I reckon it's a good thing. Something that really stood out for me was that in the second half of the '97 season we got a great run with the umpires because we were just considered the better side, playing better football. We started to get most of the 50/50 decisions. I remember marvelling that thi...

dragit wrote:I'll wait for the movie to come out...

B Goddard working on the script as we speak.

Aren't we paying about 90% of the salary cap?

What do we expect to happen against well run clubs paying 100% of the cap and recruit mature players for the now?

I am sick of being bent over by city hall and copping it meekly. Just listened to this post read out on '2 Guys 1 Cup' AFL Round 2 podcast. Will Andersen concerned that Con Gorozidis may be your real name.... http://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/1127a421-54fd-4b47-91d5-a4f7004b4b52/6258a495-e351-4...

Interesting to read in the Richo on 360 thread that he reckons it's not the frees that are paid paid, it's the ones that aren't paid against the Weagles because of the crowd influence. He calls it the "noise of affirmation" and thinks it influences the upmires directly. No doubt in my min...

...tuck it under his arm and take on the opposition in order to gain that extra ten metres... I wish there were a few more who could understand the difference between kicking the ball at top speed having just exited a contest and chipping the ball sideways. Jack Steven also gets criticised on here ...

The fact that St Kilda coverted badly is irrelevant. The umpires continually turned the momentum of the match to the poorer performing team by ignoring their infringements.
I'm not even sure it could happen as often as it did unintentionally.

MC Gusto wrote:All this talk on lonie being lucky I think savage is the lucky one

+1

But who is our third best player? Seems horribly unclear. Not because we are overwhelmed with candidates but because we are underwhelmed. Noone is even putting their hand up at all for being up there. It is quite worrying. It's a great question. It really asks if our depth is just an evenness of go...

I am an Acres fan and think he could be anything. Those sorts of players you want to see in this team. Deflated he isn't playing to be honest. I agree with everyone that Acres might become something really special but he sometimes lacks intensity at the contest. The sometimes probably makes him too...

Round 1: Gold Coast

should have taken the MCG option when we had it What option? I thought that the AFL forced us to leave Waverley with Docklands the only option. Spot on. Once Hawthorn announced they would play there the AFL forced us to move to Docklands (by saying they wouldn't schedule us at the 'G). Really helpf...

They won the GF with 4 x first choice players still out of the team. The whining that has gone on about that bye is quite incredible And, to add the issues that they've dealt with like a stadium deal that ensures they're always close to broke and fixturing that affects their ability attract new sup...

Clayton Davis wrote:Sheeeiiittt!!! Humble??? A swair word???

Just out of interest, does this characterisation seem any less time wasting for those who've watched the TV show it's derived from?

Can anyone confirm/deny that Roo wanted to give up the captaincy?

Geary is enormously respected within the wall of Seaford, that's all that matters in their eyes. It will be criticised but is a Maxwell appointment. Except that I don't think Maxwell turned 29 a few months into his captaincy. I cannot see why they would remove Riewoldt - who is enormously respected...

Well, your post puts the "Pelchen is a genius" theory to rest, ace. It seems like we had a great array of picks to use. Wasn't that what Pelchan did? I don't reckon he decided to recruit Tom Lee, did he? And, here he's taken the first step in resolving our salray cap issues that you credi...

No..Dogs were going to maybe rookie Howard. That was the worst call ever by us and there have been many Hmm... I've heard that North, Essendon and the dogs all wanted him, I'm ASSUMING that's why the club took him early. Thats crap...when his name was called out none of the commentators knew him an...

I would love to see NF have a great career with us, but logically I still just can't see why we recruited him in the first place, with such a serious issue with his hamstrings. What were the club thinking? While I'm not hopeful of ever seeing him play regularly for the firsts he must have something...

St Chris wrote:Armo's 2015 was elite.

I reckon that the first half of the 2015 season was elite. But, I don't think he finished in that same form.

He's been around a long time and one terrific season makes him a regulation good midfielder in my book.

My 3 year old was rapt with the packpack and the pyjamas delivered.

The chemical smell when the backpack was opened was something to behold though. I opened it up and put it outside to air.

borderbarry wrote:How they decided to give 4 to Eli I will never know.

Totally agree.

[quote="Sanctorum"Anyone's guess how the 2005 team would have fared if Everitt was No.1 Ruckman in losing to Sydney in the Preliminary Final.[/quote] Considering Everitt was being paid 20% of our salary cap when he left you might need to make a few changes to that 2005 team to have him bac...

Sanctorum wrote:...facts are that Thomas went into many games without a recognised ruckman, and that includes Kosi who IMHO would have thrived as a key forward in any team other than St Kilda.

How many games did we play under Thomas without a recognised ruckman?

Can't stand impartial people going to the grand final while members of participating teams miss out. Terrible system. I hope you're not having a go at MCC Members. Our subs ($720 a year for metro full members) largely build and rebuild the ground. As members, we run the ground. We rightly deserve o...