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Ryan Lester has had quite the ride through his 179-game career, and it culminates with a Grand Final appearance this weekend

Arriving at the Demons as a gifted but unproven teenager, a meeting at a Fitzroy St coffee shop set Max Gawn on the path to professionalism and his place among the games elite

DOWNLOAD Unlike some, Im not prepared to write them off totally yet. I think even the best sides now are perhaps more prone to some particularly bad days, albeit not the four stinkers the Saints have turned in thus far. But there is a disturbing similarity starting to emerge for St Kilda, and its with the Brisbane team which made finals in 2009. They promptly loaded up on senior trade-ins from other clubs, only to nosedive into a mediocrity from which it didnt emerge for nearly a decade. Like t...