Football has seen players over the years who possessed breathtaking talent but for varying reasons  the brilliance they promised was never truly realised.There has never been a better example of this than Subiaco rover Keith Watt.Keith Watt was a highly skilled rover in the mould of a Billy Walker, and many who saw him at his best still rate him as one of the best rovers this State has produced.He made his league debut for Subiaco in mid 1970, and hit Subiaco Oval like a whirlwind. In an era of roving riches, with players like Duperouzel, Walker, Parkinson, Melrose, Cable, Ciccotosto, Greenwood, Valli, and Wiley at varying times available to the State selectors, Watt was selected for Western Australia a year later, in June, 1971.That selection was a sign of what was to come, with Watt at the time  running around in the Subiaco reserves after a disciplinary breach had seen him fall foul of the Maroons heirachy.But the call up was well deserved on ability and form. He had quickly pushed himself to the forefront of the talented roving pack in the WANFL, and a brilliant career seemed assured.As his talents blossomed, so did his brushes with authority. Watt didn’t take league football as seriously as his coaches and the Subiaco club would have desired, and was increasingly in strife, spending a good portion of the 1972 season in the reserves, as new coach Ross Smith tried to instill professionalism and attitude in the battling side for a tilt at the premiership.If Keith disappointed his coach during the season of 72, he more than made up for it the following season. When Subiaco won a fairy tale flag in 1973, it was Watt who was at the forefront in the finals, topping off powerful roving in the finals series with three goals in the preliminary final and four on grand final day.Keith Watt surprised the football world by retiring after the 1973 premiership, at the young age of twenty one.  For those close to him it was not unexpected, but for the football world it was incomprehensible that one with so much to offer was lost to the game.He did make a comeback in 1978, with a further nine appearances, but after just seventy one games, he  walked away from football for the last time. The story of Keith Watt is one of a talented man with the world at his feet but without the desire to collect on his god given gift.There have been many “battlers” out there who would have given anything for a smidgeon of the talent possessed by Keith Watt.