The_Dud wrote: ↑Thu 29 Apr 2021 4:07pm Not very nice of Zak to pick on someone who can't fight back.

Ha Ha!

I'm actually pretty happy to see this. Shows they actually give a s***.

A long read but worth it in my opinion. Emma Quayle sat in on St Kilda's recruiting meetings throughout 2014 for her book The Draftees. In this edited extract, the recruiting team of Tony Elshaug, Ameet Bains and Chris Liberatore tell coach Alan Richardson and CEO Matt Finnis why they settled on Pa...

Thats nine players. It's just too many if you want to remain competitive. I'd be looking to retain Long, however he really needs to pull his head in and just focus on the game more. Lonie needs results. Simple as that. Cant even see Kent getting a look in and thats for the best. Hannas, Dunstan, Car...

I actually reckon he wants to stay.

See what happens.

Combination of a congested F50, or even F25 and a generally poor forward structure regardless. King needs to run at the ball more, but the issue is that there are 14 other players in our F50 because we are so slow and shyte with our ball movement. But we are breaking down in the guts just too regula...

Yeah I head a few whispers before the season started. I heard something like 4 hour sessions, three days per week. No more detail than that. Now that might be for specific players or something.. who knows. SaintsTV went with it back after the Essington loss and I cursed because it was the third time...

Devilhead wrote: ↑Mon 26 Apr 2021 8:54amSays who?

They.

So there is something going on.

Need someone to spill the beans.

The F50 setup is absolutely pathetic.
It is plain dumb.

FFS try something different.
They have to try something different.

This is just like Richo.

Can move the names on the whiteboard as much as you want.

The gameplan is shyte and we are not AFL level fit.

2021 is gone. Done and dusted. Now it is just a question of whether we finish bottom four or in no mans land.

I reckon we botched the preseason. Just not fit enough.

We were not fit enough to cover their spread.

The game plan is shyte.

Yeah perhaps the coaches could actually coach a forward structure that has the slightest chance of success.

This forward set is probably the worst I have seen in my fourty odd years following this rabble.

Congested, non leading forwards.

Bang it long onto their heads.

It is dumb, dumb, dumb.

You are absolutely correct.

No question about it.

Right now early last quarter and hard ball gets are 112-109. Uncontested possessions are 256-131. We’ve won 5 quarters for the year. We are kidding themselves if they think they’re fit enough to play league football. There is a definite fitness issue. 100% Heard far too many stories or rumours abou...

Terrible.

This team has zero confidence.

Nada, ziltch, nuddin.

Whoever the forward coach is right now needs to get the dont come Monday.
Rabble set up. What a f****** joke.

roskilde wrote: ↑Sun 25 Apr 2021 9:36pm Very telling not dishing it off to Hill just now.

Serious issues there.

HIll kicked it out on the full in a similar position a few minutes earlier.

Dunstan is now in that group that are too good for VFL, but not good enough at AFL. He's been a great soldier over the journey. He's a depth player for us now. He knows it. Will keep working hard like in games like this that were tailor made for his style. I dont think any of the other listed guys d...

Richmond did what we did last week. Put in about 40 minutes work and checked out. They just stopped doing the richmond things that they have done for the past five years. Melbourne are good. Very good. They are still very likely to stuff it up. Happy for their supporters to be up and about. They are...

They had a delusional draft benchmark regarding nice boys.

Not taking Petracca was, is a massive c**k up. No two ways about it. Bed shat.

Max generally cops the best backman. Ben is switching between half back and half forward week by week. Ben has an extra 12 full months playing in the system. Hopefully Ben decides to come down. I was thinking that it would be good to have one across half back and one forward. But I reckon both up fo...

A lot of us watched under duress too.

What a bunch of squibs you all are.

It doesn't even need to be a measurement. Each week there are moments where, to use a Grant Thomasism, where you need to "Take your turn". It means putting yourself in harms way for the benefit of the team. Wont happen every week. Might happen six weeks in a row. But whenever it happens, y...