saints prob wont have a pick till about 10, but there has been some interesting analysis on who the top 5/10 players int he draft will be.
we'll be hoping and praying that xavier clarkes older brother is available, but we doubt it.
Other than that it seems that up to about pick 7 there are some good on ballers/running players, and only one or two 188 to 193cm key postition players around.
with you guys having gaspar, holland, Ottons, hall, richo etc you'd prob be looking at one more on baller to cover coughlan campbell etc and a decent HBF and pot luck around pick 20ish
trading your kids and picks won't help you in the long term.
look at collingwood under malty, they had 5 top 10 picks during the end of francis/start of malty, similarly with freo, and the saints, wait 2 years and you have a ready built team.
and some players (maybe pettifer etc) will be late bloomers like at st kilda, or maybe will play better as a team is built around them.
I'm so glad we don't trade our early picks like we did for two years under timmy, and under sheldon. (note we have only 2 players selected by timmy watson at the club, the others are either pre timmy and post timmy)
i still shudder when i think we brought mark gale, justin plapp, monkhorst tony francis, tony delany to st kilda under timmy, i hear richmond supporters still laughing at us getting plapp