By Michael Gleeson

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In the courts, a jury that is too quick to reach a verdict leaves itself more open to appeal for the query of whether they’d taken sufficient time to truly weigh the evidence.

In the trade period, that means even if you can come up with the right trade to make the pieces fit, you can’t come up with it in the first week. It’s hard to sell the fans on the idea you have squeezed the best deal possible, and exhausted all options, if you’ve knocked over a trade with a week to go.

That is especially true when you use the caveat suddenly common in this new environment where contracts are mere suggestions of a commitment: “You never say never, it would have to be something extraordinary.”

Which brings us to the Curnow trade. Sydney and Carlton were edging closer to a deal that is not only fair for Carlton but also saleable to fans. Then on Thursday night Geelong entered the fray offering up three first round draft picks – this year’s and for the next two years.