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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GWS (2013)
In: Shane Mumfordย
Out: Pick 39 (Cameron Giles)
Every year, ruckmen are traded for picks outside of the first round. Sometimes these big men fizzle; sometimes the deals are mutually beneficial; sometimes they favour the club keen for known quantities over draft captial.
Take the Giants' choice to send a second-rounder to the Swans for Shane Mumford.
While the monster from Bunyip would earn best and fairest honours, as well as a Kirk Medal, during his days in charcoal and orange, Giles would never lace the boots as a Blue, after the Swans sent pick 39 to Princes Park to bring Andrejs Everitt north of the border.
