Originally Posted by
Doc26
Unless Pickering, who should well know what this deal would take, pre-warned Dunkley on the outcome that eventuated, as his manager it is he who completely misread the room on this one.
I'm assuming that he did completely misread the room as Pickering is now out there post trade pushing the line that the offer that Essendon put forward was a fair deal, so we can only assume that he saw Sammy Power and the Dogs buckling. We didn't.
For a player so highly valued by his club, as a young leader, and under a lengthy contract only struck by Pickering the season before, it was he who was putting all his chips in on this and backing that the deal would indeed go through. It was an unmitigated failure in Pickering's management of the situation, and what has eventuated for his player.
Pickering's own reputation, and that of Precision, would've taken a pretty serious dent with those powerbrokers within our Club, and no doubt from those list managers at other Clubs looking in at our situation.
Good luck to him when trying to strike a more favourable deal for the likes of Louis Butler and Libba in the future, both on Precision's books, or when trying to find a home for other players in his stable like Kyle Dunkley etc. Unlike Josh at this stage of his career, there are so many more players sitting on the periphery of an AFL list, and more pronounced at the back end of their careers. I believe what goes around comes around.