Squad for Friday v. Essendon

[plugger66]

Ferg is still injured as is Jimmy. Bally will not play and you would think that Vr will not either. Also wouldnt be surprided if either Joey or Dal are rested.

[Solar]

why name ball then?

[Ralphy]

bally will play,

they wouldnt have named him other wise & he is pretty fit

im thinking they wont rest either of Joey or Dal

[Dan Warna]

semi finals win = serious money for making the finals.

st kilda are not in the red, but the $$ can't hurt and the follow on from membership bandwaggoners and sponsors doesn't hurt either.

and frankly hawthorn are crap.

imo im still hurting we lost to those pathetic jokes early in the season 07, very pleased we turned it around in the rematch.

I can't see why even understrength we don't smash them as long as we play to our strengths.

[Unforgiven]

how will the forward set up work without kosi and fraser?

i'd suggest roo at ff, allen playing kosi's role

??? Kosi's roll IS ff.

What do you mean? Allen and Roo both playing from the square at full forward?

I think we'll see Roo close to goal, allen 35m out, and Charlie keep doing what he has been doing

[Dan Warna]

roo is a great of football already and can play anyway, CHB, FF, CHF, wing, Ruck rover (i can't remember him playing FB)

kosi i think is less mobile but no less talented. Kosi at FF, allows reiwoldt to destroy the fittest defenders with his enormous petrol tank, allowing kosi room to dominate at FF.

i think reiwoldt to kosi will be or should be as big as loewe to lockett, and roo will chip in for a few goals himself as he did with FG running around the square.

i would suspect if reiwoldt ever went on the open market he would command as much as an anyone.

[plugger66]

why name ball then?

They have to name him even if he is only a slight chance of playing because we didnt train till after the squad was named. I have big doubts about him.

[RoseInOz]

Quote from Essondon site:
"Frustratingly for Bomber fans, there remains some notable absentees from the list of inclusions.

“There’s still [Dustin] Fletcher, [Matthew] Lloyd, [Adam] McPhee, [Jason] Winderlich and [Andrew] Lovett that won’t be playing,â€

[Dan Warna]

i couldn't help but let out a little laugh at terry wallet when he said words along the lines of coughlan out injured was the difference.

really a few fans were dissapointed when st kilda didn't make a play for this idiot, but after being a bit of fan of what he achieved, all I can say, was thats a bullet dodged.

[bigcarl]

how will the forward set up work without kosi and fraser?

i'd suggest roo at ff, allen playing kosi's role

??? Kosi's roll IS ff.

What do you mean? Allen and Roo both playing from the square at full forward?

I think we'll see Roo close to goal, allen 35m out, and Charlie keep doing what he has been doing

as i understand it fraser will be full-forward this season with riewoldt at chf. kosi will be playing in between them in the same sort of role that jonathan brown fills for brisbane.

that's what plugger66 told me, anyway, and he is seldomn wrong about these types of things.

so i reckon roo at ff, allen playing kosi's role and charlie playing roo's role

it is a bit hard for some to get their heads around but, if the injury gods smile on us, this season we will have THREE key forwards ... a good move i think.

we have the talent to absolutely dominate aerially and make it very difficult for opposition defences to hold us to a losing score given even half decent supply

[Ralphy]

so is riewoldt playing friday?

[saintjake]

PLEASE SOMEONE.

WHATS WRONG WITH GWILT.
HE MUST BE INJURED
EVERYONE GETS A GAME IN THE NAB CUP SURELY.

[iwantmeseats]

err, whats guilt donr since the 05 final V adelaide? We have much better options now. Last I saw him he was slow and decision making especially slow and poor. Wouldnt mind seeing him given another chance though.

[rexy]

Cant see us playing 4 rucks so you would imagine one of the 4 will miss there. I would say Rix is the automatic selection as he can play back and has no injury history to speak of. Dont think Roo will be played (hope im wrong though). Only 3 of Lenny Ball Dal and Joey to get a gig IMO. Dont think Mini will be selected.

[The_Dud]

well, with no Riewoldt, Kosi or Gehrig, i think this is the perfect opportunity for Brooks to show us what he can do at full forward after all these years

oh wait......

[iwantmeseats]

well, with no Riewoldt, Kosi or Gehrig, i think this is the perfect opportunity for Brooks to show us what he can do at full forward after all these years

oh wait......

oh lord no. were screwed! Blake , while impressive the last couple of weeks, aint going to work up foward like that.

[Huzzad]

Looking real forward to seeing the Schneiderman in action for us!

[Scoop]

does anyone know why isn't luke miles in the team?

Miles is carrying an injury at the moment saintly.

Also injured, apart from those that everyone knows about ....Gwilt, Ferguson and McEvoy.

[my les foote]

semi finals win = serious money for making the finals.

st kilda are not in the red, but the $$ can't hurt and the follow on from membership bandwaggoners and sponsors doesn't hurt either.

and frankly hawthorn are crap.

imo im still hurting we lost to those pathetic jokes early in the season 07, very pleased we turned it around in the rematch.

I can't see why even understrength we don't smash them as long as we play to our strengths.

You do realise we are playing Essendon.

[Huzzad]

semi finals win = serious money for making the finals.

st kilda are not in the red, but the $$ can't hurt and the follow on from membership bandwaggoners and sponsors doesn't hurt either.

and frankly hawthorn are crap.

imo im still hurting we lost to those pathetic jokes early in the season 07, very pleased we turned it around in the rematch.

I can't see why even understrength we don't smash them as long as we play to our strengths.

Yep, and if we win the Grand Final as well, that's a cool $1 Million added to the saints bank account. Very handy that. So let's go for both NAB cup and the GF I say!

[saintly]

i couldn't help but let out a little laugh at terry wallet when he said words along the lines of coughlan out injured was the difference.

really a few fans were dissapointed when st kilda didn't make a play for this idiot, but after being a bit of fan of what he achieved, all I can say, was thats a bullet dodged.

and we all wanted Eade to take over stkilda at the time, what has he done so far?

[Dan Warna]

yeah sorry I thought we were up against the dawks this week when i made that post, my bad there.

essendung are a terribad side but for some reason they keep being more than competitive against us.

i think on paper who should cream them, its whether we do on the field that matters.

across every line we look stronger and more talented, but the difference between paper form and on field form is what matters.

[TimeToShineFellas]

essendung are a terribad side but for some reason they keep being more than competitive against us.

I reckon that's a huge mindset we need to get over. Sheedy always had the wood on us and I reckon he always instilled the "no matter how the season goes you can always knock off the Saints" mentality on that playing group.

We've always been their whipping boys.

If we can start getting a few big wins over them, then hopefully that will erase the mindset of Essendon.

[Dan Warna]

essendung are a terribad side but for some reason they keep being more than competitive against us.

I reckon that's a huge mindset we need to get over. Sheedy always had the wood on us and I reckon he always instilled the "no matter how the season goes you can always knock off the Saints" mentality on that playing group.

We've always been their whipping boys.

If we can start getting a few big wins over them, then hopefully that will erase the mindset of Essendon.

yeah we have bent them over a few times, but we are that much better than them IMO we should bury them like we have carlton.

last season carlton fell over to us because we have had them psyched for the better part of a decade.

we also lift to play brisbane and often we see our best footy against them.

IMO we can't always play at our best because we aren't machines we are human (heck I remember the royboys tearing the hawks apart in their pomp in the 80s) but we are certainly good enough to bury essendung.

[saintly]

anyone know why luke miles was not picked?