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![]()
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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.