St Kilda to march to attacking drum: Lyon

Martin Blake St Kilda coach Ross Lyon wants more efficient and potent offence from his team in 2011.

AFL

Saints' big draft gamble

Michael Gleeson, Gold Coast St Kilda gambles its capacity to make the leap to premier, taking ex-Cat Ryan Gamble and former Tiger Dean Polo with its last picks in the draft.

Contract extension for Saints' Dawson

Jon Pierik St Kilda hands full-back Zac Dawson a new one-year contract, with hopes a long-term extension will be brokered early next year.

Eddy looks to be on way out of Saints

Michael Gleeson A little more than a month after playing in two grand finals, defender Robert Eddy appears likely to have played his last game at St Kilda.

Saints get extra action at MCG, Cats not happy

Jon Pierik St Kilda's emergence as a consistent force has prompted the AFL to schedule six more matches for the Saints at the MCG next season.

Hayes caps off season with St Kilda gong

Lenny Hayes was the most controversial omission from the All-Australian team, but St Kilda rates him its best player for 2010.

AFL

Schneider accepts two-match ban for grand final strike

St Kilda's Adam Schneider has accepted a two-match ban for striking Collingwood's Brent Macaffer during last week's AFL grand final.

Schneider offered two-match ban

St Kilda forward offered two-match suspension by the AFL match review panel for striking Collingwood's Brent Macaffer in the grand final.

Pies and Saints report huge cash windfall

Mark Hawthorne Collingwood set to bank $2 million windfall on the back of its premiership success, while runner-up St Kilda is poised to announce biggest annual profit in club's history.

Flattened, fatigued but fans and players keep the faith

Martin Blake Once more, they donned the colours and fronted up, setting aside their pain to pay homage to the players.

Lyon implores club to drive forward

Martin Blake St Kilda urged to pick up the pieces and regroup, despite the pain.

Coach looks to 'models' of recent years to provide inspiration for Saints in 2011

Jesse Hogan St Kilda will take inspiration from recent off-season resurgences of new premier Collingwood, Hawthorn, Geelong and even itself to offset disappointment of another grand-final loss.

With no alibi or excuses, sad and sorry Saints look to next year, again

Martin Blake ONCE more, they donned the colours and fronted up, setting aside their pain to pay homage to the players. The St Kilda faithful turned out at the club's spiritual home at Moorabbin yesterday.

Dynasty calls: Pies can only get better

David Sygall THE 2010 premiership might merely prove the beginning of a dynasty for a young Collingwood outfit brimming with potential to scale even higher heights, the club's coach-in-waiting Nathan Buckley said last night.

Saints' wait continues as Riewoldt has day to forget

Martin Bolton TWO minutes before the final siren at the MCG yesterday, St Kilda captain Nick Riewoldt glanced at the Collingwood bench where players, coaches and support staff stood smiling and waiting.

Pies legion defeats Saints in spirit and score

Caroline Wilson Collingwood finally and brutally lays 2010 season to rest with a 56-point thrashing of St Kilda at the MCG.

In glorious living colour, a black and white fairytale finally comes true

Greg Baum For Collingwood, there was deliverance, for St Kilda only desolation.

The Pies walk the talk, and the relief is as real as the cup

Gary Tippet and John Mangan It's one for the faithful as Collingwood get to claim bragging rights.

No relief from the pain of long years

Peter Temple St Kilda's second assault on the summit could not pay the debt of champions from a barren past.

Bare bones grand final a thing of beauty and a joy forever …

Chris McAuliffe But restoring domestic harmony will require the exercise of delicate negotiating skills.

Malthouse still to exit as planned

Michael Gleeson Premiership would not alter the timeframe for coaching handover to Nathan Buckley at end of next year, Collingwood coach Michael Malthouse says.

Collingwood youngsters are yet to fulfil potential, says coach-in-waiting Buckley

Samantha Lane The 2010 premiership might merely prove start of dynasty for young Collingwood outfit brimming with potential to scale even greater heights, Nathan Buckley says.

Lyon to refresh list and not fade away

Jon Pierik and Martin Blake St Kilda coach says club would need to harness young talent and possibly look to trade for couple of key players to remain in premiership contention next season.

They said it...

Quotable quotes from the grand final replay.

Goal by goal

How the scoreline progressed during the grand final replay.

Rohan Connolly's five best

Senior football writer gives his top five players of the grand final replay.

Magpies emphatic in victory

Rohan Connolly One could point to several moments as clear indicators that it wasn't going to be St Kilda's afternoon.

Pendlebury makes amends

Emma Quayle Scott Pendlebury wasn't sure what was going on. Was it a terribly-timed bout of gastro? Was it simply nerves, before the biggest game of football he would ever play in his life?

Ever-humble Ball earns redemption

Jake Niall Luke Ball struggled in the drawn grand final. He didn't handle Lenny Hayes, who won the Norm Smith Medal, and he didn't handle the occasion.