrant), Pick 42 (Traded onto Essendon) Richmond receive: Graham Polak , Pick 13 (Jack Riewoldt), Pick 60 (Carl Peterson) This was a trade that involved a lot of picks, where some worked out better than others. The Tigers fully utilized their pick 13 by pulling their star Full Forward, Jack Riewoldt. The Dockers used Pick 8 as their main bargaining chip to pull across Chris Tarrant. Pick 42, Pick 60 and Graham Polak were all of reasonably low value for their respective clubs. Essentially I would say the Tigers won this trade marginally just because Jack Riewoldt will certainly provide more value to the Tigers than Tarrant did to Freo, mainly due to how long both players played for either club, with Tarrant only being a Docker until 2010. Collingwood receive: Pick 8 (Ben Reid), Paul Medhurst Fremantle receive: Chris Tarrant Tarrants time span as a Freo player was quite strange. Many will remember his bid to move back to Collingwood after just 4 years in Fremantle. Due to these situations Collingwood received maximum value from this trade. Medhurst was a very handy player and Reid has been a standout over his time at the club and continues to improve as a Swingman and to think they wound up getting Tarrant back anyway makes it all the more sweeter. We do however have to remember that Tarrant produced some great footy for Freo at some points in time. Specifically when he was moved back, after some poor form up front, did Tarrant put together a string of noteworthy defensive performances. Collingwood won this trade although Freo certainly had some positives too. Sydney receive: Peter Everett Hawthorn receive: Pick 33 (Jarryd Morton) Spider Everitt was always a prominent AFL Ruckmen throughout his career, but came into contract issues with the Hawks after the 2006 season. It was known Everitt had no more than a couple of years left in his career, as he was already a 32 year old. On that account it seemed to be a somewhat even trade, maybe even one to benefit Hawthorn, but Jarryd Morton upheld the Morton family tradition of being a bitter disappointment (A little harsh, I know), over his 5 years before being delisted, Morton played just 22 games (17 less than Spider did at Sydney). Going by that the Swans won this trade as they received some good value from Spider, whereas Morton was essentially useless St Kilda receive : Michael Gardiner, Pick 59 (Jarryd Allen) West coast receive: Pick 43 (Tim Houihan) Neither Houlihan or Allen played more than 15 games of AFL footy, but Gardiner was quite the solid player. He played 52 games for the Saints and provided a fair amount of value in the Ruck position. Considering the saints got him for nothing a win for them in this trade. Essendon receive: Pick 42 (Bachar Houli), Pick 47 (Kyle Reimers) Fremantle receive: Dean Solomon, Pick 52 (Brock OBrien) To pick a winner here you have to go with Fremantle. Although Reimers and Houli were both handy for the Bombers, neither really ever did anything special and eventually fell out of favor with the Bombers. They were handy players for picks of 40+, but Solomon was really quite good for Fremantle. He played over 50 games with the club and was a rock in defense for most of that time. OBrien can be deemed useless, but Solomon still provided a lot of quality. #Walter
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 05:57:53 +0000
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