I feel for the people of Tassie amongst all this talk of expansion clubs. I really do. They've always been a loyal footy state...right down to grass roots level, they love their footy the same way we do here in Victoria. We've had some great players come to us from the Apple Isle. Unfortunately, the...

I'm in! Stacks on the mill is my team.

White Winmar wrote:And to think, we could've got him for pick 16 in the 2009 draft. Instead, we got "you know who". Sigh.

It's enough to make a grown man weep.

saintly wrote:unfortunately due to many new players I have no idea which number belongs to what player. can you please name the players

http://www.saints.com.au/team/players/seniors

Im not super fussed on the w:l this year but I'm very fussed on how we go about it. Totally interesting year as we just have so many new personnel (some look extremely promising). Im excited regardless - and just looking fwd to seeing some guys progress! Exciting times IMO. That's pretty much how I...

I thought it was a bit of a rash comment.

frawley would go to colonwood as a replacement for maxwell . I get the feeling he'd be more likely to go to Hawthorn - with the war chest they have now since Buddy left, I think they'd make him an offer that'd be hard to refuse. Guys all clubs have same salary cap if any club has room it is the sai...

mr six o'clock wrote:frawley would go to colonwood as a replacement for maxwell .

I get the feeling he'd be more likely to go to Hawthorn - with the war chest they have now since Buddy left, I think they'd make him an offer that'd be hard to refuse.

Just another irritating step in dumbing the game down. Is there going to be nothing left that you're not going to be TOLD? -- the 1/4 by 1/4 time scores by some nit on the PA; "!*!GOAL!!*!*" on the big screen when there's goal -- etc Learning to recognise players by their numbers is part ...

spiral3 wrote:

spot on wrote:theres plenty of good pics on todays session on bigfooty, worth a look..

got a link?

There's a few links on this page - http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/2 ... 493/page-2

The perfect reply is as follows: "You know it is sweet but also kind of sad that you feel the need to tie your self worth to how a bunch of young men, who could not care less whether you live or die, go about kicking a piece of pigs skin around. I always find it comical how some people believe...

I just took the OP as indicating the players are pretty upbeat and that it is partly/largely due to the appointment of the new coach. Not that the coach will necessarily prove to be a great success. Or that we will win x number of games. Just that the players are liking Richo. And there ain't nothi...

You heard it here first. Will have the same impact on our team as Lehmann had on the Aussies. There is amazing optimism at the club at the moment. Trained the absolute house down this morning. Real good feel at the club. Coming from you Tony, that's good enough for me! Cheers! I'm really looking fo...

Everyone was impressed with his form in the last three games of the season. Gave the backline a lot of run, his disposal was much better , and seemed a reborn player. No suprised to read that he felt rejuvenated after the long lay off through injury. Also the terrible time he had after the 2010 sea...

Thanks very much for that - interesting read, and I suspect pretty close to the mark in how things actually are at the club compared to some of the hysterical bulltish we've been seeing over the last couple of months.

Can't wait for the pre-season to start now!

IMO from 80s onwards...

1. Heatley
2. Lockett
3. Nicky Winmar
4. G-Train
5. Craig O'Brien

From my time of watching footy, my favourite hard nuts in no particular order...

Lockett
Greg Burns
Joffa Cunningham
Dean Greig
Rod Keogh

but you could also throw in Bakes and Stevie Powell from more recent times...

White Winmar wrote:Apart from the sanitation, the aqueducts, the roads, wine, public order and medicine, what has Alan Richardson ever done for us?

Brought peace...?

It's an out rage. We should only have looked at Adam Mc Phee and Kingsley incase we upset others. It was our mess so we should have been admirable and not inconvenienced others and looked internally. I think we could become a lot more gentlemanly and stand aside to let other teams get the ball firs...

Yes I was wrong. I am sorry. No reason to apologise jaxon. You've got a lot right this off-season. Actually for what it is worth I don't think you had it wrong think Williams was the one they were looking at . But there has been some reflection by the president & the board on this . Question wa...

If there was any doubt as to Caro's agenda with the Saints, I think it's pretty plain to see now. It was a pretty silly piece of journalism on her part, when in all fairness I think she's a better journo than that. I'd find it pretty hard now to believe anything else she writes about us at this part...

From the information I've gleaned from here and around the web, we seem to have now adopted a management structure more in line with many other successful clubs around Australia and the world. As stated, Geelong amongst others in the AFL run on this model as do the likes of Man Utd. and Barcelona. ...

As long as we give 100% effort week in week out and give some of the contenders a bit of a scare in close games...even if we finished last (which I don't think we will), at least we'd earn the respect of anyone with a football brain. Respect for effort is good enough for me at this stage of the game.

It'd be nice to think that in some alternate universe somewhere, Scarlett's attempt at a toe-poke turned into a fresh-airy with the ball bouncing through to Kosi who then ran to 50 and unloaded the winning goal...or...Milney's bad bounce actually sat up and he grabbed the ball and ran into an open g...

Btw The faith in this bloke is staggering.... Not sure what he's really achieved since coming, that gives him such credibility, he's made list changes yes..... Are many confirmed successes..... Should I list all the comings and goings since he's arrived.... And the results along with it? Who recrui...