Feeling nervous today

[MC Gusto]

Hate these matches! Especially against the bombers

Really hope we come out with fire in the belly and put their season to bed. Need to show last we was an aberration and the earlier season form was where we are at

I don’t think it’s going to be an easy one today, bombers are on their last legs as far as any hope for the season remains

[johnearljames]

Confident we will win given our ins and their outs. We are a better side.

Nonetheless, it will be a welcome distraction today instead of seeing what the Chairman will f*** up next in Victoria.

[Sainter_Dad]

Results so far for this round:
Sydney Swans - 66
GWS Giants - 25
Upset

Geelong Cats - 91
Port Adelaide - 31
Upset (?)

North Melbourne - 52
Brisbane Lions - 53
Very Close to an Upset

Melbourne - 100
Collingwood - 44
Upset

Fremantle - 36
Carlton - 40
Very Close to an Upset

Need to concentrate and treat this as a MUST WIN game!

[stkfc1]

Woke up feeling confident. Three day break will kill them after tough game against GC. It will be close for a quarter or two then break them open in the 2nd half as they run out of gas. 40+ points.

[bigcarl]

Nothing would surprise. We were rancid last week and who knows what that has done to our confidence

[asiu]

rancid

it’s taken all week , but ... perfect description

sitting in the middle of Geelong supporters
was pretty bloody rancid as well

upset my equilibrium , it did

gaz not happy.

[freely]

They're coming of a 3.5 day break where we've had 6. If we don't beat them easily, yes, we'll know where we're at.

[SaintPav]

rancid

it’s taken all week , but ... perfect description

sitting in the middle of Geelong supporters
was pretty bloody rancid as well

upset my equilibrium , it did

gaz not happy.

Sounds like hell you poor thing.

[asiu]

dreadful


but thanx for your care

i feel better now.

[Secret Kiel]

The midfield is where we could lose it, Zac, Ryder and Sebby coming back in shores us up a lot but this will be a massive test for Bytel as I don't think Worsfold will give him as much freedom as the Cats did. Losing Gresh is a massive loss and the midfield will struggle to take the points while he is out. We need another extractor, Lonnie rotating through the middle could be trialled, the cupboard is bare.

[SaintPav]

dreadful


but thanx for your care

i feel better now.

That's what I'm here for.

[saintspremiers]

They're coming of a 3.5 day break where we've had 6. If we don't beat them easily, yes, we'll know where we're at.

Stop fudging facts. If they’ve had 3.5 days break then we’ve had 5.5 days

[The_Dud]

Big game, really hoping for a percentage booster, but will just take a win at least!

Some on here claim two more days break is basically insurmountable, let’s hope they’re correct for once!

[shanegrambeau]

Isn’t Woody plating a milestone game today? Isn’t the press lambasting the Bombers and their whole succession plan? Doesn’t that usually mean the team responds well? I hope not. I remember Collingwood getting booed by the press in the Malthouse and Bucks era, and the result was that they usually kept loosing. Whew...but I am not confident at all. I am actually wide open about this. It could be a blow out either way, or a tight one. Impossible to predict. Compass broken. Stepped and crushed on by Jackboot Hawkins.

[bigcarl]

Losing Gresh is a massive loss and the midfield will struggle to take the points while he is out.

Agree. We’re lacking flair and creativity in there without Gresham. Steele can’t do it all himself. Bytel looks a player, but we should be wary of pinning too many hopes on a 19-year-old second gamer.

I didn’t mind the idea of running Hunter Clarke through the midfield and the other one I liked was playing Marshall as an extra-tall, big-bodied mid while Ryder is rucking. I’d be surprised, though, to see either of those eventuate.

[The Fireman]

I'm feeling chirpy

[saints66]

I’m about to put my lucky saints Sox on

[The_Dud]

I'm feeling chirpy

Let’s just hope the umps spun the wheel and it came up that they’re cheating for us today!

[Trev from the Bush]

I'm always happy to double the Bombers score. Well done Saints.

[The_Dud]

I'm always happy to double the Bombers score. Well done Saints.

Would have preferred to triple it!

[Secret Kiel]

I'm always happy to double the Bombers score. Well done Saints.

Yep a fair result all things considered.

Responded to a lesson by the Cats.

Didn't advance the score at the same rate in the second half but didn't let them dominate scoring either and although the 3rd quarter wasn't pretty they didn't let the bombers back in.

Did just enough to get a workman like result.

[saints66]

Lucky Sox put away till next week
Well done Saints Sox!

[Trev from the Bush]

I'm always happy to double the Bombers score. Well done Saints.

Would have preferred to triple it!

As Mick Jagger sang:

"You can't always get what you want........
But you just might get,
You just might get
What you neeeed!"