I’d give our trade period C+ (Maybe higher if Corbett works out) but Foxsports has been more generous:
“FREMANTLE
Who left: Blake Acres (Carlton, trade), Griffin Logue (North Melbourne, trade), Darcy Tucker (North Melbourne, trade), Rory Lobb (Western Bulldogs, trade), Lloyd Meek (Hawthorn, trade)
Who arrived: Josh Corbett (Gold Coast, trade), Luke Jackson (Fremantle, trade), Jaeger O’Meara (Hawthorn, trade)
Draft picks owned: 44, 67, 76
Brad Johnson says: “I love what Fremantle have been able to achieve over the last couple of years in their build. Their back six is as good as any back six in the competition … you add O’Meara in there with his class, it’s just another tick and bonus to what their line-up already looks like.”
Foxfooty.com.au trade grade: B+“
“The Roar” whoever they are gave a more detailed and more positive review:
“It was pretty good going for the Dockers to rebound from the second-most lopsided trade of the entire period (and the most unnecessarily so) in week one to come out well and truly in the top four.
But that’s kind of what happens when you stick the landing on nabbing the generational homecoming talent that is Luke Jackson, in the process getting one up on a West Coast outfit who’d surely have backed themselves to out-lure a player of that calibre in virtually every other season of the western rivalry.
The Dockers were safely nestled in the 6-8 range in this list once Jackson donned the purple on Monday; but in the dying seconds of the trade period, they turned a handy haul into a masterpiece by bringing in Jaeger O’Meara for a relative song. Considering his talent, a double-backup ruckman in Lloyd Meek behind Sean Darcy and Jackson and a future second-rounder is a superb bit of bargaining to get done so late in the trade period for a contracted gun.
It was a little disappointing that the Dockers caved on Rory Lobb after driving a hard bargain for two months; bringing in pick 30 and a future second-rounder was about as much as they could have hoped for, but they talked a big game about wanting something a little higher and could always have held him to his contract.
More of a personal bugbear than anything, though; it’s still going to be an exciting summer to be a Freo supporter.
Grade: A+“
