Declaring "we're not here to make friends", St Kilda president Andrew Bassat has lauded the club's aggressive recruiting and says they are again a relevant AFL outfit.

Bassat also again took aim at the AFL drafting system, in his speech at the club's best-and-fairest night on Monday.

But he did not repeat his self-confessed "rant" at last year's function, when he called the father-son and academy rules "rubbish".

Bassat said after four years of concentrating on the draft, now was the right time to recruit aggressively as the Saints try to return to the finals for the first time since 2020.

Tom De Koning and Jack Silvagni are set to join St Kilda from Carlton, and they will also recruit Leek Aleer from GWS.

"Recruiting aggressively as we have, no doubt involves a degree of risk ... (bu

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