I don't really see how you can say the trade has been a f*** up. On paper it was Jake Carlisle and Jade Gresham for Aaron Francis and Alex Morgan, I know which two I'd rather have.
Gresham has played 6 games so far and looked good in recent weeks while Francis and Morgan haven't played any, Francis has had injuries and no idea about Morgan. Also we could very well have taken Gresham at pick 6 had we kept it anyway, given he was the best mid available after Parish went off the board. The non academy players taken between Francis at 6 and Gresham at 18 were Ah Chee (flanker), Weideman (KPP), McKay (KPP), Milera (flanker), Curnow (forward), Rioli (small forward) and Doedee (defender). So in other words we used our 1st and 2nd round picks to get the star player we wanted in a trade and the player we potentially wanted with our first rounder at a lower pick, pretty good business if you ask me. I'm starting to get more and more confident that Gresh will be a gun.
As for Carlisle, while there was always a chance those guys could be suspended most people were shocked when it actually happened. That's out of our hands anyway, he's serving his suspension and has had surgery that he needed anyway to get his body right for 2017 onwards. And the snapchat scandal just made him personally look like an idiot, nothing bad on us despite the media doing their best to make you believe it was.