We are actually equal top with the most goals this season - long may it continue. We're also the second most accurate team, behind GWS, and have generated the fourth most shots at goal. So, we're doing pretty well in attack. I was curious what the outright miss situation looked like, so I spent som...

BackFromUSA wrote: ↑Tue 21 Jul 2020 12:34am Has everyone forgotten Long already?

I haven't got a Long memory.

I'm somewhat bemused that Roo, of all people, keeps bringing up Clark and Coffield and not mentioning Paton. He's as much a part of what's keeping Gears out of the backline and Robbo, Savage and Webster out of the team as the other two. It's a brave call by the coaching group to play all three over ...

The two late picks - 58 and the future fourth - are probably going to be worth less points than the gap between 6 and 10. They may even wind up being worth less than the third Freo gave us back. Personally, I think we piled up enough mediocre stuff that the sheer volume makes it looks like Bell did ...

Since we're having this conversation, it'd be nice if people using the quote function learned how to quote properly. You really don't need to be quoting the entire post you're responding to. Ask yourself, 'do I really need to be quoting the quote in the quote vortex the other person quoted just abov...

The source of the rumour of Geelong's interest seems to be a Perth paper, which seems very, very questionable.

I'd caution against getting too worked up about anything being reported by the football media. Given the way trade week has unfolded thus far, I'm not sure there's any footy journo with their finger on the pulse. Nobody had our trade with GWS. The initial source for the 'Freo wants 2 firsts, plus' s...

Personally I think the biggest factor in the priority pick was the Tom Lynch & Steven May decisions to depart. I wonder if it isn't also, at least in part, because King and Lukosius - effectively their replacements - haven't signed. The league may be hoping to convince them to stay or at least ...

I don't get this pre-agent trend. Giving up two first rounders for Dylan Shiel rather than risk him signing with someone else was pretty dumb last year and trading for Brad Crouch under similar circumstances this year would be worse. Just let him play out the last year of his contract. I cannot imag...

It s not hysteria, it is the strong suspicion that come Round 1 Bruce will be at the Dogs and Ryder will be filling in a as key forward, OR that we will play top heavy with one less mid. What I like least about it is that we're basically doing the same thing that didn't work at Port this year. They...

It will be interesting to see what changes now that Ratten is properly in charge. Whether coincidence or not, we became a much better clearance and ground level team once Ratten took over: v Bulldogs: +5 clearances (-3 centre, +8 stoppage); +4 contested (-9 frees, -1 marks, +14 ground) v Melbourne: ...

The other factor is that to move on all our good oldies is that that is most likely going to cause a nightmare few years of grim results. I'm not sure we have enough good older players to doom us if we got rid of them all. Plus, there's only so much further we can go down. On top of that, there's a...

I still think we should be selling, not buying. If we add Hill, we're probably still on the wrong side of mediocre. I feel like, five years down the road, we're probably going to wish we'd kept the top-10 pick. I don't see what guys like Constable, Jones and Tomlinson add to the list either. Constab...

Given it's a leadership conference, I'm going to say the most desired attribute is following orders without question.

If not that, then cool skull tatts.

Some clubs can recruit 18 year olds that are instantly best 22 players but that is not our forte (bar The Gresh) This is an oddly specific complaint. There are four players from the 2018 drafts who have played every game this year: Sam Walsh, Connor Rozee, Bailey Smith and Callum Wilkie. We have on...

...without any particularly notable skills or physical assets... 2017 AFL Draft Combine results Paton ran the 6th fastest 20m, had the 3rd highest standing jump and the 2nd highest running jump at the combine. https://www.saints.com.au/video/2017-11-24/ben-paton-highlights-2411 Fast forward to 0:57...

Seb had his lowest time on ground percentage for the year in last night's game as well. It was only the second time this year that he had below 80% TOG (the other also being against Melbourne earlier in the year). He's had games over 90%, which is extraordinarily high for a mid. It makes me wonder i...

saintsRrising wrote: ↑Mon 22 Jul 2019 10:48pm Was good to watch him during the singing of the club song.

Is the song anywhere online? I've seen pictures of Ratten in there with Coff and Langlands but not the actual song. I imagine there would have been a bit of feeling in it.

I'd think Acres and Sinlcair, along with Billings and Clark, would be prime candidates to see a big improvement with a new coach. Bravo Ratten Good call vs. Bravo to you too While the selected quote may look good, to be fair, my rant was more about usage in the centre. While I haven't seen the actu...

As far as my latest google search went, the term in question: is an independent, self-regulated trade body that exists to represent your interests, and the interests of all the credit hire companies (CHCs) that work tirelessly, providing intervention and direct hire services to give customers back t...

Players have right of refusal on trades, but I'd approach our over-25s as a group and say we'd like to explore moving them on to a contender in exchange for draft picks and/or young players. The reality is, most of them aren't going to attract much of a return anyway, so they'll probably end up here...

I'd like to see more opportunities given to younger players with an eye to next year. If that results in more losing, so be it. If the team comes together and has a strong finish to the season, that can only be a good thing. I'd like to see debuts from Clavarino and Langlands. I'd like to see Clark ...

BarryGrogan wrote: ↑Sun 14 Jul 2019 9:39amIs any of that fact though? A lot of opinion and mistruths, but can't see many facts.

If there are mistruths in that post, then it shouldn't be that hard to refute them, rather than just handwaving them away.

Why, what has [Lethlean] done wrong? Lethers oversaw the review that came to the conclusion we shouldn't sack Richo at the end of last year. He then hired a crony with no AFL experience as our list manager. He led the charge on bringing in a broken down old Dan Hannebery. He supposedly overruled ou...

Blues fans always told us they'd get Goddard eventually.