It pleases Schaw that Stoyanoff got a taste of a higher level after last summer's turbulence.
"He was probably one guy who was pushed aside last year after the Poverty Bay game and wasn't picked again so he's come out to prove a point this year and given CD A a crack and let's hope it'll be higher honours later on," he said, after the Bay were skittled for 57 on a "sticky wicket" at Harry Barker Reserve.
"He's just a guy who's built on a lot of confidence and maturity. He's got a long way to go and I think he'll be the first to say that," Schaw said, mindful the Hawke Cup wickets played on to date haven't been seamer-friendly.
Central Districts spinner Ajaz Patel and Angus Schaw have tweaked their way to impressive figures.
Patel has rolled his arm for 38 overs, snaring 7-57 so far in the Cup campaign while Schaw has claimed 7-34 from 33 overs.
"You can see where our strength has been up until now on the type of wickets we've played on so I think our seamers will really hit their straps," Schaw said.
Others who missed out, he said, weren't far away and knew what they had to work on to lift themselves there.
The Bay host Taranaki in the third round of the Hawke Cup at Nelson Park on the weekend of January 16 and he expects the seamers to reach for their picks at the coalface on that wicket.
They play Wairarapa in a warm-up game the weekend before in a red-ball affair at the same venue under the two-day competition rules.
With the likes of Richards and Stoyanoff bracketed for a lot of cricket at Lincoln, Schaw may consider resting them before the Cup game.
"If someone bends their back they are inclined to get something out of it," he said of the chances of others to impress.
He feels the influx of Twenty20 contributes to the lack of experience in hanging around at the batting crease.
"A lot of it is based on stats, such as how many balls you've faced and how many runs were scored, but they've just got to learn how to bat time and it's something coaches have to instil in them," Schaw said. He put it down to "a mental thing", because they all possessed skills.
"I don't think it's actually the cricketer's fault because that's just how the game is played now," he said.
"A lot of guys are playing a lot more shots but they've just got to be more selective of what shots they play."
Training three nights in the week leading up to the Taranaki match is imperative to bring the players up to speed after the festive break.
"I think we have a group of guys who know what's set in front of them so they'll go away from this and train from a fitness point of view.
"I'm pretty confident we'll come out all guns firing to get an outright," he said, revealing the result was crucial on the account of not claiming an outright victory over Wairarapa in the previous Cup round.
"We're good enough to do that. I've got no doubts about that."
That the Michael Mason-coached Manawatu eked out a first-innings win against Taranaki in round two means, should the Bay prevail, a tantalising finale between the sides will be on the cards if everything follows the script.
He harks back to the team mantra of taking catches.
"Up to today, we have taken 19 catches and, as a team, we've only put down two, so for me that's a really good effort because it just shows our keeping and catching behind the stumps and the slips has been A1."
That Senarathne and Blair Tickner had made it into the Stags equation, he said, was a sound endorsement of embracing a policy that challenges players to chase higher honours.
