Sam Gilbert was a player that seemed to get less confident as his career went on. Started like a house on fire and was an instrumental part of the side in '09. Seriously go back and watch some of those games and he was a marking machine that would just take the game on and deliver it lace out again ...

I'm not torn over this. Bruce always found it pretty hard to get seperation on his opponent and have away his fare share of frees trying to pluck a mark. He was a good forward, but not a great one. Yeah our delivery wasn't the greatest. But having someone with presence who can demand the ball in the...

Yeah get him in. What have we got to lose honestly.

SaintPav wrote: ↑Wed 28 Aug 2019 8:54am I hope they're not planning to use a Marshall/Ryder combination in the forward line as a replacement for Bruce.

And put Bruce in the ruck

If we had won yesterday everyone would have said 6.5

Just like if you have a great holiday and then something really shitty happens at the end of that holiday it becomes a bad memory.

Lol. I like it. Time to try something crazy.

No wonder one of our sponsors is Pepper Money. We sure love peppering those goals

Sorry but Newnes must go. I know a few players who had bad games but I would say Newnes had an *average* game for him. Just a class below what we need.

I've never even seen Carlisle take a contested mark or lead for the ball while he has played for us, yet we constantly throw him forward late in games to try and kick a match winning goal. Wasn't that one of the reasons he left Essendon? He didn't want to play in that position. We have a natural for...

Every time I see Stuv kick goals like he did when we played him as a forward last week I think of what could have been in 2009/2010. You have a talented young speedster like Jack Steven available back then and sitting in stands. Instead, our genius coach plonks Eddy or Dempster in the forward line ...

Either way I don't mind

spert wrote: ↑Tue 13 Aug 2019 11:00am Jeez the prospect of having soccer as the biggest football code is a sad situation- I think I would rather watch concrete dry.

Heading the ball actually does its damage too over the course of a career.

kosifantutti wrote: ↑Tue 13 Aug 2019 11:30am And most importantly, when we really needed him, he kicked the ball out on the full while we were 8 points down late in the last quarter. 30s later, and Jack Steven has put us within a goal.

Start of a great Saints career

It's definitely not the players call if you can get pinged for throwing it back for the original free

The advantage rule in AFL is the dumbest thing I have ever seen in this game. Why is it the umpires call if there is to be advantage? It should be up to the player and if they decide to dispose of the ball, then it's play on. If they decide after a second that they don't want to take the advantage t...

Don't understand why Battle wasn't thrown forward instead of Carlisle. Haven't seen Jake do a single thing in the forward line for us ever. We basically only have 1 leading forward in Membrey

I noticed he pulled his kicks rather than following through and over kicking it like usual.

WellardSaint wrote: ↑Mon 22 Jul 2019 1:46am

Enrico_Misso wrote: ↑Mon 22 Jul 2019 1:13am He's our captain and best shutdown man.

so who does he replace?
every single backman we have, has far more skill and will not cause turnovers
Geary is the king of turnovers with his horrible skills

Pretty sure Coffield and Patton turned it over multiple times tonight.

He's a forward. Yet to see him do anything of value in the middle, no idea why everyone wants him in the middle so badly..?

Is McKenzie a defender? If he is I doubt he's a lock down type defender. He's almost more valuable in the middle, just instruct him to hunt the ball from a tight situation and get it out. That's where I've seen him shine, this year he's been made to play on some dangerous small forwards I'm not sure...

Was calling for Hind to play from round 4 onwards. Imagine if he had played all those games instead of Newnes.

That's funny because when he was in the side saints fans were calling for him to be dropped and that Richo only playing old players.

Richo can't do a thing right it seems.

Love Hunter Clark on half back. Very clean with his hands and kicking on both sides. Might be handy there in the future.

Gresham needs to go forward. He's good in the midfield but his talent is wasted imo.

Other teams bomb it long plenty of the time, the difference is most of them have forwards who can either read it better or mark it. All we really have is Membrey - Bruce can never get enough separation as a forward, and when he does get some he'll often fumble it.