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St Kilda came home with a rush last season, has its head round coach Ross Lyon's philosophies now, and with the addition of five ready-made senior players in recruits Steven King, Charlie Gardiner, Adam Schneider, Sean Dempster and a rehabilitated Michael Gardiner, has imposing depth and evenness >>>>>>>>>>
His ladder:
Geelong
Collingwood
Hawthorn
St Kilda
Kangaroos
Port Adelaide
West Coast
Western Bulldogs
Essendon
Brisbane
Fremantle
Sydney
Melbourne
Carlton
Adelaide
Richmond
They should only play AFL games now when it's raining. Slow games of footy are so much better to watch.
2 interstate team in the top 8??????
would be a dream come true!
"Another storied win in Robert Harvey's career. They say he is the embodiment of their motto of strength through loyalty, and on the day he became just the tenth man to play 350 league games the saints reward him with a seemingly impossible victory."
its a pretty good ladder from what i can see, except i dont think the crows will drop so low, and essendon wont be so high, and tigers and blues wont be in the bottom 4. apart from that the top8 is perfect!
"Another storied win in Robert Harvey's career. They say he is the embodiment of their motto of strength through loyalty, and on the day he became just the tenth man to play 350 league games the saints reward him with a seemingly impossible victory."
Based on the last 7 years, it is more probable than not that there will be at least 4 interstate teams in the 8 and the Grand Final will be played with at least one interstate team in it.
Still, that means we are in with a chance.
Don't mind our recruiting. But I think Connolly is wrong about the team adapting to the coach's game plan. What actually happened is that dirty-track suit let the team revert back to Thomas's all-out attack game plan.
Don't praise Lyon for what happened in the second half of the season. I think the players just ignored him and he had to go along with it because his Edelstein game play had no more pink piano keys. He could still make our team even more boring than Adelaide and Sydney - keep him under control by backing the players.
Shouldn't be too mean - I was actually impressed with the recruiting at the end of 2007.
saint edward wrote:i think the ladders pretty much spot on but i would have adelaide in the 8 instead of the bulldogs and the swans at 9.
Adelaide will not get anywhere near the eight.
They have lost Hudson(No 1 Ruckman), Welsh(leading Goalkicker),Riccuito, Biglands(may have done his ACL again), Mattner, Torney(can not believe they delisted him).
Their remaining ruckman(Griffen & Maric) have played 28 games between them.
They don't have a proven key forward(Burton - erratic, Bock - injury issues, Gill - injury issues).
nicola69 wrote:But I think Connolly is wrong about the team adapting to the coach's game plan. What actually happened is that dirty-track suit let the team revert back to Thomas's all-out attack game plan.
Don't praise Lyon for what happened in the second half of the season. I think the players just ignored him and he had to go along with it because his Edelstein game play had no more pink piano keys.
Well, Grant Thomas for one disagrees.
Read his article in The Age after the Adelaide game and then his comments on radio after the Hawthorn game, both of which refute your comments.
But hey, GT was only an AFL coach and is no authority to back up the fact that Lyon's plans were working when he had more than 24 players to chose from
They should only play AFL games now when it's raining. Slow games of footy are so much better to watch.
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