mad saint guy wrote:Agree.

Also considerably more AFL experience from Mini than CJ.

Freo allowed us to play our style of game, and our gameplan works the best against sides like the Dogs and Dockers. I'd expect to see a dockers gameplan more like our own next year under Harvey.

Surely McQualter is ahead of Jones at this stage. I guess it'd be hard to pick anyone off a 5 day break though.

We still suck at bringing the ball past defensive 50 from a kickout.

Picture this.

The saints are playing in the last AFL game of september, and Thommo had gotten over his knee injury and played a half of footy for the scorps and amassed 25 posessions.

Do you play him in the grand final?

I pay less attention to the sticky posts than i do the regular posts, just too many useless ones.

Also, i'm making a pretty big push against this "3 points for a rushed behind" rule change, in favour of 1 point and a ball-up 20m out from goal. So add that in if you agree with me

Such a shame our most consistent player over the past 10 years can't go out with the dignity he deserves. Injuries are a cruel mistress indeed.

Out: Attard, Jones, Rix - Games Total of 22 + 3 + 27 = 52 games
In: Birss, Voss, R. Clarke - Games total of 59 + 168 + 27 = 254 games

Says a lot about the selection criteria this week.

Selection of Raph still baffles me.

Max is still in peak form, don't know where some of you are coming from. Took a little to get back to peak fitness after an interrupted pre-season, but will be pivotal for our finals chances this year.

If we draw Kangaroos, Collingwood, Hawthorn, i'd be more than confident of making the Grand Final.

Not much confidence against the Swans and Eagles at this pointy end of the season though.

saintly wrote: Standing at an imposing 204cm and 105kg, Knobel would be easily the biggest and strongest ruckman in the competition aside from the Lions reserves side, and he would also offer a valuable marking target in the forward line.

Hey, we should recruit this kid

I've said this time and again, and Attard is being used for the stopping roles that Baker once had, which frees up Bakes to play on a different opponent, or run more offensively. However, he does not have an attacking bone in his body, to take it to the next level, he MUST make his opponent accounta...

Potential is such a dirty word, but have a go at ranking our list from 1 to 44 in terms of potential, "raw talent" is another way of looking at it. I'll have a go at it at some stage, just opening it up for discussion. Here they are, in alphabetical order. Senior List + Elevated Rookies * ...

The future is now.

Without looking at others answers to sway me... 36 - Robert Harvey................STAY (IF HE WANTS TO) 34 - Andrew Thompson..........GONE 34 - Matthew Clarke...............GONE 31 - Fraser Gehrig..................STAY 30 - Aaron Hamill...................GONE 29 - Michael Gardiner.............STAY 2...

Please alert us

A bit hard to scour every possible site every day, which is why WOM is so fantastic.

I believe the two are mutually exclusive. On one side you retain players in the hope they come good, this is the low turnaround approach, and is what the saints have been doing in the past few years. Our depth is deep, but not very talented (imo). On the other side, with a large turnover you can aff...

Anyone have a list of the U18 all-australian teams for the past 5 or 6 years?

From the Match Review Panel.

Bakes/Everitt incident thrown out due to lack of evidence.
St. Kilda runner Danny Sexton fined $2400 for contact with an umpire


http://sportal.com.au/default.aspx/AFL- ... gles-33262

Or Gram.

Great photos, love the comments, nice and blunt

And how would Peckett and Powell be in todays game where leg speed is king? Answer is nowhere.

What experienced players have we lost in the last few years that haven't been replaced with equivalent or better players?

The average post length in this thread is too high. Just chipping in to reduce it a little!

Since his position has been swapped with Sam Fisher, he's playing a lot less attacking than he used to be.

I believe the switch was made to make his opponent become more accountable for Gram's actions, and negating his own impact a little. It hasn't succeeded imo.