Longy's shown poise and hardness in this game.
Great stuff.

Two of the forum whipping boys showing their hardness and pressure in Long & Ross.

Ok. So I can say I've spoken directly to a current Hawks player about the Clarko situation, as he's a client of mine, and no one was sad to see the back of Clarko. From the AC to the players, everyone felt he was not interested the last few years and it was effecting the moral of the whole place. S...

Pretty easy to fire a retrospective arrow. She really is irrelevant. Worth noting we traded rucks in McEvoy, Stanley & Hickey and I think from the players selected or traded for in those deals only Hannebery remains on our list. So none currently in active service. Fair to also state all ended u...

Hard as a cats head is Battle, hope he can find the consistency as he can play. Undoubtedly his best game for the club. What is going on with Highmore? Is he the new Dunstan? Did he have a shocking pre-season? How is he now the 6th rated Tall, Medium/ Tall defender at the club based on R2 selection?...

Perhaps we play Paddy and Hayes as the sub.

If there are no injuries we tell Paddy to go hard until for a half or to mid way through the 3rd and sub him out for Hayes.

Marshall takes the bulk of the 2nd half ruck with a chop out from Hayes.

SunnyErnie wrote: ↑Mon 28 Mar 2022 10:01pm a pick in the 20's for Membrey, would you take it?

I would!!! Sharman takes his spot and we use the pick on a mid.

Thoughts???

It’s a great idea if you don’t rate loyalty, leadership, durability and a very good B+ grade AFL player.

Quite seriously the club should only make an announcement on Hannebery when he is going to play, there would be much less frequent updates and ridicule. Surely even now the Hannebery die hard St Kilda faithful will concede this has been nothing but an unmitigated disaster of a trade/ recruitment. Sw...

I classify our starting midfield (including ruck men) as follows Marshall Ryder Steele Gresham Jones Ross Really interesting post cwrcyn. Firstly we have to add Crouch IMO. That is a bottom 6 competition midfield at full strength. The only area that midfield would be elite is the rucks if both were...

I classify our starting midfield (including ruck men) as follows Marshall Ryder Steele Gresham Jones Ross Really interesting post cwrcyn. Firstly we have to add Crouch IMO. That is a bottom 6 competition midfield at full strength. The only area that midfield would be elite is the rucks if both were...

Vortex wrote: ↑Thu 24 Mar 2022 2:38pm Out Owens and Byrnes.

In Highmore and Long.

I will microwave my head if NWM is picked.

Are you retaining Kent for the trip west?

The root cause of the problem seems simple to me: Nettlefold, Watters and Pelchen traded away what remained of our best talent after Lyon left, and recruited rubbish in return. We have never fully recovered from that. Picking McCartin over Petracca also didn't help the situation. In recent years, t...

Our next Premiership

OR

Our next wooden spoon?

Just saw this thread and for a fleeting moment thought the team for round 2 had been named

Butler Howard Wilkie Webster Highmore Paton Hill Crouch Wood Gresham Hayes Membrey Higgins King Sharman Marshall Steele Sinclair Ross Owens Long McKenzie OUT: Battle, Kent Byrnes # Give Owens another run # Try Butler down back, it did wonders for Sincs, some pace out of the back half # Highmore for ...

Only if it was a choice between him and Kent. I admire Geary as a bloke who squeezed every ounce of his ability and was as courageous as any player in the competition. But save for one good game opposed to Daniel two years ago, Gears looked slow and that the game had well and truly passed him by. t...

Kent was atrocious but not sure why Dan Butler gets a pass. He keeps going at this rate I highly doubt he will get another contract. Good question, but watching live it's the workrate difference for mine. Kent does not pressure, chase or push up and back nearly as hard as Butler does. Lonie must sh...

Which of Jones Billings Clarke played Friday night? NONE! Do I get a gold star? :lol: All good players, but which are/would be pure midfielders? Jones - yes B grade mid, good pace and aggression, average disposal Billings - no B grade high half forward, A grade on his day. Clark - no C grade half b...

Of course one player is not to blame. However Kent is not AFL standard and has never been more than a fringe player or back up in teams that have largely been middle to bottom teams. Whilst Kent is best 22 we will never be more than middle of the road. He’s given better service than I thought he wou...

Hayes
Sinclair
Marshall
Steele
Gresham

He played for the “probables” in match sim and drills this morning. Pretty much everyone you would expect was there but there weren’t 22 of them. “Possibles” included Owens, Windhager, Sharman, Joyce, Campbell, Long, Byrnes, Bytel, Connolly, Geary, Highmore, Kent, Lienert, NWM. Maybe three of those...

I remember meeting someone that billeted St Kilda players and had lovely things to say about all of them but according to them Paddy was an absolute tool of the highest order, extremely arrogant and ungrateful. Unfortunately he also loved to smash beers and thought he could act like Plugger in the ...

No, I don’t think the concept of Moneyball includes paying a kings ransom in draft picks and a pile of cash for a player like Brad Hill not to mention Hannebery.

I can see the similarities if you look at mature age recruiting from SANFL and players such as Paddy Ryder.

But overall no.

After yesterdays scratch match it seems Jack Hayes is a lock to play the 3rd tall back up ruck role. What a great achievement for a guy AFL recruiters found every reason to overlook for years. I hope he can do himself proud and snag a few goals in the coming weeks until Paddy returns. It’s likely t...

She had a nice set of choppers That she did :D I'd often wondered if the Captain was in fact a real captain or more of the Flight Centre Guy style captain. According to Wiki, other than just 70's pop with a cringe-worthy image, it turns out Daryl Dragon (no relation to the Hunter bros) was in fact ...