Bradley Hill was the flashy recruit traded from Fremantle to St Kilda that pocketed a close to $900,000-a-year deal who supposedly just returned to Victoria for the money.

What else could the motive of moving to a third club after a third AFL premiership at his first club while still only 21 years of age many asked.

Hill was also known to respond to a fan mocking his future without premiership cups after five prosperous years at Hawthorn with: "That's okay, I've already got three".

And despite last year's trade talk of Hill opened to a fourth move to North Melbourne over his apparent lack of commitment at Moorabbin, the 30-year-old has showed his strength of loyalty that fits the club's motto on the left side of the guernsey perfectly.

The Noongar man, who has two more flags pinned to his name than his club, is daring to dream again ahead of just the second finals series across St Kilda's past 12 seasons.

Hill is not putting limitations on what is possible, declaring "pretty much anything is" for a team that won five of its first six matches, lost seven of the next 11 and finished with four wins in the final six to come home strong.

"We think if we play our best footy, we can match it with any team," Hill said.

"There's a lot of good teams there.

"It's definitely hard to win a grand final, (but) we'll focus on GWS next.

"Hopefully we can bring our brand of footy, stick to our way, and give ourselves the best opportunity."

Greater Western Sydney has come away even stronger than its qualifying final rival after earning 10 wins in the Giants' last 13 appearances.

But Hill's positive energy is unperturbed for good reasons.

The fact that the Saints were one of only three contenders that remained in the final eight for every single round suggests they have never once made up the numbers.

"Anything is possible," Hill smiled.

The catchphrase is the same that coach Ross Lyon uttered at his press conference last year on his appointment heading into the unknown from no-man's land in reference to St Kilda's continued middle-of-the-road finishes that fall short of playing the finals.

But things have changed since Hill and Lyon reunited after their relationship at Freo.

Hill struggled under former coach Brett Ratten and the use of the running playmaker plopped off onto half back.

That eroded the confidence, and all of sudden missing targets 25 metres away that he had creamed 50 metres out previously earned ridicule at best and scorn at worse.

Lyon waltzed back in and under his stewardship, the West Australian moved back to the wing and turned the clock back to the three fruitful years together.

Just like Hill's hoist of form, the remodelled Saints have proven the doubters wrong.

"No one had us here two weeks ago," Hill said.

"We've spoken about that we've been in the eight the whole season.

"Even when there were five to six games left, people were still saying the Saints were not going to make it.

"But we knew we were still in the eight, and it was up to us to make that choice where we've got to finish."

One of only two premiership players that arrived to bolster its perennial hopes, Hill believes St Kilda can be more than competitive against the season's top drawcards.

That is hard to swallow with an ordinary record of three wins from nine matchups.

But of the six losses, half were by six points to Collingwood, seven to Port Adelaide and 12 to Brisbane, all outside Melbourne while one of the victories were in Sydney against the Giants.

"We probably played our best footy against the best sides in the competition," Hill said.

"We probably went a bit worse when we weren't playing the top eight teams.

"We're very confident if we can play our brand, we can match it with the top teams."