... I must be a glass half full man.
... because I thought if Freo scored an Elite player of the competition for a high 1st round pick, still end up with 2 2nd round picks, keep all their required players, then that would be a pretty good trade period.
But apparently, if you try to recruit a player from GWS, who are unwilling to look at an offer of overs, for a player who they have no long term future with and will be lucky to get the same offer again ... then that brings about criticism and damnation of Freo's trade success.