The COL is total crap. a) its assigned as a percentage. It costs a fixed amount to live in Sydney. Other factors such as real estate are an investment choice. b) if we are going to do COL adjustment it has to include all locations, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Gold Coast, West Sydney, Melbourne and Ge...

dragit wrote:I'm happy for any Sydney player earning less than $100,000 to receive a cost of living bonus.

Its the middle earners at Sydney who suffer.
The ones on minimum probably get their 20K on top, but the ones on 200 -300 would be on what they are on and its neither here nor there.

Savvy?

If I walk up to the Hotdog stand , and there is one left, and some dick offers the Vendor fifty bucks , and I choose to spend a few bucks on chips instead and keep the fifty bucks in my pocket, does that make me not Savvy?

Decades? Seriously what a douchbag. Basically you are saying it doesn't matter who we draft now, they'll be retired before the team comes good? ( I agree about the drafting in the last decade, but the people drafting now aren't the ones who did it ). Hawthorn hawthorn ooooh I'm boning over hawthorn,...

I heard that Martin has been staying with Mark Williams and Trent Cotchin. Richmond should sack these guys as it is clear they only want to party with Martin. They are in Bali, which is a great place to sip a few Bintangs. Anything over and above that at Bali and they are all a hell of a lot stupide...

...and currently do the prostate checks on the over 30's players. I knew that was someone from saintsational but I thought it was this bloke, http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j335/Dr_Saintsman/621F36AF-1AED-4B07-956B-ECB867960580-2123-000001BEDFF89F6E_zps61a387df.jpg :P You're a sick puppy Doc. ...

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saintspremiers wrote:Just use Incognito mode on your Android device and you don't cop a 30 article a month limit!

Just use your Saints membership for a very cheap subscription and you get the lot!

I made a vow never to support those pricks after the Duthy scam.

Surely Saad is destined for the Rookie list.

OK! Guilty I guess. There have been suggestions that Sam Fisher is acting beneath his age and needs to grow up. I suggested that now that Holmes was coming Fisher might want to "put his hat on backwards and hang around the hood". It was an attempt at humour more at Fisher's expense and th...

Moorabbin Man wrote:Love it or hate it, I reckon Watters is gone. I do not believe Plympton was just joking, what on earth for? What was the punch line? So perhaps the topic of discussion should be, who replaces him?

Or who the hell is Plympton and who the hell are you?

Who cares in a few weeks everyone will know the truth, and if they are full of crap its their credibility they are devaluing.
( Of course it may be that their credibility is similar to Tom Ledger's trade value ).

Maybe im reading it wrongly because I think McEvoy can play but pick 18 doesnt seem enough for me and I have no idea why we would get rid of him for pick 18 anyway. Again probably because I think he can play and he is in the right age group. If we have to get rid of players then get rid of our 29 a...

Just had a laugh when I saw his interview at Saints.com
Showed some footage at Linen House. It looks suspiciously like the place was practically deserted but Tom Curren was in the Gym.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/collingwoods-senior-hierarchy-endorses-magpies-cultural-change/story-fni5f6hd-1226731736125 -Former St Kilda captain and current assistant Robert Harvey has been discussed as a potential senior assistant for Buckley, which would elevate him from line coach. Goo...

Con Gorozidis wrote:he needs to be able to bench press 120kg + to play his position in the afl so he needs ongoing wrist strength.
we cant rush him. slow build of fitness and strenght. Wont impact until 2015.

Time to build up his tank.

Carlton didn't do enough to help him. Poor culture at that club for a long long time which allowed a bloke to act like he did off the field, and they basically turned a blind eye because of his on-field performance. Something that the Saints were possibly guilty of a long time ago, but we are only ...

Just as an aside, I am a little concerned about the casual racism towards our new recruit. Yes he is a Black American who played basketball. That doesn't mean he is a gangster rapper That doesn't mean he wears his baseball cap backwards That doesn't mean he is from the 'hood That doesn't mean he ha...

Cockie won the best and fairest by a fair margin. He's remaining at Sandringham. ( Captain material )?? Curren came second. I think its fair to say that Sandringham got more of Curren than they should have expected. Saints could have legitimately played him all year. Dunell was next. Played minimal ...

My point is I think he will be an AFL footballer?! Some are arguing that because we delisted him, he is garbage, and using all sorts of fluff in some sort of honourable defence of the decision... Having said that, his attitude at StK cost him dearly, and is the reason he was not given the opportuni...

But clearly Ball left because of Lyon and not Riewoldt. This is beyond question and should be put to bed once and for all. Yep. He couldn't meet Lyon's benchmark for mid-field running. Lyon had zero flexibility over it and consequently marginalised Ball to 'motivate' him. It worked. Ball became mot...

Its really sad that someone who was so good at AFL footy will now go through the rest of his life scraping for a living.

My point is I think he will be an AFL footballer?! Some are arguing that because we delisted him, he is garbage, and using all sorts of fluff in some sort of honourable defence of the decision... Having said that, his attitude at StK cost him dearly, and is the reason he was not given the opportuni...

Not whining about Gehrig.... He was an enormous player... Hickey, I don't rate... But I'll have to wait for hindsight to set in before announcing that.... That what I do apparently? However, It's not Hickeys fault BJ left, just a tongue in cheek comment... It was unavoidable (losing BJ) given the m...

I want us to find some decent mids and use Joey as a Paul Chapman type forward.

To be honest I thought that injuries were a massive problem for Sandringham this year. Fisher, Gilbert, Gwilt, Ferguson, Markworth, Wright, Milera, Stanley, White , Siposs , Koschitski ( and probably others ) were all affected by injuries that either directly affected Sandringham, or meant that StKi...