Making sense out of these late trades

A lot of disgruntled supporters out there today who need a little perspective.

Our FD are making decisions based on what they have seen day to day over the last 12 months. Note that they inherited most of our list. The "cost" (ie pick number) of all our players is completely meaningless. They either can play and train as demanded or they can't.

Players that we have allowed to leave (Rivers and Beamer) and that we are now trading away for peanuts have obviously been deemed by the FD to be unrequired.

Our draft position was set up very early in the trade period. We locked in Viney and Barry (while securing for the future with Hogan) and made it clear Pick 4 was untouchable. We still need to draft one more and as it stands Pick 49ish is our next best. I am sure the FD would love to improve that pick, but they and everyone else knows that guys than are unrequired won't help us out in that regard.

Gysberts, Morton and Cook, despite what position we drafted them into the club with are not worth a pick better than 49. That is the crux of it all. So what we are doing is helping them get to the club they want or using them to get players the FD want/need.

Morton wanted to go to WCE so we let him go there for effectively nothing. Why? Because its good business. Players like it.

Gysberts felt wanted by North and we could use him to get Pederson, who the FD obviously wanted.

No one wants Cook enough to fill out the paperwork, but he may get a 2nd chance through other means.

Summary: We are trading IN players the FD want and trading OUT players the FD doesn't want/like. We are trading with currency (Picks) that hold ZERO value to us.

I feel there does need to be some explanation as to why the FD see value in the players we have traded in and that will probably come in the days/weeks after the trade period is over.