Team v Gold Coast

[IluvHarvey]

Classic Richo: complain on Monday about how badly we were beaten in the middle and then select all the same midfielders.

So who does he bring in to the midfield then?

[thejiggingsaint]

poor selections from a longer term view, but richo needs a win and has picked for that.

“Picked for that” ? man he’d do better picking his nose!

[DWOODROW]

Saintsational the gift that keeps on giving.

[parkeysainter]

Saintsational the gift that keeps on giving.

Yep. You will find some of footys greatest minds and brains in this joint...not.

[Con Gorozidis]

Where the hell is Acres?

[saintbob]

Classic Richo: complain on Monday about how badly we were beaten in the middle and then select all the same midfielders.

Plus, he’s made us even slower in the midfield by adding Armo and Billy

[thejiggingsaint]

Classic Richo: complain on Monday about how badly we were beaten in the middle and then select all the same midfielders.

Plus, he’s made us even slower in the midfield by adding Armo and Billy

Let’s face it.... He just wants OUT! But is just too polite to hand his notice in!

[DWOODROW]

Classic Richo: complain on Monday about how badly we were beaten in the middle and then select all the same midfielders.

Plus, he’s made us even slower in the midfield by adding Armo and Billy

Cause the teams been goin g so well with the so called pace we have had in instead of them hahaha

[ace]

Tough call on Hickey.
He isn't the reason we have only won one game.

We didn't do too good in the AFL Fantasy points.
No-one got 100 points or over.
Our highest was a guy called Tom Hickey 97 points.
But Callum Sinclair got 110 points.
Hickey 8 kicks, 3 handballs, 1 mark, 30 hitouts, 1 free for, 8 tackles, 1 behind.

I think Hickey's agent would already be shopping him around.
He is entitled to be completed pissed.
Whipping boy for our useless midfielders who could not get a clearance.
Jack Steven 7 kicks, 6 handballs, 49 fantasy points.
Handballing to each other in close until the opposition get possession and clear the ball away.

Longer won't touch the ball half as often.

[ace]

This team is the team you pick if you have been told this is your last game as coach unless you win.
Unfortunately turning to your favourites to save your job may be just the cause of losing your job.

Gold Coast youngsters will come out full of enthusiasm believing they can win.
Our guys will just be playing another game.

[bigcarl]

Hickey very stiff. Let’s hope Billy makes his possession count.

[Yorkeys]

Do we know who is on the selection panel. I imagine Richo would be dominated by the views of the other member(s) so it would be interesting, Sexton for instance?. Obviously Weller has a contact where he doesn't get paid but must be selected for 20 games and any where his brother is in the opposition. Otherwise his selection can only mean they are using darts on the list posted in the corridor board and Coffield and Phillips were bullseye and triple 20, Richo could hit those numbers in a fit.

[desertsaint]

poor selections from a longer term view, but richo needs a win and has picked for that.

“Picked for that” ? man he’d do better picking his nose!

hey, i never said he picked right!

[cwrcyn]

Billy Longer will give 5 handballs to players within 2 metres, get one kick from a chaos ball that lands on his chest, will have no scores, no score assists. He will take no contested marks. He'll get some hit outs, though. He'll be, as Richo says, "Strong at the contest". Trouble is, the only contest he gets to is the ruck contest

[saintsRrising]

I don’t think this forum is going to be able to handle Stonecold’s excitement for the next few week!

Billy’s done well being flown in for the easiest game of the season!

Same thing happened a while back. Hickey had some tough opponents and then Longer comes in against easier opponents and teams.

Richo's decisions defies any logic.

[saintsRrising]

The guy is a one trick pony - manic pressure in the forward line and nothing else.

Fully agree.

This was a good strategy half a decade ago, but all coaches know how to counter it now.

[saintsRrising]

If Armo plays as a mid I can understand the selection.

If he plays as a forward again, then no.

With Billings please Richo play him as wing or hb...and not as a small forward. Billings sets up play beautifully and if we play him there his confidence will build.

[bigred]

This is tanking plain and simple.

Getting a game or two into Longer in the vain or perhaps plain misguided thought that he might generate some currency come the trade period. Same goes for Weller.

I didn't think Phillips compared too poorly last week when compared to the rest of the list.. I mean, think about that for a moment.

I am hoping that is the last we see of Lonie. Thank you for your service, even for 2018 which was just plain above and beyond.

The one that truly irks me is Brown.

Suns by 25 and TWO weeks of torture as the club gets torn apart externally, and internally.

Oh and Billings will be played deep forward. Wont see the ball and will have a howler. Press will be all over him.

[chico2001]

Who is Armitage going to beat? Gifted a game against possibly the weakest side in the competition and the same for Longer. Couple of the young blokes had to be rested and that's fair enough. Glad they got rid of Lonie, will never be a 100 game player for any AFL club but will make a damn fine vice captain in the magoos. If this is all we have with only Acres (no star) to come in then OMG saints in massive trouble. My solution is to relocate to Tasmania otherwise a merger is on the way.

[CURLY]

Billy Longer will give 5 handballs to players within 2 metres, get one kick from a chaos ball that lands on his chest, will have no scores, no score assists. He will take no contested marks. He'll get some hit outs, though. He'll be, as Richo says, "Strong at the contest". Trouble is, the only contest he gets to is the ruck contest

I would much prefer our ruckman handballing it to blokes that can kick. I watched the VFL last week what a treat it was to see blokes giving it off to players like Billings that can kick.

[terry smith rules]

The kids have had alot of games this year, alot more than they were meant to which is great for the club long term. There is no point in destroying their bodies and making them play 22 games in their first year. There are still heaps of games left. Phillips and Coffield will get another crack. Its a balancing act and we were way too young last week hence why we got destroyed.

Finally on page 3 some sense

5 players under 10 games last week

Phillips will become a good player but from my spot on the wing looked tentative at times, which did not look good

[The Fireman]

If Billy has a shocker..suspend Stonecold for a week.

[St Chris]

Don’t hate the changes.

Shows we’re not overreacting and doing desperate things. If Richo’s mantra is

Arno had to play after 40-odd against a tag.

Hickey has to get rid of the brain fade moments - the uncontested mark on the goal line a few weeks back, and going to the bench last week, it shows a lack of intensity and concentration.

Coffield and Phillips are probably sore. There’s no doubt thier output has been reduced in recent week, I reckon Rice is not far behind either. Give them a proper break over the bye round

[parkeysainter]

The kids have had alot of games this year, alot more than they were meant to which is great for the club long term. There is no point in destroying their bodies and making them play 22 games in their first year. There are still heaps of games left. Phillips and Coffield will get another crack. Its a balancing act and we were way too young last week hence why we got destroyed.

Finally on page 3 some sense

5 players under 10 games last week

Phillips will become a good player but from my spot on the wing looked tentative at times, which did not look good

Yep. We had too many kids last week. They need to be played in blocks and not all at the same time.

[sunsaint]

If Billy has a shocker..suspend Stonecold for a week.

it is the perfect game for him to come back in - there will be plenty of experience around him at stoppages this week against the Suns
Both rucks are tap winners but pretty useless around the ground - so it will be interesting to see who actually goes forward first
Witt is an example of what happens to a player who falls out of favour with coach (Buckley)