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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Melbourne (1994)ย
In: Jeff Farmerย
Out: Phil Gilbert
Fremantle really stained the bedsheets ahead of their first season, didn't they?
While Farmer wasn't strictly a Docker ahead of 1995, the expansion side held the rights to draft 'The Wiz'. However, in step with the many other deals made that off-season, Farmer was sent East for Gilbert, a Claremont product who would depart the Dockers after just 14 games.
Freo would haul Farmer back West before too long, but it would cost them pick 17 at the 2001 'Super Draft', a selection eventually used to make James Kelly a Cat.
