AFL Trading 2000: Eagles Trade Gehrig For a Draft Pick
The more draft picks a team has the better chance they have at finding a future star. In 2000 the Eagles had to get something of value for Fraser Gehrig who was going back to Victoria. They got a player and a second round pick, and a premiership.
Gehrig was traded to the Saints, and would join the top 2 picks of the 2000 draft, Riewoldt and Koschitzke. The Eagles picked up Sierakowski and pick 18.
West Coast used pick 4 on McDougall, they traded some other picks and also drafted Jeremy Humm at number 36. They didn’t get a lot from those picks.
But the Eagles did get value with the pick from the Saints, it was used to select Daniel Kerr.
So if Collingwood don’t think pick 13 is enough for Tarrant, maybe they can look at this example of a team trading an athletic forward and taking back a pick. Without the player they took with the pick, the Eagles may not have won this season.
Gehrig was traded to the Saints, and would join the top 2 picks of the 2000 draft, Riewoldt and Koschitzke. The Eagles picked up Sierakowski and pick 18.
West Coast used pick 4 on McDougall, they traded some other picks and also drafted Jeremy Humm at number 36. They didn’t get a lot from those picks.
But the Eagles did get value with the pick from the Saints, it was used to select Daniel Kerr.
So if Collingwood don’t think pick 13 is enough for Tarrant, maybe they can look at this example of a team trading an athletic forward and taking back a pick. Without the player they took with the pick, the Eagles may not have won this season.
