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NATIONAL DRAFT PICKS 3 & 7

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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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    Clearly fostered a productive relationship with GWS from an early stage. Great stuff Mahoney and co.

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    Renewing my Redlegs membership immediately! Brilliant work MFC!

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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..

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    Was less than enthusiastic a few days ago.. now...

    Bring it on.

    Well done MFC, well done.

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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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    This is what "we'll be agressive in the trade period" looks like.

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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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    Great outcome, but the proof will be in the players recruited. We've been down this road before.

    One big difference mo64

    The people running the FD know what the hell they are doing.

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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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    Bugg and Pick 7 to the Dees

    Dees loose: 10, 43 and 64!

    Hot diggity dog!

    You're sounding 'desperate' fork :)

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    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

    Thank God PSD!
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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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    Best day of trading I've seen from this club in years, if not ever!

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    An enormous LOL at those flogs that were bagging out Mahoney before the trade period had even ended. We've come out on top, out of all the clubs.

    Sensational work from the MFC.

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