You can argue Clark's worth pick 10 but the thing is, we need to be looking for value in trades. The whole point of getting WA kids back here is to get them at value, not pay above and beyond what they are worth. As a kid who can't get In his sides best 22 and has faced a lot of injury issues, it'd be a huge over commitment to pay pick 10 for him in what is a pretty good draft that should have tonnes of value.
If we can get him cheap then I'd be happy to pay for Clark but otherwise, it's a pass and wait till his contract ends and we can get him for good value. If our list were at the top of their game and competing for a premiership then you can justify paying that sort of price to bring someone in but we're still on the tail end of a rebuild and developing a lot of players. Realistically we'd hope to battle it out to make the top 8 next season and top 4 after that. When we reach that point you can justify overspending at the trade table in order to chase a premiership and sacrifice the future.
Neale is a decent chance to go as a later pick, an athletically gifted talent who can play that forward/ruck role. He's someone with a huge upside and scope for improvement but can be a little up and down. I'd be happy to see him on our list with a late pick but given our requirements with NGA's, it will be difficult to see it happening. he could go earlier if a club really liked what they saw and need to develop someone for that role.
The likely scenario for Freo is to use pick 10 (or wherever it is after all the bids and compensation) on a talented mid/winger, a bid for B Walker comes right before pick 28 and that gets absolved paying for him. Any later picks are then absorbed by a bid for Western in the 30's and we have no picks left. We then use our rookie positions to fill up with other NGA's (C Walker, maybe Haddow or Alvarez) and possibly a developing ruckman.
