SaintPav wrote: ↑Fri 29 Jan 2021 9:50pm
Don't disagree but Membrey? Roberton? Bruce?
No too bad.
With talent acquisition it is looking at the whole, and not just a few.
It is a bit like the punters who tell you about their big win, but never mention their greater overall losses.
St Kilda we were frtunate that some of the "roughies" got up. But a lot of the key plays under Bains did not.
Though one winner was the swap that gained effectively Gresh and Carlisle. Though the negative is that without the other main strategies working that we gained Carlisle too early as the rest of our list was not good enough.
Bains joined us in Jan 2011. Pelchen joined in Aug 2011 as one of Bains recruits, and was gone by Oct 2014.
Article from July 2015
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/ ... o-st-kilda
Bains was part of a strategic review, alongside Chris Pelchen, which identified a need to rebuild the list along the lines of the successful Port Adelaide and Hawthorn blueprints. As Bains notes, “unless something dramatic happened, we were going to go into the wilderness for a period of time… Whilst the draft and other measures over time can help square things up, we needed to take a more proactive approach to transforming the list.”
The pillars of that strategy required Viv Richards-style boldness: bringing in a rash of extra first-round picks through an aggressive trading strategy. Whether by circumstance or design, the early stages of the rebuild appear to be vindicated, with the haul of 2013 and 2014 especially vaunted by football pundits.
So how are those hauls from 2013 and 2014 looking?
Not to mention the draft pick deals we used for Hickey and Tom Lee.
Now in theory the strategies sounded fine, but in the end the club under Bains tried to be too clever and chose the wrong players.
Taking Petracca being another too clever move that failed when the club under Bains went for the key forward as they panicked over what the Dogs paid for the overrated Boyd.
And how did that strategy of the extra work picks work out? McEvoy and Stanley both still running around at the clubs we traded with whereas our gains were of lesser value.
and
The strategic view under Bains is realistic and requires a couple of years of pain; hence Bains doesn’t foresee drafting any high-end free agents as a priority. “There’s no point bringing these high-priced free agents that will help us get from 13th to 10th to eighth, as opposed to taking us from eighth to sixth to first,” he says, his mind quite clearly on taking St Kilda right back to the top in the not-too-distant future.Flying the World in comfort thanks to FF Points....
