I'll tell you one thing, Collingwood and Geelong would be very happy to see us miss the 8. Although we are playing some awful footy at the moment, we have beaten both of them with the same list we have now…
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saintspremiers wrote:Makes sense.

I'm hoping we are within 10 goals at 3/4 time.

why aim so high?

I remember last year we got beaten in the middle, Armo got dropped for this game, and Lenny couldn't do it on his own. Given Lenny isn't around, and it's just Armo, someone needs to have a blinder. Yep..CJ..needs to totally sacrifice his game and try and blanket Judd or Murphy I reckon theyre gonna...

Conolloy in The Age has tipped us. Must have been worded up by our PR team to counter dickwad Nixon. Blues by 40 points if we play well. You really do thrive in misery, you know. Any chance to have a neg-laced whinge and you leap over it like I wish our mids would a contested ball... If they did do...

saints by 5 goals…

It doesn't have to be one or the other… Defend, clog, flood, zone, do whatever it takes to stop the opposition from kicking goals, that is fine. Defence isn't about butchering the ball backwards and sideways from the backline, that gives your opponent every chance to set-up and stop our attack. As...

As St.Kilda supporters we have become accustomed to failure, as St.Kilda supporters we have seen the club implode many times just when we we're on the cusp of success. St.kilda's problem is that it does have a losing culture due to it's long history of failure. how can what happened in 1971 possibl...

Can't believe I've just wasted 5 minutes of my life reading this crap... If you don't think everyone at the club is at least as passionate about winning a flag as you, then you are a fool. Ross Lyon mentions the players 'representing' the members all the time. He has been absolutely relentless in hi...

Sure they beat us by 10 goals last year, but lets not forget that is was the first time in 10 years. They were absolutely on fire and everything went their way. Judd is amazing and carries the blues single-handed, but generally he doesn't play as well against us compared to other sides. If we can mo...

I'd like to see Riewoldt roaming around on a wing. Have Kosi or Archer leading out of the goal square, making a contest. At the drop it would be good to have even numbers, goal-kicking crumbers Milne, Schneider, Steven, Cripps, McQualter + a resting mid... If Riewoldt is not making an impact he woul...

I watch very little TV aside from saints games… $60 a month ($720 PA) for a few games a year is a massive rip-off for me… there is no way I am paying it Internet streaming gets bigger every year, if it is live on FOX, someone will be streaming it… with a billion dollars going to the AFL for TV...

I've been saying that for 5 years. Go back and have a look on Big Footy and here, and I think you'll find that I run this idea out every year. http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=237346[/quote] Humble apologies Leo, Was pretty silly of me to think I was the only one who had come up with ...

chillax, It's fair to say that OUR club has made many, many terrible decisions over the years. I for one don't think you need a sports science degree to be able to question the decision to play three (2 rusty) talls in the wet… Some on here are so gung ho about never questioning the board or the c...

Why do Collingwood play on Anzac day when they are one of four teams who did not disband during the whole of the Great War where the Anzac legend was born? In 1916 Collingwood were in the competition while six other teams did not field teams while their young were men in the trenches. Collingwood b...

And now the AFL gift... GIFT this sacred day to two clubs that have done nothing to earn this privilege... IMO the 2 highest placed Victorian teams should play at the G on Azac day, and the 2 highest placed non-victorian teams play at the highest placed team's home ground. Wow, your opinion sounds ...

The crux of this issue for some seems to be that a potential blockbuster fixture is not being used. This wouldn't be such a problem if ALL of the others weren't owned by one or two rich clubs. Anzac day should have 2 matches, the highest 2 Victorian teams from the previous year play a day match at t...

Kosi was definitely poor last night, He has however played good football for us before, whereas Stanley as yet has not, compound to this he isn't doing much at VFL level either. Kosi has impact without getting the football, he breaks open packs, creates a contest. He is not a superstar but does some...

saintspremiers wrote:Raph was rubbish Vs Essendon and Ruchmond.

But he's black and built for the Brisbane climate together with coming from Darwin.

So should that have been a factor in maybe selecting him and dumping someone else?

Dunno.

How would being black help him anymore in Brisbane?

Stanley looks absolutely miles off… We'd all love him to be Riewoldt #2, But for now has no presence or impact, He's tall and fast, but alas for now is not an AFL footballer, The lure of a super-fast ruckmen/forward has all of us champing but I have not seen him make a worthwhile contribution yet,...

Attitude must play a big part but… I agree with others that simply being so heavily outnumbered in our fwd line makes it very difficult to keep the ball in and lay tackles. Our persistence withing kicking to 2&3 on one (Riewoldt) means that if we don't take a spectacular contested mark, there ...

We probably would have lost tonight without Steven, he also won us a game against the Cats in the wet, not sure how anyone could single him out tonight - ridiculous.
Stanley on the other hand is still not ready and may never be, Lynch or Johnson could not possibly offer any less…

I don't understand the Miles one…
We are desperate for pace so we delist the quickest bloke on the list,
He didn't really get a chance to prove himself either way,
2 decent games,
Cahill, Johnson & Simpkin have done less IMO

damn it.

ChicagoSaint wrote:we could offer them mini and pick 60?

Was thinking Cahill, like "He's much taller than Jack, carn'"

And we could tell Richmond that we really meant get Jack, it was a silly mix-up (admin thingy) and I'm sure they'll understand and hand him over.

How many RIEWOLDTS! are there down in Tassie anyway? Maybe we could get some kind of bulk discount…