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well done MIlney- 150 up
despite those who said you couldn't/ wouldn't/ shouldn't play because of your style - Well done on 150 games for the saints
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Re: well done MIlney- 150 up
saintbrat wrote:despite those who said you couldn't/ wouldn't/ shouldn't play because of your style - Well done on 150 games for the saints
Well done im not his greatest fan, but 150 games thats an event and i applaud you milney.
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i posted my own tribute in an article on saints central if any body is at all interested..it's not too over the top!!
http://www.saintscentral.com.au/Detail.aspx?id=301
dunno if that link will work.. anyway good job milney, lookin forward to going over to brissy.
i posted my own tribute in an article on saints central if any body is at all interested..it's not too over the top!!
http://www.saintscentral.com.au/Detail.aspx?id=301
dunno if that link will work.. anyway good job milney, lookin forward to going over to brissy.
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Proved me wrong over and over again, every time I think that the spot of the specialist FP is over and we would be better playing another mid field option in the FP he comes out and has a blinder and you can not justify saying he should be dropped.
2 goals per game is an excellent record and 150 a great mile stone, Also had the pleasure of spending a couple of hours chatting to him in 05 and he is a good bloke, with a real charachter and individuallity and is not pretending to be anything different. Wears his heart on his sleeve on match day and tries his ass off every week.
2 goals per game is an excellent record and 150 a great mile stone, Also had the pleasure of spending a couple of hours chatting to him in 05 and he is a good bloke, with a real charachter and individuallity and is not pretending to be anything different. Wears his heart on his sleeve on match day and tries his ass off every week.
Maybe this year?
I think pretty much only jeff farmer has a better goal average as a small forward in the league over Milne, and even then by a less than .1 per game.
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for those wanting a medhurst or an aaron davey or a whatnot.
I give you a geniune 6 year proven forward who can average 2 goals a game for a season.
also holds jointly the record for the most consecutive goals without a point with plugger i believer.
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for those wanting a medhurst or an aaron davey or a whatnot.
I give you a geniune 6 year proven forward who can average 2 goals a game for a season.
also holds jointly the record for the most consecutive goals without a point with plugger i believer.
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well done Milney - most exciting player in the team - and that's what makes footy great - individual players doing what comes naturally, not thinking of consequence but backing themselves. Think Barker leaping dangerously, Brereton running through huddles, Nicky pointing the finger, hell even Jacko doing handstands, and Milney playing on and snapping!
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Give his due ......
He never hags his head down , always full of spirit .
Sometimes he should go back and trust a straight forward shot rather than running off .....but then no one is perfect.
A delight to watch and to think GT would have got rid of him !!!
Well done Milney !!!!!
If only ALL the team had the same dedication ..
PS people forget the times he gives it off .....he is a star
He never hags his head down , always full of spirit .
Sometimes he should go back and trust a straight forward shot rather than running off .....but then no one is perfect.
A delight to watch and to think GT would have got rid of him !!!
Well done Milney !!!!!
If only ALL the team had the same dedication ..
PS people forget the times he gives it off .....he is a star
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From the Herald-Sun:
STEPHEN Milne accepts he might be the most despised player in the AFL, but the cheeky St Kilda forward has a message for his detractors: "I love it."
"I do, I love it," he said.
"I say to the boys at the club, you don't hate every player, but once you cross the line you hate every other player who plays for the opposition.
"When I hear other teams say things about me, I just laugh, the boys laugh, and I really thrive on it."
Opposition supporters, he said, also inspire him.
"You should go and sit in the opposition cheer squad one day and listen to a few of things they say, not just to me, but to the G-Train as well," he said.
"Some of it's funny, some of it's OK, and some of it, well, you wouldn't want your mum and nanna to hear it.
"That's OK, the fans love it, they pay their membership and they want their team to win, but it's good when one of the boys is having a shot and kicks a goal, you turn around and give them (the fans) a smile or a kiss and that gets them even more fired up.
"It's all good fun."
Love him or hate him, Milne is a survivor and on Sunday against the Brisbane Lions he plays his 150th game for the Saints.
