There was nothing forced about the Hanners buy, nothing. Sydney did not want him, they wanted salary cap relief. Our money could have been absorbed into other player's contracts, to safeguard that "warchest", nothing forced.shanegrambeau wrote: ↑Sun 27 Feb 2022 1:08pmI disagree with the bit about Hannas and Hill. Two different kettle of fish there.Ghost Like wrote: ↑Sat 26 Feb 2022 5:47pm Caldwell chose Essendon OR as with Shiels, Essendon's offer chose Essendon. Which paints quite a poor picture of where St Kilda was at, when we had a supposed "war chest" that's been squandered on Godfather (superannuation) offers to Hannebery & Hill.
I am slightly more confident about our list management since. Perhaps Hanners & Hill were the eggs we needed to break to get to this point? My fingers are still firmly crossed their recruitment has not been in vain.
Hannas was a forced buy..we had to spend the cash to sign off the books that year. Everyone knew it was a s*** show.
With Hill, it was more legit..a real attempt to bring class in.
While Hannas has predictably been a disaster that needs reflection, on the strategies that we employed in the first place, that got us into that desperate situation where we had no choice* , Hill has been pretty good. I think he was very useful from about the 40 % mark last season. Hannas was useless.
Useful vs useless kinda thing.
Of course, no one knows what will go down in ‘22. Hill might drop off, Hannas might be re-born as captain fantastic…
* based on the media feed.
It was a show to claim some pseudo credentials to being a destination club and possibly a show by one or two that they could land a supposed "big fish".
Hill was coming back to Victoria because his girlfriend was. We paid a lot of coin plus threw in steak knives (again).
Time will tell but time is also running out. Still, my fingers are crossed, they have been for some time. I hope that's arthritis causing them to be but I doubt it.