Letter to Ross Lyon

Dear Ross, last week a football commentator was asked "can St Kilda make the finals without Lenny Hayes"?  Of course the answer was no.   BUT (and many apologies to Lenny) he should have added they would not have made the finals with him in the team.  Lets face it, you've all had your chances and blown it - 3 times.  I watched that docu about the club a few weeks back, and although you made the point that it is only a football game, which is true, your long suffering fans would like something to celebrate at the end of the year.  Otherwise, instead of promising so much, only to be let down again  I think I would prefer to go back to the good old days, remember, when we knew we would beat Fitzroy and got excited when we came within 8 points of beating Hawthorn.  At least we knew what to expect back then.  Not now, everyone is all over the place.  How does a normally excellent kicker get it sooooo wrong (Gram)?  How does someone with so much talent perform so inconsistently (Goddard)?  How is it that someone so slow keep his place in the team (Clarke)?  My biggest gripe Ross is that I think you have forgotten that this game is called football.  It is not rugby, so passing backwards is NOT compulsary.  Isn't it logical that to kick goals you must go forward????  OK so you've proved that the team can play defensively, and sometimes they have even played offensively and kicked lots of goals, but wouldn't it be great to play both on the same day, in the same match!  Now that would be good to see.