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- Fri 26 Apr 2024 9:51pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Match Thread Saints v Port Round 7 2024
- Replies: 442
- Views: 14076
Re: Match Thread Saints v Port Round 7 2024
Lyon needs to get rid if the play on at all costs game, we're too slow to do it, and start getting the team to play man on man footy. Out-coached again so far. Pou looks like a schoolboy when the ball is in contests and Membrey and Sharman make the forward half too slow. Sub Dougal and put Sharman d...
- Fri 26 Apr 2024 9:13pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Match Thread Saints v Port Round 7 2024
- Replies: 442
- Views: 14076
Re: Match Thread Saints v Port Round 7 2024
Pou needs to be benched- hospital handballs when we have the advantage is match-losing
- Fri 26 Apr 2024 4:11pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Coming back
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2723
Re: Coming back
Looking at the Collingwood game we won- Henry would be the most important return as we lack that spark in the forward half of the ground. King is good for a couple of goals and Webster is solid and experienced. I get the feeling Clark may be cooked, just too many injuries and will need to break into...
- Fri 26 Apr 2024 2:13pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Team v Port
- Replies: 70
- Views: 4090
Re: Team v Port
Sadly, in the decades I've been following the Saints, it has never been a rebuild, just topping up the list trying to get quick success. I remember when Lyon left, the club presumed the next coach could take that team to the finals, but Watters saw deficiencies with the list after the 2010 final and...
- Fri 26 Apr 2024 8:51am
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Crab watch
- Replies: 322
- Views: 19839
Re: Crab watch
We don't need a group of senior GOPs who are not winning their positions, as an example for the young players though
- Fri 26 Apr 2024 8:46am
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Our form
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1647
Re: Our form
It's all nice to think we got close in losing, but we lost the games and that's all that counts. We played poor football for parts of those losses and even in our two wins- especially against a undermanned Richmond. We have yet to put together a good four quarter game.
- Wed 24 Apr 2024 8:49pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Lyon Press Conference Pre-R7 v Port
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2528
Re: Lyon Press Conference Pre-R7 v Port
Lyon has been caught out quite a bit this season tactically, then had to rejig plans half way through games to catch up- not too confident with him this time around.
- Wed 24 Apr 2024 7:39am
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Forward coach under pressure .
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3154
Re: Forward coach under pressure .
I guess when you look at some of our poor team statistics compared to the rest of the comp, the finger should be pointed straight at the senior coach
- Tue 23 Apr 2024 2:08pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Attendance v Dogs
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1537
Re: Attendance v Dogs
The Saints just better start winning more games- people like winners, not also-rans. When we started dominating games under GT, the crowds started back big-time.
- Tue 23 Apr 2024 12:38pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Who would you pick?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1638
Re: Who would you pick?
Pretty obvious now that our forward half is too slow, has practically no defensive system and can easily be run off. I would think about putting Steele in the forward half for a bit more hunger at the ball and opposition, and play Owen exclusively at FF.
- Tue 23 Apr 2024 6:43am
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Phillipou Close to Signing
- Replies: 140
- Views: 11292
Re: Phillipou Close to Signing
Phillipou will be elite. Bookmark it. RTB and crew are playing him in the midfield as part of his overall football "education". It's for his own good, even though he is struggling atm. He'll come good. If you doubt it, go back and look at his highlights from the first half of last year. W...
- Sun 21 Apr 2024 4:08pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Zak Jones
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3041
Re: Zak Jones
Jones did pretty well under Ratts when we made the finals, but injuries have interrupted his progress sadly. Some players play better under different coaches and that's always been the case.
- Sun 21 Apr 2024 12:04pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Drafting 25
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3668
Re: Drafting 25
They were the rules at the time - they got a bit lucky But still To win 4 premierships in 15 years and only miss the finals once and never ‘rebuild’ is commendable We couldn’t do it Remember We were also the beneficiary of 2 priority picks and 2 x Number 1 picks and 2 x number 2 picks in 3 years So...
