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They're not linked at all.
That "requirement" is just something we made up ourselves. It's not in concrete. We only needed to do the deal if we thought, independently of anything else that happened, it would nett us better players than 10 and 47.
That "requirement" is just something we made up ourselves. It's not in concrete. We only needed to do the deal if we thought, independently of anything else that happened, it would nett us better players than 10 and 47.
We will still get the guy we wanted at 10 at 14, and a player at 35 than we would have missed at 47.
This in no way says that whomever gets picked at 10 won't be a gun that some supporters don't look back in years to come and say "we could have had him" ... but the fact that we need more meat on our bones - we need more than 1 player to get us to the next level means we have different needs to other clubs. That second rounder is important to us. The two players we traded in are important to us.
Hell Port don't even have a pick until #57. That doesn't mean that their recruiters are idiots ... nor does Geelong moving to 10 mean that wells is a genius.
