As good as Daz is, I would rather focus on playing our youngsters and building them up rather than take a short term shot at Lockyer and disrupt the progress of Barba or even Roberts and then risk losing someone like Barba in 2010. And then where would we be? We would be without 2 5/8th's.
Just keep the cap space, sign someone in a position we need strengthening in and if not save our cap space for a younger, less injury prone superstar in 09 for 2010 or frontload the contracts and most importantly keep cap space so we can retain some of our very promising juniors and we don't make the same mistakes we have made in the past.
By the way, surely this is all BS and Daz would only leave early to go to England and take the huge amounts of money on offer there and why would he leave Brisbane to get a contract offer on the same amount or less with us?