this was our first real smashing of the year. Even in our 10 goal losses we were competitive for some of the game. We have a much higher percentage than last year. I expected at best 5 wins, so for me we have finished better than expected. Just want to see them compete next week but West Coasts big ...

Thanks for your service Adam, always enjoyed watching you play and yes you should have got that free kick.
Mind you bet RL is happy were playing them this week based on what's happened the last two seasons when stellar players announce their retirement.
Let's hope we can do the same to Sydney.

Think Markworth will survive as he hasn't had any luck with injury.

Positives, Gilbert, best game since the school girl debacle, which I think affected him a lot. Ross, best game yet and growing. Goddard, twice we beat Carlton to a Goddard, you have just got to love that Bruce, best game for the a number of weeks. Membrey, this guy reminds me of Hammill, will be a p...

Well good luck to Jason Holmes. Cue is in the rack we are treating these games like practice games now as we should, have nothing to gain at this stage other than experience for these guys and see what future they have.

Holmes could come in for Longer, and Membrey for say Minchington or even Saunders. I do think we are going out to win, but we are also trying guys to see if their worth pursuing. If Holmes plays, I actually expect he will do well in general ruck work, winning plenty of taps and directing them very w...

We may make history this week.
http://www.saints.com.au/news/2015-08-1 ... -mix-richo

Hallelujah.

I just get the feeling that maybe we've put the cue in the rack for the season. It is good to see these guys get a chance to show if they have a future, but I think our run home is rated the toughest in the competition and can't see us winning again this season. Hope I'm wrong, would love to knock G...

This whole saga has gone on long enough, wont be booing him unless he does something bad to one of our players. My beef is more with Sydney itself and how the rules were bent to accommodate both Tippett and Franklin. Any other club and they wouldn't be having a pick in the draft for a couple of year...

Are these two guys responsible for ugly football? Whilst Roos managed to win one flag, RL hasn't and highly doubtful his current team and style of play will. All Melbourne seemed to do was clog up our forward line to try and keep us to a low enough score they could beat. Might have won one flag, but...

Great game today, one of the few highlights from an otherwise forgettable game.
It was great to win and win relatively easy, but it was ugly to watch, except of course for Paddy which was exciting.

Well I was happy if we won 5 games, mission accomplished. Good luck to Hugh hope he has a good debut and we'll see if McCartin has learned a bit since we last saw him. Think he really needs a goal in this game. Eli can play, let's hope he can generate that same enthusiasm he had early last year.

The worst one was Membrey who didn't duck, got taken high, then about 5 seconds later the GWS player did duck and was rewarded.

No one is denying we are playing terrible because we are, but hell, when you see one side getting decisions and when the exact same thing happens to us it's either play on or a ball up, the standard of umpiring is as good as what we are playing. Funny, we can't blame it on the interstate crowd becau...

Well, we're not use to playing in front of a 90% empty stadium that holds 25,000 people. One wonders how much money the AFL is pouring into this black hole of a club. Hope they get a final and less than 10,000 people show up. Team should have gone to Tasmania where they actually want a team.

How much money is being poured into this club period, 25,000 capacity ground and I reckon there would be more people at my local club's game here in Hoppers Crossing. How can they afford to pay their players when no one shows up and how many who did show up got free tickets. Be great having a final ...

I am happy the younger guys are running around at Sandy, especially McCartin and Goddard. There is no rush to bring them up, plus another pre season to help build them up wont hurt. remember what happened to Kosi because he was probably played more than he should have been back then, and his back in...

Other than the obvious, James Hird's coaching tenure now in very serious trouble.

One has to wonder how bad things are at Essendon though. I have never seen a worse game from BJ ever and we all know what a competitor he is. I have no beef with him, just feel sorry he has got caught up in all the crap Essendon have bought down on themselves.

Yeah, well they need to fund their drug program don't they.

Is this the usual rubbish from Essendon and a fully ticketed game, or is there just general admission sit where you want today?

Of course I want us to win. (a) Will achieve my goal of 5 wins for the season, but happy to be wrong on the positive side of the ledger. (b) Another nail in the Hird coffin.

We are guaranteed to play in September folks, simply because the draw has playing then. I said at the start of the year that if we won 5 games this year we would be doing well. All our stats are up on last year, our percentage is some 10% higher than it was at this time last year and we are being co...

Sometimes I think we take to long to kick into the forward line, that chaos kick works more times than you think. It won us the game. I do like Membrey, he reminds a bit of Hammil, and not the two weeks bit, but he crashes packs. Which really brings guys like Lonie etc into the game for crumbing goa...