All i want to see in 2008

LENNY LEADS THE WAY · Sat 15 Dec 2007 1:45am

Is a consistant team effort not relying on to few.

What's on ur wish list other than a premiership?

Dal to break tags more freely
players to run out 4 qtrs
more 1 percenters
better functioning forwardline

whatelse folks????????????????????

Unforgiven · Post: # 502623Post **Unforgiven** » Sat 15 Dec 2007 1:55am

a good ruckman

Armoooo · Post: # 502626Post **Armoooo** » Sat 15 Dec 2007 1:59am

Some Good signs from our young players, 4 or 5 out of our last 2 years draftees looking like they have a future in the AFL... I am expecting this from Armitage, Allen, Geary and McEvoy... not expecting them to have any real impacts, just to show something....

I would also love to see an empty St.Kilda injury list...

ben_fff · Post: # 502627Post **ben_fff** » Sat 15 Dec 2007 2:02am

either 6 20+ goal kickers or 5 30+ goal kickers.

20 - 30: X. Clarke, Schneider, Dal Santo, Gram, Montagna, Goddard
30 - 40: S.Milne, J Koschitzke
40 - 60: N.Riewoldt
50 - 80: F.Gehrig

Obviously you only 2 or so of the top group would make the quota but I believe those goals are resonable.

Armoooo · Post: # 502629Post **Armoooo** » Sat 15 Dec 2007 2:04am

I would expect Schneider and Milne to kick 30 each, Roo to kick 45 and Kosi to snag about 60, that's a fairly decent effort, I would be surprised if we could get any other 20+ goal scorers....
I would like to see Hayes, Ball, Goddard, Gram, Dal, Monty and Xavier scoring on a fairly regular basis...

ben_fff · Post: # 502630Post **ben_fff** » Sat 15 Dec 2007 2:08am

Armoooo wrote:I would expect Schneider and Milne to kick 30 each, Roo to kick 45 and Kosi to snag about 60, that's a fairly decent effort, I would be surprised if we could get any other 20+ goal scorers....
I would like to see Hayes, Ball, Goddard, Gram, Dal, Monty and Xavier scoring on a fairly regular basis...

I back Xavier to kick about 20... he gets into the right positions he just needs execution.

Goddard and Gram both kicked around 15 goals a piece in 2006, if we can get a fully fit side those guys can unleash from the flanks and become more dangerous around goals.

Otiman · Post: # 502676Post **Otiman** » Sat 15 Dec 2007 11:10am

Robert Eddy and Jarryn Geary - to play 10+ games between them.

saintdooley · Sat 15 Dec 2007 11:16am

less kicking backwards

Oh When the Saints · Sat 15 Dec 2007 11:18am

The following players to play 25 games:
Max Hudghton, Sam Fisher, Lenny Hayes, Luke Ball, Nick Dal Santo, Nick Riewoldt, Justin Koschitzke, Steven King.

If that happens, we are going to be very close.

fisher_fan · Sat 15 Dec 2007 11:55am

less injuries
more consistent
dal to finish top 3 in brownlow
riedwolt to say he will never play for gold coast
saints top 4 finish

BAM! (shhhh) · Sat 15 Dec 2007 11:59am

Oh When the Saints wrote:The following players to play 25 games:
Max Hudghton, Sam Fisher, Lenny Hayes, Luke Ball, Nick Dal Santo, Nick Riewoldt, Justin Koschitzke, Steven King.

If that happens, we are going to be very close.

If we just have one player who plays 25, we've had a good year

HarveysDeciple · Sat 15 Dec 2007 1:52pm

We must have some kids make an impact, gilbert style in 08.

Armo and Geary are the two I think should play 8-12 games this year at least which is what we need.

Allen is another who could do big things.

We need a stable back 6, a relatively settled group each week, and I prey we don't have the need to drop a ruckmen on form at any stage.

saintspremiers · Sat 15 Dec 2007 2:29pm

I want to see us win at least 15 games, and most of them convincingly.

Less reliance on the Train.

McEvoy actually do something, unlike most of our other top 10 draft picks recently!!!

All the GT lovers admit RL is a better coach!

Eastern · Post: # 502761Post **Eastern** » Sat 15 Dec 2007 5:27pm

I would really love to see a MASSIVE BUN FIGHT on here during the last week of September under the heading;

Not enough Grand Final Tickets for saints members !!

St Fidelius · Sat 15 Dec 2007 5:30pm

Eastern wrote:I would really love to see a MASSIVE BUN FIGHT on here during the last week of September under the heading;

Not enough Grand Final Tickets for saints members !!

