This is the right way to look at it. I personally love the way the club doesn’t hysterically jump all over the place to try to make square things fit into round places. They value player wages, draft picks and player acquisition/departure a certain way and they don’t budge off those values to try to make headliness happen.
Thus as supporters we all seem to get a gift or two each year like Stack, Pickett, Broad, Graham, Balta, Bolton, Baker, Nankervis, Mansell etc etc etc, that we are all happy enough with. The pick 17 has a certain value. It is in reality pick 19. As has been mentioned some of our lower picks will be worth more if picks before ours are used in matching bids. Also, nothing to say if we fancied it we couldn’t make a move on pick 23 from the Dogs. One thing is for sure they won’t be using it to take a player this year. Pies I think have a similar pick they won’t be using to draft a player. They are not too far from the apparently coveted pick 17.
No need to overpay for things just to be the first to act all the time. Leave that to the Carltoons of this world. Sometimes the early bird might catch the worm, but the birds who show up at my deck any given afternoon can often dine out on a feast of free range chicken and roasted cashews….if they have the belly space to fit these delicacies in. As my mum used to say, there is always plenty of time.
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