Con and Johnny remain unavailable, and we werenāt able to contact Shane Grambeau. (Word is heās gone underground.) Lazar was also unavailable. (His presence was missed.)
Last Saturdayās game!
What can be said!?! Whispering Ted is so happy heās still performing cartwheels over at <definite article deleted by mods> choachās safe house, along with tony2019 (his new mate from Big Footy). Ted has declared us premiers, but he still canāt decide which Saintās player will win the Brownlow, or the Norm Smith. (Though, word is, Ted is leaning towards Snowy Carlisle. But itās early days, so need to rush that decision Ted.)
Parquetry Sainter is just like Ted and is very very happy also. One could say that he was floored by the result.
Rodger is also ecstatic. So much so, when Rodger finished cartwheeling with Ted and tony2029, he declared that if we win again next week, then he will renew St Kilda membership.
Oh Rodger...................
Things to like:
- The Marshall! Ok, their much bigger ruckman won more taps, but didnāt matter, as we pretty much squared the clearances. But what matters, the Marshall gave us an extra man around the ground. Still want to see him primarily up forward though.
- The mature age blokes ā again! And just wait till our favourite Parker builds his tank to give us closer to four quarters of entertainment!
- Paddy didnāt get concussed. (We think...?)
- The Greshā spending more time in the middle. The bloke is a brilliant small forward. The bloke is on the way to also being a brilliant on-baller. (Thank-you Darcy Parish.
)- Hannersā rebuilding is listed as āindefiniteā, not the career-ending ā2 weeksā. (Itās rumoured that the club may apply to the Andrewsā government for capital works funding for this.)
- Billings (aka to some as, āIād rather have pick 9ā
) has become a very consistent player. And a very good player.- Geary is a legend. (What you said Rodge!)
- Simon (aka The Troll Hunter)) easily wins this yearās best April Foolsā Day ruse. Turned into an interesting thread too. viewtopic.php?f=30&t=97341
This one could have been another contender. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=97355#p1781767 But was ruled ineligible, being submitted after the traditional midday deadline. Stay tuned though.
So there you have it. Turns out that TTL is not an ancient Greek philosopher. Heās actually Norwegian. Wonder how heād go providing a presence in the ruck?
- Whilst injuries have effectively cost us several players this year, we have also (effectively) got back two missing blokes.................. The Bruce, and Jack Newnes.
- Nathan āthe Rock of Gibraltarā Brown is back. (Still do not get the lack of love.
)- Acres back too.
Things to love:
- The drug dealersā crowd booing their own at quarter time. Takes one to know one, you <deleted by mods>s. (Unfortunately, to date, Rohan Connolly has been unavailable for comment.)
- Acres back too. And he didnāt ruck.
Things to improve:
- Weāre still a marking option light in the forward line. Put the Marshall up there! Or at the least, Battle (who is wasted down back). Then get those marking forwards to bloody well SPREAD!!!
- Playing two rucks also gives us the option of dropping a big body back to help out the undersized defence. Wilkie in the square late in the last quarter against Bellchambers, is a match-up that should never be allowed to happen. (Just like the undersized Joyce on Wright last week ā no wonder he was giving away frees.)
- Weāre still lovinā the bomb.
The Bruce mark of the year actually should not have been needed. Instead of bombing and hoping, Greshā ignored a loose running option on his outside, who could have run in and had a shot from ~40m out.- Goal-bloody-kicking!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Should have been bloody 7.2 to 0.2 at quarter time, and game (pretty much) over!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spare a thought for our opponents:
Whilst highly enjoyable, their start to the season is not unexpected. As this exclusive footage, secretly filmed over the Effendrugcheats pre-season training sessions shows................................... you play as you train (fail).
Opposition player/s to bag:
None this week. Weāre feeling charitable. Sure, it would be easy to name the three bumblers who all failed to man Lonieās mark. But to be fair, as it was Lonie, they might not have seen. Or Parish kicking into his own man. (If Hurley had been watching the ball, instead of replays of āthatā mark, he wouldnāt have strolled in front of Parish). Besides, weāre just way happy too having Snowy and the Gresh, instead of Parish, to gloat any further.
In fact, weāre feeling so magnanimous, that we didnāt even stoop to this kind of vindictive behaviour
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=97318&sid=8305b833b ... 5#p1781384 (Not that we didnāt enjoy it.
)In fact, embracing a truer sense of compassion and inclusiveness, after joining those at the Adelaide Oval in singing our song post match, we then sang the Bumblerās song too. Sing along also if you like. Everyone at least knows the chorus.
And good on Hannersā. As reported last week, his leaving of some talcum powder for use after the showers was very much appreciated by the vanquished team.
INS:
Louey or Lazar. (See points 1 & 2 of āThings to improveā.) And yes, Louey was disappointing last week. Yet, even his worst saw him get more possieās than Mr No Stats averaged for all of last year. And Louey actually has upside potential.
Actually, itās covered (and nailed) really well in this report received on Sunday.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=97306&sid=8305b833b ... 5#p1781331
OUTS:
Some unlucky poor bastard. Or Dan McKenzie.
And maybe Dunstan out too, for some speed in? (But first, we have to run that one by desertsaint for clearance to proceed. He'll probably say no.)
Stiff as:
Clark, H.
Clarke, F.F.S.
Our remaining Irishman.
Can it happen?
Beating he whose name we must not speakās purple monstrosities next week on their own dung heap ā our first time this season venturing away from Linton Lodger Stadium??? I hope so. Our club needs every membership that it can get. Right, Rodge?
It can happen:
We can win this one!
- If, we get the team balance right. (Thatās a big āifā.)
- If, we kick even straightish on goal. (Thatās a seeming lottery with us.)
- If, our marking forwards bloody well spread, and our midsā donāt bloody well default to the long bomb!!! (Thatās looking like being one for the ādreamersā.)
I hope so. Our club needs every membership that it can get. Right, Rodge?
Thoughts, Johnny?
Thoughts, Saintsationalists?
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Oh Rodger! <swoon>
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