Essendon set to trade pick No.11 as it attempts to secure Jake Stringer, Devon Smith and Adam Saad

[hujsh]

If we wanted 11 for Jake seems unlikely Essendon can manufacture an acceptable deal now 11 is gone.

The only way is with their 2018 first rounder.

Or Daniher (I wish!)

[GVGjr]

It's not over yet, there is a bit more to play out here.
Essendon now have a 2018 2nd round pick and two 2nd round picks this year. Colyer likely to be going to WA.

There could still be a trade with Richmond

[bulldogtragic]

It's not over yet, there is a bit more to play out here.
Essendon now have a 2018 2nd round pick and two 2nd round picks this year. Colyer likely to be going to WA.

There could still be a trade with Richmond

So Stringer for 17? I'd hope not.

[GVGjr]

So Stringer for 17? I'd hope not.

I'd say 17 and a 2nd rounder for next year is a chance.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

I'd say 17 and a 2nd rounder for next year is a chance.

What a putrid outcome. Yet again we become trade chumps.

[Ozza]

Looks to me like Essendon called our bluff.

[hujsh]

What a putrid outcome. Yet again we become trade chumps.

Or they accepted they can't satisfy everyone's demands and made their choices. We have no obligation to accept their offers

[bulldogtragic]

Looks to me like Essendon called our bluff.

Hopefully we are not bluffing.

[Topdog]

I'd say 17 and a 2nd rounder for next year is a chance.

That would be a bloody awful trade IMO. Not sure we could sell that as a win

[bulldogtragic]

That would be a bloody awful trade IMO. Not sure we could sell that as a win

Yep, you can't sell that anything other than us pulling our own pants down.

[GVGjr]

That would be a bloody awful trade IMO. Not sure we could sell that as a win

We might not be able to sell it as a win but we now have to make the choice if we truly believe we can have him back or if we take the best offer.

[1eyedog]

I'd say 17 and a 2nd rounder for next year is a chance.

Is that really what we meant all along when we said that Jake was worth a high first round pick?

[bulldogtragic]

I'd say 17 and a 2nd rounder for next year is a chance.

If 24 or 29 go for Saad. How will they get 17?

[GVGjr]

Is that really what we meant all along when we said that Jake was worth a high first round pick?

Not at all, we put a high price on his services and it hasn't panned out that way

[Ozza]

Hopefully we are not bluffing.

Hmmm, I think the whole 'if we don't get the right deal, he'll stay at the dogs' is a bluff. Hard to walk things back from the (poor) way in which we came out with putting him on the table.

I hope I'm proven wrong - but am fearful that Bevo's initial press on this will prove to have been a disaster.