If it helps the club make money in the long term I am all for it. WE need to attract more dollars and if playing regular fixtures in what is really just an unofficial state of Australia anyway (Kiwi-sainters don't flame me, the Trans-Tasman agreement enshrines this 'special relationship') makes the ...

The Bombers are flying to this weeks game in 27 minutes and we are taking a 3 hour bus ride. Has anyone heard what type of bus it is? 27 minutes? 10 minutes to taxi to the runway, 5 minutes waiting to take off, then being told it's too wet to take off. 30 minutes later all clear to take off. 27 min...

i'd rather take the bus , than a small plane flight in forecasted wet and windy weather ! As if that could go wrong American Pie Seriously are we that precious that we can’t take a bus ride for a few hours in Vic? Maybe a bonding session planned, a few quizzes and stories on the way up? Old fashion...

realistic is one way of looking at it - skewered would be my appraisal. ignoring his good years and games, and the fact that he has put body and soul on the line for years, while focusing on the negative...

From the China-based member on this forum I reckon home-sickness (especially between two white, western countries) says 'guy who hasn't grown up'. Its a terrible reason to cite for why things are hard, including the use of it as an excuse to leave an interstate team and go to another one. Mitch Cla...

Remind me again St Dooley and St Byron - who played in the ruck in the second half in the 2010 Grand Final against Collingwood when Gardner went off injured? You know, the guy who beat Jolly in the second half of that same game? Oooooh, that's right, it was Kosi .... - and that wasn't three years ag...

There weren't many Cats supporters there. It was mainly Swans and us. sadly it did seem that there were more Swans than Saints colours. Their 'end' of the ground was certainly fuller.

Jeans left us at the end of 76 and didn't go to Hawthorn until the beginning of 81. Hawthorn were going through a bit of a transition after the succesful 1970's, during which time if the 10 year rule hadn't existed - which allowed North to dominate the decade - they probably would have won two more ...

No, but I still had my doubts as to whether or not he could make it. I have seen him play in intraclub and Sandringham games and saw nothing to convince me that he deserved a place in an elite AFL team. Have you? I heard that he played a very good game against the Collingwood reserves and that in th...

Kosi is a fantastic player and extremely important to us. How good was he in 2001, 2005 and 2009? Very is the answer. People talking about Stanley being a likely replacement for Kosi better think again. Stanley, while he may become an elite player (and I think he has potential by the way) is a compl...

I think Freo are the most overrrated team in the competition right now. They have never done anything in their history to show that they will be anything other than a band of freewheeling undisciplined individuals who play a handful of good games each season (at home in WA which has the best home gr...

Not everyone can be Jimmy Stynes either mate. Those guys don't come along every season. For mine, Tommy Walsh just doesn't look at home with the oval ball.

After Kosi, Ledger is my new fave player. This guy is going to be fantastic.

Getting to a practice game by 6:40 is hard, especially if you come from half an hour or so outside of the CBD. I missed the entire first half of the Swans match because of the early start. Mind you I am glad I did - but I am very happy to say that I saw the entire Geelong match! How good is Ledger g...

Well, if Longmire is fair dinkum and Tommy is a project player, then he better hope that he stays healthy and injury free otherwise they will never get two draft picks worth of games out of the man. Personally I reckon he will get a few senior games, get found out, and then bob up and down in the ma...

At the expense of sounding somewhat pedantic, the actual suburb of Collingwood bordered by Hoddle St, Victoria pde, and the suburb of Fitzroy (Wellington St?) is actually very small, and mainly made up of shopfronts and high rise tower blocks, where few footy supporters would live anyway. I have per...

Agreed re: professionalism. As Grant Thomas always liked to say - when a club gets that winning feeling and keeps it for a sustained period the players and supporters go out each week expecting to win - and usually will. If we can just have bit of luck with guys like Ledger, Cripps and Siposs this y...

There are absolutely heaps of St Kilda supporters in the Chelsea, Bonbeach, Edithvale and Aspendale dormitory (City of Kingston) and Carrum/Patterson Lakes. Car stickers, flags on windows grand final weeks, primary school murals include St Kilda players and colours, Auskick jumper numbers, as well a...

well said OlderSaint - agree 100%

Comments like Collins' regarding Seaford show how out of touch with the footy-going public he really is. For most people, living between 30 and 40 kilometres out of the CBD (from the GPO in the old language) is a simple fact of life and makes basic good economic sense. Most people who attend footbal...

It has been stated on forums before that our style of play has been unattractive to watch. Personally I don't agree, but then I'm a die hard supporter and I much prefer winning games, playing finals and competing in Grand Finals to finishing 9th of 10th. But it can't really be denied that to stimula...

Have to agree with Dave Mc on that one. Family live in Perth and remember hearing about how the Weagles were doing all these weights three times a week in the preseason and their players said that after each training session they were so wrecked that they couldn't even drive. They ramped up what Ken...

This year we would have finished top 4 if the following things had NOT have happened Lenny doing his knee Gwilt doing his knee/leg Cripps/Siposs/Ledger all being unavailable after round 10 when they were starting to hit their straps Goddard hadn't had to play sore all year Gardiner unavailable all y...

Is that THE Attila Siposs - dad of our forward and spokesman of the Keep St Kilda At Waverley Group (late 90s)?

Because it's topical and because he nearly played for us at a time when we could have, and probably should have, won a premiership. Totally agree that he would have been a far better prospect than naffer Lovett. Geelong had passed on him the year before, and no-one, not even Sheedy at GWS (who gave ...