MINI: AFL Trade Period

The AFL trade period is back.. the most over complicated part of sport. Christian, Patsy, Alex and Rio try to make sense of the chaos.

From Charlie Curnow’s potential unpaid internship at the Swans just to escape Melbourne, and “facility tours” that sound more like episodes of The Block, to Will Brodie’s baffling pick 103 trade.. we pull apart the country’s most confusing time of year.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heeart podcasts.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more Gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
App Got anything good? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell
show podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Alice Cunning, You are doing a very good job this
week in the complicated world of the AFL trade.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's like advanced maths, isn't it? It really is.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's just shuffling around a players who are basically the
ongoing story is people who are like the Chiney Kerno stuff.
So it's he prepared to take what an apprenticeship ought
to be an unpaid intern at.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
The Swans rather than play at Carlton. Rather than just
one more year at Gold. We'll kick for free, We'll
bad snags for free. What an amazing story. That is
a million dollars. It doesn't want to warn.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
It if you still got a player Gold the answertory.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
He wants to get out of the Melbourne bubble.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes, that's it's that one, isn't he same with Clayton?
A lot of as well around GWS. Wrong choice of words.
They were Clayton.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
And my favorite phrase is where they go?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
The players have landed in Adelaide or wherever it is, Freo,
and I'm looking around the facilities, like.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Do you know what?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I'd look at the showers and I can't stand what
they've done with that canteen.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I'm sorry, I'm not going to be coming. It's cracked
in the wall here. Yeah, that needs to be fixed.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Looking around the facilities, some of them, I don't understand
the maths.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
There was warning yesterday Will Brody got traded to Port
Adelaide from Frio for actually pause the TV and wrote
this down.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
I couldn't understand this for around six pick one oh three?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:59):
What? Yeah? I didn't even know it went up that hard.
It's pretty insulting.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yes, I don't even know who to do it is.
But people were like, got he's got ring his mum
and dad. I'm after port Adelaide. What do they get
around six pick one oh three?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
That is low? I didn't even know it went up
like that. How did they were they?

Speaker 2 (02:18):
In the goo?

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Shame?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Will I will you want? We want one oh one?
No one?

Speaker 1 (02:23):
No one oh three? All right? Yeah, well get in here.
What did they take me for? Pick thirty?

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I didn't know that high, But it's the round six,
pick one oh three.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, and one of the highest picks as well, Like,
not many get traded from like one hundred plus.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
You've never heard of it going over one hundred. That's
why it caught my eye. Yes, that's what. It seems
a pointless trade.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
And also it's like it must be so complicated for
the people who were like the list managers or all
the pups. Yeah, and like minute by minute it must
be because it's so complicated. Who's coming in, who keeps
a note on a file on a computer these future picks?
Because these people must leave jobs, do they tell the
new person, don't forget about that pick one oh three.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's ours in wait for it rounds? Was it four?
Was it four?

Speaker 3 (03:16):
I don't remember now pick thirty six.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
So obviously the draw system exists in the NRL. Does
it get this complicated? No way, They don't really have
a draft system in the NRL. What really, Yeah, you
just sort of they get up.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
And comers say, you choose kids from eighteen's reserve grade. Yeah,
there's there's nothing like this in the NRAL. The NURL
are looking at it, though, because look at the.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Generated The NRL looks at the AFL and go, we
want some of that, but.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
They should they look at the media it generates the
attention on it, and.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Notice that it has its own radio station. Oh my god,
have you ever heard of Trade Radio? Continental taps? Those
poor buggers, don't they have to feel like so much?
What's the what's the Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill movie? Moneyball?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yes, yes, like that?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, isn't it with all the advanced maths. It's so complicated.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
They're like hamsters on a wheel there because they can't
get off. All they lowed to talk about is Trade Radio,
and they've got like weeks and weeks of radio.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Sometimes I love watching the little video clips. They look
like hostages there that are not. Trump's gonna fly into
Melbourne once he's solved to Israel and try and get
the presenters on Trade Radio

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Freed Christian O'Connell shar on podcast