Shellharbour Wildcats

Any sporting success is a difficult mix to try to measure. It takes alot of skills, talent, planning, luck and a bloody lot of determination to make a success in any sports arena. Combine these into a team element and the combination of elements is also multiplied. All of our players have somehow go...

There is an old saying that you are only as good as your last performance. Steven Milnes last performance was a beauty, bagging seven goals and winning us the game. Credit should be given where it is due and Milne won us that last game against Richmond. Get off his case.

Yes, Simmonds was real good at lifting the knee into Kosi all night. Did anyone else notice this? Simmonds will come unstuck big time for this tactic. It works for a while until someone bigger and meaner than you will smash you to bits for what ruckmen consider a low tactic. Who is big enough and me...

Ask some old blokes who have seen several decade of players. My father who is 85 has stated Eric Guy was the toughest saint of all. Hard as nails, straight at the ball and feared nobody. Leigh Matthews was supposed to be one of the toughest in our time and Dad says Lethal Leigh was a cream puff comp...

Yes, the AFL certainly favour certain clubs. They are not just the interstate clubs. Why should Collingwood and Essendon hold the ANZAC day monopoly? They make a motza out of it. On the old fan forum I raised this issue and Rod Buterrs was keen to take on the AFL in this regard. I wonder if any of t...

I thought Lyon was a good pick, but after last night I am not so sure. We cannot play like Sydney. They get away with it because of the small home ground SCG and have perfected it on this ground. Last night was one of the first few times I have turned off the telly in disgust. What is wrong with qui...

Journalists are supposed to report the news. They are not supposed to plug their own opinions.

My daughters U17 netball team are good at sledging (albeit rather quietly) but lets face it goes on in all sports

An e-mail went around with some of the best sledges. I loved this one.

At Adelaide oval....

Javed Miandad called Merv Hughes a dumb fat bus conducter. About two deliveries later, Merv knocked down Javed's middle stump.

When Javed walked past Merv he copped this one...

"Tickets please!"

Monkhurst and Francis were bad enough. Please no more. Tarrant is not going to give us anything we need.

Someone in the Port Adelaide side will be worried about Steven Bakers reuturn. This guy has been missed. Players play taller when he is on the field. A serious tough nut. Could use a few more like him.

Did you see Lloyd gice Max a backhander at the end of the forst quarter (i think that was when it was). I was worried because Max had a go back and thought he would get reported for touching the biggest protected species in the AFL. Can someone please explain how he gets away with the number of chea...

Unfotunately we had a coach that was being groomed for the role. He never lived to make it.

Who am I talking about - Trevor Barker.

What a terrible shame. He would have made a great coach.

Lets face it, we need a win no matter what. I don't know how others feel but I hate Essendon more than Collingwood. Over rated, protected species, too much power in the AFL and I am old enough never to forget or forgive them derailing our premiership run in '77 by the publicity their president beat ...

Did anyone go to Bentleigh East primary school or McKinnon High School?

You are all legends. And we deserve a Flag!

Go Saints.

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R Lyon

I was just wondering how old the users fo this site are. I am 44 and grew up watching the Saints in the 70's and 80's. I remember the likes of Geoff Cunningham, Greg Burns, Gary Sidebottom, George Young and Trevor Barker. Standing in the cold at the Gilbeys Gin end of the ground. Good times. The hot...

is what I observe. We get to the opposition player, lay the tackle and more often than not they get the ball away and then they are off. We need some good old fashioned hard heads at present. Sure, our list has loads of talent but we are getting towelled up in the hardness department. I am old enoug...

Actually, I live in Kiama. I came across another Saints supporter at Shoalhaven Heads the other day. Let's hope for some decent footy soon. This stuff the sains are dishing up is terrible.

I thought I was the only St Kilda supporter in Wollongong. Where did you come from?

Lets face it, we were as weak as p@$$. We are supposed to have a sensational list - well where are they. Nobody seems to want to kick a goal. Fitness seems an issue as does hardness at the ball. I am sick of hearing how good the other teams are. Our problem is our team and look forward to a long sea...

Our upper body strength seems very weak. We cannot tackle. Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic...

When the heat gets turned on we melt.

I like the thought of Kosi to CHB. He has palyed his best football there early on and he will give Mooney a hard time. I cannot think who else could pick up Mooney and be effective enough in clearing the ball out of the back line.

I think that I can remember a team in 1997 that lost the first five games of the year and made it to the Grand Final. I think that team was St Kilda. If my memory serves me correctly, the players took themsleves away for their own meeting, no coaches, and from their on the committment was made and t...