Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera is "booming" but St Kilda coach Ross Lyon says the star alone can't lift the Saints to the promised land.
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See subscription optionsWanganeen-Milera has quickly built a reputation as one of the AFL's best rebounding defenders.
But the 22-year-old showed what a weapon he could be in the midfield last week with 36 disposals, 10 clearances and two goals in a 31-point loss to Geelong.
Lyon indicated Wanganeen-Milera will again be deployed in the midfield for Sunday's clash with Melbourne at Marvel Stadium.
St Kilda face a fight to retain the out-of-contract speedster, who is set to field massive offers from rival clubs.
But even if the Saints do hold onto him, Lyon knows there's still plenty of work to do to get them into premiership mode.
"Naz is booming. Obviously he's an exciting player, but it's a weakest link game, not a strongest link," Lyon said.
"We're not basketball, when one player can dominate and take you to a championship.
"We need an even spread of contribution."
A few weeks ago, Hawthorn tried several taggers on Wanganeen-Milera, with little success.
It even led Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell to joke that he would be having nightmares about the star Saint.
"Even when he was on the bench I was worried about him by the end," Mitchell joked.
Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin says he will contemplate sending a tagger to Wanganeen-Milera this Sunday.
"Clearly teams have had some success in tagging him but he still plays to a pretty high level," Goodwin said.
"Last week you saw Geelong just back their system in and got a pretty positive result as well.
"He's an incredible player. We'll be prepared for both but we probably won't give the Saints too much of a heads up about what we're going to do."
Both St Kilda (5-13) and Melbourne (6-12) are well and truly out of the finals race.
The Saints have recalled Zak Jones, Lance Collard and Arie Schoenmaker, with Lyon making the big call to drop Liam Henry.
Max Heath also goes out of the side, with Darcy Wilson ruled out due to concussion.
The Demons welcome back Tom Sparrow and Harrison Petty from concussion, while Charlie Spargo and Blake Howes also return.
Steven May, who will contest his three-match ban at the AFL Appeals board next week, is out with concussion, while the axe fell on Koltyn Tholstrup, Harry Sharp and Matthew Jefferson.
Australian Associated Press
