Given who may or may not be available for this next season or so, it makes sense to sign them both if they are better value than what's available. My issue comes, if we look a season or two ahead, that we lose both of these along with probably Roby, Coote and a few more given their ages. To overhaul the squad in one hit and to get all replacement players hitting the ground running especially 1 & 9 is a big challenge.
On the flip side, wonder how the enforced mid-season break, with no end of season internationals will help with recovery and rejuvenation of some of the older players, especially those that usually had internationals so had shorter off-seasons. Will this have enabled them to add a year or two extra onto their careers?