medhurst didak l. davis thomas vs mcqualter eddy birss geary with baker on the bench - to take Burns if needed or swing onto a small forward. Blake and Fisher will take Cloke and Anthony. Gilbert will be our swingman - can play back either tall or small and may be necessary if we want to swing Blake...

The umpiring was disgraceful. However I saw something today that really surprised me. Saints fans with paid seats leaving when we were one or two goals down (with plenty of time to play) and yelling abuse at the umpires as they left. They simply could not watch the game of footy with any sense of en...

53 and 54 and maybe more

eeerie! round 16, 2007 and talk of us making top 4 from around 8th

great tagging job BUT I stillhave one criticism of how he tags - he watches his player and not the play and a number of times the ball is free and his to claim but instead he is focussed on his opponent see 8 minute mark last quarter for an example ... even when tagging ... when it is your turn to g...

I am pre-warning Saints fans to get behind Banger when pre match this friday night 3AW debates and opens the lines (i hope) on who was better - Craig Bradley or Robert Harvey ... very interesting comparison between these two champions. It will be interesting how they stack up stats wise so anyone th...

ok geee calm down everyone! firstly Phillip is a long time poster and supporter of Saintsational secondly he is entitled to his opinion thirdly I have been getting e-mails about this function for more than a month and was surprised that it was changed at the last minute - bad planning in my book ......

yes gwilt played well as i say it would have been a tough choice between gwilt and gilbert gilbert deserved to be dropped but with a longer term view if i had to make a choice to fit birss in ... if I was coach i may have selected gilbert ... not based on form because gwilt's form ast week was bette...

totally mismatched to North with too many medium / talls North structure up similar to Collingwood in their forward line and we are going to get punished by their medium short forwards ... Birss should have been selected for either Gilbert or Gwilt On last weeks form Gilbert should have been chopped...

More of an attacking runner than Dempster

couple of quick comments eddy wouldnt be a aussie jones / jason gram style running back ... in fact that has been half of our tacticle problem trying to "release" a running back ... Ummmm I think the opposition MAY have worked that out. Instead Birss and Eddy would be run with players taki...

Ahhh well I have been in Sydney all week and had no caught up with injury lists etc sooooo then my team would be: B: McQualter Hudghton Gilbert HB: Eddy S.Fisher Birss C: Riewoldt Hayes Gram HF: Goddard C.Gardiner Harvey F: Ferguson Allen Armitage King Dal Santo (changing with Harvey) Ball (changing...

oh if Schneider is injured then Milne would come in

Schneider gets my nod when fit because he offers more flexibility

Better than Milne in the midfield and can play back flank too

One of the things that has made us easy beats is that we have been playing the same structure and many of the same players in the same positions for years and so we have become easy to plan against ... and without creativity from the coaches box we have just had the same old players trying to do the...

Gram - good kick when he doesnt try to kick the leather off it Ball - getting better now his OP is healing but not great kick Roo - great field kick - has the yips going for goal Birss - excellent kick just SHOCKING style ... hoits targets and kicks goals Gwilt - excellent kick if he doesnt panic bu...

great game

played his role

the kind of player that plays well in the wet

a must for any MCG game

not saying he cannoy play well at Telstra Dome ... will wait and see

i think he is a good player who lost all confidence

now getting some back

in 2004 we played head over the ball or hit the man "unsociable footy" which is Buckley's term for footy with mongrel with bumps and tackles that hurt and we had almost a report a week ... in 2008 we peel off, chase and tag and stand off rather than go hard ... and Sheedy calls us Marshmel...

running half back

so gram can go midfield

reminds me of Andrew Thompson

hard at it and throws body in

very poor kick but tries to get it right

faster than Thompson

not as yet as experienced and comfortable at the top level

doesnt run like player with OP

some of his chase downs show he has very good pace

for the record I did not say / think we should sack Lyon. Actually he is entitled to see out his contract - just as I feel GT was ... BUT at years end LYON should assess what he has achieved or not and whether he feels that he can turn it around for 2009 (maybe he can with better more experienced as...

Lets resume this arguement when Lyon wins 14 of 22 games in a season like GT's team did in 2006 ... which according to you constitutes a slide from 2005 where GT's team was in 2005, when it won hmmm 14 of 22. Yep HUGE slide! Now lets talk about slides. How many games did we win in 2007? Injuries wer...

Jeff - Goodes was being picked up by Blake in the midfield but when he ran forward Fisher was covering him ... in the transition he often ended up on his own, then when Fisher went to the midfield after half time ... I think they went 1 on 1.

oh and pace is NOT about foot speed it is about game style we play a one on one game style ... we dont run off our opponent we run WITH our opponents geelong, hawthorn, western bulldogs, adelaide, swans, collingwood (I see a pattern here) etc are playing our gaemstyle from 2004-6 ... move the ball o...

i am insulted that you found the tone of my first post insulting! ok so I think I understand now ... it is the players fault for not putting in enough effort and have some sort of mental block! OK so now that is all cleared up, I can go to bed. And just for the record ... the players in their prime ...