St Kilda coach Scott Watters says poor efficiency cost the Saints St Kilda coach Scott Watters offers up no excuses for the Saints poor display against Gold Coast. A DOWNCAST St Kilda coach Scott Watters said the Saints had nobody to blame but themselves despite being below full-strength. Look, 22 players played. We are not going to make any excuses," he said. Half a game, you are certainly never satisfied but we controlled the ball well in the second quarter and really our efficiency for large portions of the game outside of that wasn't where it needed to be. One goal-five, one-goal-seven in a couple of quarters, multiple inside 50 entries without really being composed. So efficiency certainly hurt us. Watters said Armitage's prolonged time on the bench in the third term due to bad cramps impacted on rotations and "robbed us of a little midfield grunt." Ablett burns Saints They finished the game with more running. In trying conditions early in the season, you need your compete midfield up and going and for a portion there we were vulnerable...we probably thought when we were short of rotations in the third quarter it would have an impact," he said. We were probably unable to finish out the game as we would have liked. Some of our midfielders were pretty taxed. I don't want to throw these up as excuses. They are the facts. They (Gold Coast) finished the game well. The effort was strong from the players, efficiency was poor. You need both. The players will be stung by that. They'll work hard to rectify it. You lose a game on the back of that and that hurts. So that's where it sits.