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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on October 18, 2006, 10:35:53 PM
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AFL Trading 1994: Tigers, Magpies Miss Out On Lockett
October 8th 2006 07:07
www.aflinsider.net
It was a tumultuous season for Saints forward Tony Lockett in 1994. The Peter Caven incident, the Saints' inability to become a Grand Final team, many factors combined that year that made a Lockett trade inevitable.
The only question was which team would acquire Lockett, Richmond and Collingwood were the favourites. The Tigers had been stuck down the bottom of the ladder for a long time and the acquisition of Lockett would have been huge at the time. Imagine Lockett in his prime with a youthful Matthew Richardson together in the forward line. In 1994 Collingwood could not get back to its 1990 form, but had a young Buckley, Paul Williams and Scott Burns on their list.
The Saints ended up getting an early draft pick from Sydney, which they used on Joel Smith, and another pick from Hawthorn, which was used on Chris Hemley. Hawthorn received Simon Minton-Connell from Sydney in the deal, and also sent Glenn Nugent to the Saints. That year Richmond used their first two draft picks on Damien Ryan and Jason Torney, Collingwood used theirs on Ben Wilson and Chad Liddell. To think that those two Victorian teams could have traded the picks, and maybe a player or two, to get Lockett must make people question what went wrong.
It got to the end of the trading period in 1994, and when it was announced that Sydney had Lockett and that Collingwood and Richmond couldn't seal the deal it was a big surprise. The Swans were instantly turned around and two seasons later they were in the Grand Final. But that Swans Grand Final team, like the Saints and Magpies in later years, didn't win. But Lockett was also a big help financially for the Swans, and with the addition of Lockett and Roos to the Swans they became a respected team in the league.
If Richmond or Collingwood had managed to snare Lockett they might have been improved on and off the field. The Tigers had a great year in 1995, one game from a Grand Final. Lockett may have been enough to win it all for the Tigers in 1995. Richardson, Naish, Brendan Gale, Daffy and Lockett up forward would have been a potent attack. Collingwood still had a good midfield with big Monkhorst tapping the ball to onballers McGuane, Francis, Williams and Wright. If they had both Lockett and Saverio Rocca to send the ball to it would have been impressive.
http://www.aflinsider.net/afl-trading-1994-tigers-magpies-miss-out-on-lockett/
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I remember this well.
Was reported on Channel 7 news that he had done the deal with the Tigers.
And then two days later, I heard a significant injection of cash from the Sydney offer changed the deal. Some say that cash came via the AFL.
Who knows ? Lockett would have been great at the Tigers.
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The Saints wanted two good young players from us in exchange for Lockett. One was Cambo from memory. So the deal fell over despite Plugger wanting to come to Richmond. In hindsight we should have offered the Saints our first round picks for the next 4 years as they ended up being useless to us anyway with our dumb drafting and recruiting :-\.
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should have never allowed the swans pick him up
should never have let the afl screw us
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should have never allowed the swans pick him up
should never have let the afl screw us
True but we need to move on!
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I'm looking forward to the 'We should have kept Graeme Teasdale' thread.
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Good thread our lack of quality review of our drafting is a disgrace
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Yet another thread in the series of "Spilt Milk" postings.
How positively entertaining.....
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Yet another thread in the series of "Spilt Milk" postings.
How positively entertaining.....
:lol
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Trade fails: Blockbuster deals that weren’t
Al Paton
Herald Sun
16 October 2016
SOME of the most hyped deals in AFL history never made it to the start line.
TONY LOCKETT TO RICHMOND
At the end of 1994 the rumour mill was on overdrive that superstar goalkicker Tony Lockett
was set to leave St Kilda. Richmond and Collingwood were the reported frontrunners with Lockett choosing the Tigers — Lockett’s management said he’d agreed to a three-year deal and the back page newspaper heading the next day was “Lockett a Tiger”. The only problem was Richmond couldn’t do a deal with the Saints and Plugger went north instead, becoming a Swan in three-way deal with Hawthorn.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/biggest-afl-blockbuster-trades-that-didnt-happen/news-story/6c4e06f54389cacc8cf67c6979c3d130
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Here's Channel 10's Anthony Hudson and Channel 7's Jim Wilson report that St. Kilda's Tony Lockett has chosen to play with the Richmond Football Club from 1995 for the next 3 seasons.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1vovyWJuRI
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They would have played him in the backline anyway... :whistle
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They would have played him in the backline anyway... :whistle
Not with Northey.
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Deal was done to tigers
Afl cMe in plYed funny buggers
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22 years on NOTHING HAS CHANGED. Send all your list cloggers to Tigerland. Richmond will probably get 3 list cloggers from Geelong for Delidio :lol :lol :lol :lol
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Vision from the day: https://twitter.com/thefrontbar7/status/1309096378451275783
John Northey on the Front bar tonight said Lockett at the end of 1994 told him he would love to play for Richmond given the supply from our mids at the time (Knights, Free, Campbell, Maxfield, Naish, Broderick & Bond).
We tried to contact to St Kilda but the Saints refused to pick up the phone and talk to us.
Northey rang Ian Collins (head of football operations at the AFL) to try and get him to force the Saints to talk to us and do a deal. Collins told him Lockett would only be allowed to leave if he goes to the Swans.
So the AFL fixed it (and screwed us in the process). Imagine us having Lockett in 1995.