Dan Butler to St Kilda for pick 56

[Tiger Khosh]

Couldn’t understand why we kept Gorge and not Butler , both Gorge and Bulter can have shockers and be match winners to be fair. And Bulter was unlucky to be coming  out of contract.
Most of the players that have left in the last few years have been good for their new sides , got to be
A vote of confidence in our system.

Because george was miles better than him post 2017. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again people wondering why butler was traded have very short memories. Was in and out of the team in 2019 and when he was in he was very very poor bit like how Rioli is going atm. By the end of the season he couldn’t there were so many ahead of him that he couldn’t get a game and with him being out of contract he chose to look elsewhere.

[Simonator]

Agreed it's simple, he was poo.

[Andyy]

I always thought he was just out of favour and low on confidence in 2019.

17-18 was great.

People are more forgiving of Rioli and Stack for their low confidence but I guess the reality is we appeared to have surplus quality small forwards at the time.

Rioli out of form now, Bolton better in the mid, Higgins poor since return, George OK but not having a great year. I'd be giving Butler a game this year for sure ahead of some of our blokes.

Good on him for taking his opportunity.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Maybe he was getting lazy and not working hard enough. He gets traded and pulled his finger out and is now reaping the rewards for maximum effort.

Only Butler really knows the reason he didn’t play more senior footy after 23 games in 2017 he still played 15 in 2018 But only 7 games last year.

He now looks to have returned to the footy we saw him play in 17 and 18.

What made him drop off so much last year, only he knows because he wasn’t playing well at all, especially not enough to get a senior call.

[camboon]

I thought Bulter had more to offer until he lost confidence / was out of favour , George didn’t then and doesn’t get the ball enough for my liking. He needs to do the pressure acts to keep his spot but he is not on his own

[JP Tiger]

Oh Dan, he had one set shot from 30 out ... a rank shank that was lucky to scrape in for a point! 

That's when I knew nothing much had changed!

Still calls all his team mates 'Hand ball'!   

[Willy]

Oh Dan, he had one set shot from 30 out ... a rank shank that was lucky to scrape in for a point! 

That's when I knew nothing much had changed!

Still calls all his team mates 'Hand ball'!   

Lol.

I think a fair bit has changed mate.

He’s twice the player that he was with us.

He kicked four and was the difference last night.

[1965]

Does anybody know what we did with pick 56?

[Andyy]

Does anybody know what we did with pick 56?

Got Biggie

[big tone]

I bet he will be off St Kilda’s in 3 years.

Average player- glad he is doing well but also happy he is gone.

If plays last year, maybe we loose Bolton due to lake of opportunity- and I know who I would rather.

[lamington]

Im thinking maybe it’s a similar case to jay Schulz? Schulz mentioned it was only after offloaded from us  he knuckled down at port and really trained hard.

Could have been the reality check he needed when moved to saints

[Rampsation]

 I would have kept butler instead of castagna. Atleast butler xan kick goals instead georgies 0.5 efforts.

[Willy]

Im thinking maybe it’s a similar case to jay Schulz? Schulz mentioned it was only after offloaded from us  he knuckled down at port and really trained hard.

Could have been the reality check he needed when moved to saints

Yep. He looks really fit and motivated.

Good on him I reckon.

[georgies31]

Not sure if it was related to injuries, but he looked disinterested last year lazy and didn't have no impact.Happy with Aarts to be honest.

[Chuck17]

A solid four possessions from Dan tonight