It depends who your best players are. If they are playmakers you keep them because they execute the gameplan and make the players around them look better. You keep them because there aren't alot of options out there to replace then with and the gap between the best and the rest is typically huge. Otherwise I agree, you release them and replace them from within or pickup discards you feel you can get the best out of.

Everybody’s got a secret part of them that loves ABBA. Some just don’t want to admit it, even to themselves.

Except for Fernando, even Benny’s had a gut full of Fernando and he wrote the f***in’ thing.

You don't have a wife who is an ABBA fan...

Or maybe you did, it is grounds for divorce and no right thinking judge will disagree that the music collection needs to be ceremoniously destroyed....

Last year I asked one of my Swedish friends what her fav album was. I was expecting ABBA for sure, but no, the answer shocked me completely. It was the soundtrack to Bladerunner 2049. Supposedly a lot of people like it. I heard it & I respect the composer was trying to do something atmospheric, futuristic, spacey etc, but suffice to say one listen is more than enough for me.

I was never really much of an Abba fan but I do love their song "I Believe In Angels"...they never did many international tours...only once to US I believe where the pricks pronounced them as "Arba" but they did do a couple down under with a stop in Japan on the way. Coming here in 2022 too.I did like them better than Neil Diamond though...wouldn't be hard...some dodgy figures...supposedly one in 3 households had Hot August Night...maybe it was one in 5 but not mine.

First album I ever had was Hot August Night.

Ran it through Spotify a year or so back and it still holds up.

I  the off season check out the produce like a pro youtube channel.

Especially David Bowie Heros and Gerry Raferty Baker Street, the back story on why songs were written, how they were recorded etc is very interesting.

K D Lang versions Neil Young songs are about as good as it gets IMO, in thst style anyway.

I despise ABBAs music, there is no part of me that secretly does… I would flick it off the moment identify it’s them… which is about two beats…

Couple of good YouTube channels for behind the music type stuff - 

Professor of Rock
Rick Beato

I spend hours on each one just taking it all in, very insightful.

There’s more I surf to from links that come up when watching them too but I enjoy them most.

I'm with you dman, after two beats is about when the ears start bleeding. Then again I'm a Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, Black Sabbath etc type of person. Never listened to the top 40, couldn't stand it.

What a list!!!…

They were a good sing-a-long group, especially for the mums & their kids, young girls etc. I suppose a lot of impressionable males too that fancied the 2 ladies, became fans of the music that way without realising it, now older, will likely go to the concerts too & possibly with their kids. You're not going to see a 20yr old guy from Mt Druitt wandering along with track pants, flano shirt, ugg boots ~and~ an ABBA T-shirt, that's for sure. I'm neutral myself, I respect they did some great songs, including the one you mentioned which hasn't been flogged to death by radio & media like Dancing Queen & others that probably make ABBA themselves wince when they hear them again, but I do like a lot of what's on ODF's list, even played some of that stuff in live bands. I never ended up buying any ABBA stuff, it was just everywhere you went, tv, radio etc. So whilst I wouldn't play their albums over & over, I respect they put together a lot of good clean music for many that appreciate it, especially those that wouldn't want to take their kids to heavy metal concerts etc.
I'll just add, I don't think the name of the song you meant was "I Believe In Angels", I can't remember exactly but I think it was something like "The Dream", I could be way off...

My daughter was really into those Mama Mia movies which from memory was FULL of ABBA songs. 

I now seem to word associate ABBA with those kind of movies.... BS or drunken singalongs.

Violent Femmes best for drunken singalong… that and the nah nah nah but from Hey Jude… and Piano man…

That's good though, if your daughter enjoyed it, that's the main thing. 
There's probably been plenty of drunken sing-a-longs using that music over the years, especially plenty of office ladies on a Friday night, but mainly ABBA had a clean sober family type audience & as you've seen first hand for yourself, peoples young daughters. If you're a guy finishing work for the day looking to have a few beers & put an album on, no I don't think it's for you...

It doesn't matter whether it's ABBA or Bay City Rollers or Ted Mulry Gang, people have the right to listen to what they want and although I am not a fan there is a market for every genre imaginable.

I actually wasn't familiar with it and I heard it on of all places Coles' Instore radio...and I thought it was nice. I picked it as Abba through slight accent...It is "I Have a Dream" but some places it also has "I Believe in Angels" in brackets....as far as ODF''s list goes that is a great albums list but I like to supplement with songs.as well..I like nothing bettor than Boney M's "Brown Girl in the Ring".....hell I ever Like "Argadoo"

U so woke… ;)

U know where u can push that pineapple…

Ok so I listened to 49 seconds of ‘I have dream’… there is still no part of me that likes ABBA… lucky it’s RUOk day tomorrow, hopefully a couple of people reach out considering the trauma I just suffered…

Try Boney M "Brown girl in the Ring"...based on a Jamaican folk song...it is catchy as a Marki post about Aidan Tolman.

Tra la la la ka… bloody hell…
Im going to listen to some Gary Numan to lift my spirits…

Guess what???…
I got a fever and the only prescription is more cow bell…

So is RUOk day going to trump RUVaccinated day?

Could be worse....
Could be Brown ring on a girl...  

Just listen to Crash Test Dummies..

Hmmm Hmmm hmmm hmmm

And you'll listen to it in cars.

That car is obviously down in the park..

Someday… when I have pyjamas the daytime…