You can easily understand it - Buckley selling them the "talented young list" that gets to play the big marquee games, the increased chance for sponsorships, jobs for girlfriends etc etc.
The questions Aish should be asking himself are:
a) Didn't Bucks himself once go to the Pies to find success? Sure, he did well financially but no flag. North though ...
b) Doesn't it say something that the likes of Freeman and Seedsman are leaving for lack of opportunity/other reasons? To lose a top 10 pick without having a played a game is pretty awful man management. If that happened at North I'd be utterly ropeable. Sure, blokes get injuries but you deal with that. Look at Taylor Garner, first couple of years ruined by injury, played one game, but we stick by him, he sticks by us, and he's played three finals now, won two, done some very nice things on the MCG in front of a 90,000 crowd.