Re: Should we chase Josh Schache?
Reply #33 –
To be honest, players that have all the attention is where I would be steering clear from if I were the list manager. We need blokes that have ability and a point to prove rather than blokes who were taken early in the draft and are looking for a pay day.
We need young heads, but we need to maximise our chances of success here too in terms of a strategy that sees us tread water, whilst attracting some draft picks, and picking up a player which fills the hole.
So, keeping that in mind, the player we can most afford to lose, that has some market value, and might be attractive for sides:
Levi Casboult. With his tidy kicking this season and step up in the ruck, he is a free agent, and the compensation might yield good results in terms of a first/second rounder.
The player we should bring in to replace him?? I would be looking at Kurt Tippet as being a bloke who has had a poor few years, is in the twilight of his career, has had his pay day, and will be looking to elongate his career whilst having a point to prove and plenty of football left in the tank.
If we could somehow swing that deal, we would walk away from it at worst having broken even at the trade table and perhaps in an even better position at the draft than we are in at the moment. Obviously I wouldnt be pulling out all the stops for Tippett, but its a buy low, sell high scenario whilst breaking even. This is the blue print we trade with moving forward.