I really hope it was the case that Mitchell was a high priority. He made our trade period last year.You're not going to get a free agent over if you leave him to the last day of trade week - if another trade happens.
Personally, I think we were underplaying our interest in Mitchell and that trade was always going to happen.
We shouldn't have targeted McStay as a free agent. We should've learnt our lesson around targeting average players in free agency after QLynch, Clinton Young and Mayne.
For his cost and output as a "someone who takes away a defender", we might as well have gotten Weideman for cheap.
Meanwhile we're paying him the same amount and contract length as Grundy after subsidy.