Very happy with Ratts To take us from 14th to 5 th and with a team of new players to intergrate. He is in the trenches with the players and the whole club feels connected for the first time I can remember. Even in the Lyon and Grant days there as so much ego involved that you never had the sense the...

Martin saved the game for Richmond in the first half. Then he won it for them in the second half. Geelong would have won easily apart from Dusty. None of the other dynasty teams relied so heavily on the genius of one player. Richmond are a good team but nowhere near a Hawthorn, Brisbane or Geelong ...

asiu wrote: ↑Sat 24 Oct 2020 10:54pm i already cant get out of my head
that we are the only team in 35 years to lose
after leading at 3/4 time

Cheers....now it's in my head!

Martin is a freak of nature.
4 times he did the near impossible.....best finals player of all time.

(Good thing we over ruled trading for him)

I hope Shane Warne is awarding the Premiership Cup next year...

Duncan is bloody good

We're hoping Ablett Jr in his last game, takes the opportunity to KO Cotchin.

Good chart Older Saint

Good to see how much pur depth players have actually been exposed to AFL also.

Crouch will be a huge in and changes that side enormously.

I hope we retain Parker and persist with Byrnes and Bytel in 2021.

Webster and Dunstan are two good players. Both could come into a side and perform well.

Nice $50,000 a year windfall for Crouch

Wish I could get a bonus from my new employer to keep my old employer happy.

Happy to keep the cash for Bing next year and take pick 15 to the draft.
Any thoughts about who we might get?

Word is he wants to get a pretty much guaranteed run in the midfield and we've now got Crouch. So, money and midfield game opportunity would seem to have driven his decision (unfortunately for us). A 20 year old with 11 games under his belt wants to go straight into the midfield !! If true then I'm...

You know when a decision just feels wrong.....!!

Jye if you read this......it's not too late to change your mind.

A Saints premiership will go down in sporting history.

And there's plenty of money in it , if that's the concern.

Tell ypur manager to STFU and deal with the Saints.

chook23 wrote: ↑Thu 22 Oct 2020 2:32pm caldwell to bombers

Ok that ruins my speech.

What a terrible decision Jye....just terrible....this is your chance mate. Don't sign the dotted line FFS.....huge mistake

Afraid I'm in the NFI camp. Same. But I reckon Gubby will be working his magic with Jye Caldwell. He'd be telling him " Jye, youre a Saints fanatic along with Kingy. Do you imagine that we are pursuing you and offering you a 5 year contract to play in the seconds? We want you to be in the Sain...

Brian Speaking reckons that Caldwell is going to Essendon but subsequent posts indicate he is sitting on the fence and that Gubby is still trying and doesn't give up easily. We have Bytel who we need to get serious game time into. I think they are similar types too so I am not too fussed about this...

Geez we identify we need a mid field bull, we get one, it costs us nothing in picks or trades....we should be elated.

Who is next?

Adelaide would have been a pretty miserable environment for the last 2 years. Get him to the buoyant Moorabin under Ratten and see what Brad Crouch can do.
He is an All Australian, extraction unit....we should be rapt.

SEN now

WE GOT HIM

Crouch as an FA under Ratten is almost the perfect formula for us. I really don't know why we aren't the clear leader in this race. Strong experienced and in his prime, get him out of Adelaide and fresh start and he can get the 25 times a game to the likes of Gresh, Billings, Hill and Jones. If we g...

Back to Caldwell, I hope he holds strong against the GWS list managers now Cameron is leaving. He will be under pressure to stay.
If we can land him, re-sign Paton we will have done OK.
Treloar would be a good inclusion but too expensive

Great effort.
Who have a few more young Saints like King, Dougie, Coff and Hunter join him in the elite category soon.

Leo.J wrote: ↑Fri 16 Oct 2020 10:41pm F**k I hate Essendon.

Absolutely right.
Probably only interested in him because we set our sights on him months ago.

Some people can handle pressure. Some people can't. Then there is the unfortunate few who think they can handle it but actually can't. I don't think many realize just how much pressure a senior coach is under, especially in one of those under resourced clubs facing extinction. Tough gig and he face...