i paint other people's faces at work.

dragit wrote: Mind you, when Brisbane won 3 in a row, their average age was
2001 25y 151d
2002 26y 131d
2003 26y 264d

If you take out Gardiner, we are right in that ball park at the moment…

except for the small matter of three premierships to nil.

poor comparison

thanks for the report.

although wind affected skills sounds like a lot of hot air pun intended when discussing our current list.

I guess ppl have to weigh up whetehr we want 40 - 45000 ppl at the game and run the risk of sitting in amongst a few Swans supporters or theatre goers, or have 30,000 pro saints crowd. I would rather we get the biggest crowd possible and I reckon the players would as well. If this assists us in get...

I thought Gardi in our best players in first half and still a far superior knock ruckman to McEvoy. Definitely should play next week for mine. im with you, i thought gardiner showed plenty and has booked a first finals ticket at the expense of big ben who has had a long year. cant play both with ko...

his best game of the year, in his best year.
outstanding

great game by raph and glad to see him run off an ankle sprain too.

good for a bit of novelty value but the fact is he is our one and only fullback and was towelled up in his position hence the move.

not a good thing.

roo made kosi look downright agile tonight.

poor bugger has the turning circle of a semi at the moment.

although it was very good to see no hesitation from the midfield to kick it at milne and others instead.

Some of you arseholes should go follow Essendon, you'd fit right in jeering at your own players... Gears bleeds for the club, so pull your friggin' heads in, ragging him on a congratulatory milestone thread. And some of you should grow a pair and realise it for what it is. A little comment on an ob...

very underrated in the latter part of his career not many people realise how great a loss he was in the 2005 pre-lim IMO given the form he was in... every bit a big a loss as Kosi and Hamil So in that prelim team we had out Frankie, Hamill, Kosi and Penny against the Swans who basically had no inju...

sounds like hearsay, so the question still remains- why the hell didn't we make a major play for him?
I get the feeling RL's priority list for a player goes something like:
1. Effort
2. Endurance
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98. Football skills

While we are at it... one thing that has bugged me this year is our lack of interest in acquiring the services of Bachar Houli. The few games he got at the bombers showed he had pace and used the ball nicely. Now seems to be accelerating his development at the Tiggers with a regular senior spot. I'v...

Dan Warna wrote:He's going to be a top 3 ruckman, we can't afford to lose him unfortunately. I expect the club to fight to protect our ruck future.

but he hasn't won a brownlow?

Zac was a much better player a couple of years ago when he was a rookie fighting for a spot on the list, keeping Max out of the team. He raised the bar himself and showed for an entire season what a good, consistent defender he can be. Those of you excusing his brain fades, i ask the question- shoul...

Old Mate wrote:I'll tell you what's concerning. Roo zero contested marks....Reid had three.

good point.
I thought Roo had turned the corner in this department a few weeks back against the kangas but he sure isn't sticking too many this year.

sainter104 wrote:from what i seen Dawson was amongst out best tonight especially last 1/4

wasn't zac moved off cloke in the last quarter?

i thought Kosi was towelled up in the ruck last night.
But big ben is a ripper, excellent below his knees too

A textbook case for why football games aren't played on stats sheets.

Zac is a liability down back, he trailed cloke by the length of the flemington straight all night.

The pies just didnt kick it to cloke last night.

gotta laugh at the argument re number of clubs and chance to win. every club, all other things being equal, will have a 17/1 chance (1 win out of 18) to win the flag next year. the 'best' club in any particular year may indeed have the same chance or better as a slightly lesser 'best' club in an ea...

for those of you skeptics who still are not entirely convinced i ask you this....
have you ever seen Nick Dal Santo and Paul McCartney in the same room together??

by simply typing Paul McCartney's name, alongside Dal's number into google you get all the proof you need on the very first link . 26 December 1965 In what would become one of the key 'clues' in the 'Paul is dead' myth , on this day Paul McCartney suffered a moped accident while visiting his family ...

Life Long Saint wrote:Lynch can stay and play Raph Clarke's role.

i guess the defensive coaches are going to be busy this week teaching Lynch to sell his teammates into trouble with slow decision making and poor disposal?

ralphsmith wrote: Yes I remember the skill of aussie jones would put most current stkilda players to shame, including dal santo.

You will then also remember aussie jones put most of his contemporaries to shame with his skills.

If the whole team had similar skills back then you may have a point...

im pleased to see him still attacking (and getting to) the contest late in the game.

Haven't seen that from him before this year.


Would be close to leading our b&f i reckon