Former Saints star Brendan Goddard believes the club needed just 10 extra seconds to win the drawn 2010 Grand Final, declaring Collingwood were "cooked".
In what was one of the most epic grand finals of the modern era, scores were all tied up at 68-68 with 1:30 left as that ball bounced away from Stephen Milne for a behind.
St Kilda surged home behind the lead of Goddard and Lenny Hayes but failed to put a score on the board, with the siren ultimately beating both teams to cue a rematch the following week.
Speaking on the Caulfield Grammarians Football Club podcast, Goddard spoke about how St Kilda struggled to get up for the grand final replay.
"The following week was really hard mentally for all of us," he said.
"I think (ex-Collingwood coach) Mick Malthouse and (star Scott) Pendlebury are the only two people that were brave enough, or silly enough, to say if there was extra time they would have won which is a total lie because they were cooked.
"We knew at the time out on the ground if there was another 10 seconds we would have won. They were deers in the headlights, we were trying to win the game, taking risks and playing footy, but the thing that hurt us the most is the loss in 2009."
Goddard said the 12-point loss to Geelong in the the 2009 decider combined with the draw was tough to overcome.
"Collingwood were fresh off a drawn Grand Final but going into the replay we'd lost in 2009, essentially climbed the mountain again and been pushed halfway back down in the drawn Grand Final, and it was like 'Are we ever going to do this?' Mentally we were just cooked. That was the biggest difference," he said.
He spoke about the surreal feeling in the aftermath of drawing with the Magpies and shared a funny story involving skippers Nick Riewoldt and Nick Maxwell.
"There was an eerie fog over the ground [after the draw] and it took literally 20-30 seconds to take everything in," he said.
"'Rooey' (Riewoldt) tells a story that as the siren went Nick Maxwell was yelling at all his teammates saying 'Let's get in boys, let's get in and get ready for extra time' and Rooey turned around to him and being pretty blunt said 'What are you talking about you idiot? We've got to come back next week', and Maxwell apparently was like 'Oh, yeah sh*t'."
Arguably the most iconic moment of the draw was Goddard's high-flying specky and subsequent goal to put the Saint ahead late in the match.
However, the two-time All Australian said some of his old teammates thought the game was won following his miraculous play.
"Funnily enough, years and months go by and a few of the guys have admitted at that point they thought we'd won the Grand Final. It's probably not a good headspace to be in when there's still five minutes to play," he said.
"It was hard not to get caught up in the emotion of it and the feeling around the ground. You could feel a lot of the crowd and supporters felt that was it. I knew there was a bit of time left."
The AFL has since scrapped grand final replays, with extra time to be played from 2016 onwards if required.
