So: Caveat #1.

Lachie has never been my fave player but I have 100% appreciated the way he has been able to lock-down an outside mid role for the best part of a decade and just been SO darned reliable.

But - when we were scouring lists to find new players, Baker was (almost) the perfect selection.

He's played a bit, he runs, he understands width and he kicks it a mile. When I say 'played a bit', I mean he knows enough about senior footy (and gotten enough kicks in the teeth at selection tables) to understand he is NEVER going to be Bont - so he plays within his limitations (which gives him an immediate tick over and above 85% of players on AFL lists).

Lachie - well, he is a club legend and I am sad he isn't with us now...but his last two years in particular have ranged between disappointing to disruptive...he needed to go.

My ONLY caveat here is that Melbourne had an even better fit for us on their list than Baker (Bedford) but the Giants stole him!