Dude

It seems reasonably obvious that losing Frawley via free agency will improve a competitors list without a loss of talent/picks on their end. Melbourne is already struggling against this team and every other team. If Melbourne's compensation is not the press advertised pick 3 and is in fact an end of round 1 pick (which is actually likely) the other teams improve and talent wise overall Melbourne decreases overnight. This is the flaw in free agency as it currently stands whereby lower ladder teams talent moves to better performing teams and the lower teams are expected to successfully replace the talent through the speculation of the draft. And guess what happens when they happen to find and develop a good player....free agency. Avoiding the disaster of compensation being end of round 1 and guaranteeing a pick after Melbourne's first draft pick is simple. Ask for a priority pick (obviously after a loss) and follow that up by saying top end picks are tradable thereby one team won't be farming top draft talent again (which pisses practically everyone in football off) and end result Melbourne get the pick 2 or 3 compo for Frawley, no Priority picks given and Melbourne can rinse and repeat the 2013 trade period.