Mark Stevens just tweeted that gws came late with a massive offer. Pick 6 maybe. Dees didn't have time to consider.

Not sure why the giants waited so long to approach clubs with big offers

Also rumoured they approached the cats about Steve j very late

Would have taken me 1 second to say "deal".

And Motlop and Breust. Bruest for pick 4. Reaks of desperation

Good pick up, here are all of his tweets:

GWS went hard late in trade .. We read about Stevie J, it didn't end there .. Can confirm they tabled 4 for Breust, stunning Hawks ..

GWS also went after Jeremy Howe big time .. A top 10 pick on table, either 6 or 7. Dees stunned too .. No time really to consider ..

Howe marking and marketing machine .. Breust a NSW boy and gun .. All out onslaught late .. CEO Dave Matthews a major driver

Also murmurs in club land that GWS took shot at Cat Motlop ... Didn't die wondering with early picks .. 4 was plonked for Ryder too

Deal re Howe was extraordinary but he was under contract, it was left field and he had no warning .. Tough to get deals done quickly

Howe is a required player.

And if they had have offered it sooner we could have packaged it up and gotten Danger. Ain't that a kick in the teeth lol

I love Howie but that offer a little earlier could have proved really handy in other negotiations.

Lol, not even giving the clubs time to speak to the players... Muppets

So gws farked up by coming in too late. Idiots!

Howe is a dees player and will be right behind him this year.

I love Howe but that's some deal.

GWS might think that they are good at laying future foundations and at the same time unsettling other clubs...

Meh, unless 6 or 7 was to be used to get a superstar traded along with with 2 or 3, no way.

GWS might think that they are good at laying future foundations and at the same time unsettling other clubs...

or they know they will lose many next year so load up now.

Howe is us supporters only excitement. Sometimes our only reason to go to the game. Howe has been terribly developed and I believe could be our best player. In a good team, he could be anything. He is god to my brained washed 6yo (I have brain washed him with guilt). He is to my son what Robert Flower was to me. Personally I am very happy he remains a Dee.

Would have taken me 1 second to say "deal".

That'd be about right.

On the other hand, regardless of what the club might have liked to say, the most important ingredient in all this is Howe himself. He had to agree to be traded, find an agreement with GWS on a contract, and agree to move to Western Sydney.

Not the kind of thing you put together in a second - or even a couple of phone calls and an email.

Howe is us supporters only excitement. Sometimes our only reason to go to the game. Howe has been terribly developed and I believe could be our best player. In a good team, he could be anything. He is god to my brained washed 6yo (I have brain washed him with guilt). He is to my son what Robert Flower was to me. Personally I am very happy he remains a Dee.

Totally agree. He is my boys favourite player, as well as my wife's, for another reason. Howe is one of the few things the club has which can attract new supporters. Which is why GWS would of wanted him. Plus he is a good player. I am very glad we still have him

6 for Howe....Done..

Took me less than 2 seconds.

Weak draft imo & it sounds like a few clubs might've been thinking that way also. They had obviously no intention of staying with 3 top 10 picks as their preferred final trade period outcome. May explain why saints weren't prepared to downgrade 1 & why doggies happy to include 6 with Griff for Boyd which many are calling slightly overs atm, especially given GWS were reportably originally happy to pay 4 & 7 for Griff in the first place which many thought was overs!

Unfortunately this was not GWS being stupid. It was a cunning plan to raid other clubs talent. Only costing draft picks so that the other clubs had no time to counter with offers for their players. Cunning and potentially divisive if the clubs went back to said players and asked the question. This only cements my dislike of GWS.

[censored] St Kilda too for [censored] us over and making us give pick 23 to GWS unnecessarily. The weaker Vic teams should at the very least collaborate to make life harder for these parasites.

As proven during this trade period they will only deal if a player plays hardball to get out.

P.S thanks for taking Scully, giving us Hogan on a platter and also for the Tyson deal.

I love Howe but if trading him helped us get Danger over the line....

6 for Howe....Done..

Took me less than 2 seconds.

Absolute rubbish.

I know our list needs work, but Howe is not the problem.

Howe would want to start delivering some really consistent and substantial football for us next year if we've turned down pick 6.

He is a one trick pony for mine. I don't care for high marks when he then either misses the easy set shot (2013) or kicks stupidly to a 2 v 1 in the corridor (2014). Not enough meat and potatoes for mine.

Would have done that deal in a heartbeat.

Absolute rubbish.

I know our list needs work, but Howe is not the problem.

Compared to what we could get???

He will be really good for us long term.