You guys agree?
Davies, Sporn, Prendergast, Wiggins, Livingston and all of those blokes have never really gone forwards a whole lot so besides Prenda, you can't say they've gone backwards. Infact, Livo's made some progress, as has Davies and as has Wiggins. Prenda's gone backwards a heap and Sporn and all those other blokes have just stopped, won't go forwards won't go back.
The 'they haven't progressed point' is actually not bad, because it's true. They haven't made any substantial progress. But the gone backwards bit is wrong because none of them (besides Prenda) has moved forward enough to have gone backwards.
His second point about the recycled players is absolute crap. Why did we get these blokes? Because we didn't have draft picks to rebuild in the first place.
Where right to complain as much as we want about the picks. Sure, the blokes mentioned in the first paragraph haven't gone forwards but how many players have been at the bottom of the ladder for 90% of the time they've been at a club, been around a bunch of blokes who don't wanna play and have had noone around them to really support them. Not many.
What would St Kilda be if they didn't have there draft picks? They wouldn't have Riewoldt, Kossi, Dal Santo, noone. They would've recruited players to fill those positions like we did and they would be in the same position and flower like Robert Walls would be saying the same thing there saying about us. "It wasn't the draft picks blah blah blah."
The misuse of our draft picks back in the day has hurt us and when we've needed them we haven't had them. It all goes back to draft picks. Draft picks were the problem... we haven't been able to use any... its killed us... can't wait till '06
