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I'd prefer we didn't lose Baker, but if he wants out then he isn't fully committed to our future, so cash in and move on. The problem I see is too many are getting emotionally involved when thinking about trade scenarios and it clouds their judgement. They think it's just a case of WCE have pick 3, Baker is worth a R1 pick so give us pick 3 or bugger off.Sorry man but some of these trade ideas just drive me insane.
I don't get this obsession with trading out some of our best players for meh draft picks.
I really don't get filling our list in one or 2 years with unknown draft picks that are probably less than a 50% chance of making it.
If we do this really smartly over 2-3 years we bring in some top end talent to compliment what we have, a few later speculative picks, maybe trade in and pick up a FA or two and we can be back in a decent position.
Trade out all of these players like Baker and Rioli for late first rounds, second rounds etc I'll tip we have better chance or staying down for a long period as we search through these late picks for some half decent players.
Hartley takes emotion out of it and will get us a deal that is going to best help the club move forward. As I said yesterday getting 2 picks in the early 20s for Baker if he heads to WCE is a fair deal for both clubs.