‘He doesn’t want to come:’ How one of the biggest trades in AFL history almost didn’t happen
Pickering was amazed at the cheek of my suggestion: “A million-to-one,” he said. I explained, without being able to provide any names, what type of list was being built on the Gold Coast. At the very least I wanted Pickering to put the question to Ablett: would he consider moving to the Suns?He did just that and I was excited to receive a text from Pickering that Ablett was up for a chat.
- ▪Pickering was amazed at the cheek of my suggestion: “A million-to-one,” he said.
- ▪I explained, without being able to provide any names, what type of list was being built on the Gold Coast.
- ▪At the very least I wanted Pickering to put the question to Ablett: would he consider moving to the Suns?He did just that and I was excited to receive a text from Pickering that Ablett was up for a chat.
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