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Anyone still think we got screwed on Howe? We plugged pick 29 directly in to a trade we were going to use Howe in. That was his market value. Anyone also still care that we used 25 instead of 29 for

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Just received this text message from my mate who works at the Falcons (where Parish plays), who also just so happens to be a mad bombers supporter: "YOU [censored]! You have stolen Parish from us. Me

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christian petracca ‏@cpetracca7 13m13 minutes ago Great trade period for @melbournefc. Excited for 2016. A lot of hard work to prove a lot of people wrong and that doubt us. Let's do this.

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You are at the negotiation table. Do you:

A) play "hard ball" in order to get the best deal, make every deal take far longer than they need to, holding yourself up and annoying every counterparty in the game?

B) move straight towards your best offer, get the deal done swiftly and efficiently, allowing you to move forward on your bigger fish you have to fry and building up goodwill with your counterparties for future deals?

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Someone cop and paste Christian Petracca twitter. Hit the nail on the head with what he just said.

Again.. amazing work from Mahoney and co..

christian petracca ‏@cpetracca7 13m13 minutes ago

Great trade period for @melbournefc. Excited for 2016. A lot of hard work to prove a lot of people wrong and that doubt us. Let's do this.

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I haven't followed juniors this year, however, from a purely theoretical point of view, if Curnow is as good as touted and plays the Stringer type role he must be our choice at pick 3.

Or Francis if they see the same type of potential and rate him higher.

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Which is exactly what you are doing. Calling the early crow on this trade, then calling out Demonlanders for going early, bit hypocritical.

It is now Pick 3 & 7 which affords further evidence as I suspected this FD was never sitting on their hands

As others have said Demonlanders need to realise this club is very different to the one from 2011-13

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Melb supporters should like GWS: Hogan from GWS mini draft. GWS didn't bid on Viney. Traded Tyson, Frost & now Bugg + pick 7. #TradeSENtral

I hated them when the whole Scully debacle happened. But then we bent them over and had a party since, so I like them again.

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You are at the negotiation table. Do you:

A) play "hard ball" in order to get the best deal, make every deal take far longer than they need to, holding yourself up and annoying every counterparty in the game?

B) move straight towards your best offer, get the deal done swiftly and efficiently, allowing you to move forward on your bigger fish you have to fry and building up goodwill with your counterparties for future deals?

A) Essendon.

B) Melbourne.

Probably put St Kilda in the former as well. I don't think there is a right answer to it. Playing hardball could also deter players to consider other options in the future. Essendon appear to take this approach. IMO there are advantage/disadvantages to both strategies. In Essendons case - and Collingwood last year - if they rushed through their trades, they would've short changed themselves. Collingwood held firm last year and gained Crisp in doing so - he ended up 3rd in their Copeland medal. Essendon held firm and got a better deal off of St Kilda this year.

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Pick 3 for me we have to take Parish. Clearly the best mid there is.

I highly doubt Essendon will take two key position players at 4 & 5 and we likely know who Gold Coast are looking at, so i'm confident one of Curnow, Francis or Weideman will be there at 7. Where as if we took a key positionat 3 there's no chance Parish will still be there at 7.

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Pick 3 for me we have to take Parish. Clearly the best mid there is.

I highly doubt Essendon will take two key position players at 4 & 5 and we likely know who Gold Coast are looking at, so i'm confident one of Curnow, Francis or Weideman will be there at 7, where as if we took a key positionat 3 there's no chance Parish will still be there at 7.

Bravo Dees, awesome effort to put ourselves in a position to grab two elite kids.

Who is Gold Coast Looking at?

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