Senior AFL journalist Damian Barrett believes St Kilda has accepted the signing of Dan Hannebery is “not working” after the club removed him from their leadership group.
Hannebery is set to miss up to two months while he gets his body right, with the Saints wanting him to focus on his rehab, rather than worry about being a leader.
Barrett, who previously said officials at Sydney were “falling off their chairs” when Hannebery was put into the St Kilda leadership group, believes the club has conceded they made an error.
"It was wrong that they put him into the leadership group and they've now clearly conceded that to be the case given they've taken him out of it," Barrett said on The Sounding Board podcast.
"When the story was in front of us we said this is a really, really dodgy move.
“They're paying him a ridiculous amount of money. That is an issue.
"We know the body is so banged up that he cannot even get back onto the park right now. We knew this in October. This is not all fresh.
"Simon Lethlean, as of right now, has conceded that the issue and the move is not working, given he's not in the leadership group right now."
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