First post on saintsational thread...

[SainterK]

Welcome to all the new people registering on the forum, I hope you feel comfortable to post here.

Tell us a little about yourself and take the floor.

Don't be scared....much

I think it's great to see new posters on here, we've missed it.

[SainterK]

Anyone?

[dragit]

Hi everyone, long time reader , first time poster.

Took me a couple of years to get an account approved & now here I am finally

Thanks for having me, look forward to high brow footy discussions with fellow sainters.

[Cairnsman]

Sainter K one of the better ways for a thread like this to work is to make it a condition of registration for new members to go to a sticky thread specifically for new members to introduce themselves.

[BackFromUSA]

Hi. My name is Simon. I have been a Saintsationalaholic for 15 years.

On a serious note - good to see that a couple of the new members have been posting.

The more the merrier.

[scallopsroe]

I have also been an avid reader of this forum for many years and this is my first post. I am a long time Saints member and supporter and while my opinions may differ from some on this forum, we as passionate Saints supporters sometimes need to vent our frustrations in a public forum such as this. Comment on the current St Kilda side and its performances need to be judged from the wonderful period of success we have seen from 2004 to 2011. Never before has this underachieving club experienced consistent seasons where wins were a given and beatings were rare.
Unfortunately when you combine declining membership, poor recruiting and indifferent management these areas of neglect will bite you on bum quickly. This happens at any club level, AFL and local footy. This is what we are now experiencing and it's not pleasant.
Hopefully with better recruiting and a more active management and with supporters committing to the cause, we will see the Saints again challenge for the top.
Monday night showed that of our ten experienced players in that side only three of them could hold their heads up, Roo, Schneider and Lenny. This is puts alot of pressure on the young recruits and the poor results are there for all to see. There's pain ahead but at least the club is planning to address our list deficiencies. We all need to support and get behind the team and the club during this phase of development.

[scallopsroe]

I have also been an avid reader of this forum for many years and this is my first post. I am a long time Saints member and supporter and while my opinions may differ from some on this forum, we as passionate Saints supporters sometimes need to vent our frustrations in a public forum such as this. Comment on the current St Kilda side and its performances need to be judged from the wonderful period of success we have seen from 2004 to 2011. Never before has this underachieving club experienced consistent seasons where wins were a given and beatings were rare.
Unfortunately when you combine declining membership, poor recruiting and indifferent management these areas of neglect will bite you on bum quickly. This happens at any club level, AFL and local footy. This is what we are now experiencing and it's not pleasant.
Hopefully with better recruiting and a more active management and with supporters committing to the cause, we will see the Saints again challenge for the top.
Monday night showed that of our ten experienced players in that side only three of them could hold their heads up, Roo, Schneider and Lenny. This is puts alot of pressure on the young recruits and the poor results are there for all to see. There's pain ahead but at least the club is planning to address our list deficiencies. We all need to support and get behind the team and the club during this phase of development.

[SainterK]

Hi scallopsroe

Hope to see you posting (and venting) more often.

You're right about the combination of issues hitting at once, that's why I enjoy focusing on the kids so at least there is some enjoyment to be had in these kind of performances.

[Enrico_Misso]

I have also been an avid reader of this forum for many years and this is my first post. I am a long time Saints member and supporter and while my opinions may differ from some on this forum, we as passionate Saints supporters sometimes need to vent our frustrations in a public forum such as this. Comment on the current St Kilda side and its performances need to be judged from the wonderful period of success we have seen from 2004 to 2011. Never before has this underachieving club experienced consistent seasons where wins were a given and beatings were rare.
Unfortunately when you combine declining membership, poor recruiting and indifferent management these areas of neglect will bite you on bum quickly. This happens at any club level, AFL and local footy. This is what we are now experiencing and it's not pleasant.
Hopefully with better recruiting and a more active management and with supporters committing to the cause, we will see the Saints again challenge for the top.
Monday night showed that of our ten experienced players in that side only three of them could hold their heads up, Roo, Schneider and Lenny. This is puts alot of pressure on the young recruits and the poor results are there for all to see. There's pain ahead but at least the club is planning to address our list deficiencies. We all need to support and get behind the team and the club during this phase of development.

Welcome.
Great post - sums up where we've been, where we're at, and where we're going.
Looking forward to hearing more of your opinions.

[asiu]

Sainter K one of the better ways for a thread like this to work is to make it a condition of registration for new members to go to a sticky thread specifically for new members to introduce themselves.

thats the thing about rules ... they suck.

its a interesting idea ... but any sort of 'condition of registration' sets up the
repressed rebel to achieve things individually / naturally like

take for example these two 'new member' threads
... that have evolved naturally
... K's thread gets kudos for setting the tone
... the other has goats.

a life lived is choice not a directive.

we're already copp'n the fat end of the wedge
surely we shouldn't be encouraging it.

[Cairnsman]

Sainter K one of the better ways for a thread like this to work is to make it a condition of registration for new members to go to a sticky thread specifically for new members to introduce themselves.

thats the thing about rules ... they suck.

its a interesting idea ... but any sort of 'condition of registration' sets up the
repressed rebel to achieve things individually / naturally like

take for example these two 'new member' threads
... that have evolved naturally
... K's thread gets kudos for setting the tone
... the other has goats.

a life lived is choice not a directive.

we're already copp'n the fat end of the wedge
surely we shouldn't be encouraging it.

Yes I know what you mean POQ.

I was just trying to help out the silent majority.

One goat!

[asiu]

the goat is dead

long live the One Goat.

[Scollop]

Sorry in advance - this is very much off topic, but I feel the need to declare that I do not have any association with 'scallopsroe'.

Btw, my nic evolved from a few different nicknames through my school years and has nothing to do with a 'scallop'.

[RODOS]

Hey Sainter K! Nice thread. As a new member (I signed up two years ago I think), I guess qualify to post in this thread.

I guess the reason for my post is to highlight my reasons for not posting. There are many friendly and intelligent posters on this forum, and I greatly appreciate their input. I read these forums probably around 3-4 times a week, during the season that is, and one can tend to find stuff here that they can't on bigfooty/saints.com. So it's definitely a place to go to see if there is any inside news, and for that I'm greatly appreciative.

However, a not insignificant amount of posters on this forum seem to be interested in one thing, and that is being the final victor of the never ending pissing contest we see take place in about 3/4 of the threads here. Bigfooty doesn't encounter these problems, and countless other forums I frequent seem to avoid them too. There are people here with too much time on their hands and that have become too invested in this place. It's not a bad thing to become invested in something like this, but when in leads to constant hostility, maybe that's a sign that you should walk away for a little while.

I do approve of the new baiting rules, only because I believe it may help clean this place up a little.

I come here to read about football, not about how many fake accounts nexus helen has, or how much of a pessimist bigmart is, which is basically the content found IN EVERY THREAD FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.

So yeah, maybe that's why there are so many lurkers here.

If there were more members like Sainter K, helpful, friendly, trying to create a peaceful community in which ideas and points of view can be discussed openly without constant harassment, then I'm sure those lurkers would turn into actual posters. I post in a lot of forums, just not here.