Vent and share: your trades for the year.

[batt]

OK, since membership in the Zero Trade Club is overflowing, now would be an ample time to reflect on what we've all done.  Pick a few of your most memorable trades for the year and comment on them, because I'm sure you're like me and have plenty to say!!

Bad trade
Good trade

Format if you like:

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[b]Trade:[color=red/green] Text here[/color][/b]
[b]Round:[/b] Here
[b]Players you chose between:[/b] Here
[b]Description:[/b] [i]And here[/i]
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Trade: Goodes to Hunt
Round: 2
Players you chose between: Can't remember, there wasn't much to choose from
Description: Terrible trade to start the year off.  There was nothing really in this price bracket but most others had started with 2 rookie defenders, which would have been my best option instead of picking up Hunt
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Trade: Hunt to McGovern
Round: 6
Players you chose between: Tom McDonald, Kade Simpson
Description: So, so bad.  Didn't think Tmac had even the slightest chance of keeping it up.  Never like Kade Simpson as an SC pick because all he gets are cheapies.  Like Gov's good DT/SC ratio and scoring... didn't realise he was made of glass.
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Trade: Krakouer to Shaw
Round: 11
Players you chose between: Hodge, Rance
Description: Yay,something good.  Shaw has been a gun down back this year.
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Trade: Rocky to Gawn
Round: 11
Players you chose between: No-one else, but other trade options in other positions since it was multi trade round
Description: My trade of the year.  Gawny had played one game for 98 and I took a leap of faith need a Stef Martin v2.  Lost my ruck cover with Spudchambers gone a couple of weeks earlier.
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Trade: Shiel to Ablett
Round: 16
Players you chose between: No-one but Gaz
Description: I passed on the injury curse to him, sorry guys.
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Trade: McGovern to Kelly
Round: 17
Players you chose between: Um.  Malceski?
Description: And again...

Other notables: Sloane in, and out.  Rocky in, out, and in.  Newnes out.  Picken in.

Over to you...

[fanTCfool]

Trade: Lambert to NVB
Round: 3
Players you chose between: N/A
Description: No Value in Trading a 102k Rook, should have held for donuts and these big scores he's been putting up towards the latter of this year

Trade: Macrae to Sloane ($640k)
Round: 4
Players you chose between: Any Premo Mid
Description: This couldn't be foreseen, but following my trade in, Sloane had 3 shockers, and then suffered injury. Still inconvenient

Trade: Langford to Butler
Round: 5
Players you chose between: More Recognised Defenders
Description: Langford had to go, but choosing Butler after 1 or 2 few games was a huge knee-jerk

Trade: Smith to Shaw
Round: 8
Players you chose between: Sideways Trades rather than Upgrades
Description: The heater has just kept getting hotter as the year has progressed

Trade: Zorko to Rocky
Round: 9
Players you chose between: Premo Mids
Description: Rocky returned from injury, and returned to my team, before suffering injury again. To make things worse, Zorko returned to good form not long later

Trade: Clark to Wallis
Round: 10
Players you chose between: Lads on the Bubble
Description: Breakout year for Mitch, hard to be unhappy with some great returns/i]

Trade: NVB to Sloane
Round: 13
Players you chose between: People who hadn't been in my team and suffered injury
Description: Sloane was injured yet again in his first week returning to my team

Other Notables: Started with a bunch of spuds, particularly down back. Don't wish to name them, but I believe all 6 of my starting defenders have been traded.

Edit: Great work with this thread and layout mate, I personally wanted to bring a similar thread to life, but couldn't get it going. Glad to see such a well though out template created too!

[Jelemas10]

Trade: Lumumba to B.Smith
Round: 2
Players you chose between: N/A
Description: Regretted not starting Smith, and although I was happy to get off Lumumba
early the Smith roller coaster has been rough and one I am still riding as of now.
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Trade: Newton to Van Berlo
Round: 3
Players you chose between: N/A
Description: Absolute waste, NVB was in form but both topped out similar.
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Trade: Newnes to Birchall
Round: 6
Players you chose between: Hodge, Houli, Tmac
Description: Traded Newness after a slow start and Bircahll ended up injured and gave me donuts through the byes.
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Trade: Treloar to Ablett
Round: 17
Players you chose between: N/A
Description: Ablett got injured and Treloar scored 130+.
(Also made a downgrade so it ended up costing me 3 trades to end up going Treloar to Mundy and lose 100+ points)
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Trade: McKernan to Ryder
Round: 18
Players you chose between: Ryder, Ziebell
Description: Great trade, Ryder has covered Fyfe (via Mitchell), Nic Nat and now Mitchell over the last 5 weeks
which helped me avoid zeros and using trades.

[GCSkiwi]

Having looked through my trades history I'm actually  not too upset with it - the players in and out were generally all good it's just been a case of injuries destroying things. Sloane in then out then in then out sucks to chew up 4 trades for a couple of games worth of points but at the time I think they were all reasonable calls... Between Sloane, Ablett, Bartel, Rocky, I spent 8 trades shifting them in and out and in and out :P

A select few:

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Trade: Cocky to CEY
Round: 3
Players you chose between: I'm sure NVB was in there
Description: Cocky hardly got a gig in the end, while CEY ended up being right up there in the top rookie picks for the season, when all the injury carnage was happening he pumped out some decent cover scores in my midfield.
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Trade: Goodes to Oxley
Round: 4
Players you chose between: N/A
Description: Similar to above, ended up being a rock in defense and for a time looked like he might beat Hibberd to be a keeper...
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Trade: Vandenberg to De Goey
Round: 8
Players you chose between: Lever, or an early prospective punt on Lambert/Steele
Description: This was really just a short sighted fail on my behalf as I ended up needing to trade De Goey out during byes, so I only got a couple of scores and price rises from him before shifting him anyway. VDB got his highest score that round and followed up with some ok scores though was eventually injured - I just punted him a couple of weeks early.
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Trade: Ablett to Sloane
Round: 3
Trade: Sloane to Rockliff
Round: 9
Trade: De Goey to Sloane
Round: 12
Trade: Sloane to Ablett
Round: 17
Trade: Ablett to Dangerfield
Round: 18
Players you chose between: Lots. Probably all better decisions then the ones I made
Description: Got there eventually. Should have just started with Dangerfield
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