When the dust had settled on Collingwood's calamitous trade week (and while our brethren were rejoicing in one-upping the juggernaut Pies) I couldn't help but feel like something was not quite right...

Then rumours started to spread that the Pies offload was to clear the decks for a super big name, that they had already teed up, with Petracca and the Bont two names that had been thrown about.

Collingwood stealing Bont (with our unknowing help) is exactly the sort of spongier floor coup that made sense to the cynicism and hopelessness that was cultivated in me from growing up a Centrals, Fitzroy and Footscray fan.

People say that they knew it'd get done. Not me. I was preparing for the worst (losing him over a Ward $20k or one year too short).

Backflips. So good.