Some good points on this thread.
Point noted about trading out too much depth. 25% list turnover in 1 year is drastic (rebuild!!), so the 12 players I identified would ideally be phased out over 2 years (6 this year and 6 next year, depending on performances and length of contracts etc.)
Regarding trading Angus Brayshaw. He gets a lot of the ball when playing in his preferred position of inside midfielder, but is often sloppy with his disposal and turns the ball over. If we could get a first round draft pick for him I’d take it. Perhaps Carlton (support for Patrick Cripps) or Fremantle (join his brother Andrew) would be interested? Unfortunately Carlton’s first 2019 National draft pick is tied to Adelaide’s finishing position!
That would give us 2 first round draft picks (our first round 1 National draft picks since 2015 when we picked up Oliver and Weideman).
Petracca shows glimpses of his talent but has never really dominated a game, so I can understand people being frustrated with him. I’d stick with him, but if we did trade him and get a future first round pick it could be good business (thus going into the 2020 National draft with 2 first round draft picks).
The only untouchables from a trade point of view for me are Gawn, Oliver, Lever, May, Salem, though I’d be happy to retain all of my best 22 that I posted earlier.
From a playing point of view I just think we need to be at the pointy end of the draft so that we can land someone like Connor Rozee, Aaron Naughton, Tim Taranto etc. There is always a risk (Morton, Toumpas) but we did well with our last crack at it in 2015.
From a football department point of view there are other areas of concern to address, one being our inability to adapt to the new 666 starting positions (a key part of our excellent month of football at the end of 2018 was starting with 1 or 2 off the back of the square). Another is the expectation that winning the contest and winning the clearances wins games of football. It can help but doesn’t guarantee it; at the end of the day football is won or lost on the scoreboard. From what I have seen when attending training any goal kicking practice is performed in as far from match like conditions as possible. Sure you can never fully replicate the pressure experienced on game day, but at least you can replicate some of the physical attributes like a gut busting 100m run to get into a goal scoring position to take a mark and then go back and have a shot at goal.