Tim Kelly was coming off a season he received 25 votes in the Brownlow medal, Jeremy Cameron is a 2-time All Australian and Coleman Medal winner, to think Dawson is worth as much as them just because he's the best available is silly.
On the flipside, we said "Dawson is similar to Ed Langdon, both in age, style and statistically". Demons paid out 22, 79 and a future second-round selection and got 26 and a future 4th rounder back. So basically cost it cost Melbourne a slight downgrade and a 2nd round pick to get Langdon, who is rated at a similar level to Dawson, so Sydney should be pretty happy with getting a 1st rounder in return for him, let alone complaining they should have gotten pick 4 if we were trading fairly.
there is clear blue water between what Kelly et al got, and Sydney got, such there was a big, big landing strip (conceptually anyway) for Sydney to drop in the middle. Problem is, they misread different situations as a trend
and can we stop with the Langdon thing. He’s not a very interesting player, and shouldn’t really feature in our thinking