While I am not at all enthusiastic about more rules changes, I thought the Farmer incident may help in the long run to force the AFL to have a look at the play-on rule (Gram was pinged in a way that also annoyed me a couple of weeks ago: although in his case this was after a free kick and the ump ha...

I think that some of the paranoia displayed on this forum about commentators is way over the top. However, I must agree that Lane - for whatever reason - really does seem to hate the Saints like poison. From some of the things he says, I have drawn the conclusion that he thinks in particular that we...

FWIW it looked to me as if we kept our players in the midfield and inside our forward fifty on more occasions that against other teams. . That is only becuse we move the ball more accurately and swiftly. GtTain for example still ran down the ground....did you not love that spin in the middle with d...

OK, perhaps I was hasty in using the word "rabble". But I'm still not crazy about our structure: although, to be fair, it was thrown a bit by Max getting injured so early in the game.

FWIW it looked to me as if we kept our players in the midfield and inside our forward fifty on more occasions that against other teams. And, for that matter, Freo also didn't flood as much as some of our opponents do. But we still saw a fair bit of Gehrig and, especially, Riewoldt running around in ...

Best ever spin bowler, but is ein dummkopf!!

I have no faith whatsoever in the process.

And he's from Collingwood.

So I'd be surprised if he gets any more than 2, which will be meaningless as they are now certain to make the finals.

Teflon, I don't mind fair criticism, but in this instance you have verballed me. I can't speak for the others, but I have never complained about the players not playing to the game plan: not this year nor last year. I have always tended to blame injuries and endemic poor goalkicking for most of our...

For those jumping to conclusions:- 1) R. Clarke and Gilbert turning into 6 foot 2 plus running mid-fielders 2) Watts and Brooks sit behind Roo, Kosi and Gehrig, a pretty formidable trio 3) In line for promotion this week are R. Clarke, Voss and Birss. 4) The Fremantle rucks (Whoever and whoever) ar...

We were told by the board that the new coach was being brought in to tweak. Well that may have been the Board's view,,,but not mine. And the relevance of your view is...........? Or did you have play some role in the replacement of GT by RL about which we have not been aware? Given the potential ta...

look at our round 2 loss to the brions to our last loss to the swans we have improved already Gee, st Trav, that's a strange comment. How about we compare our round 7 win over the swans (or, if you are looking to compare away performances, our round 12 win over the WCE) - when our team was struggli...

or we can play attacking fast moving long kicking football and score goals and put them under pressure like we did WCE...or was that another lifetime? Perhaps the WCE game was more like one of those flashback scenes in a movie when the main character seems to be on the brink of disaster and suddenl...

Of course we can. Freo are notoriously inconsistent, especially away from home. They rarely get completely on top in games: they seem to have intermittent good bursts of play alternating with periods in which they run around in circles and look lost and directionless (a bit like us in 2007 really). ...

I support what Dan has posted earlier. After years in the wilderness, and two false dawns in the early 1990s and around 1997, long-term St Kilda supporters thought that the day had finally arrived when our club would join the Essendons, Pies & etc. as a dominant force at least in Victoria, if no...

What makes me laugh is....when we were struggling to beat floods etc ...Dodgerfox, Dan, MB and the like were telling us all it was players not playing to game plan...this year ITS ALL coach....remarkable.... Teflon, I don't mind fair criticism, but in this instance you have verballed me. I can't sp...

All of those calling for RL's or someone's head because Raph was selected ahead of Ferguson are likely to be proven wrong in the long term, if not even this weekend (wouldn't it be wonderful to see Raph play to his potential and tear the Dockers apart). The Sainters don't need more honest, hardworki...

More likely he would have continued to have destroyed our list... Milne would have been swapped for some older player from the Dons.. Hardly destruction of the list in my book: surely more of a 50/50 call. Sugar would possibly be our ruck.... I'm not mad on him either, but at least he gets out on t...

I think that McLeod surely more fits the bill of a player who you would pay to go and see perform than Ricciuto. But those two could work well together and be very dangerous on their day. Ricciuto was a great competitor, but injuries and periods of poor form meant that he wasn't as consistently dama...

The call for "b4e where are you" is a joke IMO... What the F*** is he going to do??? Hijack and interrupt the coaches box again with his useless stats?? Mention time and time again that Rix is the "answer" as I recall, last year in Freo Blake killed Sandilands in the ruck and no...

He has done extremely well for a no-name rookies unexpectedly propelled into the AFL. But, remember folks, 15 other clubs passed him up at the end of 2006 and so did we until right at the end of the rookie draft. Why? The same could be said for Westhoff from last year (pick 70 odd?) and several yea...

We seem to have had dozens of new threads calling for the veterans to retire: particularly Thommo, who I understand has already decided to retire, so why keep going on and on about it? Is the fact that we have a few veterans on our list really the biggest problem we currently face right now as a clu...

Thanks MSG

It now seems that we are not the only ones to have fallen out of love with Mr Attard.

The best prophecy about where we are at right now was made by Terry Wallace on the late, lamented White Line Fever on the night of GT's sacking. "If you go for a previously untried coach, and you don't do any better next year than you did this year, how will you know whether you are going forwa...

Blake in the ruck, farting at thunder again!!!

Where are you B4E when we need you???

The new style would be just fine with me if we were winning most of our games. The dwindling handfull of fans of the new style on this forum tend to argue that - once the players get used to it, once we have a proper pre-season, once RL gets to shape the list the way he would like, etc, etc - we wil...