Schache has all the physical attributes to make it. Tall (199 cm), a good mark on the lead and he's has an excellent tank, so can run all day. He's barely out of his teens so still needs to put on weight and muscle. He had a good season last year, but even this year in the game against Richmond (which I attended), he moved up the ground well, picked up a few possessions, presented well as a moving target and kicked a couple of goals. On that day he was certainly on a par with Hipwood that day, although Hipwood certainly had the far better season overall. For a 19 year old key forward, (as he was at the time) there was no real reason to suggest he wouldn't get better in the coming years.
I still see no real physical reason why he shouldn't continue to improve in a key forward role next season and beyond. If there's doubts about his mental capacity to play good football at an AFL level, then he's been given every opportunity to address that aspect by being traded back to Victoria.
I know that KPP's take time to develop, but I feel as if Schache is actually lacking most of the attributes required to really make it. Did he test at the 2015 combine? I cannot recall, but Hipwood did, and he showed far more to suggest he is more suited to the modern game through his agility and leap testing. Combine results aren't everything, but they add substance to support a recruiter's thinking. If he did test, I would have liked to have seen something to suggest he had more strings to his bow than his size.
For the most part. Schache's work ethic in games (ones and twos) has been atrocious whilst at the Lions (for reasons that have been discussed at length), and his goal kicking - supposedly a feature - has been poor too. The unders we received for him yesterday stings, but for me, I'm more concerned that our top 10 draftees in recent years (excluding last year) have been fairly so-so.