Haven't we learn anything from our past mistakes. Tradeing away picks for payers in their twilight of their careers only gets us nowhere = 9th.
If you are going to rebuild you cant import so called stars into the club as you end up missing out on good kids and stifling the developmnet of the kids.
Suck it up, we are going to have to put up with some real pain in the next few years if we want to be a decent club again. The Melb and WC model seems to be the models being applauded.