Not fair! A couple of months I tried to verify a rumour (without mentioning details), then PM'd someone and soon found the thread exploding with very blatant clues.

So where are the blatant clues this time?

Failing that, someone had better PM me.

Just wondering ... when Four Corners does their inevitable episode on "the St Kilda sex photos scandal" next year, will they automatically side with the naive schoolgirl against the blokey, misogynist, cashed-up footy club? Will there be sinister music accompanying abstract "re-enactm...

For a club seeking a major sponsor, there's nothing good to come out of this. Yet another "sex scandal". Yet another stain on the brand name ... on the emblem.

That chick has done a lot of damage to the club -- potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Let's just hope that all those nude player photos don't come from Sam Gilbert. Possibly snapped during the International Rules tour? Remember. Jack Riewoldt blogged that Gilbert was "immature" (and coming from Jack Riewoldt, that's something). Maybe Gilbert has a whole file of dicky shots.

It's a game of inches and on the day of the drawn Grand Final we were playing a team with more inches: Having the best facilities in the league (versus the worst) obviously gave them a few inches. A ludicrously generous run of games at the Grand Final venue with the best surface in the league (as op...

Let's look at the last decade of premiers: 2000. Essendon. Proven salary-cap cheats. 2001-2003. Brisbane. "Special concessions" 2004. Port Adelaide. 2005. Sydney. "Special concessions" 2006. West Coast. Drug cheats. 2007 Geelong. Father-son beneficiaries. 2008. Hawthorn. 2009. Ge...

St Kilda: Mopping up the pain so that others may have joy.

Anyone else heard the rumour -- presented to me as fact -- that a recent medal winner (and I don't mean Lenny Hayes) OD'd during premiership celebrations?

Kosi was also recovering from cataract surgery when he handballed directly to a Pies player metres in the clear.

I've thought about this long and hard and come to the conclusion that the only way for this club to get a flag is to

CHEAT.

Everyone else does.

Waltzing StKilda wrote: Two Grand Finals lost at the selection table. Absolute rubbish. We were beaten by a mixture of bit of bad luck and not good enough, simple as that You can say that. I still believe that Hudghton deserved a chance in GF 2009 (at Clarke's expense, or even Dawson, who wasn't th...

So close and yet so far ... we only needed an extra 2-3%.

Two Grand Finals lost at the selection table.

Ross Lyon's idea of team balance is to load up the bottom end with uncoordinated duds to balance out the champions at the top. Seriously, I don't want to hear any more about "role players" whose only role is to "apply pressure" or "crash packs". I also don't want to see...

For the second time in two years we've been defeated in a Grand Final by a team with very few other-club players. And how did our foreign legion stand up when the chips were down? Pretty poorly, actually. Our best across the finals were homegrown: Goddard, Hayes, Riewoldt, Gwilt, Fisher, Gilbert. So...

You could easily argue that Ross Lyon is our second most successful coach ever. He's an exceptional tactician and motivator. His effort in holding the Saints together during this most testing of years, and almost stealing a premiership, deserve enormous credit. But ... it's on days like this that hi...

A lot of tune-changing down at the Pies ... Supposedly the players rejected an MCG training session last week because they wanted to keep everything as normal as possible. Now they're on radio claiming the MCG session was much better than last week because it was closed, and so beneficial to them .....

Four of our last five finals have been absolute nailbiters:

GF Part One.
QF versus Geelong
GF 2009.
Prelim 2009.

Wouldn't it be great to coast to victory for a change?

On the other hand, that sort of experience is priceless. The Pies just can't match it.

Just as they looked a little too self-conscious in their designer shades during the Grand Final Parade (Jason Blake was the only Saint wearing sunnies), the Pies looked thoroughly ridiculous on the news tonight leaping around at training, grinning, high-five-ing, etc., etc. Clearly they've been inst...

A nice comeback if they start that ridiculous soccer-like chant before the game.

Actually, I'm hoping the support level for the Saints (I'm tipping 50-60% on the day) might be a little disorientating for the home-ground Pies, used to nothing less than 70% this year.

The AFL should punish Eddie for failing to fall into line re clash strips by making his team wear their "clash" (virtually indistinguishable from the normal one), leaving the Saints to wear their tradition guernsey as well. If Eddie is as vehemently opposed to clash strips as he claims (an...

It isn't just St Kilda supporters with the flu. Not to be too paranoid, but who would put it part a member or two of a certain vast supporter base to purposely infect surfaces, food, etc.? You may have seen that terrific movie Invictus . Well, the New Zealand side claims they were deliberately food ...

Stinger wrote: so you really are a troll.." ??.thought as much after your homosexual crack.... and for the record...learn to read and digest what pple post ffs.....i never said that joey asked roo who he voted for ...what i in fact said was this...and i quote... "go and blame joey then.......

Joey didn't ask Roo who he voted for. He asked Roo if he was interested in a career in politics. Aaron Sandilands was asked a similar question recently and answered diplomatically, so that viewers had no idea who who supported. Roo's response was potentially divisive and unnecessary. Rather like sna...

Can anyone tell me who Nick Maxwell voted for? Or Sam Mitchell? Or Brad Johnson? Or Cameron Ling? Brett Kirk? Chris Judd? Matthew Pavlich? What about Jonathan Brown? Brent Harvey? Chris Newman? Or the rest of them? There's a good reason we don't know. Smart footballers don't show their political col...