Exactly, GCS packaged their pick as part of the player trade so it was nothing like what we tried to do. The only thing that could have happen was with what happened to Daniher who clearly wanted an adequate compensation for Essendon so structured his 4 years into 3 to trigger a band 1 compensation but B.Crouch just wanted out of here and couldn't care.I think both that case and ours re. Dunstan/Brouch involved a club essentially buying draft pick stock with cap space but in that case, it's Cats using their cap space to buy draft stock from GC (whose benefit is freeing up cap space getting rid of Bowes but paying for it with draft stock).
In our case though, we tried to pay with cap space to StK to then offer a big contract to Brouch so we'd get a good compo - this draft stock comes from the draft and affects all other clubs and this is the main difference.
There's something odd about these two clubs - that Bowes deal, the Ablett Jnr deals (and probably more) - it's like two people meeting in public toilets after dark.