We want Daniel Sams according to the Daily Fail.

I don't know why. Unless we're moving on from Garton.

Garton’s bowling role seemingly stagnating, depicted by the frequency with which he bowls PP overs only, Sams probably covers the death overs more efficiently and comes with an obvious bigger reputation. Would take this as meaning no Hassan Ali next season though, and that’s a gap in our Blast attack for sure. Left arm variation plus better hitter than Hass is a nice upside?

Not having Garton or Hassan Ali would not be a negative, their availability was dreadful, and in most games the performance was less than adequate.

We have wasted too much money on Hassan Ali for the low number of games played and poor performance levels.

Hass was terrific in the Blast last year to be fair.

Thought Woakes would have been filling that role?

Sams definitely a death bowler, which we have lacked. If Sams comes id imagine we'd be moving on from Garton eventually as we wouldn't carry a no.7 bat who bowls 1 maybe 2 overs. Would feel like a luxury we can't be having. Unless he's seen as somebody who could bat 6 and be a bit of a sixth bowler.

Could be anticipating reduced availability from Gleeson again?

On the plus side, Sams is a strong player and I'm not going to criticise the club for showing ambition.
On the minus side, I'd have to ask (again) how much we can expect from a mercenary who is probably going to bowl no more than about 40 overs for us before disappearing never to return. Would he even be contracted for the knock-out stages or would he be off to another franchise tournament? We've recruited rather a lot of seam bowlers to the permanent squad now and I might think that we would be better advised to spend management and coaching time - not to mention money - on them.
If he's being targetted as part of a considered strategy, fine. If it's just a case of "here's a player, let's have him" then, no.

Just remembered, Jordan Thompson will be in that Hassan Ali role.

Highveld wrote:

Not having Garton or Hassan Ali would not be a negative, their availability was dreadful, and in most games the performance was less than adequate.

We have wasted too much money on Hassan Ali for the low number of games played and poor performance levels.

This is such an odd take, Hassan took 25 wickets (far and away our highest) at an average of 15 last season!