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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I wouldn’t be surprised. IMO it was very odd that Andersson was praised and didn’t hear much about Hanifin.
Rasmus was horrible at times this year, Hanifin was the better player by quite a margin.
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Yeah the first half for Rasmus was just straight up bad. But his second half was better. I think the change in defensive philosophy helped a lot, the forwards came back to defend as a unit better and I think that helped him because even when Hanifin went down, his game didn’t skip a beat.
Although, even with Hanifin’s major steps forward, I get the feeling Darryl is not as high on Hanifin as others are. I think his “entitlement” speech included Noah. Darryl went on record a few weeks ago saying Andersson was his #3. So with the top pairing being Gio and Tanev, we can probably assume his default #4 would be Hanifin and with Treliving being in constant communication with Darryl; perhaps that’s why Tre failed to mention Hanifin, because maybe he didn’t take the BIG step forward. Interesting to speculate though.