To be honest I think we should have tried a ruckman from a state league who was say 22 to 25yo instead of a guy who is 30. Nevertheless Im sure Stephenson will make some contribution in the event that Maric cant play all games.
Outside Hannath who we would have had to take PSD which we wanted to save the salary space to pay our good players there wasn't any.
Yeah paying Hannath min wage for an extra season would have squeezed out some of our big guns hey? Should have gone for him and at the same time put some substance into our ruck stocks. Big O for a year what a joke
Hannath has no tank and no ticker, a very one dimensional player.......Would have been better off keeping Gus or Browne than clogging the list with Hannath for two seasons.
Xman had no tank until he started applying himself halfway through the season we ended up drafting him, prior to that he made beefcake look like a conditioned athlete.
Players can change their stripes especially ruckmen from what they were at 18-20 to 22-25.
Giles was a dud at port, didnt apply himself, was given another go at 22-23 and slays it now, with rucks you just dont know good they can be till 22-25 - look at Ivan. Hannath may very well be a dud like Xman but I'd rather take the long shot with a player in the age bracket that has upside rather than no upside with big O. I'd have also looked at Currie who North took at pick 60ish. Those are the types we should be churning through to find a player not stuffing 31 y/o never will be's
