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It seems you are just looking for something to be concerned about.We are the only club that saw fit to swap first rounders and death ride a side that was one year away from finishing 1st.
If by 'no one' you mean bigfooty and media pundits, then sure. But our club needs to be better than that.
We didn't swap pick 8 for pick 18, we swapped for pick 9, which became 13 after bids and some shonky compo deals. But its still pretty close to where we were anyway. Who cares that the whole thing was done and dusted a season before the other side won a flag. The worst thing is we enabled them to get a flag but we haven't come out of it poorly. All our dealing with Melbourne have left us better off imo.
The good thing about that swap was its part of a process that enabled us to recruit a block of 11 players in 13 months. Two thirds of them look like hundred+ game players on what they have shown so far. That is a great thing in a rebuild.
You can choose to look at it as evidence of some failure because the Dees won a flag after the deal had finished and focus on that as the as the most important aspect of it or you can choose to look at what benefit it gave us as the most important bit instead. Its up to you.