The 2016 trade period revisited: How the Tigers went from duds to a dynastyStirling Coates
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29 April 2020Trade 13
Richmond received: Dion Prestia, pick 26
Gold Coast received: pick 7 and a 2017 second-round pick
Imagine travelling back in time and playing audio of the 2019 grand final to Gillon McLachlan.
“Another turnover by the Giants, Prestia picks it up and sends it long to Tom Lynch!”
Poor fella would’ve thought he was listening to a Giants-Suns decider.
But it wasn’t a Giants-Suns decider because the Suns continually shot themselves in the foot with horrid trades from 2011 until [error:undetermined] – and this was yet another.
Prestia has gone from strength to strength at the Tigers, including a career-best year in 2019 where he averaged 27 disposals and five tackles. Richmond also landed another former Sun with pick 26, after sending it Geelong’s way for Josh Caddy. Another tick.
Gold Coast, on the other hand, selected Jack Scrimshaw with pick seven – who played four games with the club and is now a Hawk – while sending the 2017 second-rounder in the infamous pick-swap with West Coast where they gambled on the Eagles doing poorly the next season, only for them to win the premiership.
Incredible.
Winner: Richmond
Trade 14Richmond received: Toby Nankervis
Sydney received: pick 45
Nankervis is one of the most unlikely two-time premiership players around, but his work around the ground as a ruckman can’t be understated.
The Tigers get the points here, with Sydney’s pick 45 Jack Maibaum yet to debut.
Winner: Richmond
Trade 20Richmond received: Josh Caddy, pick 53
Geelong received: picks 26 and 60
I’ll never quite understand why the Cats felt the need to move Josh Caddy on, but the Tigers sure aren’t asking any questions. The former Sun has been superb at his third club, including a career-best 46-goal haul in 2018. Richmond also did well with pick 53, selecting Jack Graham.
Geelong didn’t do horribly, selecting Brandan Parfitt and Quinton Narkle, but this one is clearly a Tiger win.
Winner: Richmond
Trade 35GWS received: Brett Deledio
Richmond received: 2017 first-round pick (Geelong’s from Tuohy trade) and a 2017 third-round pick
While Deledio’s move will ultimately go down as one of the sadder tragedies in AFL folklore, the Tigers sent both of these picks Brisbane’s way the next season in a pick swap that hasn’t done a lot yet.
Winner: GWS
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