Mike Sheahan - Herald Sun - 16 February

IT is a mere 11 weeks since St Kilda took a decision it hoped, maybe even believed, would be the difference between winning and losing the 2010 premiership.

After losing the '09 grand final by just 12 points, the Saints relinquished their first selection in the national draft (selection 16) to Essendon for Andrew Lovett. It was a big call, an adventurous, risky call, with a player with a downside as obvious as his considerable talent.

There are those of us who must own up to endorsing the deal on the basis of Lovett's pace and flair, despite his turbulent history at Windy Hill, but the stakes were much higher for St Kilda.

"We'll all be judged, all of us, in the fullness of time," coach Ross Lyon said of the contentious decision to take four recycled players, headed by Lovett.

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