Who did Geelong trade seriously big draft hauls for though? Danger and Cameron come to mind but they are top 5-10 players across the whole league. Beyond that it was mostly paying next to nothing for Smith, Higgins, Dalhaus types and paying unders for young go home types (Bruhn, Henry).They were trying the Geelong approach which to be fair has worked well for many years.
The danger comes when you trade overs for good but not elite players like Hopper and Taranto. This is more like Hawks topping up with Jager O’meara and Tom Mitchell, Bombers adding Shiel.