Free agency and the trade period is over and despite no one playing a single game, let’s make some predictions of who did well and who stuffed up.

Adelaide

IN: Kyle Cheney, Luke Lowden

OUT: Nil

DRAFT PICKS: 14, 35, 43, 59, 86, 104, 122

Adelaide’s big move was to ring Hawthorn at the last minute and ask if they had any spare players lying around that they weren’t using.

Of course the big win for Adelaide was not losing Patrick Dangerfield, although they may be saving that up for next year.

Why didn’t they come out and say he wasn’t going anywhere? What’s that? They did? Three-hundred times!

Brisbane

IN: Dayne Beams, Allen Christensen

OUT: Joel Patfull, Jack Crisp

DRAFT PICKS: 44 (Liam Dawson), 63 (Harris Andrews), 67, 81, 99, 117 (Josh Clayton)

Thank you Nathan! Brisbane Lions fans must wonder how much more Nathan Buckley can do for them.

This was a great trade period for the Lions, they even managed to see through Collingwood’s fake ‘deadline.’ That said, so would your average four-year-old.

Danye Beams is a huge get and he said becoming a Lion means "never having to go to the Copeland Trophy again."

Christensen was another bonus that just seemed to land in their lap. Although why anyone would pick sunny Queensland over industrial Geelong is beyond me.

Carlton

IN: Kristian Jaksch, Mark Whiley, Liam Jones

OUT: Jarrad Waite, Jeff Garlett

DRAFT PICKS: 19, 28, 61, 65, 79, 101, 119

The AFL announced that the Blues would receive no compensation for losing Jarrad Waite, but we all know that losing him is compensation enough.

Some improvement here but nothing earth shattering.

Andrew McKay confirmed there had been a "bit of interest" in Mitch Robinson during the trade period. "Not from other AFL clubs but some police officers."

Collingwood

IN: Levi Greenwood, Travis Varcoe, Jack Crisp

OUT: Dayne Beams, Heritier Lumumba

DRAFT PICKS: 5, 9 (Darcy Moore), 30, 48, 85, 103, 121

When one of your best players wants to leave, it’s never good.

Still, Prince Lumumba had been causing some headaches for the Pies.

I guess Dayne Beams is also a good player.

The Pies tried to play hardball but the rug had been pulled out from under them before they really got started.

Pretending they were going to make Dayne Beams play against his will was laughable. He’d already been doing that for a season.

If social media is any guide (of course it is!) Pies fans aren’t exactly thrilled with the Varcoe trade either.

Levi Greenwood announcing he wanted to go to Collingwood probably saved this being a complete train wreck. Greenwood however isn’t going to solve any of the Pies problems.

Luckily, Darcy Moore is going to fix everything.

Essendon

IN: Adam Cooney, Jonathan Giles, James Gwilt

OUT: Paddy Ryder

DRAFT PICKS: 17, 20, 62, 71, 89, 107, 125

An interesting attempt by Essendon to pretend they traded Paddy Ryder in the end because it was the right thing to do. Only the tinfoil hat brigade are buying that one.

Essendon took forever to get that deal done, even floating a dodgy deal involving free agency compensation.

The AFL blocked that idea saying they were disallowing it because they 'hate Essendon.'

Essendon did prove it’s now a transition to retirement program as well as a legal defence fund, by trading to Adam Cooney.

Cooney said he choose Essendon because he wants to be coached by James Hird and liked the ‘sponginess of the floor’ at Essendon’s training facilities.

I think anyone who wants to be coached by James Hird should be surrounded by soft surfaces for their own safety.

Essendon were also very keen to announce they’d signed James Gwilt. I wonder why? Is he studying law?

Fremantle

IN: Nil

OUT: Nil

DRAFT PICKS: 13, 34, 54, 72, 90, 108, 126

Ross! Wake up! Ross! The trading period is on! Can you hear me? Ross!

I don’t think he heard me.

Geelong

IN: Mitch Clark, Rhys Stanley

OUT: Allen Christensen, Travis Varcoe

DRAFT PICKS: 10, 47, 55, 60, 73, 91, 109, 127

A massive and much-needed upgrade in Geelong’s Instagram ability.

Mitch Clark leaves Melbourne as a massive fan favourite and I can only imagine what he’ll do to win the hearts of Geelong fans.

Losing Allen Christensen will hurt and nothing done here fills me with confidence.

Gold Coast

IN: Nick Malceski, Mitch Hallahan

OUT: Nil

DRAFT PICKS: 8, 15, 29, 66, 84, 102, 120

Not bad. Bringing in Malceski provides a much needed impressive beard, given so many of the Suns players can’t yet grow one.

They got more than they gave which means the New Radicals lied to us.

GWS

IN: Ryan Griffen, Joel Patfull

OUT: Tom Boyd, Jono O’Rourke, Kristian Jaksch, Mark Whiley, Jon Giles, Sam Frost

DRAFT PICKS: 4, 6, 7, 23, 24 (Jack Steele), 80, 98, 116 (Jeremy Finlayson)

A busy few weeks for GWS.

First, they had Ryan Griffen saying he wanted to go there which is nice (except for the fact he just got his coach sacked) but then Tom Boyd said he wanted out.

