The most frustrating thing here is that we could've just done nothing instead.
I can somewhat accept losing out on market value of a trade if we've got players wanting out. You play the hand you're dealt. I can somewhat accept losing out on market value of a trade if we're targeting specific players to bring in. To fill gaps in your list, you gotta do what you gotta do.
This was not a case of us having to take whatever we could get with the hand we were dealt. It was not a case of us being desperate to fill a need. Here, we had a great hand, and we didn't have to do anything. But we burst into the room where GC and Brisbane were talking, threw our hand away, bent over and asked them to go in dry.
Could we not at the very least have targeted some of GC's better second rounders? It still would've been a crap trade, but at least it would've given the sense that we at least bothered to try to get a good deal.