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Playing enough games or kicking enough goals to become recognised as an all-time top-100 player at your club is one good measure of a senior player’s worth and can be used to rank the success or otherwise of your trade negotiations.
I already said this in my previous article, but obviously this is only one measure, and it does not take into account the value placed by different clubs on draft picks and potential, which is an important consideration depending on where the club believes it is in the success cycle and how imminent a shot at the title is.
A number of clubs have moved to gradually improve their A-grade team by taking up players who don’t fit into this category in the current squad but have the potential to do so at their new club with greater opportunities. In some cases this has involved clearing a current credentialed player for a number who collectively will boost the club’s depth of talent immediately or via the draft over the next few years.
Gold Coast was the busiest club, gaining four but dispatching five. Carlton, Fremantle and North Melbourne also shored up their list by recruiting four and trading none, one and two respectively.
In the case of North Melbourne it was aiming at another tilt at the eight with Aaron Hall (Gold Coast), Jarod Polac (Port Adelaide), Jasper Pittard (Port Adelaide) and Dom Tyson (Melbourne) all possible A-team players. Hall, Polac and Pittard all rank in the top 100 at their previous clubs. Tyson is only 25, so has many good years left.
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Collingwood took the opportunity to bring back Dayne Beams, a former best and fairest at the club, and dispatched the out-of-favour Alex Fasolo to Carlton, where he should be a great success based on his VFL form. In actual fact Collingwood traded up: Fasolo was ranked 54th on the club’s top goal-scorer list at Collingwood; Beams is ranked 41st.
Collingwood’s other recruit, Western Bulldogs tall Jordan Roughead, the 66th-ranked game player at the Bulldogs, appears to be an attempt to insure another run of injuries amongst the tall timber at the Pies.
Sam Lloyd, who will always be remembered as one of the players who sealed a game with a goal after the siren, was one of five players pruned by the Tigers to make space in their payroll for the expensive Tom Lynch.
All five landed at clubs that will enhance their chances of playing more games, and none of them featured in the extraordinary number of nine current players who are members of the top-100 game players of all time at Richmond. This list should increase to ten early in 2019 if Nick Vlastuin continues his good form.
Unfortunately, Lloyd was only four goals away from making the club’s top-100 goal scorers list but, like Taylor Duryea at Hawthorn, who finished three games short of top-100 territory, Lloyd will have to start the long climb afresh at the Western Bulldogs.
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