No, the argument is very fair. Losing first round picks in 2012 and 2013 doesn't really affect our premiership aspirations in 2014 and 2015. Other than the likes of Joel Selwood and Harry Taylor, very few players come in and have a real impact in their first couple of years on a premiership side, regardless of how good they are. And those that do are generally the more mature-aged role players who are usually taken with late picks anyway.
It is the window beyond that, in 2016 and beyond, where the effects of the draft pick penalties will begin to be felt. That's when the players we would have selected will be actually hitting their straps and making a positive influence on somebody else's team rather than ours. And that hurts bigtime.
I'm not happy that Trigg is back, not in the slightest. But given that he is back, and that it seems nothing we do or say has an influence on that decision (though kicking and screaming now may give the club cause to consider fan opinion more seriously for future decision, so it's not pointless), I'm just hoping the club can make the best of it - and that this kind of awful incident never occurs again.