Stringer has got me right down the middle. On the one had I think it's a less than perfect fit but on the other his quality is obvious and given our previous predicament it'd have to be awful difficult for us as a club to say 'thanks but no thanks' to a player that wants in and is most certainly a 'big fish'. Yes he's not a midfielder, but unless Dodoro is a closet Warlock we're not landing a midfielder of equivalent caliber this off season anyway so I'm all in.
The more I think about it the more it excites me, we're quite obviously short on mids and good kicks, but if you were to add him you could potentially focus more on developing Begley and Laverde as mids and running Fantasia and Walla up around the wings and flanks because they're such good ball users. And that's not even accounting for Stringer potentially wanting to work on his midfield game either, that's a bit of a wildcard.
it's not every day you get a former top 5 pick, already AA and proven elite player nominate you
If he nominates, we should consider ourselves lucky.
Richmond sorted their midfield pressure up over one offseason and barely changed their personnel (added Prestia).
Heppell, Merrett, McGrath, Zaka, Parish is a pretty decent midfield.
Supported by Begley, Langford, Laverde, etc.