saintsRrising wrote:And if we had not finished low on the ladder...we could not have offered Pick 4.....lucky eh??? (Cranage was a dud...not really sure why the Blues wanted him....)
Actually we were lucky because Port Adelaide wanted Darryl Wakelin so much they wanted to give us pick 4. This is why we were able to offer pick 4 for Hamill
saintsRrising wrote:...by the saints who had first pick....
Lucky eh...was it not that we finished low enough to force his hand......
also lucky that we could use the one "bullet" of the first pick in the PSD to aim at all of the Blues, Weagles and Hamill.....)
The Eagles were not forced into the trade, in fact agreed to it on day 1 of trade week. You could state an argument that Gehrig was forced into coming our way as we had 1st pick in the pre-season draft, but you could also argue that he was forced by the eagles who agreed to a trade in direct conflict of his wishes.
As for using our 1st pick in the pre-season draft to gain Hamill, we didn't do much of a job when you consider we had to give away pick 4!!! That would suggest that Carlton weren't so much rushed but decided quite methodically that Hamill for pick 4 was a good trade.
saintsRrising wrote:
What good luck to finish last in the season prior to GTrain wanting to return to Melbourne and in Elliot ruling hamill so much that he was avaiable to betempted.
Fair call.
It is drawing a long bow to suggest that Thomas was lucky that he got the job at such a poorly performed club. Obviously, there are measures in place to assist a club improving but let's look at Richmond.... Last in 2004, Last in 2007, priority picks, having early picks don't guarantee an improvement.