Hines Drafting Player....

[Kirby]

So effectively though, every year you would be willing to downgrade your 1st round draft pick, for pick #37?

And you are going to have to explain how you knew we wanted Egan before the draft was actually carried out. Who says we didn't want Lewis but we thought he would easily slip through til 10, only to see Hawthorn snap him up.

It isn't about the players selected with those picks, that is irrelevant, it is just the reasoning that it is worth dropping your pick inside the top 10 three spots for a third round (or close to) draft pick.
I would say there is definitely something wrong with that deal.

But it is certain that we would not have picked Lewis, we would have used pick 7 on Egan anyway. We even reached an unofficial gentlemanly agreement with the Hawks when doing the deal that they would not pick Egan. Obviously the club was pretty confident that whoever had picks 8 and 9 had other players in mind.

The only criticism we can have is that the recruiters were wrong with Egan and under valued Lewis.

 

[loki04]

Nothing at all wrong with it, if we wanted Egan, which is what Collingwood recruiters claimed in the media after the draft.

If by downgrading, you can select the same player you would have without, and get something extra, then you've done a good deal.

They actually said it after the trade BEFORE the draft.