What happened Round 19, 1976?

[samuraisaint]

Nerd that I am, had to check 1980s reserves.

4 spoons I think.

Bottom 3 every year except, 1982...and 1987

Would you believe we were grand finalists in 1982 , losing to Geelong by 49 points.

Another decent finish in ‘87 strangely.

Perhaps the Ex C arlton chaps were firing?

But a grim decade.

And we also won the seniors grand final in Tassie that year.

A lot better than our seniors, that's for sure. I remember we were pretty good in 89 too maybe.

[SaintPav]

I have no doubt we completely underachieved in the early 70s

We had a list that included maybe 12-15 of our best 50 players ever

However by 76 many of those had left or were at the end

And we had no depth, our reserves were terrible.

And yes in 78 we had rebuilt an exciting team and that Essendon game and the repercussions killed our season

Now I would like to take you that horrendous game against Hawthorn in round 12 of 1999

Prior to that game we were 7/4 and travelling

For the rest of that year we went 3/8

And from that game in 99 to the end of 2002 our record was 14w 2d 61losses, this is after playing a GF in 97

#dontgetmestarted

Fqf

Yep, the famous 'Pudding Bowl Game' when Watson said some of the players had grown heads bigger than pudding bowls, referring to Barry Hall I suppose.

End of Watson starts right there...as the St Kilda aeroplane goes into another tailspin, crashes into the sea that takes us to the bottom of the draft where we pick up those champs that led to our rise five years later.

For some reason I thought that border house pudding comment was a game earlier in the season. Against Melbourne perhaps.

After we lost to Hawthorn when we had been 63 points in front he said we wouldn't beat the Dimboola Thirds.

Yes, I remember that comment.

I was there. We were killing them and then we totally capitulated.

It was embarrassing.

Watson may have been a better coach if had done a five year stint as an assistant before he took a senior gig.

I thought it was hilarious how he just went back to reading the sports as if those 2 years never happened.

Memory holed and for good reason too.

[saynta]

Timid Timmy, a f****** joke as a coach. Some things one wishes one could forget. Appointing that clown as the saints coach is near the top of my list

Bump