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I suspect GWS needed to free up a list spot last year and felt Sumner will not be the same player they drafted after his navicular injury, so they packaged him in GWS4 deal at reduced cost to us. Pickett with his Lisfranc injury or Ahern with his ACL packaged in with Marchbank may allow us to pick up Marchbank for our 2nd rounder instead of the mid 1st rounder he is probably worth. We can afford to allow an extra list spot to be taken by an injured player for 12 months if it allows us to get high end talent on our list for less than market value.
Our depth is already an issue, and Byrne and Sheehan are already on the injury list. If we add another player who we know won't be available for next season, we're putting ourselves in a seriously dangerous position should we suffer a few injuries to starting 22 mids.
