St Kilda's bleak future?

[one-eyed]

The Saints you would now reckon will be close to wooden spoon favourites next year.

Their list is shot and it's going to take a long long major rebuild to fix the mess they are now in.

Gone: McEvoy, Milne, Blake, Koschitzke, Ledger

Possibly gone: Dal Santo, Fisher, Armitage?

Players that will be 30+ in 2014:
Nick Dal Santo (30)
Sam Fisher (31)
Lenny Hayes (34)
Clinton Jones (30)
Leigh Montagna (30)
Nick Riewoldt (31)
Adam Schneider (30)
Sean Dempster (30)

A-graders under 30


B-graders under 30
Jack Stevens
David Armitage

The best of the rest is slim pickings to say the least:
Sam Gilbert
Jarryn Geary
Dylan Roberton
Farren Ray
James Gwilt
Tom Hickey
Rhys Stanley
Shane Savage



Off-field their financial state is poor as well despite making 3 GFs in 2009-10. Now with a lengthy period in the bottom 4 coming up it's really going to hit their bottom line. The AFL may even come a knocking if it looks again at persuading a Victorian side to relocate interstate. The Saints' NZ deal isn't great for the game either if all the Kiwis will see is one-sided matches thanks to the Saints being crap.   

Glad it's not us!

[Coach]

Jack Steven is a gun

[one-eyed]

Just to further illustrate why the Saints are in a total mess ...

@SamLandsberger twitter:

From 2007-10 St Kilda drafted 19 players. Three (Siposs, Stanley, Steven) remain. Top picks Cripps, Winmar, Lynch and McEvoy all gone.

[wayne]

I think they'll be adding to their 27 spoons over the next few years.

I hope we can start paying them back with a few 20 goal thumpings over the next few years.

[Judge Roughneck]

Not the best time in  the history of Australin football to rebuild

[one-eyed]

St Kilda head of football Chris Pelchen has warned supporters to prepare for short-term pain ahead, as the club re-shapes its playing list for a fresh premiership tilt.

In an open letter to members posted on saints.com.au, Pelchen revealed the Saints would aggressively pursue early draft picks over the next four years, in a bid to "restore the balance" to their list.

And, he said, the club would not seek to recruit free agents until 2016, given players aged 26 and over did not represent the key focus of the "list transition".

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-10-12/saints-prepped-for-lean-times

Minimum 4 years of pain = gonski for practically the next decade.

[Chuck17]

My heart is bleeding

[Eat_em_Alive]

I thought I saw a breaking news: montagna going to dons somewhere?

[Rampstar]

My heart is bleeding

Your sincerity chucky is very heart felt, Im sure the saints supporters appreciate your support in their tough times ahead 

[tigs2011]

My heart is bleeding

Your sincerity chucky is very heart felt, Im sure the saints supporters appreciate your support in their tough times ahead 

A few years of pay back coming up. How many in a row did they win against us? Let's double it.

[Judge Roughneck]

[Hellenic Tiger]

When a kick off the side of your boot dribbles through for a point and its the one and only defining moment in 140 years of existence then that sums it up as to why they are the least successful team in VFL/AFL history. Pretty much sums up what a sad and sorry organisation they are and why they are the worst club in footy and why I am thankful despite the inept 30 or so years we have endured we are still 10 times the club they are and hopefully that ratio of difference will grow in the not to distant future.

[Loui Tufga]

Reading half the threads around here the heading could easily read "Richmonds Bleak Future"

[one-eyed]

The media mentioned tonight that there's talk of Robert Harvey replacing Watters as senior coach with Danny Frawley (yep Spud himself) as his mentor in the role of head of coaching at St Kilda.



And it just gets worse for the Saints ...

"St Kilda have lost a major sponsor in Centrebet. Pulled up stumps a year early."

https://www.facebook.com/TheZanottiFiles

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