No use? Our ruck stocks are quite average at best. Darcy will be good but Sandilands is done, the big man won't play much in 2018. Next best is Griffin who has knee issues and really isnt that great anyway and then we have Clarke who I don't rate that highly.
Tippett wont cost much, Sydney need to get his salary off their books. We need a decent backup ruckman for when one of Sandilands/Griffin/Clarke go down as they have done for the past two seasons. He can also take a pretty good contested mark up forward. These guys don't grow on trees, we are lucky Darcy is developing so quickly as a ruck, if we draft another one whoever it is will take 2 years at least to develop in the WAFL. This is where Tippett comes in for a couple of seasons, allows us to develop our list, put pressure on McCarthy, Taberner, Kersten up forward and provide backup for young Darcy.
As mentioned he won't cost much, Sydney will most likely want a player but potentially whatever pick we receive for Balic could be sent over to Sydney or some may not agree but Nic Suban i'd be throwing up.