Brown only came coz of Wallace
Johnson always wanted to come to Richmond, easy get.
Simmonds wasnt really a big name when we got him. Have to give Miller a tick for this one though.
Polak wasnt just Miller either, Freo wanted to offload him anyway coz of his off field trouble.
Morton, time will tell
McMahon only come coz of Terry also.
Good job Greg
By the way Simmonds was a trade not PSD, traded in the Fiona deal.
Okey dokey:
1. Wallace wasn't at the club when Brown was traded for. So any attempt to attribute that to Wallace and not Miller is fanciful.
2. Still had to get the job done.
3. Simmonds may not have been a big name, but at a time when ruckmen were in high demand, we did a very, very good deal to get him.
4. Whether or not Freo wanted to get rid of him, again Miller did an excellent job to get him for the deal we did for Polak.
Morton will be a good deal, the risk is a lot lower with Morton than it is using pick 35. And the benefit is it still leaves us with the PSD to use if we want.
The McMahon deal I agree is a worry. Simmonds and Morton we got very cheaply because they were out of contract and we used our PSD pick as leverage. Can't see why we had to give up so much to get an out of contract player, even a downgrade to their second round pick would have been a good option.