If they are not up to standard yet (if there’s a more senior player who can do it better) you are not respecting selection integrity by playing them. You can also see how it can cause division in the ranks and angst if there’s no integrity and guys haven’t really earned a spot. Bring them in when th...

Scollop wrote: ↑Mon 27 May 2024 1:28pm

bigcarl wrote: ↑Mon 27 May 2024 1:09pm I’m torn.

I believe there's copyright on that phrase

Did you get permission from Fireman?

He certainly doesn’t look happy in the coach’s box, but he’s got another two seasons after this one to turn it around. Let’s hope he is up for the fight. I’m all for getting games into kids - where deserved - but I reckon he’s got to start insisting on playing our best possible side for the rest of...

Life Long Saint wrote: ↑Mon 27 May 2024 10:49am

Ajantis wrote: ↑Mon 27 May 2024 10:33am Battle up forward and cordy down back. At least Battle knows how to lead !

That's not on the table now as Cordy was injured yesterday...knee by reports.
And knowing how to lead won't help with our ball use.

Schoenmaker down back? Is he ready?

He’s lost the players. It shows. He certainly doesn’t look happy in the coach’s box, but he’s got another two seasons after this one to turn it around. Let’s hope he is up for the fight. I’m all for getting games into kids - where deserved - but I reckon he’s got to start insisting on playing our b...

Too much left to too few such as him and Marshall

Is this game available on catch-up tv?

Hayes has some knee issue yeah? Anyway What I heard at Q time really pissed me off, and is symptomatic of the problem at StK 9 goals in the first Q and a 2 point lead Coach not happy the free flowing game, wanted to close it down. “It feels like an up and back game, that’s because it is, and that n...

Very puzzling indeed. Crouch, Clark and Jones all best 22. Can only assume they're not considered match fit. Or we are tanking

This is getting ugly, but what can you expect? Arguably the best midfield in the comp against one of the worst. I'd like to expect some effort, leadership, and pride in the game. You can do all that, but sometimes it just comes down to class … or lack of it in our case. This is like being back in t...

This is getting ugly, but what can you expect? Arguably the best midfield in the comp against one of the worst.

Crossy66 wrote: ↑Sat 25 May 2024 11:58am You're right. Plugger only needed sky balls and he would get to them.

Yeah, plus he would make space in which to lead. No one dared get in his way

I was thinking based on biggest needs right now. I.e. no midfield, rather than just the best 4 players. But the greatest player in the game’s history would make a difference to our forward line Crossy. As would Rooey. You could move Max King to second ruck. If it were four midfielders, I’d go Harve...

Sainter_Dad wrote: ↑Sat 25 May 2024 11:34am In no specific order

Plugger
Winmar
Leowe
Harvey
Hayes
Jones
Riewoldt

s***, how could I forget Plugger. Played for us until 1994, so just makes the 30-year limit. How careless of me. So, Lockett, Harvey, Hayes, Riewoldt .

Lenny, Harvey, Goddard, Riewoldt.


Course would like to grab Dal Santo, Gehrig, Milne and a few others. Sam Fisher would go close, but I’d have to pass as he will be available only for home games for the next few seasons.

Marshall must be operating under instruction when he grabs the ball and hacks it forward. Either that or he hasn’t been instructed NOT to do it. Whichever it is, he’s our only elite midfielder as it stands. I’d have loved to have seen Crouch and Clark added for this week’s game. I’m assuming it’s on...

No Crouch or Clark?

From what I’ve seen of Jon Ralph, he is a pretty fair-minded guy. What has he said that can’t be backed up do you think? I guess it’s like, we’re allowed to criticise our own, but look out anyone else who does. These guys are paid to report news and to have opinions. They’ve got to find something to...

Form is temporary, but class lasts. I feel we are in for a tough one.

So in a side which struggles for potency up forward... Scollop would like us to take the forward who just kicked over a third of our score and move him to the midfield because he wins contested footy, which incidently is a stat we have won the last 3 weeks in a row. Owens over the past 3 weeks has ...

takeaway wrote: ↑Tue 21 May 2024 7:45pm With Crouch in there will still be plenty of opportunity for Owens to rotate in there, and that is what will most likely happen.

Believe it when I see it

The worst thing St Kilda could do right now is go backwards. I don't want to see a midfield with Seb, Steele and Crouch. I think there is a growing chorus of Saints supporters crying out for Owens to be used as an inside mid. I don't want him to be the second ruck. It's like the Blake Acres debate ...

Perhaps the fact our mids are struggling to win clearance and we played a very good midfield has something to do with this tactic. Without Crouch we lack clearance strength so to negate this perhaps this is the tactic which has been used.? I think it has everything to do with it and he is probably ...

As someone who witnesses training twice a week I can assure you it’s not the game plan. The training drills and ball movement are fast, in some cases kamikaze speed. It is basically all out attack. But obviously the defensive part of those drills are less than frantic as injuries would happen all t...

As someone who witnesses training twice a week I can assure you it’s not the game plan. The training drills and ball movement are fast, in some cases kamikaze speed. It is basically all out attack. But obviously the defensive part of those drills are less than frantic as injuries would happen all t...