My question is....
Is St.Kilda better off from a structure and psychological perspective now Robert Harvey has retired?
Again I say that this is now way a critisism of Harvey. He is beyond critisism and any team is better off with him in the team...
Mabye my critisism is with the mindset of the other mids who may have always thought that when in trouble we could always turn to Harvey.
Well Harv's is gone and with it the last of the old Saints. Now the Riewoldt's and Dal Santo's and the Goddards own this team it may be time for them to pu their stamp on our club and its playing culture.
Harv's needed a change of scenery and mabye so did the Saints. It is so good to see our midfield so hard at it - out tackling and pressure without the ball so encouraging and our overall team performance so even - not the usual Saints way of relying on our marquee players winning the game for us.
Grant Thomas mentioned it a couple of weeks back that our culture was one of looking to individuals and messiahs to take our club forward. Rightly or wrongly Harv's was seen as one of those messiahs.
Now we HAVE to do it without that mindset and so far - early days - post Harv's we seem to be doing this.
Ross Lyon told the playing group they were kidding themselves if they thought a 30 y.o midfielder would win them a flag when telling htm about the reasons why they didn't take Cousins.
Mabye this mindset of not hoping for the individual to come to the Saints and win us glory is permeating through the club.
I for one hope so. And if Lyon is the one achieving it - all power to him.
As I stated - this is just a discussion point and not a critisism of the great man Harvey.
I also have notived a distinct lack of talk about Harv's from supporters and bemoaning the fact that he isn't there. Mabye the mindset is also going through the supporters as well - or mabye it is because we have won both games this year with our mids doing well.
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Am I being too harsh or is there merit in my thoughts?