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Myers isn't a good comparison because there's the whole drug saga which stuffed up our list management decisions (which led to recruiting Shiel). basically all the banned players bar like 2 or 3 should have been encouraged to move to other clubs so that we could do a proper re-build and they could not waste the rest of their careers. but it was an emotional time and we made emotional decisions. it's not like everyone on here at the time was saying Hooker should leave for a WA team.

ironically Myers probably would have been one of the ones worth keeping around, due to probably not too much external value.

anyway, Shiel should have been moved on at the end of 2020 or 2021 as once Daniher, Saad & Conor, left, Hurley's infection happened, Devon Smith wouldn't stop yelling and ceased being a good player, etc etc, it meant that whole core we added Shiel into to help win stuff was absolutely busted. but instead of trying to get some sort of value back for Shiel, we've instead done....whatever the hell you call the last two seasons and now this season. it's silly stuff but we've done silly stuff for 20 years now.

then again, not too many people wanted to trade Shiel at the end of 2020 or 2021 anyway. but to me, it was an extraordinary simple decision to make. but I guess cashing out on Shiel after 2 or 3 seasons would have been bad for our pride, or something