LIVE: Left-field trade to seal Dee's homecoming

After having a quiescent archetypal week of the commercialized period, Essendon is poised to get successful connected the enactment with the acquisitions of Will Setterfield and Sam Weideman.

Both players are erstwhile top-10 picks who haven't rather recovered their footing astatine the AFL level and are inactive rather young astatine 24 and 25 years old, respectively.

According to Lloyd, the little illustration commercialized targets are an denotation of wherever the embattled nine presently stands.

"Setterfield is worthy it fixed Essendon won't springiness up much, but that they're getting extent players sums up wherever they're at," helium told AFL Trade Radio.

"It's not an enticing spot to beryllium astatine the moment."

Lloyd is simply a instrumentality of the bargain debased enactment of bringing Weideman in, and likens his concern to Essendon's champion and fairest victor from this year, Peter Wright.

"I accidental erstwhile you're getting him for not much, you person thing to lose," helium said of the Weideman add.

"He does person to get much competitive, and nastier. He lacks assurance astatine AFL level. He has got talent, but hasn't had the combat to bash it consistently."