hope gibbsy doesnt go missing against ess ,this what usually happens after he plays well.

Frank Ive seen Schulz bust packs , take speccies and lead up.
He has more strings to his bow than Levi.

Sgt Schultz has busted more packs than Jay. Yes he can lead up and take the occasional speccie but thats not what we need.
We need a strong body to take the heavy work.

Casboult and Touhy to be shopped around for a possible trade???

Jay Schulz as a DFA for a year or 2 to help cover Harry & co.....?

I've taken a fairly simply approach to this, having not seen any reserves footy. I've simply added the retirements to the list of uncontracted players at (http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-08-11/z ... n-new-deal) and looked at the players who haven't played much senior footy. This gives a list of 8 players to cull from the senior list, 9 if Daisy retires.

I suspect we wouldn't cut deeper then 8 or 9 from the main list, unless we trade a lot of players in. We haven't cut contracted players in recent seasons, so I'm assuming this trend runs true.

Delist
1. Michael Jamison
2. Andrew Walker
3. Matthew Dick
4. Jayden Foster
5. Clem Smith
6. Jason Tutt
7. Dillon Viojo-Rainbow
8. Mark Whiley
9. Dale Thomas? (assuming he retires)

Keep
Nick Graham
Kade Simpson, free agent
Dennis Armfield, free agent
Dylan Buckley
Zac Tuohy
Matthew Wright

A number of those above would be looking at short term deals I would suggest.

Keep or trade
Levi Casboult
Andrejs Everitt (possible delist if trade not found and the club wants to keep one of the players I've marked as delist).

I still get the feeling Armfield's time could be up. It all depends how deep we want to cut.

Boakhurst won't survive if he's out of contract. Silvagni based his argument to have Shane Rogers sacked because he selected Boakhurst with our first round pick. SOS said he was a third round or fourth round pick if that.

if we discount our new breed who we would hope are there when we are contending again (cripps, docherty and last year's draftees) no-one apart from gibbs, kruezer, casboult and murphy is worth anything to any other team.

I don't think we would trade murhpy and nor should we - he is our captain and that should mean something.
i'd trade the others b/c we need more top 30 picks but I also wouldn't waste a trade on them: i.e. we must get something better than what we are giving up.

Gibbs - must be top 10 pick at miniimum
Kruezer - top 25 pick (if depth of draft is reasonably good)
Casboult - 2nd round pick at worst

We may well not be offered this but if not, I just wouldn't do the trade. not worth getting a couple of extra late speculative picks for reasonably good to very good medium term players.
The only caveat to that is if we can use late picks to bundle up for a high pick under the points system.

sigh...ned