We are not going to be challenging for a flag or even playing finals to must likely 2020. Bulldogs, Melbourne, GWS Adelaide, St Kilda are all ahead of us in there rebuild and we wont be catching them for a few years. 2020 Gibbs will be over 30 and yes he may still be playing good footy, he may do a Matt Boyd at the bulldogs and play half back and pro long his career and extra couple of season, and yes if we keep him we may win a couple more games each season till 2020 and be more competitive.
BUT! if we can get a top say 15 pick for him ideally top 10 and try get another gun player who come 2020 will be 22 and about to hit his prime in the midfield then i would take that every day of the week.
We have a significant lack of young midfield talent and maybe trading a player like gibbs away can fast track our re build as we could get another gun mid in. This is what St.Kilda did post those grand final loses and they only spent a couple of seasons on the bottom before they started to improve and because they were playing kids the fans didnt mind seeing them lose because you could see the little sprouts of growth as botls would say.

Dk said "We are not going to be challenging for a flag or even playing finals to must likely 2020. Bulldogs, Melbourne, GWS Adelaide, St Kilda are all ahead of us in there rebuild and we wont be catching them for a few years. 2020 Gibbs will be over 30 and yes he may still be playing good footy, he may do a Matt Boyd at the bulldogs and play half back and pro long his career and extra couple of season, and yes if we keep him we may win a couple more games each season till 2020 and be more competitive.
BUT! if we can get a top say 15 pick for him ideally top 10 and try get another gun player who come 2020 will be 22 and about to hit his prime in the midfield then i would take that every day of the week.
We have a significant lack of young midfield talent and maybe trading a player like gibbs away can fast track our re build as we could get another gun mid in. This is what St.Kilda did post those grand final loses and they only spent a couple of seasons on the bottom before they started to improve and because they were playing kids the fans didnt mind seeing them lose because you could see the little sprouts of growth as botls would say."

100% agree.
People need to think about what is best for the club going forward. We still need to be reasonably competitive though in the meantime. If we are to receive a great offer for Gibbs, the club may offload him.