bigcarl wrote:Interesting one. He was a Saints supporter growing up, but played for Melbourne and the Swans. Maybe he's Saints except when we play Melbourne

He's very much a Swans supporter these days. By the way his dad used to run the Saints social club back in the days

Yesterday was great - I think Melbourne and their supporters probably hate us more than the Western Bulldogs based on what I saw yesterday after the final goal. Love it! So did I, heaps. My second daughter had tears in her eyes. All wins are precious, just ask the players. Losses suck big time. Eve...

5. Montagna,
4. Riewoldt,
3. Newnes,
2. Armitage,
1. Weller.

I'm clearly already a fan, but that was a great game from an often maligned player. 28 touches - 7 ahead of our next best 6 clearances 10 tackles While the last goal was an absolute gift, he had the experience & nous to push forward at all costs in order to snatch that game back. Vintage Joey, ...

I see we have 2 options, Option 1 drop Longer, give him an extended run at Sandy with some specific things to work on such as his spread from the contest, applying scoreboard pressure and marking. Select Hickey as a ruckman. Option 2 drop Longer (as above and promote Holmes as he will give you bett...

Beats a loss, any day of any year.

Maybe the coaches think he will do more damage coming on as t h e sub later in the game, but I see your point

saintjake wrote:

RW&B wrote:Good for Minch.

It's ridiculous, what more can Acres do to avoid the vest!

Someone has to wear it, thankfully for the 12th last time.

Me too. 50 points would be nice We ain't going to finish 9th Although Stranger things have happened If we win today that will take us to 4 wins. That will leave us only 2 games behind the cats who are 9th. Touch wood, we have a healthy list at the moment so finishing 9th is not impossible. As I hav...

[quote="Darth Vader"]Didn't hear what he said, so need to qualify comments based on that - I don't mind him criticising us, as long as he's got his facts right. But if he said that Rhys didn't perform as well at Saints because of culture, that's complete BS. First, he hasn't done that much...

I would put Tom Hickey up for trade. If someone was prepared to give us a pick under 20 then I would take that. Please read carefully, only if they agreed to give us a pick better than 20. My reasoning is this, Longer has sewn up the number ruck role and is on the improve. We have Membrey who can p...

Before you start thinking what a good bloke Robinson is you should listen to him banging on about our 'culture' when discussing Rhys Stanley on radio yesterday. I suppose he can now add hypocrite to his CV !! Robbo is an unpolished, unmitigated turd, full stop. If the club invites a clown like him ...

kosifantutti wrote:

saintjake wrote:Anyone know who runs the saints foot facebook page?
Are they aligned with the club or is it just a fan?

He played for us in the early '80s.

What, reserve grade?

No one name Andrew de Hoedt ever played for the Saints firsts.

bergholt wrote:

BringBackMadDog wrote:How shenton gets a game ahead of Goddard defies logic

I assume it's because Goddard is guaranteed to be around next year, but Shenton still has big question marks so deserves the chance to prove himself.

There is no way Shenton's place on the list is in danger.

Any team relocated to Tasmania would eventually die unless heavy supported by the AFL. The northerners hate anything to do with the south and the southerners are indifferent to the north as the AFL,the Hawks and the Roos have already discovered, There isn't sufficient population in either the north ...

Stanley is now a very good footballer. I'm hoping Goddard becomes a great footballer

bigred wrote:Smith was a highlight reel in 1997....

This thread sucks just so you know.

I agree with you there. On both counts.

I haven't seen him for some time, not that the fools commentating
would ever notice though.

So Tony74 was wrong - No Goddard. Well im shocked. He is a water boy. Nothing wrong with that He knows as much as all of us. He watched training for years and they asked him to help. Why wouldn't you. I would if I was retired. So you really are lenny haze. Dead give away. Why the hatred? Is it beca...

Jacks Back wrote:So Tony74 was wrong - No Goddard.

Too eary to call. Goddard didn't play last week. I doubt that they would let him miss too much footy. Late change maybe.

samuraisaint wrote:Joel Smith doing a knee playing on Osborne, Vidovic breaking his leg in Round 22, Everitt getting a broken collarbone in the Qualifying Final.

100% correct.

Losing Vidovic and Everitt to injury in consecutive weeks in 1997 Smith was also a big loss. But we won a lot of games without him in the team. We couldn't cover the loss of two big blokes especially against Adelaide in the GF No, but Smith added another prong to our forward attack which ever other...

Don't get me wrong, Luke was a very good player but Luke Ball version 2010 was not the same version 2007-2009. Couldn't spread at the Saints. Luke got himself very fit at the Pies and probably made up his mind to leave well before the end of 2009. If he did, it was still because of his treatment by...

Sobraz wrote:Lost our 3 small forwards in one hit.

Big loss, really felt he was ready to have another bulldogs type game, but over 4 quarters.

We still have Lonie and Mitch deserves a crack.

Losing Vidovic and Everitt to injury in consecutive weeks in 1997 Smith was also a big loss. But we won a lot of games without him in the team. We couldn't cover the loss of two big blokes especially against Adelaide in the GF No, but Smith added another prong to our forward attack which ever other...