THROUGH the trade period, Foxfooty.com.au operates a live chat, every day from 9am to 5pm.

We get plenty of questions from trade-hungry footy fans, and the overwhelming majority are totally reasonable inquiries - who is our club targeting, where do you think this player will end up, and so on.

Some of them though are a bit left-of-centre. Maybe they’re not quite balanced or fair. Maybe they’re nowhere near it. And maybe they’re just plain funny.

Here are some of our highlights from the trade chat, as broken down into three categories.

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QUESTION TYPE 1: ‘He’s not very good for us, but another team might still want him!’

Q: Straight swap: Levi Casboult for Taylor Duryea?

Carlton fans seemed particularly hopeful that other clubs would want to trade for players who couldn’t even stay in the best 22 of a side that won two games.

In this case, that would have involved a dual premiership player being simply swapped for a much-maligned (if underrated because of that) forward. That’s perhaps a little optimistic.

Q: Levi Casboult and Nick Graham to the Suns for Pick 29?

Dayne Beams, Jack Gunston, Scott Lycett, Rory Lobb and Touk Miller are just some of the players still in the AFL (and quite good!) who went with Pick 29.

Nick Graham was delisted by Carlton on Thursday. But at least the Suns would’ve gotten Levi, too!

QUESTION TYPE 2: The optimistic superstar deal

Q: Dylan Shiel to Hawthorn for Jon Ceglar and Pick 14?

Well, the Giants did and do still need a ruckman.

We’re not sure if they would value Jon Ceglar at a first-round pick, given they wanted and eventually got two of those for Shiel, but we can see the (not spot on) logic here.

Q: Thoughts on Jack Steven to Geelong? I know the Saints are shutting it down but the rumours won’t go away. Is this a possibility and if so, what would get a deal across the line? Cam Guthrie and Wylie Buzza maybe?

If this trade was made based on how much footy commentators like saying the players’ names, this would be totally fair, because Wylie Buzza is really fun to say and no-one gets Jack ‘Steven’ right anyway.

The issue is it would not have been based on that.

Q: Swans keen on Shiel, GWS missed out on Buddy all those years ago, could there be a straight swap?

It seems unlikely that a team with well-publicised salary cap issues would trade for Lance Franklin.

Q: Why doesn’t Richmond trade for Jesse Hogan, doesn’t he want out? The forward line with Lynch and Jack it will be amazing and we have cap room from getting rid of Ellis, Miles and Lloyd.

This is a slightly optimistic view of “cap room”, plus Richmond isn’t exactly based in Western Australia. At all.

And if people aren’t sure how the Tigers will structure a forward line with two talls, wait and see how confused they’ll be when Dimma gets a third!

QUESTION TYPE 3: Where did you pull that from?

Q: Any chance Hogan gets a grandfather offer and Freo get gazumped?

We’re going to guess this person meant a godfather offer.

Although we like the idea of a club coming to Hogan and saying, “hey Mum and Dad, we’re going away for the weekend, can you look after the kids for us?”

Q: Surely the government need to introduce a public holiday for this day (the final day)? Not much work getting done here today at work!

Given the Victorian state election is coming up, this could be a winner for either side of politics if they’re quick enough to adopt it.

Q: Do you think pineapple belongs on pizza?

See, now the chatters are just being silly.

Of course it doesn’t, and only monsters think otherwise.