One of the most popular players at Moorabbin, he conceded his journey was dotted with highs and lows, both on and off the field, but the thrill of reaching 150 games with his beloved Saints was a proud achievement.
"It's amazing to think I'm coming up to my 150th, it's come along quicker than I thought," he said.
"I came off the rookie list in 2001 under Blighty and here I am playing my 150th."
At 28, Milne has proven to be a resilient player.
He's missed one game through injury, in 2002, and has been dropped "five or six times". Otherwise, he's played every game in the seniors.
His career tally of goals - 291 - averages out at a fraction less than two per game, which is more than serviceable for a small forward.
He thinks it strange his career might have been finished at the end of the 2006 season if Grant Thomas, who was sacked post-season, had stayed as coach and not been replaced by Ross Lyon.
Thomas has revealed since that Milne would have been delisted or traded if he remained in charge.
"I'm pretty lucky I suppose that Thommo got the boot because I wouldn't be at home talking like this, I would be somewhere else, so I'm pretty lucky to be playing 150 for the same club," Milne said.
"To be honest, I'm over the moon.
"I've had a lot of people tell me I wouldn't make it, and that's still going, and that's fair enough.
They have got their opinions and I've got my opinions, but unfortunately I'm the kind of guy who gets his name thrown up a lot of times, and that's the kind of thing that gets me going.
"People say to me, did you read that article, did you see that on the news, and even though I'm hearing all that, I just can't wait to play the next game for the St Kilda footy club and I'm looking forward to the weekend, winning the next game and singing that song because there's no better feeling than being in the rooms after a win."
Milne arrived at the Saints from Essendon reserves via the rookie list. He was small, light and pigeon-holed as a selfish, instinctive crumbing forward with a disregard for the defensive side of the game.
He had flair, a so-called nose for the goals, but the Saints made him earn his spot on the senior list.
"I was at St Kilda for two years and I had played 50 or 60 games (in the VFL) before I got elevated," he said. "At the start it was about being front and square, don't get in the talls' way, and it's kind of stayed the same way seven or eight years down the track.
"My defensive side wasn't up to scratch, but I got bigger in the body, I matured, and that's come along in the past couple of years."
He accepts the criticisms of his style, and even concedes after watching tapes of himself playing that the critics have had ample ammunition.
"The last three or four years, I ran forward of the ball, looking for goals, and thought that goals would keep me in the side, and they did for a while when we weren't going so good," he said.
"But now under Rossy's game plan, it's all about my pressure, my efforts, and how hard I'm working, that's kept me in the side and the goals have come as a benefit of that."
Still, Milne has the power to frustrate opposition and Saints fans alike, particularly his penchant to play on near goal. When it works, his energy is contagious. When it doesn't, the ridicule follows.
Admitting to a change in thinking, he said he wanted to control the instinct to play on.
"I can totally understand why fans get frustrated, and they probably do think I'm not hurting as well," he said.
"But I am.
"I think straight away, 'Should I have gone back and really nailed it?'.
"I'm a good set shot, but I'm good at snaps as well, but sometimes I feel more comfortable opening the angle a little more.
"I've got to change that. I've got to go back, give the midfielders a break, take the 30 seconds and nail it with purpose.
I've got to take that little bit of flair out of my game, take the responsibility and go back and kick the goal."
Milne, who stressed the influence of Lyon on himself and his game, is out of contract at the end of the season and has begun contract negotiations.
STEPHEN Milne accepts he might be the most despised player in the AFL, but the cheeky St Kilda forward has a message for his detractors: "I love it."
"I do, I love it," he said.
"I say to the boys at the club, you don't hate every player, but once you cross the line you hate every other player who plays for the opposition.
"When I hear other teams say things about me, I just laugh, the boys laugh, and I really thrive on it."
Opposition supporters, he said, also inspire him.
"You should go and sit in the opposition cheer squad one day and listen to a few of things they say, not just to me, but to the G-Train as well," he said.
"Some of it's funny, some of it's OK, and some of it, well, you wouldn't want your mum and nanna to hear it.
