'Pointless', Derby 12. Fair play for not pulling your punches.
Freo gave up the chance for SPS in order to acquire three players all of whom seem to have plenty of upside. Surely you'll at least agree that unless SPS is the best of those four players (or I supposed McSuitcase if he was your guy) then the trade will have worked out well for us.
Now, as to comparing the cumulative impact of one player versus multiple, fair enough if you think stars win you AFL Premierships, but that's not a fact. There are various theories on this, but one argument is that in a game of 18 players that rely on each other within a system to be successful, it's actually the quality of your worst players that best predicts success. I don't know if that theory is correct, but certainly it's not 'pointless' to put it forward that proposition.
People seem to spend a lot more time talking about how Dawson is a spud than how Fyfe is really good, so certainly the performance of our worst players seems to be in the contemplation of Dockerlanders.