5 Goddard

4 Gram

3 Milne

2 Riewoldt

1 Kosi

Sometimes leads are to creat space for others more gifted overhead. Good tacklers have two things - fitness (able to get to contest, 2nd effort) and core strength. He has both. And also they're just to tire opponents out and take them out of the game. Bentick was almost crying just trying to keep u...

5: Riewoldt 4: Hudghton 3: Gram 2: King 1: Koschitzke Tossing up between Kozi & Milney -- both popped up critically here and there. To usit was obvious that Roo was the dominant player on the ground. Max's job underpinned the whole victory. Very sorry Max doesn't get greater recognition for bril...

The amount of leads he makes which get neglected is staggering. That kid just doesnt stop running. And he's always got like 5-10 metres on his opponent as well. eventually they will pass the ball to him.....annoying at the moment to see him ignored.... His full pelt leading into space back and acro...

I can't tolerate that pathetic basketball singlet. I'd be happy with the old red white and black slab front with a white back. But what's the clash between the blues all blue and us with a black back and white shorts?? Do players have to stop and think -- "who's wearing the white shorts today? ...

I can't tolerate that pathetic basketball singlet. I'd be happy with the old red white and black slab front with a white back. But what's the clash between the blues all blue and us with a black back and white shorts?? Do players have to stop and think -- "who's wearing the white shorts today? ...

I was pretty young at the time but I remember the Pascoe boys Bob and Barry (cousins I think) being fairly willing to give and more than happy to receive. Didn't one of them(Bob?) severely damage his foot with a lawn mower and still turn up to play? It may be an urban myth 'cause I was a gullible y...

1: Penalty spot goal kick for interchange infringement, June 2008 2: Behind scored before end of game disallowed due to siren/timekeeper malfunction, 2007 3: Umpire marks ball in play, 200? 4: Lights go out, part of game replayed during week, 1995? 5: Pig on ground, 199? Is there something special a...

When I saw the huddle, I hoped he was sealing a pact with every player: We will never EVER EVER play like we played that first quarter again.

I think everyone's lost interest.
I still feel strangely compelled ...

5 Rievoldt
4 Gram
3 Jones
2 Fisher
1 dal Santo

Yes I know Riewoldt deflated any chance we had at all with his kicking. But nobody tried harder, or succeeded more.

OOPs -- sorry that post turned out so long!
Couldn't get the original format happening. Can't think how to shorten it now.
Anyway, I hope it bringsback a few memories, and moments of pride.

Here's one I did a few years ago. There may be some fresher candidates now: TEAM OF THE CENTURY (MY VERY WORST OF THE ‘80s & ‘90s) Backs ANDREW JOBLING Pecko on a bad day STEPHEN PIRRIE Can remember only a handful of shockers GLEN MIDDLEMISS Crude but incompetent Half Backs ALDO DI PETTA Sor...

My dad went to his first Saints game in a pram -- making it probably 1917. (Sadly he just missed the 1913 GF!) His father followed St Kilda -- he played cricket for St Kilda. I was born in Canberra, and when we finally made another GF in '65, my dad brought me down to Melbourne on the sleeper train ...

I'm in total agreement too -- I just hate this hanging off and away from the opposition ball carrier -- running along parallel with the flow, running after your man and not attacking the ball carrier when you're right next to him. It's the most passive, pathetic approach to football ever invented. S...

There was one moment where Dempster let a Dog run right into the 50 arc whithout bothering with any sort of chase. I thought what an insult this lack of any effort or passion is to a man who has given his all for 360+ games.[/quote] Dempster needs a post of his own -- his game today, and over the la...

5 dal santo
4 S Fisher
3 Gram
2 Gardiner
1 Jones

As far as 5 votes for Kosi goes (BB24 above) let's try to keep these votes serious, despite the appeal of bitter irony.

I wish we had a few Montagna's, dal santo's and Ball's. A few Montagna's whats? dal santo's whats? Ball's whats? Apostrophes don't make plurals (otherwise they'd be apostrope's) But it sure is a curious form of expression. Almost always used for uniquely talented, unique players. My bad, grammar na...

Otiman wrote:

midas_touch wrote:I wish we had a few Montagna's, dal santo's and Ball's.

A few Montagna's whats? dal santo's whats? Ball's whats?
Apostrophes don't make plurals (otherwise they'd be apostrope's)

But it sure is a curious form of expression. Almost always used for uniquely talented, unique players.

Jackson Ferguson Kane Murphy Blake McGrath Definately should recruit more players with two surnames and no first names. :? I think it's an attempt to redress the imbalance of players with two first names we've had over the years ... Robert Harvey, Luke Penny :lol: , Robert Neil, and three in the ca...

Armoooo wrote:Votes close at 8pm tonight!

What was the result?

For us, No 18 is Mad Bird.

His long, raking pass to Roo was a beauty. and his snapped goal too. His kicking still looks shithouse, but the end results were as respectable as anyone's.
What I really liked was his determination to kick, regardless, and not run around and around looking for a kicker to hand off to.

Who ever wanted the cheersquad to be sane and balanced?? Or literate? It's their job to be ridiculously over-optimistic and blindly devoted. We need them there, so we can all be half as much that ourselves.

Loved the ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK!!![/b] banner on Sunday too.

5 Ball
4 Goddard
3 dal Santo
2 Fisher
1 Gram

next would have been
Jones (his best game so far?)
Milne (great tackling and teamwork!)
Ferguson (at last! -- a run in the forward line!)
Scheider (5 goals has to be good)

I thought the booing was fully justified, and an important message to deliver -- naybe more to the coaches than the players. In the state we're in, we should be desperate to make up every percentage point available, and to demonstrate with every last shred of energy that we can crush a team, whoever...