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Farewell Luke Jackson

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10 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Not quite, they had North F2 and F3.

We could have at least got the North F2.

would have been worth more in an on trade

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    Just now, Lord Nev said:

    Technically 13 and 27 is worth more points than 6.

    Except that clubs that need points already have then, and this is meant to be a shallow draft. 

    Besides we can't trade pick 27, how do we get the Grundy deal done without it? 

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    2 minutes ago, Bates Mate said:

    Being out of contract also limits what you can get. I wonder if we could have been a bit more clever and have had an agreement with Jackson when he was yet to make a decision and sign him up to two with a guarantee to trade him if that's what he decided (which he did). It would have given us some more leverage. I think this could have been one instance given the circumstances  where it could have worked??

    The AFL would probably come out and say that we weren't playing in the true spirit of a contract. 

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    Just now, Jaded No More said:

    Except that clubs that need points already have then, and this is meant to be a shallow draft. 

    Besides we can't trade pick 27, how do we get the Grundy deal done without it? 

    I hear ya, just making a call on the comparative worth based on the points system.

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    8 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    He is now the enemy. 

    Can't hold a mark,not a ruckmans boot stops and isn't particularly aggressive even though he's mobile with great ground ball abilities. 

    Either over rated or a huge upside ...and Bedford's gone  probably Kossie next season if the traditional bland response from the Club is on form.

    What a great house they shared must have been

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    14 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    I would hope so.

    Right now my emotion is disappointed purely the fact that everything Tim Lamb had said from a stern and honest point of view is the opposite to what has happened. 

    Probably why there's a sense of anger and frustration with Melbourne supporters it seem reading social media.

    Expect any List manager to talk a big game but at the end of the day Lamb had one arm tied behind his back in terms of what we could get in return. 

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    We were never going to win this trade. Jackson is a star and Freo had no incentive to offer more than 70 cents in the dollar.

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    4 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    How do we get the Grundy deal done then?

    And who would take picks 13 and 27 for pick 6?

    Grundy will come, it'll be 27 and a swap of picks I imagine if Collingwood don't accept 27. 

    But that trade is easy and in the peripheral.

    There are so many possibilities for us to move up, it's ridiculous.

    You've just gotta trust that we've got a plan and there are still a couple of players who may go in Weed and Thomo which will bring in further picks for swapping etc.

    Every year we seem to be able to hit our target of moving up the draft and on the back of our reputation of being easy to deal with, I can't see how we're not going to be able to do that given we've agreed to the Jackson trade and there are still two days left.

     

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    9 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

    Technically 13 and 27 is worth more points than 6.

    Pick 27 and F3 (Weid ESS)for Grundy I think.

    Wed need to use Freo F1 and 13 this year to chase Cadman if the opportunity is there otherwise I’d bank F1 as well for next year. So is WC prepared to that deal with us and will Norf trump us or give their pick to GWS. Sounds like Cadman has really moved up the draft order and is a possibility for pick 1. 

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    Not feeling great about this. A [censored] end to the season and a [censored] trade period. I’d like not to think about them until February. 

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    43 minutes ago, Supreme_Demon said:

    A pretty disappointing result after asking for an AFL draft pick in the top 10 and a first round pick.

    We should have received a better result from the Dockers for Luke Jackson.

    I feel we have been screwed over.

    I think we should be asking for a full explanation from Tim Lamb and the rest of the MFC list management staff as we definitely didn't get a fair trade from Fremantle for a extremely talented individual who is a 2021 Melbourne Demons Premiership player who helped turn the game to defeat the Western Bulldogs and is a 2021 Norwich Rising Star Award Winner.

    Just not good enough in my opinion.

    Don’t blame Tim Lamb. We had a bad Poker hand to begin with. Jackson was out of contract. 
    Freo should have been forced to come up with better picks to close the deal. 
    They are forever Filth going forward 

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    Staggered we didn't get Andy Brayshaw in exchange for butterfingers 

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    20 minutes ago, inanunda said:

    The Jackson trade points wise works out to be pick 2.

    Staring Will Ferrell GIF by Saturday Night Live

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    29 minutes ago, layzie said:

    I'll go you one better, we need to assemble a panel of former MFC list managers and heads of the FD in the next 24 hrs who understand football and can hold Lamb accountable to his actions. In future they will also bar any trades that can't be justified, this will be known as the concil of MFC trading. 

    Bring back barry prendergast 

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    It’s done!  Finally! Bring on the draft and let’s move into 2023.

    Freo got a good deal, but also gave everything that they had to give; those expecting more were always going to be disappointed.  For all the talk, it really did turn out that he was always going to Fremantle and they knew it.

    Asides from letting him go to the PSD, the club did everything it could.

     

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    Not great not bad, we got everything they have picks wise from Freo so unless they trade more players for picks that was it. We could always try combining them in to pick 2 with WC but I assumed freo already tried.

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    5 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

    It’s done!  Finally! Bring on the draft and let’s move into 2023.

    Freo got a good deal, but also gave everything that they had to give; those expecting more were always going to be disappointed.  For all the talk, it really did turn out that he was always going to Fremantle and they knew it.

    Asides from letting him go to the PSD, the club did everything it could.

     

    100% spot on,

    Whiel I agree we could only get what was on offer (thanks AFL and your terible restricctive rules) although there is a part of me that thinks every other bozo club plays hardball, we should have threatened to send him to the PSD and said pay up or F off and let him walk.

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    We blinked.  In a game of poker, we decided it was time to go to the bar and so we folded.  Time will decide the winner and loser but for now, we seem to have got unders in the LJ trade.  

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