Hickey looking switched on. Nice goal and getting involved. Maybe the message is getting through, or his body is finally right.

Give him one more year. We need his presence, leadership and mentoring on the field. All this tosh about taking a young kid's place on the list. If it goes pear-shaped, he retires and we promote a rookie. As for holding back the development of younger forwards, even at his age, the opposition will ...

Remember Barry Brooks? The boy from King Island. We gave away picks 6 and 31 to get him from Port Adelaide. He was meant to be the last piece in GT's premiership puzzle. A ruckman with a huge leap, who could also go forward and take a big grab. A good kick, too. He showed early promise until an ACL ...

Give him one more year. We need his presence, leadership and mentoring on the field. All this tosh about taking a young kid's place on the list. If it goes pear-shaped, he retires and we promote a rookie. As for holding back the development of younger forwards, even at his age, the opposition will s...

I also see in this morning's Hun that KJazz from the Suns (the unpronounceable surname drafted at 5 after Bont, the year before Paddy) is being rested for the balance of the season because of lingering effects of concussion. This approach is becoming more and more prevalent as the medical professio...

I agree with the general theme of the Post, but I don't think the Sydney example isn't the best for reasons JM pointed out about COLA etc. I think Geelong and Hawthorn are better examples. Built their lists patiently and have managed their lists well with clever trading and the key to it all, player...

If I hadn't heard it with my own ears, I'd have thought someone was having a lend of me, BUT.... he actually said it! Dermot Brereton on SEN, a day or so after Watters' dismissal: "I've known many, many blokes in footy, but to me, I've only known two with great football brains..... they are Ya...

Scott Watters was renting the unit in Brighton next door to the unit we (myself and my 2 sons, all ardent Saints supporters) were working on (4 unit complex) Talked to him one morning about the units, and I didn’t recognise him as he was wearing a cap and sunnies. It wasn’t till later when the owne...

Clearly the Board rated him as they gave him the job. So he cant have been all bad. Someone liked and rated him. That'd be Michael Nettlefold who didn't have a clue. He'd made a mess of the Lyon contract and was reamed by Lyon. So then he interviews Richo & Hinkley who told him a rebuild was in...

I concur. Well put, older saint.

Clearly the Board rated him as they gave him the job. So he cant have been all bad. Someone liked and rated him. That'd be Michael Nettlefold who didn't have a clue. He'd made a mess of the Lyon contract and was reamed by Lyon. So then he interviews Richo & Hinkley who told him a rebuild was in...

I'm wearing my Saints Polo all week but will throw it in the wash on Friday I think that will confuse the footy gods, who will get all worked up in a lather, and when I wash it, it will wash away their malocchio (Italian for "evil eye") If we beat the Swans, this post will stand as irrefu...

I know he's only one man in a side full of quality, but I'm already worried about one Lance "Buddy" Franklin. He tore us a new one in the second half last time around. He has a high quality midfield to deliver to him, but it's his ability to do the freakish things that makes him so dangero...

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Just nudging out Michael Nettlefold.

I concur.

Us beating the swans in Sydney is a fantasy. Our form Up until Richmond game was flakey and unmpressive. We've had one half of high intensity impressive football in about 8 weeks. I would suggest that our poor conversion smothers the spirit and hurts morale. If we converted better, we would have ma...

No one ever talks about women sleeping their way to the top. One of those women was in a committed, long term relationship herself with Kurtley Beale. While he was playing in England, she was doing some playing of her own. It's not as though she was the work experience kid. She is an educated, profe...

So Nathan Fyfe has committed to a six year deal worth $ 1.3 million per year. That's a life sentence at the shockers. As for Perth 96.3 and the rumour he was a certainty to be at the saints next year, "nice one". The imaginary Saints Board member was not a good source of information. Media...

At this stage, given all the circumstances, I doubt we'd get much, if anything at all for him. Geelong was known to be keen on him earlier this year, but given what's happened since, I think they'll look elsewhere. Just watching Tom Lynch out there for Adelaide makes me want to cry. Imagine him in o...

Injury, third man up rule, a subsequent loss of confidence. His game against the Swans in The JLT, was excellent and earned him first crack this year. He hasn't lost his ability, which I think is considerable. He needs to work on his strength in the preseason and readjust his approach. That's what w...

Just a topic to throw out there. I can't remember having so many heavy losses in a season where we've won more games than we've lost. If you'd missed our wins and only seen the losses, you'd swear we were back in the dim, dark eighties. Our narrowest loss came against WC in round two. That was by ni...

Does anyone know the extent of Gears' injury? Reported as a strained quad in the HS. That can take quite a while to come good depending on the severity, of course. Could be anything up to four weeks. What a marvellous way to top off such a disastrous evening. We certainly don't do things by halves a...

On that effort, we're nowhere near where we need to be if we're going to be top 4 in 2018 and premiers by 2020. We've been sold another bulls*** pup. Not pleasing, nor positive. The number one pick we were going to build around is a bust, thanks to our totally unqualified, numpty recruiting head. Ou...

Too pleasing and positive.

Too pleasing and positive.

Third rounder?