Who said St Kilda was mediocre in 2009, 2010 ? - obviously our elite core group was at its peak at the right age bracket etc.. but all we needed was a quality player like a Burgoyne and a coach like a Malthouse and maybe Watters who could have got the best out of Ball and who knew the importance of resting key players - like Riewoldt - instead of having him limp into the finals. The Cats strategically rested their players - and got the result - smart move.joffaboy wrote:
My goodness. You deal in delusions and hypotheticals and a great hindsight jockey like a number of people on this site.
What a laugh - the Saints were mediocre in 2009 and 2010 you reckon
BTW you hero Watters steared us to the grand position of 9th, the first time out of the eight since 2007 with a team you reckon is "less mediocre" than Lyons.
lets see if he can even get us into the eight before trying to compare him to a coach that got us to within touching distance of two flags. It was too bad his champions in Riewoldt, Milne, Schneider et al couldn't kick straight in 09 GF, but I suppose that was Lyons fault as well.
Dumb of RL not to realise the importance of strategically resting key players.
We are on a natural decline - our elite group is getting older, we lost Ball, and as it turns out we don't have a Burgoyne and Watters has to make the best with what he's got and been given and we were on a steep decline as you well know with RL anyway - we only had 12 wins in 2011.