While some trades look like roadkill in hindsight, if you alter your lens to look from the other end, these same deals have the ability to look like a 12-course banquet.
Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder.
After covering off your team's worst ever trades last week, we've turned our frowns upside down this week to shine a light on their best and brightest wheels and deals.
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Hawthorn (2001)ย
In: Pick 1 (Luke Hodge), pick 20 (Daniel Elstone) and pick 36 (Sam Mitchell)ย
Out: Trent Croad and Luke McPharlinย
If you are the winner of perhaps the most uneven deal of all time, then it's only natural that it rates as the greatest trade boon in club history.
Two premiership skippers for a sturdy defender and a player that would return to win a flag in brown and gold? Sign us up.
