I thought the F/S rule is like the academy rules and you just get a points discount and then you have to match the points with the picks you have. I wasn't aware it had to be your next pick otherwise teams would lose their points discount if they had to match with a pick soon after the bid. I.e. Matching a bid at pick 16 with pick 17 would result in a points loss to the club.
The issue is that you can't use inactive picks anymore to match points. So to match a bid in the first round might take 3 3rd round picks, which leaves you with two picks moved to the end of the draft. However, I am not sure if you can get away with using rookie upgrades with those picks instead of taking the last players available in the draft. If we could do that we could easily upgrade Castagna and Soldo and use the points for Naish.
Alternatively, we should just trade our first picks for young players and then we can't lose them in the first place. Just make sure we have a second round pick in the mid to late 20s to match the bid.