AFL players have it so easy when it comes to contracts. Try getting out of a mobile phone contract.

It's the lack of loyalty that gets to me. You think I haven't had offers to leave my night fill job at Coles?

The Giants said they’d never trade Boyd under any circumstances which of course meant they would if they got a deal they liked.

So Tom was off to the Western Bulldogs and GWS said the guy who bought a Boyd jumper can return it for a full refund.

Was this a win for GWS? It all depends. If Boyd’s the next Carey then no, otherwise, they’ve bought in Griffen and have a pretty impressive amount of early draft picks.

Other teams can’t wait for when they want to leave too.

Hawthorn

IN: James Frawley, Jono O’Rourke

OUT: Mitch Hallahan, Luke Lowden, Kyle Cheney

DRAFT PICKS: 31, 49, 50, 68, 77, 95, 113, 131

Not a bad little offseason so far. The champagne hadn’t even dried on the Premiership trophy and James Frawley had walked in the door.

All Hawks fans will hope for is that they’ll get a rejuvenated Frawley, not the ‘I’m desperate to get out of here’ Frawley we saw this season.

Melbourne

IN: Heritier Lumumba, Jeff Garlett, Sam Frost

OUT: Mitch Clark, James Frawley

DRAFT PICKS: 2, 3, 40, 42 (Billy Stretch), 53, 83, 97, 115

I still can't believe Melbourne didn't get the Dangerfield trade done. The footy forums were all wrong! A rare event.

Melbourne did very well getting pick three for Frawley and a lot of clubs weren’t happy. Yet based on their past success, other clubs should want Melbourne to draft ahead of them. They will increase your chances of getting a good pick.

How much was pick three ‘overs’ for Frawley? Well Hawthorn offered Melbourne James Frawley for it straight away.

Lumumba and Gartlett are quite clearly the missing pieces to the Premiership puzzle at Melbourne.

North Melbourne

IN: Jarrad Waite, Shaun Higgins

OUT: Levi Greenwood

DRAFT PICKS: 16, 25, 36, 56, 74, 92, 110, 128

Losing Levi wasn’t as bad as everyone made out. I’m not sure at what point he suddenly became an elite midfielder in the past few weeks.

The ins though are worrying. Taking one of the most inconsistent players in Waite and putting him on the most inconsistent team, seems a recipe for a big bowl of inconsistency.

Having Cooney choose Essendon over them must have really hurt.

Port Adelaide

IN: Paddy Ryder

OUT: Nil

DRAFT PICKS: 57, 75, 93, 111, 129

Perfect. Ryder fits their needs and only makes a great list better.

Plus they’ve picked up Vossy as ‘midfield manager.’ That could be good. I guess.

Richmond

IN: Nil

OUT: Nil

DRAFT PICKS: 12, 33, 52, 70, 88, 106, 124

Richmond’s main bit was to not trade for Jack Trengove. Turns out Richmond hires ‘doctors’ who looked at Trangove’s foot and found he’d re-aggravated it.

Right this minute, Melbourne is considering getting one too. After all, this was totes awkward.

St Kilda

IN: Nil

OUT: Rhys Stanley. James Gwilt

DRAFT PICKS: 1, 21, 22, 41, 78, 96, 114

St Kilda announced they expected a ‘bidding frenzy’ for pick 1. Apparently Essendon had offered them 20 players for it.

Of course, in the end St Kilda hung on to their pick and managed to turn Rhys Stanley into pick 21 which is quite the magic trick.

Sydney

IN: Nil

OUT: Nick Malceski, Shane Biggs

DRAFT PICKS: 18 (Isaac Heeney), 37, 38 (Jack Hiscox), 58, 76 (Abe Davis), 94, 112, 130

I was very surprised by how quiet Sydney had been this trade period but then I found out the AFL had arbitrarily banned them from trading.

Why? Because they’d followed an AFL policy! What cheats!

The AFL says the conditions placed on the Swans should serve as a warning to any other clubs caught following the rules.

Swans fans have every right to be pretty angry about the AFL’s decision and the complete absence of any attempt to explain it.

West Coast

IN: Nil

OUT: Nil

DRAFT PICKS: 11, 32, 51, 69, 87, 105, 123 (Alec Waterman, father-son)

Are the Eagles all out fishing with the Dockers? I hope not. At least the Dockers played finals this season.

Personally, I think the Eagles forgot to put this in the diary. Beyond weird.

Western Bulldogs

IN: Tom Boyd, Shane Biggs

OUT: Ryan Griffen, Adam Cooney, Shaun Higgins, Liam Jones

DRAFT PICKS: 26, 27, 39, 45, 46, 64 (Zaine Cordy, father-son), 82, 100, 118.

Crazy brave? This is a big roll of the dice.

If Boyd works out, everyone looks like geniuses, he flops and the Bulldogs have a seven-year, expensive albatross around their necks.

Anyway, no pressure Tom.

The seven year contract should see Boyd through three or four coaches.

Loosing Cooney and Griffen changes the whole feel of this team. Maybe it’s the shake-up they needed.

Now they just need to get round to that pesky issue of a coach.

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