There will NO DOUBT be a MASSIVE BUN FIGHT on the site, no matter what happens at that time of year IMO

Ghost Like · Post: # 502771Post **Ghost Like** » Sat 15 Dec 2007 5:58pm

The Clarke brothers to be as important to us as the Burgoynes are to Port.

Our back 6 of Raph, Max, Sam, Goose, Gram and the Dumpstar settled, injury free and dominant.

Goddard tp gain some confidence in the first half of the year and dominate the second half.

Minimum of six AA nominations.

Two kids (under 21) establish themselves in the 22.

Kosi to add another 20+ games to his career.

Roo to be given licence, much like James Hird or Chad Cornes.

A brownlow around Dal's neck.

The Great Man photographed with some silverware at the end of September.

midas_touch · Sat 15 Dec 2007 6:45pm

- Less Injuries
- Being able to play out the 4 quarters
- More goals from players other than Gehrig and Riewoldt
- Some game time into our younger players such as Armo and Geary
- To be more competitive in the ruck
- Clarke brothers to fulfill their potential
- The return of Goddard, Lenny and Ball to their best form, whenever that may be into the season
- Greater execution of the game plan

Sobraz · Post: # 502817Post **Sobraz** » Sat 15 Dec 2007 9:21pm

sorry but the cup for Harv's is all i want.. whatever it takes, this must be the year...

that aside.. Essendon to battle it out for the spoon with the blues... Ive already had a lot of blues supporters in my line of work boasting about top 4... making me sick...

LaUrEnCe · Post: # 502822Post **LaUrEnCe** » Sat 15 Dec 2007 9:49pm

Saint Corin wrote:a good ruckman

cant wait to see how king goes !

Johnny Favier · Sun 16 Dec 2007 12:45am

All I want to see next year is good old-fashioned honest hard toil on and off the field, and the guys having a fair dinkum 4 quarter dip come match day.

No more final quarter fade-outs next year please gents - we lost far too many premiership points through this last season.

Get that right, and given the depth of talent that we have, we'll be a HUGE chance come finals time IMHO.

Quixote · Post: # 502849Post **Quixote** » Sun 16 Dec 2007 4:20am

Johnny Favier wrote:All I want to see next year is good old-fashioned honest hard toil on and off the field, and the guys having a fair dinkum 4 quarter dip come match day.

No more final quarter fade-outs next year please gents - we lost far too many premiership points through this last season.

Get that right, and given the depth of talent that we have, we'll be a HUGE chance come finals time IMHO.

Best, most concise and valid post I've read for ages I reckon.

I hope, I'm sure the coaching staff are stressing this very message.

As good as our 2nd half of the season was last year, as much talent and guts as our list has - we really need to learn to play four quarters.

And we desperately need to learn how to have a real dip.

At times this year we were soft and didn't want it as much.

I would love that to change.

bigcarl · Post: # 502884Post **bigcarl** » Sun 16 Dec 2007 11:59am

saintspremiers wrote:All the GT lovers admit RL is a better coach!

I won't have a problem with that but forgive me for wanting see some actual results first.

StSteven · Post: # 502892Post **StSteven** » Sun 16 Dec 2007 1:37pm

LaUrEnCe wrote:
Saint Corin wrote:a good ruckman
cant wait to see how king goes !

King will be recruit of the year and pick up his third GF medal in 12 months!

Johnny Favier · Sun 16 Dec 2007 4:50pm

Thanks Quixote.

I don't think it's asking too much of the guys to have a more consistent go.
Look at the Roos and the Pies - they showed us a thing or 2 about 4-quarter efforts last season, and just how far it can take you...and I do believe we have a much greater depth of talent on our list than either of those 2 teams.

I think with our new fitness and conditioning staff we can expect a more consistent effort next year, and IF our injury toll stays under control, we can probably expect to see a more stable nucleus to our team that will go a long way to giving us this more consistent effort.

APPLICATION - on AND off the field is the one thing I want to see from our boys next year - I think the rest will pretty much take care of it's self if we can only just get this bit right.

Fingers crossed anyway eh....?

SaintWodonga · Tue 18 Dec 2007 9:52am

More goals from our midfeilders

Fraser to kick 80 + goals

Schnider & milne kick 50 + each

Kosi to turn it up. Become the player we know he can be.

Forward set up a lot better.

Surprise step up from a young player (ie Alen or Geary)

A female Saints calender swim suit edition.