I dont really agree with this... I think trading our second this year for Steele (as trading our second last year for Freeman) is about continually getting top end talent with your second pick. This is the problem Richmond have, their later picks have turned into nothing. Where as ours have blossomed. If the club thinks that Steele is a better player than any player we could get a pick 26-30 odd, you take him that way (if you can get him out of GWS for that price) Trading back to lower first round pick may seem an intelligent thing to do, and two years ago I think it was - considering our list - but now we need quality not quantity.
We have to start using our first rounders very carefully. If this years pick 10(?) will not bring us a Marchbank (pick 6)/Steele (pick 15 bid) type deal, or a player of the quality of Hurley (I know he may cost more but I wouldn't want to pay more), then we must use that pick to get a quality young player.
Swapping back just means upping our chances of picking another soldier, we need quality, pick 10 gives us more chance of achieving that.
And what happens if we trade pick 10(?) for Steele and pick 17 early, and then later in trade week a club wants to offer us a quality player but pick 17 (a late first rounder) is not what they had in mind?