I have nothing against anyone of these guys individually but as a whole it doesn't look like we are solving our outside run problem anytime soon Makes me wonder about the distinction between inside-outside and it’s relationship-if there is such- “good” ruckman. I know it is so easy to point out tha...

I love the Greg Burns comparison..... The way they turn and their running styles of short steps just have something similar about them. And it is precisely the turn that I think Dr. Fugisa is alluding to, causing torsion strain. If cricketers (Seamers) also get it, many seem to work through it and ...

Although I loved Moorabbin, I wonder if my love is a healthy love. For a start, it is the only place I have ever punched someone. It was the cradle of heart-crushing disappointment from the age of about 9 to 19, from whence I began to embrace a kind of gallows humor as a Saint. The idea of the Jumct...

I think I remember seeing the stats for Round 23 against North. (Which we lost) On nearly every parameter but for clearances, we lose - especially possessions. Doesn’t winning clearances imply a reasonable amount of speed in terms of “snap and grab it” kind of thing? It also suggests our disposal is...

It's a dilemna when you have a bunch of new recruits......How do you fit them all into the seniors? ..... in... favour of the new recruits is that the midfield from 2018 did not get the job done so changes are needed Right. When we hear, "we are putting games into new players" it sounds a...

Even back in Thommo's day the criticism was we were too slow never win a game with Lenny, Ball, Peckett, Thompson, & Powell in the side at once, they won a lot of ball and a few games as well, (was it 04? just about got the job done) Yes, the year Port did us in the PF was around then. I didn’t...

Of course, right? Skill, game smarts etc., I am asking because of Jake Niall’s flippant joke in the Age earlier in the week, “While the draft wasn’t great entertainment — it was slower than St Kilda’s midfield (prompting Xavier Ellis to quip that top pick Sam Walsh would be a free agent by the time ...

Greg Burns!! Love it. As Fugisa says, (seems like u know ur stuff Mr Fug!) it seems like a less-than-ideal injury to have, and he was loading kegs in a pub off a truck, it sounds exactly like the kind of injury Fugisa mentions tradies and ditch diggers. I hope it wasn’t a case of an immature body tr...

SaintPav wrote: ↑Thu 29 Nov 2018 5:55pm Up until last week, he was working at a pub pulling beers, probably changing kegs over etc so it can’t be that bad...

Actually given Fugazi’s comment, it makes it worse if worse is what you are looking for.
Anyway, no more kegs for Jack, that’s for sure.

See the comment on the AFL website. It’s always interesting, but often frustrating, to get different points of view when you do a web search about health science etc. I noticed a lot of websites stating that these kinds of problems can be fully recoverable and that 90% of athletes, if managed proper...

Mnn...eight rounds in is usually the time we start saying - or I start saying - looks like x, or y is panning out for the year and we can have a guess about where we are going to be by the bye rounds. I know we have recovered before after some crappy starts but the odds are it will be tough..Unless ...

OK..its just fluff, but I'm interested in picking up bits and bobs along the way. What do you reckon will be our toughest games in the first eight rounds, For some reason, I get this feeling that Fremantle away might be our toughest, even to it is only...Fremantle! duh> and secondly, I suspect Melbo...

ausfatcat wrote: ↑Sat 10 Nov 2018 11:59pm Should we pick him as a delisted free agent? Not great in traffic but aggressive.


Huge upside if he gets day release and will cost little

He has the skills, is just 27, and at present, in a bit of hot water. What’s not to like?

Sometimes you just need to accept your lot in life. St Kilda has a relatively small supporter base, and/or a demographic of supporter that doesn't particularly give a s*** about the footy. Having low TV audiences and small crowds isn't anyone's fault necessarily, it's merely a symptom of the above....

OK. Here comes another naive question from your favorite fringe ruckman from 1973. NRL has much smaller attendances and slightly higher TV audiences than AFL. I read that the last China game was expecting the highest audience ever, a paltry crowd and at least one minnow team. St Kilda failed in thei...

Lucky for Richo that Fox isn't our current President! He is also lucky Gerry Ryan isn’t our president :lol: Did Fox leave in ‘85? after the debt crisis and subsequent payment (22% to players and 7% to non-players) to the clubs creditors. Perhaps Gellie was paid a pittance and thus more attractive i...

I was getting at coaches (the changing of them and administration changes) in respect to history lessons as well as the list changes and use of fill-up players. I aslo wondered about the perception of St Kilda at the time - 'a rabble' as Elliot called it and the perception of us now, as a destinatio...

Gellie's fist game as coach saw us defeat Richmond at Moorabbin in what was to be Brian Taylor's last game for the Tigers. The boof headed, bad tempered sook was thrashed all day by Saints' teenaged full back Danny Frawley. The bloated ego was dragged from the ground kicking and screaming after man...

Hardly anyone wanted Minch on here, so don't complain he's now gone and got picked up. He was deemed another list clogger on here by many. No I think you're wrong there Ted I think there was a lot of love for the meat ball on this site IMO I didn’t see much of him other than YouTube..lol.. so I’m a...

You know, perhaps it was a Paul Roos type choice. Respected ex-player fills in for displaced coach and then, unforeseen at the time, he gets chosen as a full-timer. Perhaps that was why poor old Harves didn’t get a look in when he filled in?

So who chose Gellie? If it is true he was a pup thrown under the wheels of a Mac truck, so to speak. (With a drunk driver?) Something must have happened - or not happened - pre-season In 1985, for us to get so smashed up straight outta the blocks. And how did we respond? There were some competitive ...

1985 what a year.... ..Just got pumped.... ....The whole place was a shambles. Perhaps this is when Elliot from Carlton called the place “a rabble” and proceeded to trade us any number of ex-Carlton players. Imagine the internet and this forum existed in 1985 -, the things would be said about Graha...

For the reason that we are in straights perhaps, I’m curious about those years from ‘83-‘86 right now, and how, despite coach changes and personnel changes, we couldn’t get off the bottom. Perhaps there are some lessons there? This doesn’t mean I think we should keep Richo or not. I notice that when...

A snap reaction/judgment? from Fox? Wow! Well, we know how well that ended. We were even worse in 1985. So resentment must have been brewing in order for Fox to have the balls to push that button. No? And then, so why Gellie? And why did he, Gellie, then fail so miserably and maybe Jewell wasn't so ...

Watched us beat Footscray at Moorabbin in 1984 on YT last night. (See 13:50 btw) The exasperated looks on Tony Jewell's face in the box in one of our rare wins for the year got me curious. Especially when I learned he was sacked during the season. I tried to research and found little to nothing abou...