Say if Melbourne went in for caddy and asked for toy with him for pick 13 we then trade our two second round picks to gold coast for pick 13 which we then use on Vlaunstin(spelling?). This way Gold coast have that extra pick so use of depth as they already have enough star players plus they have O'meara and possibly whitfield or toumpas coming in this draft. They then use those two second round picks on getting depth players in the hope one turns into a star but so that they also have enough space in their salary(can only have so many good players until you go over).
I truthfully believe every team benefits from this trade.
Unfortunately this is exactly not what GC need.
They have to reduce their list by 4 as the mandated annual list reductions for them start kicking in. They also have to have the mandatory 3 ND picks. This means without blinking, they need to free up 7 spots.
If they trade out one pick for 2, they are risking adding to a pile of picks they just wont use. What GC need is to trade out their later picks and borderline players to potentially improve the three ND picks they will use.
This is why the Caddy discussion is doing peoples head in. Pears or Hooker and a second round pick is useless because it gives them a meh player they don't want, and a second round pick they don't need.
What GC want/need is to either upgrade picks, or trade out multiple players for single picks (to reduce the size of their required cull).