I had never heard of Roberton or Bruce before we picked them up also. Fair point although I had heard of Roberton but he turned out better than i expected until the obvious happened. Just worried we are going to be a dumping ground We have no early picks so better to get someone already in the syst...

People cry about our development of players and yet a fantastic trainer and on field leader like Hannerbry becomes available to us still piss and moan. I think the concern around Hannebery is that we don't know which model we're going to get. He's got a lot of mileage and wear and tear so a lot wil...

Poor trainer and apparently is pretty loose. That’s just wrong. He may have limitations but being a poor trainer is certainly not one of them. On the same topic that is one of the things you’ll see a huge improvement in. Our professionalism at training this year was poor. Will be vastly different n...

If we recruit Hannebury then next time I hear "Oh When the Saints" I'm taking a knee.

Call out to @parkeysaint, can you give us an inside view of the state of the Board and their position on the senior coach? Are we in the box seat to land Longmire or a new coach? Travelling at the moment. At international sports card convention in the US. Should get top dollar for his Val Perovic 😀...

When we played Geelong and continually kicked long to an outnumbered and undersized forwardline....... that was not a skill problem. That was a coaching problem. And the games with Geary as our rebounding loose man? There were numerous examples of similar throughout the year. No wonder players lack ...

In 2014 Jamie Cox was appointed General Manager - Football Performance. Peta Searle was appointed as a St Kilda development coach with the Saints player academy. A few years later Richo had his contract extended. Whoever is responsible for these massive blunders should be getting massive blowback. F...

SaintPav wrote: ↑Sun 02 Sep 2018 9:53pm Simpleton, I’d love to bang Jennifer Hawkins. Doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.

Have you phoned her?

Constantly in and out of the team, finally gets a string of games and plays well. Is one of the few in the team that can kick. Has started to show the sort of form he has consistently shown in the two's, as he hit the magic 50 game mark. Played only 11 games but was 4th on 2018 list of goals. Kicked...

A self-proclaimed ITK on BF’s scandal board reckons he has it on good authority that Richo has been sacked and that the Saints are chasing John Longmuir I've done all I can to lead youse to the water....I dont know if my eavesdropping will come 100% true but it is 50% of the way with Mr Ratten on b...

No.11 wrote: ↑Mon 03 Sep 2018 3:02pm It needs to be a unanimous board decision. There is a majority. It’s just a matter of time. Corporates, benefactors, sponsors, members have inundated the club. He’s gone.

Besanko?

Time to pull the pin and reset.

desertsaint wrote: ↑Thu 30 Aug 2018 11:59am Yep, strongly positively pleasing.

Yeah, nah, he'll be a ripper.

st.byron wrote: ↑Wed 29 Aug 2018 11:07pm I never really understood people making judgements about other people making judgements.

I never really understood people making judgements about people that are making judgements about other people making judgements.

Han shot first.

Any plan that involves kicking to a leading target and then kicking a goal will be a big improvement.

or is that too old fashioned?

parkeysainter wrote: ↑Wed 29 Aug 2018 2:45pm As Tony74 confirmed, they stuffed around with the game plan this year which confused and hampered the players.

Surely Richo takes responsibility for that.

He's only just starting to come good.

Why burden him with the Captaincy?

They'll burn someone with freckles......

The first coaches meeting;

Richo: "Okay guys you need to learn the game plan. The first thing is to be strong in the contest"

Ratten: "What's the second thing?"

Richo: "Sorry? Yeah nah, we umm, move Carlisle?"

Has this been confirmed re Ratten?

Everyone whinges that we don't develop our young blokes.

Then as soon as one starts playing well everyone wants to trade him.

He's shown more in the last few weeks than half the players on our list.

As far as a contract is concerned, I would not be surprised if he got an extra year, but it would be wrong giving him more than that. We could rookie him as well. How many rookies can you have? Seriously? He's one of the few guys on our team that has spark, and can kick a goal. I'd offer him 2 year...

saynta wrote: ↑Sat 18 Aug 2018 11:42am"But Summers this week described as ludicrous suggestions the club was in crisis."