Yeah, unfortunately what I've seen so far doesn't give much cause for optimism. I think realistically we were going to drop further this year regardless, but I didn't see us dropping below Gold Coast...

Whilst we we're recruiting hacks from other clubs, they recruited and introduced youngsters who have become very good players to keep the club up. Exactly. We need to develop our own players; very rarely are other clubs rejects going to go on to become superstars. The jury is still out on Lee and H...

There is no way to spin this. GC are rubbish and they easily outplayed us. It's like if Australia lost to Kenya in a cricket match.

What we are, sadly, is the shadow of a great team. I think we're officially in rebuild mode now. We're in for a long year.

It's on 7mate in WA. GWN are airing it as well if you only have access to an analogue signal.

I'd say all four are better placed than the Saints. Who cares. More relevant is beating Richmond in Round 2, assuming we knock off GC and GWS . We will lose plenty of games against the top teams. That's a given. Yep, drop one of these and it could be come a long year. First five games are; Gold Coa...

I don't understand why they stopped selling the long sleeves guernseys. I would buy one if they sold them.

East Fremantle, I think? If Mackenzie's injury keeps him out for a few weeks then we'll see Mitch in the AFL anyway. Glass is under an injury cloud too isnt he?? Hopefully Brown gets enough game time in the coming rounds to convince him to stay an Eagle.. I agree. Why is seconds player a god amongs...

Just looked at his stats, he's never got close to 20 touches besides a career high 18 against Richmond... so still not convinced.
Good disposal should be expected for AFL level players. I think we've lost sight of that because we are used to the likes of Jones butchering it!

Thanks for that saintbrat.. About 7-8 of us were intending on flying over for 3 or 4 nights. But With those prices and inconveniences I think that may shrink to 2 or 3 unfortunately. It's nearly cheaper going to L.A. And definitely cheaper going to Thailand for a week. I thought the club would orga...

Siposs is probably the only good draft selection we've made in 5 years. Thank God Peake was able to convince RL...

Every thread seems to have someone talking him up. Of the few games I've seen him play he's looked pretty ordinary. About what you'd expect of someone who's played a couple of games.

I fear he's been nominated as the next messiah so let's hope he turns out better than Tommy Walsh!

Which one is Visy Park again? Is that Optus Oval?

Reminded me of Polo. The number didn't help.

How good is Siposs?

One of the commentators said one of Saad, Milera, etc will need to rotate through the midfield to free Siposs up at half back. Err, what about Schnadzo? In past years he's been the forward pocket to spend most of his time in the midfield.

Scollop wrote:Hopefully Milne, Roo, Blakey and Lenny cop their fair share but most of the supporters reckon the sun shines out of some of our players rectums...so I'll go with the standard answer; Kosi

Hopefully?

Hopefully we win 25 straight and there are no performances to criticise...

Do we have a better tagger?

Yes but in the second game when it seemed he had an opponent he wasnt as good. Has to learn to play on someone and still get the ball which will come. He'll develop that skill. There was one moment, I think in the second game, where he burst through a pack at CHB and shoved a few people out of the ...

Very exciting.

The 2004 win was pretty enjoyable. That whole season had a pretty good feel about it actually. We were so close.

I can just imagine the promos that will start this week... "This is why we play the game" - Dane Swan "All of summer, it builds up to this" - Buddy Franklin "There is no greater bank-sponsored glory like it" - Chris Judd "Slotting a supergoal, well there's no great...

It's obviously Riewoldt. Who will it be beyond him is the no-more-than-six-hundred-thousand dollar question.

I don't mind this clash jumper too much. It's a big improvement over some of the things we've had in the last few years... like the white jumper with a logo that looked like it had faded in the wash. This clash jumper reminds me a little bit of the hot cross bun jumper of the late 90s which I quite...

I don't mind this clash jumper too much. It's a big improvement over some of the things we've had in the last few years... like the white jumper with a logo that looked like it had faded in the wash. This clash jumper reminds me a little bit of the hot cross bun jumper of the late 90s which I quite ...

Cos Pies seem to do more wheeling and dealing than most clubs. Yep and they got rid of 2 guys that would be on good money. Yep, and got "OVERS" for both of them !! "Overs" and "Unders" - would have to be the most overused words on the forum this year! I can't remember ...

If he's such a gun, why were GC happy to let him go? We paid overs for Hickey but at 21 and a developing ruckman he's exactly what we need right now. Hickey could be a ten year player for us. With Hickey and Lee in, assuming they'll be in our 22, where does that leave Kosi? Is he no out of the side ...