I would do that. The second round pick can come from this year. Especially if the CCJ trade gets us #20
Then could look at Adelaide's #4 pick. Some reports have them open to splitting #4 to position themselves not to over pay for the Swans player (name escapes me now). We could go 15 + 26+ 28 for pick 4 and 37 from Adelaide
We also get Bulldogs 17 plus 72 for 40 + 44 + the 37 from Adelaide
Leaves us with 3 + 4+ 7 + 17 + Chol compo with the 72 going to North for Tarrant
Again all guess work but there is potential to end up with a very good draft hand this year. 3 top 10 picks plus the 17 added to Balta, Bolton, Baker, Graham, RCD, Ross etc sets the base to build the next 10/12 years. Also eases the pressure on the salary cap.
Whilst some of those numbers may make sense on paper, I don't see them being acceptable to other teams.
Gold Coast I think we would need to pay a premium to get Pick 3. I don't see how we get it without using Pick 7.
Adelaide, the point of them splitting their pick is to still keep a 1st but get a getter return than just trading with Sydney.
The trade for Dawson with Sydney might be something like this:
Adelaide In Dawson and 12 and 31, Adelaide Out 4 and 23.
So Adelaide have only Pick 12 under 30, in that scenario.
In yours they would have 23, 26 and 28 so better than the Sydney offer but not by a lot being as all 3 of those picks will end up being 25-30.
The scenario that works better probably includes the Dogs pick.
4 for 15 and 17
Adelaide come out of that with 17 and 23 under 30. I don't think it gets done for much less than this.
I don't see us getting 3 personally, I think GC would want too much for it. I think we'd need to give up 7 and next years 1st for 3 and 22 which to me isn't a great deal for the Tiges unless we think Callaghan and Gibcus are that much better than everyone else.
I do think the Giants Pick 13 might be available though and I also can see us trading down Pick 7 to the West Coast for Pick 10 and something else if we get Pick 4.
I think we could get the Dogs pick with the CCJ pick (38 - 20 is dreamland unfortunately), plus 40 and 44 (slight points gain), but think we probably need to give 28 as part of it as need to make it beneficial to the Dogs. Gives them 443 points gain and enables them to match a bid upto Pick 5.
I think we might end up with something like 4, 10, 13 and a mid 20's pick personally.