Just on Daisy and Eddie, couldn't it be argued that the fact that their stocks are at an all time low more reason to get them, rather than less? Getting a free agent who is at the peak of their form would be a very expensive exercise...
For me, the question is: are their current issues symptomatic of the fact that their career is starting to go downhill, or is it just a bad year? After all, we're not getting these guys for what they're giving to their current team right now, we're getting them for what they will give us next year and beyond.
As far as Dale Thomas goes (not that I think we would be a realistic chance of getting him anyway), his ankle issues seem worryingly chronic. I would be reluctant to invest too much in getting him.
On the other hand, Eddie Betts has had a stop-start year, missing 6 of the first 10 games under a new coach because of injury and suspension. The injury was an impact injury - broken jaw - prior to which he had not missed a game from 2010-2012 and only missed 1 in 2009. So he is durable, there are no question marks over his body. His numbers are alarmingly down. At 26, his drop in form is more likely to be explicable by a new coach and gameplan that doesn't suit him than by an ageing body. I don't see any reason to think that the fact he has had a bad year means that he is finished as a top level player. And he IS a top level player. He kicked 140 goals from 2010-2012, which is elite for a small forward.
All this is not to mention the fact that the incumbent is Petrenko...