Brownlow Medallist lands at rival amid trade chaos

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Brownlow Medallist Tom Mitchell fled Hawthorn for Collingwood successful a chaotic last fewer minutes of the AFL commercialized period, arsenic the league's transportation model again played big to frantic enactment connected Wednesday night.

The past 90 minutes of the commercialized play resulted successful 8 players — Mitchell, Ollie Henry, Cooper Stephens, Lachie Hunter, Josh Dunkley, Rory Lobb, Jaeger O'Meara and Lloyd Meek — uncovering caller homes, arsenic clubs and agents scrambled connected the tally to the 7.30pm deadline.

After Mitchell began his AFL vocation astatine the Swans and enjoyed tremendous idiosyncratic occurrence astatine the Hawks — helium won the 2018 Brownlow Medal, clinched 3 champion and fairests and received 2 All-Australian blazers — the prolific midfielder landed astatine a 3rd nine via a three-way trade.

The woody saw Henry traded from Collingwood to Geelong and Stephens determination from Geelong to Hawthorn.

The Magpies besides attained prime No.25 from the Cats, portion the Hawks secured picks No.41 and No.50.

"We've had immoderate involvement successful Tom for immoderate clip present and are pleased to person travel to presumption with him arriving astatine the club," said Collingwood footy brag Graham Wright.

"Tom has been a prolific ball-getter and clearance subordinate crossed his career, which made him an charismatic get.

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"We are pleased to person Tom connected board, and we look guardant to welcoming him to our shot program.

"We besides convey Ollie for being a portion of our shot programme implicit the past 2 years.

"Ollie showed beardown imaginable astatine AFL level this twelvemonth and we privation him each the champion for the adjacent signifier of his shot career."

In summation to the three-way woody involving Mitchell, Henry and Stephens, the last 90 minutes of the commercialized play saw Hunter depart the Western Bulldogs for Melbourne, Dunkley permission the Bulldogs for the Brisbane Lions, Fremantle's Rory Lobb go a Bulldog, Hawthorn's Jaeger O'Meara articulation Fremantle and the Dockers' Lloyd Meek motion with the Hawks.

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