Triple M Rush Hour with JB & Billy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWe had this group of players that had been together for a long time and externally other clubs didn\u2019t have that. We\u2019re quite the minority.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was always going to come to an end and we\u2019ve had premiership players that moved on \u2014 Luke Jackson, James Harmes, James Jordon \u2014 these sort of guys.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re still very close to them. I\u2019m still very close to \u2018Harmesy\u2019, I still talk to Luke Jackson most days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clayton Oliver and Christian Petracca have been traded (Photo by Dylan Burns\/AFL Photos via Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Cox keen to continue career at new club | 01:03<\/p>\n
Gawn thinks Oliver can flourish with a \u201cfresh start\u201d at GWS and was hoping to see the midfielder win a Brownlow Medal.<\/p>\n
\u201cClayton is probably the definition of wanting a fresh start,\u201d the star ruckman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you looked at Clayton Oliver, and I\u2019m as close to him as anyone, you go: \u2018Jeez, a fresh start would be nice to him.\u2019 <\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think about it when I first, when it first got pitched to me. And then you sit there for a while and go: \u2018You know, what a fresh start would be pretty good for \u2018Claz\u2019. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo that I\u2019m really excited for.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope we win it, but I hope \u2018Clary\u2019 is sitting there Brownlow Medal night with a Brownlow around his neck and he changes his luck around as much as that. I\u2019ll be his number one supporter.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the Dees will pay a portion of Oliver\u2019s salary at the Giants and they only received a third-round pick back in the trade, Petracca\u2019s move to Gold Coast saw Melbourne land the No.7 and 8 overall draft picks.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrac\u2019s (Petracca) a star and we would have loved to keep him, but we were able to get a pretty good deal, which three first round picks \u2014 a Jeremy Cameron, Charlie Curnow-esque type deal \u2014 including two under 10,\u201d Gawn added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a really good deal for both parties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charlie Spargo and Judd McVee also departed Melbourne during the trade period, while the club brought in Jack Steele, Brody Mihocek, Changkuoth Jiath and Max Heath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Gawn says the footy world needs to grow up with the handling of players being traded after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,689,684,1129,7803,14385,659,77698,2105,2485,43,25536,12112,5337,138110,122937,12141,40511,15626,13126,12097,36889,7804,44,677,110635,47876,701,138109,79260,138107,41,39,42,40,1133,45262,138108],"class_list":["post-228611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ben-cotton","tag-charlie-curnow","tag-clayton-oliver","tag-damien-hardwick","tag-footy-world","tag-fresh-start","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gold-coast","tag-headlines","tag-heaps-praise","tag-jack-steele","tag-james-harmes","tag-james-jordon","tag-jb-amp-billy","tag-jeremy-cameron","tag-judd-mcvee","tag-luke-jackson","tag-mason-cox","tag-max-gawn","tag-max-heath","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-news","tag-oceania","tag-premiership-players","tag-premiership-side","tag-queensland","tag-shock-exits","tag-steven-king","tag-third-round-pick-back","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trade-period","tag-triple-m","tag-triple-m-rush-hour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}