I have less of an issue with player agents. They are there to get the best deal for their player period. They are not there for the clubs. For every Dunkley, there is a Trengove or a Porter where the player manager will do a load of work and it will come to nothing (I suppose Dunks came to nothing as well). The industry tends to spit out the player managers that take too hard a line looking after their self interest. Pickers must have felt that a) he had a reasonable chance of getting Dunks to Essendon; and b) the pay day for DUnks would have been well worth it.