I'll bite, my best impersonation of being insulting to match an insulting post;
What has Boyd done? Not emulated an Eagles player and been played juiced up.
And why is a backman any less important than a forward? They're not, you're just looking for an argument and putting words in my text because "you dun goofed".
Lake; end of his career chased a premiership.
Frawley; Third string defender in Melbourne, no brainer to chase a premiership and success at the Hawks for similar coin.
Buddy; Prodigious talent, multiple time coleman medalist, AA, club leading goal kicker, and Hawks B&F winner.
Tippett; Underperformed, twice lead his respective clubs in goal kicking, rising star nominee.
What has Boyd done? In 2-3 years when he's 24, may be the spearhead in a Dogs premiership team, he's still in the "potential" stage of his career, and only a completely and total incompetent will completely and totally write him off. Welcome to the club is what I would be saying if I were a member!
Really you should watch more football and less soccer (see what I did there? Language!) and notice that AFL these days is a lot like chess with pieces working in conjunction with others to create a co-operative defense whereby multiple players a can impact multiple contests due to the restrictions of space contained in an AFL ground. Gone are the days where Lockett will burst clear of SOS, SOS will close the gap, Plugger will stick his arse out and clutch it and the public will remark at how brilliant it is, here are the days where Plugger will try, his arm will be chopped, he'll be bodied under the ball and one bloke will come over the top and another bloke will in front of him drifting across to take front possie. You, being the type to only look at a single person in this scenario will say what great job SOS did at stopping Plugger and he should be given a commendation of valour for his effort, the rest of us will look at that contest and remark that Plugger killed the contest amongst three blokes and was a beast as the resulting kick out went straight to one of our free men.
Reality is, your betters are talking about football, hush up unless you have something less insulting to add to the conversation instead of completely misrepresenting posts because you feel like you have to.
I wonder if in the process of intending to keep pick 5 we're planning to wedge out a current mid, and recent history would show there was interest in Armo, and given his start of the season that interest may have increased to a first rounder between 10 and 15. If we're keeping 5 to pick a mid, keeping Ross, it'd fit with the McEvoy & Stanley trades that we'd say "thanks, but we're taking the pick", and dub Newnes appointed next captain.
IF it happens, and we trade out an established mid or unexpected player to draft in another mid, gotta say, would like the minimal ruthlessness of the club.