King the GF man...third in a row!!!

[saintsRrising]

Is about to play in his third in a row.....

Lets hope it is 4 ina row.....and I don't mean with Casey

[emmdee]

thought king made a difference tonite around the ground, brought the ball to ground ie. made a contest, in defence. had a presence....

[Otiman]

Agreed, he is clearly ahead of Gardiner as far as his usefulness at stoppages. Hopefully that will change with some more gametime into Gardy, but King just offers a massive presence at stoppages.

[ttufc7]

Lets hope it is 4 ina row.....and I don't mean with Casey

Why not play in both? He did last year!

[Iceman234]

Interesting stat - 3 GF's in 5 games of football.

[JeffDunne]

He's won me over.

Not only with his ruckwork too.

Showed some great skill tonight by hand & foot.

[ttufc7]

Yes his footwork to Jobe Watsons face was superb!

[Armoooo]

Interesting stat - 3 GF's in 5 games of football.

That is incredible, let's hope he can make it 3 from 3

[saintsRrising]

Well now he is with us...

The more he wins the better

[Enrico_Misso]

Recruiting coup of 2008 !

[barks4eva]

Stephen the Premiership's King, the man's a walking Premiership, he burps Premiership's, breathe's Premiership's, he's got Premiership's encoded all through his DNA, wherever he goes the Premiership's follow, we've even given him the number 2 jumper, because 2008 will be his second AFL Premiership winning, AFL Premiership season, and being the Premiership wiz, what better symbol, to have the Premiership King here to deliver Premiership number two after 42 years since 1966, with 42 according to some BBC show/flick(to the best of my recollection ) about the answer to the universal question "What is the meaning of Life?" with the answer being 42, I think this goes some ways towards this theory and also taking into consideration that in numerology 1966 adds up to 22, with 22 being the master number, it quite possible means that for all of these years St.Kilda Football Club have not won a Premiership because we didn't have a Premiership Master, a Premiership King, but now that the the King has landed........ at Moorabbin, I now have a dream, a Premiership dream and it's all because of Stephen Premiership's King> or SPK as I rather affectionately, prefer to call him

SPK, go you great thing



PS. thought I'd post it again in the original thread, really it's just an excuse to post it 2 times, because afterall SPK is number 2, here to deliver St.Kilda Premiership number 2, so it seemed that 2 times is only fitting

[The OtherThommo]

Oh, Barks, we are getting excited, aren't we?

But, ain't it a joy to see midfielders willing to run to space at stoppages just because they believe the pill is going to be hit into that space.

King and the Constant Gardiner for Pick 90 - how long has this been going on?

[barks4eva]

Oh, Barks, we are getting excited, aren't we?

But, ain't it a joy to see midfielders willing to run to space at stoppages just because they believe the pill is going to be hit into that space.

King and the Constant Gardiner for Pick 90 - how long has this been going on?

yeah, we used to give up pick 6 and 31 for Barry Brooks

[aussierules0k]

[barks4eva]

SPK is already King so therefore doesn't need the lesser role of being made captain

[saintbrat]

supplying the media with their info again- Pssst Sunday 2nd march- pg 24 "premiership King;"


But Hutchi is leaving his position
Tony Jones will be doing Pssst from next week.

[joffaboy]

Apart from the act th Andy has thrown over Rix for the King, lets get some sense back into this thread. Well it is me posting so sense might be a bit thin on the ground but here goes.....

Apart from his work at centre bounces and ballups, King has been working hard over the ground. I think the total package (no not Frank Matera) of The King and The Constant Gardiner has made material impact on our midfield. We have not had our best mids in the centre once in the praccy matches. Combos including Birss, X Clarke, Geary, Armitage, and Eddy with a smattering of experience (Dal and Harvs) and of late some input from Lenny and Luke Ball have been mixed and matched. We had Joey and Dal on HFF all night on Friday and Harvs and Armo in the middle for the entire last qtr.

However while the mids have been very unsettled (as RL as planned it) we have been easily winning clearances. The King is ahead of the Constant Gardiner, however the combo is greater than the individual.

Moreso, King has shown tremendous leadership on field. One could forgive him for still feling his way after the dissapointment of being traded from the premiership team, but his encouragement of the kids during the game and goes to all the kids and established players after each win and is the first to congratulate them. Seems like he is enjoying his time at the Saints.
Dempster, Schneider, King and Charlie Gardiner virtually for pick #27. Really is bearing fruit and it is quite unbelievable that we traded so well for so little.

[Megamaguire]

The big ex-cat has shown a lot of enthusiasm and no small ammount of skill at the beginning of a new season. At times he reads the play beautifully and gives his new team-mates a handy edge. I think he is enjoying his time at the moment and we look forward to him developing even more in his career change.

Happy to have Kingie as nb. 1. ruck right now.

With Birrs; Jones; Kingey demonstrating patches of real quality play they must know 2008 can be HUGE for them individually and for our Sainters.

Allen inspires confidence as does Armitage and if they can stay in the driving seat it'll be HOLD ON FOR THE RIDE OF YOUR LIVES 1

G O S A I N T E R S !

[StPeter]

King is the most promising ruck prospect at StKilda for many years.

Looked great on Friday night.

[saintsRrising]

. I think the total package (no not Frank Matera) of The King and The Constant Gardiner has made material impact on our midfield. We have not had our best mids in the centre once in the praccy matches. Combos including Birss, X Clarke, Geary, Armitage, and Eddy with a smattering of experience (Dal and Harvs) and of late some input from Lenny and Luke Ball have been mixed and matched. We had Joey and Dal on HFF all night on Friday and Harvs and Armo in the middle for the entire last qtr.

However while the mids have been very unsettled (as RL as planned it) we have been easily winning clearances. The King is ahead of the Constant Gardiner, however the combo is greater than the individual.
.

Yes indeed mouth watering stuff...and much to look forward to when our full strength midfield is in action.



The other exciting aspect at present is that our mids are still learning to play with King and Gardi.....

Practice makes perfect...and as they get better used to reading each other and in enacting those drills we don't see at the closed training sessions things are I believe only going to get better as the season progresses.

[Iceman234]

HUGE BUMP.


ALL HAIL THE KING

[Enrico_Misso]

Interesting stat - 3 GF's in 5 games of football.

There was a Richmond player in the 20's who's only game was a Premiership (someone James - I think)
100% record.

[midas_touch]

Rix no longer rox rux.

The King has dethroned him.