I'd consider that the following trades are feasible. ( based on rumours etc of what GWS need ) and the most I would want us to offer.
a) McEvoy and pick 22 ( ish ) for Pick 1.
b) Gilbert + Pick 3 for pick 1. ( I wouldn't consider Ferg, GWS have fringe players ,and Ferg is just as likely to be delisted).
c) McEvoy and pick 3 for pick 1 and pick 10.
d) McEvoy and Gilbert for Pick 1.
The difference between pick 1 and pick 3 is not a lot if you take Boyd out of the equation.
Yep, those are all pretty good and fair deals, I reckon and I would even go as far as Mac (as long as it wouldn't hurt the fabric of the club too much), Gilbo and pick 3/4, for picks 1, 10 (or Adams, if the drug rumours are not true- which I hear they aren't) and 20, plus maybe something/someone else.
That way GWS get two of their stated needs (ruck and "tall running player", who SOS would know well from his time here- Gilbo came 3rd in our B&F in 2010, under SOS's coaching) and get pick 3/4 to get someone they probably wanted to get with pick one (if they don't want Boyd) anyway.
Then we'd have 1 (Boyd), 10 (Sheed/Dunstan/Bontompelli/Freeman/Crouch/Taylor/Gardiner), or Adams and then 20 and 22 or so, for a couple that have slid out of the first round, like this year's version of Hrovat and a Kennedy-Harris/Wilson/Hartung. Hard to complain about that I reckon.
Interesting to note that the article on the back page of the HS today says that GWS are offering pick one to Collingwood for Dane Swan, who will be 30yo next year. If true it makes a bit of a mockery of what many are saying that you wouldn't get a first rounder for someone who is about to turn 30, as many have said about Dal Santo this year, for instance.