No we gave away 4 spots in the first round to get back into the second round. We had to use our second round pick in order to improve the depth of our list with Cheney and Lowden. So we had no second round pick. The swapsie with Geelong then meant we were back into the second round. At least we have picks in this years draft before pick 50. We have two new players and spots for young talent to come in. If you want to compare us to our neighbours, when is their first pick? And they brought in a player who while good, has one hell of a cloud hanging over him.
2nd round picks don't win flags. Sure you might get lucky - but have a look at what the premiership lists are built around.
Thats elite talent that come through either:
A. Drafting top end talent
B. Trading in top end talent
We have done neither of this.
To use the old internet saying "all we are doing is shuffling deck chairs on the titanic".
Losing Smack, Petrenko, Graham, Porps, Johnston - doesn't hurt us all.
Losing Picks 31, 47 doesn't hurt us.
Gaining Picks 35 doesnt help us
Gaining Cheney doesnt help us
All of the above doesn't impact our best 22 at all.
Lowden may help us.
Our decision to move from #10 to #14 potentially could really hurt us if a player we rate in the top 5-6 players slides over the next month. We are messing around with our 1 chance to improve our top end talent. Its stupid. So stupid.