If we were crap would you want us to trade a top 5 pick for a guy who was pick 20, and has played 1 game in 3 years?
would you want us to trade pick 4 for 11 and 16?
or 14 for 24 and 34? (from memory we traded 15 and got 20 and 25 back.)
all nice ideas but i would say no chance of any happening.
and it probably highlights how inadequate the current point system is.
I did start with 'maybe a stupid idea' but I'll try and answer your response and make an argument for it
I would be off the belief that in drafting discussions they'd throw up hundreds of stupid trade possibilities, if they're not, then they're potentially missing out on an idea they come across that might just work, even just once is a good result for the drafting team.
I mean if Freo could get pick 2 for the great Lachie Weller then 'Anything Is Possible'
(They did return pick 41 to GCS so it balanced out to points just over pick 4, but still way way high for Lachie Weller)
If we were crap and some club was offering us CCJ for our top 5 pick, I'd consider it. You're talking about a 21 year old ruckman with the potential to play for another 10+ years, to ruck and part-time hit up forward, or vice versa. Half your rucking issues sold for the next 10 years. And in my 47 years following the game ruckman are slow maturers.
Paul Hunter - Saints - 28 years old and first game was this year
Nank - first full season was at age 22/23
Jordan Sweet - first game this year age 23
Mumford - first full season age 23
Pittonet - first full season age 24
Oscar McInerney - first season age 24
Reilly O'Brien - first ful lseason age 24
Gawn, arguably best ruckman in the league is 30 end of this year - 139 games - 10 years. First full year of 22 games was in 2016 age 24.
And if CCJ ain't better than most of those guys and Rhys Stanley, Lycett, Hickey, Jarrod Witt, Matt Flynn, Peter Wright, Lloyd Meek, Ceglar then I'll go he
He is only not playing because of the depth we have, Nank, Soldo, Chol, Lynch came and took the FF spot, now Samson and the Mate have come, CCJ would be 1 or 2 at most of those other clubs.
I totally agree the points system is totally inadequate and confuses the hell out of me adding up and subtracting this pick for that pick
Sorry for the long response