Saints-06-Premiers wrote:Well Baker will be out for half the season almost.

Five of 22 rounds isn't exactly almost half the season.

EDIT: And update your username while you're at it.

At 191cm just a bit too short for CHF. But I suppose smaller have played there. No reason why he couldnt play a similar role on a flank, remembering that we have one of the best CHFs going around. Kosi to play out of the square for mine, with Gardiner/Rix rucking. Or you never know, Watts or Brooks ...

I'm sure the people sitting behind the sings really appreciated them too.

Not defending him, but part of the blame should go to the Channel 7 news director who clearly had a major part to play in all this.

such a shame he didn't get to follow up on his 'they'd have to bring in the order off rule for the grand final the year after if i played in one' quote Amen to that. They might not have put such a heavy tag on Harvey while McLeod would have been lucky to see out the first quarter if Laze had have f...

All the best to him. I enjoyed his time at St Kilda and he always gave his all. Seemed like a good bloke and its no coincidence that we've struggled with our key defenders ever since he left seven years ago. Good luck in retirement, Daggs! Wakelin to give up PORT Adelaide defender Darryl Wakelin wil...

Didn't James Begley sit with our cheersquad in the final against the Crows a few years back while he was still on the Adelaide list?

I admit it doesn't look good if it happened, but it also makes no difference to how he is going to play for us (if he ever does)

I watched that game. Hodge's supply to Franklin was mind-blowing.

Stuffs my dream team up too.
I just traded Kerr for Bartel and have now used all my trades. I'm rooted.

I'm waiting for someone to compare him to Nelson Mandela.

Or has that already happened?

That Dunkley case was probably the biggest farce ever to come from the AFL tribunal.
And that's saying something.

OK, well our defence has to consist of five words.

Barry Hall, Preliminary Final, 2005.

In fairness to North, the Nathan Thompson trade looks to have paid off.

As for J.Hay, well that was a debacle right from day one.

So...I take it you all agree with my theory, then?

I, like everyone else who has been speculating, did not see what happened. I have, however seen Bakes do a nice little trick a couple of times. (Notably against WC this year vs Kerr) What he does is he runs around about 30cm in front of a player at good speed. He then stops completely and braces his...

SaintBot wrote:...all we need to do is get the cheersquad members all wearing tight skirts

Have you had a close look at the cheer squad?
I'm not sure many of them could pull this off.

When I read this title I thought it was for something I read post-draft last year. I did a few myspace searches on some of the blokes picked and found James Sellar from the Crows. Writing something about his favourite food he was referring to sushi as "That raw stuff that nips eat." Funny ...

...to save Judd a few weeks back. Fair enough, I don't begrudge him anything there. But to see the AFL jump up and down and threaten action, you have to think that anything they do will not ensure honesty, but in fact more lying. I'm sure next time around the only thing Brown would do differently is...

He's an Adelaide boy ... why would he stay in Melbourne as ruck coach when all his ties are in South Australia, and he could play SANFL and ruck coach over there? He's also a trained veterinarian. The club might have set up a job at a clinic so he can do that and ruck coach on the side. I don't kno...

Stephen Theodore wrote:We should retain Matt Clarke as a part time ruck coach.

For all we know that was the arrangement from day one.

Actually...the more you think about it the more it makes sense that it was part of the agreement to get him on board, one year as a player then straight in to ruck coaching role.

The story behind Joffa getting dropped after 99 matches was that the person who's record he would have broken four matches later was on the StKFC Board, and didnt want his record overtaken by Joffa. Selfish. Simple as that. He played in the 2's at the G and was back in the team the next week. I hav...

Some AA traditions... A player will miss out because, although he's playing great footy, his team is getting flogged every week (WIll be Foley this year) At least once Saints player we all thought with our one-eyed view was a soda for selection will miss out (S.Fisher this year) At least 6 players ...

That is a toughy...
Wasn't Micky Dwyer was it?

From memory Dean Rice had seriously injured his knee in the pre-season, Winmar was still suspended for eye-gouging Brereton so that would rule those two out.

Bloody hell, can we ease up on the stats based ones?
I'm much better on obscure players from the early 90s.

saint66au wrote:"We hit em nice and hard..we make them drop their guard"

That's the one. So corny, but I used to love it. I actually reckon that version of the song with the instruments is much better than the drum roll and the 60-odd year old bloke singing we have these days. Just one man's opinion.