Good VFL side but prefer Port Melbourne

On recent form I would back the poster against our recruiters

Forget players we need to get some recruiters that can make things happen and not be duped by their opposite numbers at other clubs. Take a leaf out of the injectors book, they are like the Mounties always getting their man.

We are a long way off playing finals and anyone that can play a bit will look else where. Most of the players we have picked up are B graders that would struggle for a game at most of the other clubs. Our best option is to go to the draft with our picks and ensure that if our dodgy recruiters pick u...

It is a given that our recruiters are mediocre at best but their task is made more difficult by the fact that no half decent player wants to join us. As a destination club we are about as popular as Afghanstan is as a holiday resort

Picks 7 & 8 to Freo for Zac Dawson would be more in line with our recruiters track record

Only certainty is that our recruiters will not have the nerve to go to the draft so will trade our picks for anyone that can draw breath

All very well to have a number of different game plans but I suggest that our current group of players will struggle to cope with anything that is not very basic.

After all the early excitement it appears I will be correct in a very early post suggesting that the Hawks 1st pick will be later than ours. This is not hind sight just knowledge built on many years of following the Saints.

After today's display I would suggest that any half decent player will avoid the Saints like the plague. Best to go to the draft where they will at least stay for a couple of seasons before looking for greener fields. Any body we are likely to pick up at the trade table would only add to our surplus...

No use blaming the coaches with such an insidid unskilled slow moving and brainless outfit on the field they have nothing to work with. The saying goes you can't make a silk purse out of pig s***. If Kelly is watching he will have put a big cross through St Kilda

[quote="Con Gorozidis"]Lets see what happens today...

But I would drop Lonie and Weller and bring in Marshall and Roo. I am very tempted to give Connelan a run as well...

Not a bad idea Con but as far as I know Connelan can't play unless he has been upgraded from the rookie list

Good no frills player, hard at like Webster but without the turn overs.

The only thing worse than our field kicking is our kicking for goal. Will be almost impossible to win with such poor skills and the home bias of the umpiring. Although the umps aren't kicking it for us but perhaps they would do a better job.

Heard on commentary that Mav was a Freo fan as a kid and actually once ran out with the team did it again today in my opinion

Agree with carn_sainter umps are not to blame for our poor skills and lack of pace

Don't want to be a killjoy but see the Freo game as difficult to win over there and the rest of the run home is against better teams or teams in better form so making the finals seems a bridge too far.

Warning to Samuraisaint watch out for men in white coats and I don't mean goal umpires.

As disturbing as it is they may stay there having a slightly better run home with two probable and a couple of possible wins to come. Our run looks like one probable and also a couple of possibles alongside a couple of hidings although in saying this I really hope I am wrong.

Would not get excited about Hawks first rounder, don't forget we gave them pick 10 and will probably get something between 10-14 back. Present form and the games to come looks like our own pick will be top 5.

SP may have gone a bit early, but after watching the effort against the swans and with the Dogs then Crows to follow he may not be far wrong

Hopefully they learnt something from watching the swans, that was certainly all they did. Probably because they didn't have the pace to get near them. Same could happen next week as the dogs will runs us ragged. A lot of posters getting excited about the Hawks first pick ours is likely to be earlier...

We did expect too much, I quickly revised my expectations to three wins, Gold Coast & Carlton, are yet to come although I am not that sure about Carlton anymore. If anybody can tell me who else we are better than I would like to know.

Possible solution is Paddy to Sandy & Jenny Craig, Billings to Sandy then the trade table. Also Lonnie, Webster and Savage would be better in the blue & gold. Sinclair is a better finisher up forward and White less erratic than Webster or Savage. Long, Battle and an upgraded Marshall are all...

I believe the answer to Zeds question regarding two top 10 picks will be that our recruiters will trade both. After well deserved criticism for picking Billings and Paddy they seem hell bent on avoiding the draft.