Can we at least wait until the end of the draft to see how it pans out for us before we criticise? 13 for these two picks may just be the start of something.
I was just thinking along these lines.
Adelaide want to get into the top 5 to try and get one of the top end SA talents. So maybe it is angling towards this and the Hannebery trade?
This might be slightly uneven and it might need other picks but just musing!
This assumes that we get #26 and #28 for #13 as reported.
Three way trade with Crows, Saints and us.
Adelaide:
Out: #8, #16, #21
In: #4 (Stk), #26 (SYD)
Saints:
Out: #4
In: Hannebery, #16 (Crows), #21 (Crows)
Swans:
Out: Hannebery, #26
In: #8 (Crows)
Swans would have #8, #28, #33, #38, #69
Not perfect but there is something potentially workable there.
In effect we’d get #8, #28 for Hannebery and #13
If a bid didn’t come early we could use later picks for Blakey and get another top 10 talent, or we could trade 8 for another player.
If we kept it and the bid came at 7 (because we wouldn’t choose him at 8), we’d pick up another pick around #53.
Just throwing it out there.