What most rankles me is the networks' insistence on using their expensive slo-mo machines (and showcasing all their camera angles), which effectively means we actually miss portions of play while they replay insignificant "highlights". Add to this the cutaways to the box, and in-play flash...

Bring in some fresh players (e.g. Stanley). They mightn't set the world on fire, but they'd have an upside -- room for improvement. They might provide a spark. Or a good news story. They might re-energize the whole team.

Let's face it, our battlers are really battling.

An awful lot of common sense in this thread. Unfortunately I think the coaching staff gets particularly defensive about unsolicited advice. Which is to say, the more we advise (assuming anyone is taking notice), the less likely it is to happen.

And that's like not seeing the forest for the trees.

Great. Against a superfast Bombers outfit we bring in two lumbering giants and a treacle-slow midfielder. And leave out the winner of the Grand Final sprint.

You might be right. But is it over hype or just the expectation from the general feeling from Saints supporters that we need to try something different in terms of our forward line structure? Not to say that Rhys will be the saviour but it gives the opportunity to guys like Rhys to show if they hav...

Let's just hope we don't get a repeat of '97/'98. Team falls agonisingly short of the ultimate prize, and someone -- the coaching staff, the players or the administration (probably all of them) -- gets a bit full of themselves. The result? We limp into the finals, get dispatched in straight sets, th...

Determinations creates speed and skill. Only 18 months ago we smashed the fleet-footed Bombers by 108 points. The boys have looked flat ever since slumping to the ground after the hard-fought Fremantle victory. Time to take the bit between the teeth. Draw a line in the sand. Whatever. Time to start ...

More to the point, Walsh is still on the rookie list, is he not?

And who's on the long-term injury list? Not Jesse Smith. Not Riewoldt, either, as far as I know.

Michael Frost. But the best ever trade? Craig Devonport to Carlton at the end of '95 for pick 19. Devonport promptly declared he'd fit in nicely playing in Carlton's elite midfield of Williams, Bradley, Ratten, etc. In fact, he played 1 game and was dropped. St Kilda meanwhile used pick 19 to pick u...

One for the club noticeboard next time we play the Pies.

After the NAB Cup Grand Final, Lloyd said he couldn't see the Saints beating the Bulldogs this year.

Seemed like a reckless thing to say, even for an inexperienced commentator ...

Worst case scenario for Stanley at full forward: He drops marks in the goal square, gives away free kicks, misses goals from close range, has no spatial awareness, fires off uncoordinated handballs, gets toppled like a top-heavy garbage can, and gets reported at least once a year. If you know what I...

To win Goal of the Year, Milne would have to mark the ball at kick-out, dodge 15 opponents while doing cartwheels, stop at the 50m line, swallow the football, then run to the boundary line and shoot it out of his a*$e.

Wait for some Essendon player to kick it backwards in the goal square though ...

That's the first time I've seen Jodorowsky mentioned in a football forum.

I'd congratulate you, but I actually think "El Topo" is the worst film I've ever seen.

Interesting that the New Ltd shark pack goes mercilessly after blood in high places (think Christine Nixon and Peter Garett) but lays sole blame for the Storm catastrophe right down the food chain.

Don't forget that GT had a hand in player contracts and the AFL would like nothing better than to destroy his credibility. A new investigation is highly possible.

As well as Peter Temple, local authors Anthony O'Neill and Anson Cameron are known Saints fans. Could be more. What is their genre Waltzing St Kilda? Don't think they have a specific genre, unlike Temple. O'Neill's latest was the satirical crime novel The Unscratchables . Cameron did a book called ...

As well as Peter Temple, local authors Anthony O'Neill and Anson Cameron are known Saints fans. Could be more.

A mate of mind reckons he saw a drunken Peter Everitt in a Sydney pub when he was playing for the Swans. Spida was loudly declaring to anyone who would listen: "I don't give a f@#* about the Swans, just like I didn't give a f@#* about the Hawks when I played for them! I'm a Saint and always wil...

I had some dealings with Rory last year -- a total pro.

Milne has kicked numerous such goals that never get much attention from the general media ... because he's Milne.

So don't expect to see this one on a goal-of-the-year highlight reel, either.

Plenty of stuff from Rioli, Betts, Didak and Davis, though.

My fault -- I meant to write "2010" for the preseason storm.

If memory serves, Dal Santo and Milne were dropped for the 2008 Freo match after performing poorly against Sydney the week before. Back-up, anyone?

1999. Umpire Peter Carey takes a mark from a Freo short pass. (Considering the trend of umpiring that night, he may have briefly forgotten that he wasn't officially playing for Freo.) 2005. Whispers in the Sky. Free kicks rain on Freo during a tight last quarter after GT bagged the umpiring departme...

The Pies hierarchy seem to be hiding by a "tit-for-tat" defence; i,e., we were called names and responded in kind. "If you give it, you've gotta take it," said Nick Maxwell. But who in fact started the slanging match? According to Caroline Wilson, Malthouse called Baker a "d...

Saints players should be reconsidering their membership with the AFLPA ... if they haven't already.