Premiership window shut: Watters

St Kilda coach Scott Watters is looking to the future. Picture: Getty Source: Getty Images

ST Kilda coach Scott Watters admits his club's premiership window is shut and says rebuilding started over a year ago.

A brutally honest Watters today told Saints supporters there is a long-term view at St Kilda that outweighs the club's winless start to the season.

"Our supporters aren't fools - they understand our group," Watters said on SEN radio.

"And they deserve transparency from their coach and their club, and I'm a pretty upfront person.

"We are making change - we've made change over 12 months - and we will continue to evolve our group.

"We now have seven people working in development and we know our recruiting over the next two to three years will be critical to move the club forward."

The Saints made eight list changes at the end of last season and 12 the previous year.

Watters said he was under no illusions about where his list was at.

"If people think all of a sudden we came to the realisation last night that we need to turn our list over, well that started 12 months ago," he said.

"It's not a change in direction and that's the pathway we will continue to go down."

The St Kilda coach said the focus would be on developing the club's younger players.

"When you look back at the recruiting between 2008 and 2010, there was not enough quality that came through from that era," he said.

"That's why we pushed a lot of players in last year - we were exposing them as much as we can.

"We're giving the likes of Jack Steven and David Armitage more midfield opportunity.

"We now need to find the next four or five players we can talk about in the same light."

Watters called upon his senior brigade to help bring alone the next generation at St Kilda.

"I don't want to take away the capacity for our club to compete every week," he said.

"But at the same time, our players like Hayes, Riewoldt and Dal Santo need to bring on the next group."

Defender Sean Dempster has a wrist fracture, but it is not yet determined how long he will be out for.

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