Such a big mistake on our part…yet we still ended up with a first and second round pick for him. Clearly wasn’t that huge of a mistake then. We wouldn’t have gotten more even if he wasn’t a FA.Poor enough understanding of how list structures work here. You can move CONTRACTED players to the rookie list too, it didn’t have to be uncontracted players only. I think that’s why schultz was so annoyed.
Guys like Stefan Giro Reece Conca, Taylin Duman, Mitch Crowden and Travis Colyer (all well behind him in the pecking order, both in 2020 and projecting their actual value into the future at that time) were on the main list at the time and could have been moved instead.
Making Schultz, who went on to become quite a valuable asset, an unrestricted free agent for life, was a very bad list management move by bell. It was a clear error, irrespective altogether of how Schultz himself felt.
We were VERY lucky Schultz just happened to be signed another year last year when he requested the trade for family reasons. If he had been out of contract (it appeared to be pure luck for us he wasn’t) Collingwood would have picked him up for nothing as a UFA and we would have received a second round pick as compo that would have been in the 30s.
Schultz seemed to have such a big ego and expectations for a guy that blew of our list management team multiple times for a trip to Bali instead of being thankful for the opportunity we were giving him to literally have a career.