I think a lot just see Holt's price and go yes please without thinking it through.
The biggest concern I have with having a non playing bench keeper is if my onfield keeper misses a game unexpectedly and I have already used my trades so end up with a donut.
Problem with that though is Dunk , Gilkes , Gotch , Holt , Nielsen , Peirson all have questionable JS themselves so may not help if they are not playing.
Could "piggy back" them with Banton/Billings/Carey/Fletcher just in case but then not sure any of those will be Top scoring averaging Bats anyway.
McDermott is probably a waste of $$$ to leave at WK2 all season in case I need cover at all.
A couple of $ 42k bowlers I am keen on (if named Round 1) but may only play a few games so not going to make much money.
Otherwise just pay $ 62.5 k for a Scorcher from the start to use as a VC/C loop
Doesn't help WK2 though.
If they announce Stoinis is out for Round 1 , all the planning will be thrown out anyway.
A week to sort it all out.