What??I don't mean to insult Collingwood's earlier or current teams, but you didn't have a lot of older players worth keeping. You rightfully got rid of the dud older players, and brought in fresh kids. But the thing with St.Kilda is that we have a lot of oldish players (26+) who are high quality and worth keeping, so our average team age won't need to drop that low over the next couple of years.
Buckley, Burns, Clement, Rocca, Wakelin, Presti, Woewy and Licca all played in the 2003 GF, they were old players worth keeping.
Buckley and Rocca went down in 04 & 05, not to different to losing Lenny.
I know football is never about one player, but if ever a team was to sacrifice a head start in list development in order to bring one player success, it would be for Hayes. If he does have one more year left in him, I'd like to see us have one more proper tilt at the flag with same gameplan and list tweaking - whether that be with younger kids or some clever trades.
Laughable, you blokes were not good enough and now you think you will suddenly get better with the same game plan!!
Saints need a Melbourne esque clean out....problem for the Saints is, they have ZERO star kids at the moment, and GWS will snaffle all the best kids for the next year or two....they will be Brisbane Bears bad come 2013 onwards.
Saints shipped to Tassie by 2016, lock in Eddie.