I think we get all too easily seduced to the new.
We do it every time and we heard the same thing from players when Malthouse arrived. We also sang the same song when Trigg arrived. Buttifant.
Williamson may well be a fan, but what weight does that really carry?
That has nothing to do with what Russell may have brought along or will do, but just that players' observations, on something they don't really know a lot about, shouldn't carry too much weight at all.
I know. This time it is different and maybe it will be, but it may be fair to wait until seasons end to gauge just how much benefit one individual actually brings to the whole....and then if one individual can, how on earth could have we had someone so inferior previously? How does that happen?
BTW - The Hawks still did OK with getting 'crippled' Scully back on track two rounds into the year.