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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Essendon (1994)ย
In: Pick 4 (Scott Lucas)ย
Out: Tony Delaneyย
The Dockers really were a disaster area head of their debut season, with head coach Gerard Neesham not only drawing a line through Andrew McLeod but also coughing up a generational forward tandem for driftwood.
With Delaney departing the Dockers after just 28 games and Lucas booting 471 goals from his 270 starts inside a red-sashed guernsey, this deal is about as lopsided as it gets.
Still, after making moves to draw Dale Kickett from Windy Hill in the same off-season, the Dockers traded the Dons the rights to pick first in the compensation draft, a pick they used on a teenager called Matthew Lloyd.
Ouch.
