There seems to be a little too much comfort about losing Betts. Mostly this is predicated on his age, us not being able to accommodate three small forwards who do not rotate through the midfield and the possibility that he could make way for Menzel, who all want to see more of.
But... Betts is still our best small forward. It's a big call to send him away for a dispute over 50-100K. One age, irrelevant as our window is now. On not being able to accommodate all these smalls, why can't our smalls develop a tank (like Stokes, Christensen) and get in there. We could shred teams with our midfield pace. With Thomas, plus our current mids, we could have a midfield rotation of Judd, Murph, Gibbs, Thomas, McLean, Jeffy, Yaz, Menzel, Bell, Curnow, Carazzo.
Allowing Eddie to leave now only makes sense if the money makes it a choice between him and Daisy. That I get.