The threat of the PSD is overplayed. when was last time a player just walked at the insistance of the club with first pick without a fair effort at getting a deal done?
Houli? we offered a fair deal for a bloke not getting a game. Essendon were just stuffwits.
Stevens? wanted to go to collingwood, but port asked too much and again it was a case of port taking skin of their nose to spite their face, so he ended up at carlton ( something he later said we regretted).
Luke ball? again the aints were beligerant. knocked back pick 20 something or pick 30 and a fringe player and he ended up at the scum with 30 in the ND.
If dusty decides he wants to go to GWS and they want him, we will likely not get what we could on the open market, but most probably it will be close and we will have to accept it or get nothing like the other stuffwit clubs above.