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among numerous articles this week I found a couple quite interesting
not sure about all of this greg- but an intertesting gake
More to the point, in my experience, St Kilda players retain an attachment to their club that would be the envy of others. Whether they stayed for one game or 300, some part of them cannot leave. Their sole premiership coach, the late Allan Jeans, at another impecunious time settled for 29 cents in the dollar of what he was owed.
This closeness of players to club is all the remarkable since almost none have shared flags to rally around. Maybe it's despite the barren history, maybe it's because of it. The second premiership still is not won, their job still not done. And make no mistake, the ache never dulls. Interviewed a couple of years ago, Riewoldt spoke at length about how he was sure the Saints could have done no more than they did in 2009-2010 and how a premiership was not the secret to a long, happy life anyway. Then he smiled and added: "But I would say that, wouldn't I?"
It didn't mean that he ever would give up on the Saints, only that he knew the score. It's a St Kilda thing.
Ugh...on openmike it was mentioned the club has no culture and nothing to be proud of. This is something Dittrich noticed when he transferred from the saints to the demons.
Bratty, thanks for posting that Greg Baum article; I'm just reading it in the hard copy now (old school!) and I really like the piece. Warts and all, but in many ways I think he nailed it:
"But it is what St Kilda is not that makes what they are so remarkable, and what they surely will cherish and exalt in as much as faded premiership glories on Saturday night. They are resilient; they have 140 years to say so. Their fans are fierce in their cause. In Moorabbin's heyday, and until the game's national expansion, there was no venue in the competition that was more "away". They are one-eyed, but informed in their blindness by a certain wry humour; how could they not be?"
Got to admit I teared-up uncontrollably seeing Breeny and Cowboy out there in Saints jumpers before the team ran through the banner. If they couldn't put an extra charge of adrenaline tbrough the team nothing could!
