B.M, Let's assume we've recruited Mcrae and both Mcrae and Marcus Windhager are fit and healthy at the start of 2025. Who would you prefer getting a dominant midfield role? Personally, I think it's vital for Windy's development that he is given opportunity to practice his craft as a mid. He's not ju...

Losing like North and WC and Rich this season Is how you become irrelevant Winning 11 games is nor irrelevant Can’t just play kids, they get flogged when that happens Do you think 31yo Brad Hill should’ve got a 3 year deal? - he was underwhelming this season re Hill. No! 3 years is not prudent imo....

Durable with probably another 3 years in him Teflon has been posting all year about how important it was for the team to keep playing the kids...."get that top 5 draft pick"... at one stage he wanted a total clean out. "Trade the lot of 'em" :lol: Now all of a sudden he thinks i...

His durability is the risk , not his actual performance. Before list management and the board approved the deal,(assuming it's a formality) they obviously had decent information on his knees and shoulders being stable. Hopefully... from different doctors who signed off on Hannas being medically ass...

Forget R Garcia. He’s too young and it contradicts Scollop’s unhinged rants. 😂 How many sane people do you know that follow St Kilda? :lol: Most people accept that we are serious about Mcrae. We’re looking at a guy like Tomlinson to replace Battle (and now Sam Frost as well apparently*) so why not ...

It makes logical sense to replace Battle and Crouch but ONLY if you are of the view that we should try and challenge in 2025. AND...if you honestly believe we have a squad good enough for a spot in the finals, why not go all the way and try and win the bloody thing? Why go half arsed with a 30 year ...

Is Max going to Austria to train at the Red Bull Athlete Performance Centre?

He should

We have heaps of salary cap that has to be spent.

Spend it on Steele, Wilkie, Marshall and Sinclair.

If you're that desperate to spend TPP give it to these guys who deserve it

We have heaps of salary cap that has to be spent. We use it on MacRae for three years I get it. The accountant has taken over the club (i.e SOS and his calculator). Seems little regard to whether Mcrae is going to give value for money in year 1...or if you get any decent output in year 2 or 3 of th...

Watch the games where he played for 4 quarters and you'll realise he's lost leg speed. E.g Round 8 vs Hawthorn. Game was at Marvel. Bont was huge that day but Dogs lost. Libba copped a head knock early in the game. Mcrae got 21 touches and was ranked 6th among mids. Should have been 7th. Mcrae- 66 D...

Local bayside kid. I often bump into into his grand dad and I joked with him 2 weeks ago about Finn coming to St kilda

Callaghan is a jet. That's the type (and age) we need

Crikey Scollop, correct me if I'm wrong but I'm starting to get the distinct impression that you don't agree with St Kilda recruiting Jack Macrae! Just to ease your mind, look at it this way, he is merely replacing another ageing midfielder in Brad Crouch, which should have not the slightest impact...

Given the criticism of Lyon, a staple with some on this site The debate is that St Kilda will be in a position to challenge in 5 years, what a nonsense that is And to drill down on this nonsense should we be trading out the likes of Marshall , Sinclair , Wilkie , Wood et al, all approaching 30 year...

Ok. There we have it.

In Mcrae

Out Dow

How does it stop the development of others? Ridiculous comment. Don't you like logical debate? What annoys me is the commentary regarding our 'centre clearances' early in the year...We were missing many of the regulars and there were injuries and suspensions. It took a while to get continuity. Was ...

I think there were multiple flogs ...but only one bloke (or one club) copped the fine. I think Hinkley did the wrong thing by taunting a player after the siren, but the way Sicily behaved and the language he used was also worthy of a fine. If Sam Mitchell didn't cry in his press conference, maybe th...

One of the St Kilda Facebook groups has these pearlers;

What's all your guys thoughts on merrit??

just wondering if it's thru Membrey ask to trade to north mel

Unbelievable

How does it stop the development of others? Ridiculous comment. Don't you like logical debate? What annoys me is the commentary regarding our 'centre clearances' early in the year...We were missing many of the regulars and there were injuries and suspensions. It took a while to get continuity. Was ...

What sort of support do you reckon Mcrae will provide? The kind that says, he'll try and get first hands on the footy and then he relies on everyone else to defend and chase and do the tagging? Dow and Clark can do that easily can't they? How did Jack Mcrae go this year when Bevo asked him to do the...

Fwiw the year I shared his, was last year . It wasn't a decade ago he was a 30+ possession midfielder who won more clearances per game than Steele did this year- it was last year. I love Steele but he needs support. Support a player like this can give him and costs us a bag of chips. Do you know wh...

Alright stuff it. In Ross and SOS I trust. I understand the need to save certain officials reputations Let's go for broke and try and make an elimination final in 2025. If we get there and lose at least we can say it was worth getting Mcrae. I'll also get onboard at the end of next year....I won't p...

Beno88 wrote: ↑Tue 17 Sep 2024 9:46pm Marshall improved out of site under Paddy’s tutelage.

Yeah...of course. Marshall was struggling before Ryder arrived

https://www.saints.com.au/news/246422/m ... rker-award

Our transition from defence into attack is poor. A link up work horse like McCrae will help rectify that. Pou Wndy Clark Wilson will only benefit from that. That's weird. :? People were talking about centre clearances and using him as an inside mid when this thread started. So you're saying Mcrae w...

Hawthorn players would not be where they are in their development if the Hawks had stuck with Jordan Lewis, Tom Mitchell, Jaeger O'Meara and Liam Sheils. Will Day, James Worpel, Dylan Moore, and Jai Newcombe have taken on senior midfield roles and thrived. Nash, McDonald, Maginness and even Ward hav...

McRae is a known qty and won't get better- will only get slower This The other guy I forgot about in our midfield was Marcus Windhager. Windy has enormous upside. He showed a glimpse in round 2 against Collingwood. Got 25 touches that day. His other 3 games where he impacted, were against West Coas...