Did you see his press conference though? He had ample opportunity to say "yeah, I want to stay, it's only a matter of time and I'll sign" or words to that effect, which is what you'd expect someone who has very intention of staying to say, but he apparently didn't say anything like that, so I think it's still very much up in the air for him.
Which is why it could be crucial to our chances that we play really well this week, to make him feel like , "yeah, this is a club that's really going places still, and if I leave GWS I won't necessarily be leaving behind my chances of imminent premiership success beyond this year", if he's going to making his mind up really soon.
Yeah Jones doesn't kick it as well as you'd like, but it's hard to get someone who's a complete package, so you get what you pay for.
Hopper was clearly preferred to Steele at GWS last year (despite being younger and in the system one less year), which tells us how good he is, because we've seen how well Steels's gone this year, once given an opportunity in the guts every week (despite having missed so much preseason and having played just 30 games). So if you got Hopper and he was back to full fitness and form, I reckon you'd be getting a ripper.
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