saintly wrote: Standing at an imposing 204cm and 105kg, Knobel would be easily the biggest and strongest ruckman in the competition aside from the Lions reserves side, and he would also offer a valuable marking target in the forward line.

Hey, we should recruit this kid

I've said this time and again, and Attard is being used for the stopping roles that Baker once had, which frees up Bakes to play on a different opponent, or run more offensively. However, he does not have an attacking bone in his body, to take it to the next level, he MUST make his opponent accounta...

Potential is such a dirty word, but have a go at ranking our list from 1 to 44 in terms of potential, "raw talent" is another way of looking at it. I'll have a go at it at some stage, just opening it up for discussion. Here they are, in alphabetical order. Senior List + Elevated Rookies * ...

The future is now.

Without looking at others answers to sway me... 36 - Robert Harvey................STAY (IF HE WANTS TO) 34 - Andrew Thompson..........GONE 34 - Matthew Clarke...............GONE 31 - Fraser Gehrig..................STAY 30 - Aaron Hamill...................GONE 29 - Michael Gardiner.............STAY 2...

Please alert us

A bit hard to scour every possible site every day, which is why WOM is so fantastic.

I believe the two are mutually exclusive. On one side you retain players in the hope they come good, this is the low turnaround approach, and is what the saints have been doing in the past few years. Our depth is deep, but not very talented (imo). On the other side, with a large turnover you can aff...

Anyone have a list of the U18 all-australian teams for the past 5 or 6 years?

From the Match Review Panel.

Bakes/Everitt incident thrown out due to lack of evidence.
St. Kilda runner Danny Sexton fined $2400 for contact with an umpire


http://sportal.com.au/default.aspx/AFL- ... gles-33262

Or Gram.

Great photos, love the comments, nice and blunt

And how would Peckett and Powell be in todays game where leg speed is king? Answer is nowhere.

What experienced players have we lost in the last few years that haven't been replaced with equivalent or better players?

The average post length in this thread is too high. Just chipping in to reduce it a little!

Since his position has been swapped with Sam Fisher, he's playing a lot less attacking than he used to be.

I believe the switch was made to make his opponent become more accountable for Gram's actions, and negating his own impact a little. It hasn't succeeded imo.

widereceiver wrote:some of these suggestions would be great if we were trying to tank.

If we lost all our games and Carlton and Bulldogs both won at least one, we'd have 4th pick in the draft.

What a Duckhead.

Who is suggesting we elevate a third of the team? Good form (in perspective of it being VFL and the opponents involved) warrants a look in for selection at least, given the form of a few current AFL players. If you totally discount VFL form we will never have any new players in the side unless injur...

Fantastic, i'll set my box to record that one.

"soon" is not good enough. We needed it desperately against Collingwood, Sydney, and the Dogs.

I just think we're not up to what's expected due to our gameplan and lack of rotations.

We (the saints) actually trained at the Clayton Campus more than a few times over the past 3 or 4 years, although i'm not sure what the relationship was like between the two (St. KFC and MU).

The sports facilities there aren't too crash hot, there's a rather overcrowded Gym, but at least there's a decent size pool.

Would be great to drop down there between lectures and watch the guys train, although i'm finishing there this year.

TimeToShineFellas wrote:But we have plenty of people on here doing some lovely kicking of their own!

Only while they're down!

Perhaps we need a kicking coach to help us kick when they're up.

Max still can't kick though. I guess that's why he's our FB!

He'll never play as "third tall" because that is a lot more of an attacking role, which he is not suited to, imo.

The 2001 curse of the OP.