With the glut of medium sized forwards, I have wondered if we're not looking at a future of foward rotations like we currently see in the midfield. Is this the way of the future?

Grew up in Bentleigh and my grandmother lived in Moorabbin within walking distance of the ground. When I was 7 in 67 she gave me a jumper (#4) and a membership. I'd stay with her on Friday nights and we'd walk up to the ground. All I remember of my first game is sitting in the Moorabbin stand and be...

Shame in my book. Of course he had his limitations; was always nervous when he was one on one and was never subtle enough in a show of strength. But he's a serviceable full back and, while the cap means we can't have a team of superstars, will be hard to replace. His left boot which cops a bit of fl...

We can quibble about his rankings or his expertise but for me the relevant thing for Saints fans is that few of us would argue that, for various reasons, we had as many players in the top echelon this year a we have had previously. At the end of 2010 there was little argument from us that Goddard an...

A plea for information here. Did anyone hear Ayres mentioned on SEN this evening? The Lioness tells me that she heard SEN discussing the coaching position and that the strong word was Ayres as frontrunner; almost a done deal. While she's not generally given to hallucinations, I'd appreciate hearing ...

Seems to me that Leigh Matthews was about right when he said (while talking of the Lyon defection) that the coach sets the 'team first' tone. Clearly Malthouse failed that test over the past few months. His footy show appearance, newspaper articles, interviews (even arguably his tears post PF) were ...

For what it's worth, here's an excerpt from the Keenan article. Perhaps there is some truth in it.... The fallout is continuing at St Kilda following the Lyon departure – but it's not all bad. Think back to the early part of the year when Jack Steven and Zac Dawson landed in trouble for breaking a...

Spaceman, happy to give the "Vain" saddlecloth to FIGJAM Buckley?

Those who feel Lyon has been revealed to be a duplicitous scoundrel will find a kindred spirit in Gerard Whateley in this article

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-16/w ... re/2901776

Collingwood win second successive premiership

Eddie bows to player pressure and Malthouse retained as coach.

Buckley to St Kilda

The Age have gone with Lyon to Freo

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/r ... 1kbmh.html

Wallace left the Bulldogs with 2 years of his contract still to run to allow him to take the Swans' job. In the end Roos thwarted that appointment.

Con Gorozidis wrote: When was the last time - if ever- a coach in vfl/afl has left a club for another club unilateraly while still under contract and with 12 months to go?.

Malthouse?

So who's had the toughest draw and who's enjoyed the armchair ride? If we take the likely points at the end of the H&A and allocate them to each team played, we get: Eagles 876 SunsX2, PortX2, PiesX1, CatsX1, HawksX1 Hawks 882 Crows 906 Lions 928 Norh 928 Pies 942 Dees 962 Cats 964 Tiggers 966 S...

th umps did all they could to get Freo back into the game in the 2nd quarter. Plucked frees from nowhere time and time again. My observation is that you'll see this phenomenon in many games each year. I don't think it's a deliberate thing or aimed at any particular club - but when one team works it...

The point for me is that while all coaches unashamedly and rightly borrow and mimic effective strategies from other teams, Malthouse seems to be the only one who is unable to concede that he's done so.

Despite Mick's protestations that his gameplan had been modelled on the Roman Legion and had been years in development, Paul Roos observes in todays HeraldSun that Collingwood's gameplan took a radical change of direction about the time Luke Ball joined the club. Interesting article which outlines e...

I'm with DBD on this one. Far too little emphasis on the physical appearance of our players in recent years. We yearn for the days of Barks and Michael Roberts cutting a scythe through the social club on Saturday night. Surely this is one of the great traditions of the St Kilda football club. All of...

Dangerous thing to do I know .... but if you award each remaining game to the team currently ranked highest on the ladder, we're left with a 3 way tie for 8th spot with Saints, Melbourne and Essendon (currently all within 2 percentage points of each other) and 6 points shy of teams above and below. ...

Here's the thing for me, according to the lead article in 'The Age', "The Saturday Age understands McGuire worked hard to reduce Shaw's suspension from being a season-ending one." Since when do club presidents get involved in negotiating the length of AFL suspensions? http://www.theage.com...

According to HS this afternoon, Daniel Kerr is doubtful for this week's clash.

Wouldn't hurt our chances.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/w ... 6093998371

The press is unusually quiet.

But there must be a question mark about Selwood's availability after an alleged off the ball incident with a now injured Guerra.

I'll be watching tomorrow's MRP with interest.

While I know that there have now been plenty of precedents, I still don't understand why you can contest the charge and get the 25% discout for pleading guilty at the same time. My understanding was that the discount was for those who accepted the panel's findng and the tribunal was spared the incon...

Patrick Smith in a gentle slap at Eddie today speaks of the scourge of racism - but the counter productive nature of squealing racism when it isn't...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sp ... 6070506101

AFL targets stars for performance-enhancing drugs testing HeraldSun picks it up. Original implication by Footy Show that the AFL were honing in on a new drug scam (my interpretation) seems to have been toned down to news of a new testing regime which is not random but targetted at players whose perf...