Yes... Doesnt matter where a club bidded, they would havd just used a bunch of picks in the 30’s and 40’s for a top ten pick.
Swans had already used their picks on McDonald and Braden Campbell. If someone had bid on him from picks 6-26 swans couldn’t have got him.
I know it is more fun to claim you are the victim of some conspiracy and not that your selectors are incompetent, but here we are, rewriting history.