We end up winning a few nothing games at the end of the season and Melbourne get a compo pick and all of a sudden all of those guys will be gone before we enter the draft.
Now to me looking at the desperate state of our midfield we have to do something to upgrade our 1st round pick and grab one of those players. Melbourne won't let Petracca get past them fair enough, but the other two were realistic options for us if we moved up the order. But we did nothing.
Melbourne won't let Brayshaw get past them either.
So given those two mids will be taken in the top 3, and presuming Laverde is as outstanding a prospect as you think he is, what do we do to secure him?
What pick did we need to trade for in order to get Laverde?
4? 7?
Who did we fail to trade to GWS in order to get one of those picks?
Brown and pick 32 for 7?
Gaff for 4?
McGovern and pick 11 for pick 6?
I understand the frustration of this potentially being 2009 all over again, but besides turning back the clock and tanking against GCS, what would you have done better to get your hands on one of those three midfielders?