I think draft picks have been devalued by the ability to use future picks. It allows clubs to spend what they haven't earned yet. If you have a radical strategy where you go for a bloke like this every 2nd year chances are you will end up uncovering something half decent.

But yeah... I agree it was a weird trade, until I saw and heard a few things! He is there to replace Ramsay, Sinclair, Oxley etc, either of them were getting games when fit so it seems they just wanted someone who wasn't injury prone.