Every club's best trade of the AFL era

What’s the only thing better than landing a gem at the trade table? Landing them for a packet of chips, of course.

STAFF WRITERS | August 28, 2023 - 6:54pm

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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.

Brisbane (1997)

In: Pick 31 (Simon Black)
Out: Simon Hawking and Brent Green

While the Lions were able to land the rights to draft Dayne Zorko from the Suns for a steal, any day you can land a 300-gamer with a Brownlow and Norm Smith to his name for loose change is a banner day.

Though Black was just a kid with potential ahead of the 1998 season, by the time the member of Brisbane's 'Big 4' hung up his boots at the end of 2013, the Hall of Famer had eclipsed any of Hawking and Green's deeds 10,000 fold.