- Sun 21 Apr 2024 11:52am
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: The Eagles
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3177
Re: The Eagles
Development. Another topic I guess but Owens, Windhager and Philipou gone backwards 100mph this year. Alarm bells I would have thought. If they do not work, then it’s nearly curtains for the club with Tassie coming in and hoarding all the picks. Low and behold we’d find ourselves on the bottom agai...
- Sun 21 Apr 2024 10:07am
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Aberration or reality check or both?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3131
Re: Aberration or reality check or both?
I thought at the time that Bassat bringing in Lyon was a PR stunt from a desperate president who was impatient for success, and who thought looking backwards was the answer. I was really disappointed with Lyon coming back, as I see him as the past, had his time and been out of the game for a while a...
- Sun 21 Apr 2024 7:26am
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Aberration or reality check or both?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3131
Re: Aberration or reality check or both?
I think a lot of Saints supporters over-rate some of our players. We have a few older players who can get a bit of the ball, but a bunch of GOPs who are not going to turn into the next big thing.
- Sat 20 Apr 2024 1:29pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Zak Jones
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3041
Re: Zak Jones
Jones not happy the other night, but wasn't the worst player out there- we were too top heavy and one of Pou or Sharman should have subbed out.
- Sat 20 Apr 2024 12:37pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Aberration or reality check or both?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3131
Re: Aberration or reality check or both?
On Phillipou… I wouldn’t compare him to Billings at all. Kid has second year blues. A lot of players have had it before I.E - Clark, Windhager, Coffield etc. He will come good. You see glimpses of the potential. He’s just got to put it all together. The kid is still 19. Wait for the maturity to kic...
- Fri 19 Apr 2024 9:37am
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Votes v Dogs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1805
Re: Votes v Dogs
5. Hill
4. Windy
3. Bonner
2. Stocker
1. Garcia
4. Windy
3. Bonner
2. Stocker
1. Garcia
- Thu 18 Apr 2024 11:09pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Forward coach under pressure .
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3154
Re: Forward coach under pressure .
Who would want to be a forward at the Saints when you have a C-grade midfield who either can't get the ball, or just bomb. We actually need class in the midfield.
- Thu 18 Apr 2024 9:43pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Match thread Saints v Dogs
- Replies: 343
- Views: 9083
Re: Match thread Saints v Dogs
As I suspected Lyon has been out of the game too long. The early sugar hit this season has worn off and now he been found wanting. Once the defensive game fails, there's nothing.
- Thu 18 Apr 2024 8:16pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Team vs Dogs
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1928
Re: Team vs Dogs
RTB nervous that we'll only win by 6 goals
- Thu 18 Apr 2024 7:55am
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Moving the magnets
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2337
Re: Moving the magnets
I think the best thing for Pou is to spend time over summer with a running coach, and just get bit more speed in those legs. He is so not a midfielder, and to me, only a forward. Lyon needs to just put Sharman in one position in the forward half, and stop swinging him around- he is too smart a playe...
- Tue 16 Apr 2024 11:17am
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: L - 8 / W - 15 / L - 4 / W - 7 / L - 1
- Replies: 9
- Views: 903
Re: L - 8 / W - 15 / L - 4 / W - 7 / L - 1
No doubt we're competitive, but in the end it's about winning and not about getting close enough. Our slow starts will kill us as you can only play so much catch up footy.
- Mon 15 Apr 2024 4:02pm
- Forum: Saintsational Fan Forum
- Topic: Forward Line
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1891
Re: Forward Line
Collard King Membrey Wilson Caminiti Henry Int. Higgins Sharman Lot of goals there. That's not how we roll. Forget about the fact that we can score quickly when we play attacking footy. Forget about the fact that we scored only 6 goals in 3 quarters playing Saints Footy ( the players call it playin...