Am I way out of touch? I thought from memory Gwilt was doing a great job down back before he did his knee,sure zac was there but he was inconsistant. With a few games this year and a pre-season he will be good again. I read some people talking about playing wilkes,many inconsistant forwards can beco...

I too thought of MacIntosh for 36,not bad, Gardner & King worked well for us,in the past, but the fact is here we are again needing ruck stocks
I think we need to recruit another long term prospect and play them,and develop them,ahead of playing older types.The older types become back up.

that is how it was,sonds like its play on after 30 seconds full stop.
Matthew Lloyd took longer.

It still poses the question,do you recruit the best to fill a hole ,play him to fit a spot forever,or recruit the best talent ,
not play him ,he cracks the its and leaves.
It might mean paying overs initially but cheap long term.

You'd reckon Sam would get a fair pay rise, he may be interested.
Who now wishes we traded Kosi when collingwood wanted him and were willing to pay?

win a few more games that are winnable, those close loses, when it's all said and done we get the ball inside 50 but dont kick goals,
old blokes older, need to recruit a couple, other teams improve, similar to this year lf we fall into 8 won't go far.
Hurts to say it though.

It is true. Really it's the same for us supporters:-
players we end up with ,we hope will be an improvement,
players we lose weren't good enough,or were lured by a pot of gold,
and any delistings- thanks for the effort ,
love em or hate em while they're wearing a saints jumper we'll support them.

Yeah,it's easy to say "we might get 3 good years out of him," but all the young kids will not get game time and get delisted or leave and be labelled useless,the other old blokes will retire and there's a great big hole.Sure some secondhand players have worked well but the saints aren't on...

I reckon Farren Ray has been good while at the saints.Is there no longer a spot for him?

I reckon we need the next 'power ' forward... now,give him game time now let Nick R rotate with him FF-CHF like he used to do with Fraser G. share the load and get a plan in place. Whoever doesn't want one immediately will in the next coming years (brown lions, Pav freo etc) Get one now to get the f...

who's on the veterens pay these days? Lenny I guess +1

People always want to go to Collingwood,whether its the razzle dazzle or big exposure or money or what. Buckley before he was drafted,Judd Stevens(ex Port) etc even Krackeor? ,Tarrant, Fact of life,I reckon the big clubs hide payments somewhere though. I think Tippet wants back to Qld,there is medic...

Hille seems to be injured alot, kosi as a sub come on and bash & crash for a quarter

Just on fox news reported 4 years worth over 3 mill. No way we can match that and recruit other players.How much is Ess paying their other players? We never have salary cap room.

maybe he's going to do a "bradbury",you know the skater who won after the ones in front fell over

does Silvani at freo get a game these days? I know on here people were keen to pick him up from Sandy,maybe ross doesn"t like him he might want to come back.

I still remember the late Doc Baldock being pissed off and saying he believed that "the club let Lockett go to Sydney and wouldn't win another flag in his lifetime". At the time I just thought "what's that about, Sydney just went out and bought him,probably holding hands with the AFL&...

I think it's good to be not so predictable all the time like when we lost Nick for a while a couple of years back,while I do recognise a consistance of playing group.
Opposition often attempt to tag Goddard out of the game,what worked the last 2 weeks (Big Mac dropping back) may not work next week.

which ruckman would we pick up? Many on here critised Pattinson being on the list.I think if Renouf would be worth looking at last year plus zac leaving so late caught us unprepared.

Just be grateful that other tosser Dwayne wasn't on as well,it would be a dribble-a-thon

I realise there's always going to be someone else offering more dough to entice players, I'd like to see the salary cap spread across the group, rather than a couple of top end players, then losing players or not recruiting due to restrictions or no room to move. I thought from memory those back end...

Lenny was my choice for captain,but I think it's too late now. BJ looks to be next in line, I don't think he should be given the captainancy and get paid more than we can afford to MAKE him stay.No more salary cap pressure.NDS has improved over time but more of a quiet acheiver in the Rob Harvey mou...

From what I remember he was a very good in & under type but ordinary foot skills. A casulity of the Tim Watson era,with the loss of a couple of players & others injured he couldn't carry the midfield load,and lost form like others and lost his spot.

I wondered if LB might benefit from not playing on Etihad so much,the players still seem to say they pull up sorer after a game

like to see Terry Daniher return as forward coach,think he could be at West Coast atm.