Also lost some players and downgraded thier pick rofl
That whats you being for being a selfish arrogant club
Petracca was keen on the Hawks, only looked elsewhere when the Merrett stuff came up.
Hawks probably could have got that deal across the line with Petracca, given Dees were more willing to negotiate a trade
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Yeah as much as I can understand players not wanting to come to us. I would have expected them to trade said players with other clubs and then give us those extra picks. Knowing full well we could then use those to bundle and get up the draft or move some into next year.
I am disappointed with our admin for nothing getting a deal done and how we went about it but if I was a Hawks fans of which i know a few, I would be livid! You are in the window, you pay overs to get you with the best shot, thats how it works. They have rocks in their heads to have let this slip by. I have no doubt they have blown a flag.
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Setters makes us more competitive next year, he will stay I think, we need to be as good as possible in 2026 to convince Zach to stay. We will go for more experience in next years trade period as well. We will finish 9th or 10th next year I think.
There isnât any doubt that they didnât offer enough, and even less doubt that they are absolute â â â â â .
However, it was in our best interests to offload our inadequate captain.
We should have been more proactive. It wouldnât have hurt us to steal their thunder by making an opening demand of our own. A ridiculously overpriced one, sure. But put the ball in their court on day one.
Instead we sat back and let them ruin a trade that we should have gotten done.
Pride comes in many forms.
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Get off big footy, and stop caring about other clubs.
You clearly spend way too much time arguing with opposition supporters.
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Seems a bit disingenuous to me.
- First week of trade period: âwe will not entertain trading Zach!â
- Over the weekend: âwe will trade him, if the board approves itâ
- Next week: âreceives offer for Zachâ
- After the trade period: âhow could Hawks not offer us something earlierâ
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Meh. We listened to offers out of respect for Merrett. The offers came on the buzzer and were well below what it was going to take to get a deal done.
To think you can pry out one of the best players in the comp (who is contracted & also a club captain) without giving up a single best 23 player is mental.
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I think two genuine top ten picks might have done it.
But who knows.
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He needs to break up the monotony of arguing with Essendon supporters
Yep. They needed to get a third club involved, especially if no quality players were going to be offered up.
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thats very cherry picked. Hawks came for a captain with 2 years on his contract. the hubris to think they could just offer some late 1st rounders that will blow out because of academies and then a player thats probably getting delisted⌠and then give the other club a deadline on your offer!
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When you boil it all down, this is ultimately it. They simply didnât have the trade capital to force it through. Partly due to where they finished, and partly due to inability ( or unwillingness) to trade a highly rated player.
And then they farked about on the fringes with bizarre tactics, blatant agenda setting and seemingly total disregard for what the raided club might need, think or do.
Fark Hawthorn.
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Even pick FF1, a pick in the 30s two years away might have tipped the scales.
they werenât serious
Yeah, thatâs a strange one to dig in over. Itâs also a strange thing for us to demand. In the Tassie draft, that first round pick could be in the late 20âs or worse.
I think the truth is as Vozzo said this morning. Preference 1, 2 and 3 was to keep Merrett.
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I think the view to the 27 pick was having an eye on Bewick points early
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Iâd say so.
But I think the truth is that by 7pm last night weâd had a gutful and it was all academic by then.
We gave Hawthorn , Petroro and Merrett due warning all the way through. Even before his meeting with Mitchell.
Thereâs a reasonable conclusion here that we only engaged to whatever extent we did to placate Petroro for future interactions.
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They said any trade for Zach needs to be approved by the board
They never said we would trade him
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Itâs going to make for a frustrating few years on Blitz. Canât fully enjoy Hawthorn underperforming as those picks couldâve been ours. But they wouldnât have underperformed if Zach was there. But we are still underperforming so what does that say? We should have drafted Mccluggage!!
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F1 for 27 for Bewick and we might Have NGA in first round too, itâs looking like. We will need to figure out how to obtain them both if feasible starting next year potentially.