"That's OK, the fans love it, they pay their membership and they want their team to win, but it's good when one of the boys is having a shot and kicks a goal, you turn around and give them (the fans) a smile or a kiss and that gets them even more fired up.
"It's all good fun."
Love him or hate him, Milne is a survivor and on Sunday against the Brisbane Lions he plays his 150th game for the Saints.
One of the most popular players at Moorabbin, he conceded his journey was dotted with highs and lows, both on and off the field, but the thrill of reaching 150 games with his beloved Saints was a proud achievement.
"It's amazing to think I'm coming up to my 150th, it's come along quicker than I thought," he said.
"I came off the rookie list in 2001 under Blighty and here I am playing my 150th."
At 28, Milne has proven to be a resilient player.
He's missed one game through injury, in 2002, and has been dropped "five or six times". Otherwise, he's played every game in the seniors.
His career tally of goals - 291 - averages out at a fraction less than two per game, which is more than serviceable for a small forward.
He thinks it strange his career might have been finished at the end of the 2006 season if Grant Thomas, who was sacked post-season, had stayed as coach and not been replaced by Ross Lyon.
Thomas has revealed since that Milne would have been delisted or traded if he remained in charge.
"I'm pretty lucky I suppose that Thommo got the boot because I wouldn't be at home talking like this, I would be somewhere else, so I'm pretty lucky to be playing 150 for the same club," Milne said.
"To be honest, I'm over the moon.
"I've had a lot of people tell me I wouldn't make it, and that's still going, and that's fair enough.
They have got their opinions and I've got my opinions, but unfortunately I'm the kind of guy who gets his name thrown up a lot of times, and that's the kind of thing that gets me going.
"People say to me, did you read that article, did you see that on the news, and even though I'm hearing all that, I just can't wait to play the next game for the St Kilda footy club and I'm looking forward to the weekend, winning the next game and singing that song because there's no better feeling than being in the rooms after a win."
Milne arrived at the Saints from Essendon reserves via the rookie list. He was small, light and pigeon-holed as a selfish, instinctive crumbing forward with a disregard for the defensive side of the game.
He had flair, a so-called nose for the goals, but the Saints made him earn his spot on the senior list.
"I was at St Kilda for two years and I had played 50 or 60 games (in the VFL) before I got elevated," he said. "At the start it was about being front and square, don't get in the talls' way, and it's kind of stayed the same way seven or eight years down the track.
"My defensive side wasn't up to scratch, but I got bigger in the body, I matured, and that's come along in the past couple of years."
He accepts the criticisms of his style, and even concedes after watching tapes of himself playing that the critics have had ample ammunition.
"The last three or four years, I ran forward of the ball, looking for goals, and thought that goals would keep me in the side, and they did for a while when we weren't going so good," he said.
"But now under Rossy's game plan, it's all about my pressure, my efforts, and how hard I'm working, that's kept me in the side and the goals have come as a benefit of that."
Still, Milne has the power to frustrate opposition and Saints fans alike, particularly his penchant to play on near goal. When it works, his energy is contagious. When it doesn't, the ridicule follows.
Admitting to a change in thinking, he said he wanted to control the instinct to play on.
"I can totally understand why fans get frustrated, and they probably do think I'm not hurting as well," he said.
"But I am.
"I think straight away, 'Should I have gone back and really nailed it?'.
"I'm a good set shot, but I'm good at snaps as well, but sometimes I feel more comfortable opening the angle a little more.
"I've got to change that. I've got to go back, give the midfielders a break, take the 30 seconds and nail it with purpose.
I've got to take that little bit of flair out of my game, take the responsibility and go back and kick the goal."
Milne, who stressed the influence of Lyon on himself and his game, is out of contract at the end of the season and has begun contract negotiations.
GO SAINTS
NICK RIEWOLDT - 444 GOALS FROM 200 MATCHES
STEPHEN MILNE - 440 GOALS FROM 216 MATCHES
NICK RIEWOLDT - 444 GOALS FROM 200 MATCHES
STEPHEN MILNE - 440 GOALS FROM 216 MATCHES
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