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cant believe we have 2 lots of those fwds that have played in the same sides and all have now kicked over 500 goals.......and we got zero flags return...
geezus that shytes me...........but I understand why we hang on to individuals success so much...
Animal Enclosure wrote:Nice piece but Plugger should be front & centre
Perhaps loyalty was the top criterion
STRENGTH THROUGH LOYALTY.
''I still get really excited, and I've got the '66 thing up on the wall in a frame … You look at it and think: one day, we want to achieve that.''- Arryn Siposs
The lack of success at St Kilda results in focus on individuals and the success of individuals.
The problem is that it is teams that win premierships - not individuals because individuals can be curtailed when the season defining games come around including because the opposition focusses on curtailing them.
I have always had a view, and have very specifically put the challenge in past times, that your foot soldiers need to stand up in Grand Finals with one of them "playing out of their skin" and taking the performance of the others with them.
Remember the Adelaide guy who kicked plenty in 1997?
A foot soldier who played out of his skin - and Adelaide won.
I had expectation that Hall could have delivered for St Kilda in that game - but he could not maintain his performance and faded, as did St Kilda.
Teflon wrote:cant believe we have 2 lots of those fwds that have played in the same sides and all have now kicked over 500 goals.......and we got zero flags return...
geezus that shytes me...........but I understand why we hang on to individuals success so much...
Summed it up in one. We have a god culture that probably still exists and will only go away with a flag.
It makes no sense at all that we can have roo/milne and locket/buckets and literally nothing to show for it.
The lack of success at St Kilda results in focus on individuals and the success of individuals.
The problem is that it is teams that win premierships - not individuals because individuals can be curtailed when the season defining games come around including because the opposition focusses on curtailing them.
I have always had a view, and have very specifically put the challenge in past times, that your foot soldiers need to stand up in Grand Finals with one of them "playing out of their skin" and taking the performance of the others with them.
Remember the Adelaide guy who kicked plenty in 1997?
A foot soldier who played out of his skin - and Adelaide won.
I had expectation that Hall could have delivered for St Kilda in that game - but he could not maintain his performance and faded, as did St Kilda.
The Adelaide guy kept kicking goals - was it 5?
and we when played in the Grand Finals we had some bloody awful individuals on our teams...