What is with you and those 4 picks!! We are majorly disadvantaging ourselves by getting rid of 17 as well as Aish. Trade him for 24 and 26 and be done. Downgrading 17 so we can pick up 32 does not make any sense!!
Pick 17 will be used on the academy kids anyway. If we downgrade it, it gives us more options to trade picks 26, 27 or 32 for experienced players or take to the draft. More flexibility.
For example:
Trade Jack Redden = Pick 17 (West Coast)
Trade James Aish + Pick 17 = Pick 24 (St Kilda) + Pick 26 (Collingwood) + Pick 27 (GWS) + Pick 32 (Gold Coast)
Trade Pick 21 + Pick 75 = Levi Casboult + Tom Bell (Carlton)
Trade Pick 40 + Pick 57 = Josh Walker + Jarred Jansen (Geelong)
Trade Pick 39 = David Astbury
Trade Pick 32 = Ryan Bastinac
Pick 2 = Joshua Schache
Pick 24 + Pick 26 + Pick 27 (2217 points) = Eric Hipwood + Ben Keayes