I don’t see how SFF can produce a detailed business plan without full access to the records, the accountants, and key operating personnel like RL, JB and Ross Smith. I would hope SFF does not get that access until they are appointed. Any detailed business plan produced before hand I would regard a...

My basic problem with RL is inflexibility. I think the best coaches experiment and early on identify and adopt a game plan which they believe best suits the list. RL has instead put his game plan first as the priority. In the trenches he is better than GT. But unfortunately I think RL places the tre...

Riewoldting wrote:

Shaggy wrote:Worsfold

Matthews?

Lol. Maybe Mathews rather then Worsfold deserves the credit for the Lions 3 P.

My only concern is that Worsfold, Roos, Williams, Worsfold, Sheedy, Pagan & Blight (the last 7 premiership coaches) all took their respective teams to the finals in first full year of coaching them.

RL has achieved exactly the opposite.

I assume Dana has worked closely with one of the FFS ticket before and is very interested in the challenge. Thats how Boards are normally formed. . Err cough cough.... I thought that "jobs for the boys" was one of the factors that some were saying wasa problem with the current Board. Now ...

I assume Dana has worked closely with one of the FFS ticket before and is very interested in the challenge. Thats how Boards are normally formed. Once she joins her professional reputation will be on the line ... volunteer or not. Its a big commitment and I am sure she would not have taken her decis...

We have been in the bottom for footy expenditure for the last 5 years. RB has forgotten that supporters prefer premierships.

It was public knowledge we were trying to get Blight. But it was also public knowledge that Blight was not certain even with Saints desperately chasing him. At the end of the day the players signed on first and whether Blight coached or not they were Saints players. Most players like to know who the...

saintsRrising wrote:

Shaggy wrote: They were Saints players with or without Blight..

Utter rubbish I am afraid...see above.

No it is not utter rubbish. The players were signed sealed and delivered before Blight was. Even if Blight did not join us the players were still Saints.

Gtrain , Hamill etc all were attracted by Blight coaching the saints... Whereas GT as senior coach could only attract senior players like Knoble, Ackland, Guerra etc.... Only 1 player joined us during Blight's coaching reign and that was V2. Gtrain , Hamill and Lawrence signed with the Saints befor...

Gtrain , Hamill etc all were attracted by Blight coaching the saints... Whereas GT as senior coach could only attract senior players like Knoble, Ackland, Guerra etc.... Only 1 player joined us during Blight's coaching reign and that was V2. Gtrain , Hamill and Lawrence signed with the Saints befor...

And to all those lamenting about GT the one who "took us places rah rah rah...", why not reflect on Stan Alves for a change, and what he did for the club? At least Stan coached us to a GF. Stan also didn't put on a song and a dance after getting fired. Kenny, Stan and GT were all good coa...

GT was the HEAD coach......he set the flavour and direction...and was accountable for anything delegated. In other words he was not competent. Bizarre analysis. GT took over a team which had only won 6 games in the previous 2 years. Within 3 years he had us in the finals. Within 4 years IMO he prob...

So why was GT fantastic when you met him? Do tell. I approached him with some important stats that I'd compiled. I had pages of them. He asked me to sit down with him so we could go through them thoroughly. :D :D :D That’s very typical of GT’s Jekyll and Hyde persona. I have heard another poste...

I'm still waiting for that evidence too that justified Rod's outbusrt on SEN this year (not to mention Archie ringing the radio station to find out who GT might be speaking to on air). Lol I just want to know what GT has done which is so terrible? He was sacked having taken the team to the top quar...

I had dinner with an ex club official tonight...very interesting on a number of fronts.. GT obviously very concerned about maximising $$ to himself while for example expecting the long serving head trainer to take a 10% pay cut. :shock: Thats very human SR. Not an attribute to admire but very typic...

We are in the bottom quartile for footy operation expenditure including injury management :roll: (how many consultants reviews will it take before the Board will actually spend the money on our operations rather than advice). If this is the case, and the board has met every financial football dept ...

Smith has it spot on in this instance. All the trigger happy nancies wanting change cause they dont like Butters hair style (see Jeff) have lost the plot. NOW is the time for club stability and NOT the time for backroom boardmember cut lunch commandoes who wanna play AFL heavy for a while. We have ...

Time to invent a great ticket. Gherig (security and public relations). Lol … I would vote for G-Train. On a more serious note I cannot believe that following the detailed independent review performed last year we are still in the bottom quartile for spending on injury management and recruitment. ...

[ 1 best in 3 AFL games is a fact also (33% strike rate). GT said on SEN he would have played Brooks in the Melbourne final if it had not been for the wet conditions. why do people still hang on to that one game against brissy who did he play on ?? where were bris on the ladder ? how were we travel...

I have said this many times. I have seen 7 games this year at Scorps and not once was Brooks first ruck. He was forward and rucked occasionly. When a ruckman is dropped from the Saints Brooks isnt first ruck. In 2 of the games I saw VR was the first ruck over Brooks. RL said just recently Brooks is...

Lol … Plugger you and SR are the ones touting Brooks as a forward only. Brooksy has only kicked 10 goals this year not 20. He only kicked 16 goals last year. It was 2005 when he was played as a permanent KPP forward he kicked 42 goals. Brooksy is regularly in the best now because of his work as a ...

I'd like to stake a wager that L.Fox will make his large presence felt over this post season. Most probably in the form of one of his sons being the figurehead. I'm 50/50 with RB, has done very well but shoots his mouth off too often & St.Kilda still gets stiffed by city hall too often. Fox has...

I would prefer to get rid of our selectors before Brooks. At least Brooksy has performed this year.

SaintBot wrote:

Shaggy wrote:Rix 1 out of 22 games

and how many of those 22 have acctually been in the vfl

Rix has been named in best 1 out of 5 VFL games.

In AFL Rix has not been named in best in any of his 17 games.

Brooks was named in best in 1 out of his last 3 AFL games .