Dunno about that. In 2006 they p!ssed away pick 10 on Nathan Brown when Jack Riewoldt and James Frawley were on the board. (Incidentally, we now have 5 of the top 30 from that 'Super Draft' - Jack (13), Hampson (17), Grigg (19), Edwards (26) and Petterd (30), plus Houli, who was pick 42 - the pick Miller gave away in the Polak swap and the man FJ would have drafted if we'd kept it.)
Collingwood traded its first pick in 2007 (14, for Cam Wood), 2009 (14 + 41 for Jolly), 2010 (25, for Krakouer and Cegler) and 2011 (25, for Marty Clarke & Jamie Elliott). Mixed bag. Two wins, two losses in my book. Plus the 2006 loss, and the wins in 2008 and 2012. Four wins, three losses, in the first round of the seven drafts prior to this year's. And that's counting Jolly as a win (he rucked in a premiership, you have to), but he's gone after four years, while the likes of Aaron Black, Mitch Duncan, Jack Gunston, Sam Reid, Allen Christensen and Nathan Vardy (all taken pick 25 or after) look like having long careers in front of them. They won a flag, so it's justified, but mortgaged a bit of their future to get it. Did well last year trading Dawes and Wellingham for top-20 picks and were gifted a top-10 pick for Thomas this year, so they'll be fine.
But we're seven-for-seven in the first round 2006-12 (albeit mostly with better picks than them). I'm glad they took Freeman and we got Lennon. Let's hope it's a Brown-Riewoldt level stuff-up by the Scum.