I think people need to be mindful of the fact that we are likely to finish bottom again next year and likely bottom 3-5 in 2016. this will give us good draft picks, in hopefully strong drafts, meaning we would need to make room on our list to take full advantage of this. some people have suggested we delist/trade/or they retire all of: Hayes, fisher, jones, maister, dunnel, Schneider, TDL, gilbert, gwilt, curren, simpkin. unless we go bananas and pull off several quality trades, I don't think the turnover this year needs to be that dramatic. Also will need some of the above players for the next two years as on-field leaders.
I think the process needs to be, and will be, very strategic to best take advantage of the next 3 drafts and not have to trade off a player we like in order to trade/draft another player in.
I see it as:
2014
Hayes or Jones with the decision up to Hayes - I think we will need a bigger body around next year
TDL - well and truly on the outer and just surplus to the small forwards we do have
Maister - going into this year I was expecting us to hold him for a few years, but looks at though we will give the 2nd all opportunities to Lee, Stanley and our drafted/traded key forward this year
Dunnel - just doesn't quite cut it at AFL level, doesn't really offer any expertise in one particular area
Fisher - body is had it and Bruce has shown enough not to need to keep him
Gilbert - hopefully gets us something in a trade. we have surplus half backs to cover him and give opportunity too... Shenton, Wright, Webster etc
I would also look at rookie listing atleast one of White, Peirce or Markworth as they develop, which would allow us to upgrade Weller.
That would mean we have 5 picks in the national draft, one of which we can use our 5th pick to upgrade Shenton. With our 4th pick we can assess whether minchington is more value then who is around.
Then over the next two years the following retire:
Riewolt (2015), Jones (2015), Schneider (2015), Montagna (2016), Dempster (2016)
Then a judgement call each year is made on the likes of:
Milera, Siposs, White, Markworth, Simpkin, Pierce, Gwilt etc