Greater Western Sydney received two first-round draft picks for nothing during this year's trade period, if you consider that new Collingwood player Adam Treloar was signed as an outside-the-draft freebie before the Giants entered the competition.

Treloar was one of twelve 17-year-olds signed by the club after the 2010 AFL season and, along with Jeremy Cameron and Dylan Shiel, went on to become a key part of the start-up side. Cameron and Shiel still are.

Gold Coast Suns draftees Sam Day, Tom Lynch, Dion Prestia, coach Guy McKenna, Josh Caddy, Harley Bennell and David Swallow in 2010. Credit:Sebastian Costanzo

Under the rules accompanying their entrance to the competition, the Giants were able to sign 12 players born in the first four months of 1993, removing them from the 2011 draft pool. Before them, Gold Coast had access to 12 teenagers born in early 1992.

The Suns could have taken Brodie Smith or Ben Jacobs, both of whom went on to become first-round draft picks the next year. Aaron Mullett was taken by North Melbourne as a rookie, while Jordan Murdoch came on the following year and was drafted by Geelong as a 19-year-old.