Simpkin is a clean inoffensive ball player isn't he? Looking to understand the action and find it hard to understand especially in a practice match. Watershed time for Jimmy, and not a good one. Wonder how the Club will go about defending him. The smart way would be to apologise, put your hand up a...

The best news to our football program in years. It’s zero surprise to anyone who knows Damien and/or what he’s done at Hawthorn and Collingwood that our recent draftees are coming into the team with considerably better skills than previously. He’s a weapon of a development resource

SaintPav wrote: ↑Thu 15 Feb 2024 2:58pm From memory, at one stage deep into the first quarter, Roger James had 80% of Port’s possessions. He totally rogered us.

It was 40 possessions to 5 or something when Gehrig kicked his 100th. They literally couldn’t get their hands on the footy

:roll: no Is Windhager still out there, i thought i saw him walking the boundary with the doctor in the 1st quarter ? Done for the day. Hand injury. Fks sake. Not again. He broke his hand in the first 90 seconds of last year’s practice game against the injectors. Comptlely fkd his first 10 weeks aft...

History shows the hard line works. Only with a list that is in the premiership window and with a group of mature match hardened and conditioned bodies. Ross failed in his only attempt at a rebuild and one of the greatest criticisms he was receiving in his final year at Freo was he only had a one-si...

Saints58 wrote: ↑Thu 25 Jan 2024 2:52pm Would love to get Gil as CEO but if not him do we have someone else waiting.
what about Noble he is a great administrator not much of a coach but could be great.

Noble has a great job way above in pay grade of St Kilda at V8 Supercars

Is Ross toxic? Ross was a Captains pick by Bassett and that can create toxicity. It won’t be a problem if we are winning. Ross only answers to Bassett and doesn’t recognise anybody else in the organisation as being his master so that can be toxic also. That won’t be a problem either if we are winni...

Just saw on the channel 7 news that Dan Butler is going in for another round of ankle surgery and will be setback in his prep for pre season. Haven’t seen it reported anywhere else. I broke my ankle and needed surgery and it takes a long time (3-6 months) to get it back to proper form and I was ver...

.....What are we doing to rectify this? The AFL are A-Holes but we have also shot ourselves in the foot multiple times on this front. We have stuffed every venture we have tried. NZ is still available but I don't believe Western Springs has been rebuilt yet. We should still try and get that over th...

And Bassett caved into fan pressure and gave away the money earnt from playing games outside of Melbourne. Hopefully he's got a plan? He didn't seem to have a clue about what was happening at the club in his first 4 years in the job. What do you mean by "gave the money away from playing games ...

I found it interesting that we only have 116 employees. Assuming that's including the players. Aren't they contracted to the AFL? Yup. It's one brand, one business and its all owned and controlled by the Vatican, aka the AFL. Clubs are merely parishes. Pretty accurate way of describing it. Although...

Allan Jeans clearly got more control at Hawthorn, than he could at St.Kilda. He always said that to be so. At the Save our Saints rally - he spoke about when he became senior coach - there was basically 3 clubs (u/19, reserves, and seniors) each with their own hierarchy inside the one club and that...

Moods wrote: ↑Fri 15 Dec 2023 4:32pm Thanks for the review Saintmike. It’s very much appreciated. Do you know if they are training Monday? If so would it be worth going to watch or are they pretty much done for the year?

They're definitely done for 2023 now

Ollie Hotton back in main training out of the rehab group. Him and Dow have seriously fast hands and are both very pacy from a standing start out of a stoppage. Much quicker than Steele and Crouch (Ross is fast in a straight line out the front) It might be a left footer thing but Riley Bonner and Ar...

I'm privy to some inside info, in development in the west. I have played with a lot of Aboriginal miners, who also came to Central Queensland to play football. Some of them work in football development. In the 80's before AFL and ever since, many were attracted to the money playing in resource rich...

Pou tried to attack the ball last year, wasn't near it enough, but he will get his own regularly, eventually, and could break open tight games, but with him looking leaner but stronger, we might find him moving forward from the peripheral more, he can hit the sponsors boards from the 50, he can lea...

shanegrambeau wrote: ↑Mon 11 Dec 2023 6:24pm It’s wierd

Pou seems like a veteran, having played every game last year. Compared to h new names.

-and he’s stil only 18!!

It really is crazy how young he is. Him and Michito have definitely been in the gym - their chests, shoulders and arms are noticeably bigger than 3 months ago

It’s not supposed to be the 7:30 report! It’s two way banter and supposed to be entertainment, not a serious interview. The excited fan is part of the show. Finally, someone gets it. He’s got a truckload of subscribers … that probably shows there’s a lot who like what he does. Sure - I’d like a mor...

My take outs: - - Rehab group of Wood, Crouch, King, Steele, Higgins, Butler, Hotton et al mainly did short, sharp alternate handball drills with Damien Carroll for half an hour. A few of them then ran laps or pool. Higgins on a bike. - Darcy is going to be immense once his core gets stronger and he...

Here's my stab: Promote Marshall to number 1 And Mason Wood to 2 They are club leaders Wilkie (who obviously deserves to be promoted) I feel likes to stay at 44. Sharman and Caminiti can be promoted to 23 and 27 (with some memory of their old nos 43 and 47) Then, Henry 4 Dow 15 Bonner 19 Taylor 24 ...

Is that a demotion for Lenny? Probably more a reflection on the type of players just recruited recently, and the specific skills they will need to play in the big boys game. Goddard is getting developed, more likely. Have a look at you go Mr PR spin man, always thinking on ya feet, I recon you coul...

Is that a demotion for Lenny? Probably more a reflection on the type of players just recruited recently, and the specific skills they will need to play in the big boys game. Goddard is getting developed, more likely. Have a look at you go Mr PR spin man, always thinking on ya feet, I recon you coul...

Dow has already moved in to 15

Watched him kill games in 5 minute bursts throughout the juniors . Sits on heads (including my sons) , great lead , super fast and holds his feet and big on the chirp. Could move up the ground a bit too. Boom or bust Best regards to your lad and please thank him from me/us for providing himself as ...

Fingers crossed but it feels like we’ve done alright the last 2 drafts. Feel like we’ve been assembling a decent core quietly over a few years We've done exceedingly well in the last 3 drafts. The NWM7 / Owens / Windy draft was the true start of the rebuild. We need one of Hotton or Van Es to kick ...