Is it possible that the lack of development under TW is the reason why King & White are labelled as below standard?
King isn't playing as a small defender, since coming back into the side he has played as a tagger and has done a pretty handy job of shutting down guys like Davey Dal Santo Pearce Rodan Hurn. As for White, him being in the side might just be allowing Deledio to play the HB role. Despite having 2 games in the last 6 weeks where he had a combined 12 possessions he has played 6 straight, 7 counting this week. Like I said before, guys like King and White aren't going to be superstars but like every other good side they could develop into grunts that allow out matchwinners to go about doing what they do best.
So we're going to delist White, a player rated by you as below standard to get one who at worst will be no better than White.

Isn't it better to stick with the devil you know rather than hope that a late round pick might turn out to be the same. Like I said before there is no harm in holding onto him for a year and seeing if the improvement he is showing under Hardwick can continue?
You talk about making sure we get the most possible value out of every pick, what value are we going to get out of taking a kid with pick 90+, odds are we get another White.
As I said before any chance that the lack of development TW put into the group might have sometihng to do with him being so 'poorly' skilled and unable to make good decisions. I'm not sure if you saw Sundays game but he made quite a few good decisions and displayed reasonable skills, especially that goal he set up for Nason in the 3rd quarter
Exactly, so why should we delist an extra 2 players so we can take 4 players after pick 60 this year.
If we finish last with the PP this year we'll get picks 4, 27, 29, 46, 63 & 79 if we delist/retire 6 players i.e. Simmonds Cousins McMahon Polo Thomson & Hislop. Thats 2 picks at 60+ which is the equal to picks 70+ when you add in GWS and their dozen kids.
As you said, we might just end up with players that are no better than White & King, what is the point of that?
The way some people go on about how we need more quality to be any chance of being a good side is it any wonder. As mentioned King & White aren't going to be champions, but they could be the grunt types that every good side has that allows the matchwinners to perform their roles better.
Given Hardwick has taken the whole group back to basics would it be fair to say that the majority of the group would be in the development phase, even those that have been around for 4-5 years especially when you consider that there was practically no development over the TW era that was unless they were a player that was already in the very good/elite range.