Our Team of the Decade...(2000-2009)

[saintsRrising]

The decade has a year and half to go. A lot can happen in that time ( I hope). Too early to call yet.

No..The Naughties finishes this year.

2010 is the first year of the next decade.

Year 0...was the first year..Year 9 the tenth year.

[terry smith rules]

if Sammy G goes all aus or close this year, then surely he is selected.

[older saint]

B: Jones, Hudghton, Baker
HB: Voss, Maguire, S Fisher
C: Dal Santo, Hayes, Thompson
HF: Hamill, Roo, Powell
F:Milne, Gerhig, Kosi
Foll:Everitt, Harvey, Ball

Int: Blake, Montagna, Goddard, Peckett

Based on criteria of performance from 2000- not career, hence no Burke or Loewe.
Everitt Lucky we have not had any good ruckmen during that time: Knobel, Capuano, Brooks,

[SaintBot]

Slightly irrelevant but here is a quickly made comparison between the 2009 (potential) grand final side and the 1997 season team.

1997
FB: S.Sziller – J.Shanahan – M.Hudghton
HB: J.Cripps – D.Wakelin – J.Peckett
C: T.Brown – A.Thompson – A.Jones
HF: N.Winmar – S.Loewe – J.Smith
FF: B.Hall – J.Heatley – M.Lappin
R: P.Everitt – R.Harvey – N.Burke
I/C: J.Daniels – D.Sierakowski – M.Young – L.Vidovic


2009
FB: Z.Dawson – M.Hudghton – S.Baker
HB: S.Gilbert – J.Blake – S.Fisher
C: L.Montagna – L.Hayes – F.Ray
HF: B.Goddard – N.Riewoldt – J.Gram
FF: S.Milne – J.Koschitzke – A.Schneider
R: M.Gardiner – C.Jones – N.Dal Santo
I/C: L.Ball – J.Geary – A.McQualter – S.King


There are so many promising young names in that 1997 squad who went on to have very good careers elsewhere (Lappin, Everitt, Smith, Hall), shame really.

[older saint]

Slightly irrelevant but here is a quickly made comparison between the 2009 (potential) grand final side and the 1997 season team.

1997
FB: S.Sziller – J.Shanahan – M.Hudghton
HB: J.Cripps – D.Wakelin – J.Peckett
C: T.Brown – A.Thompson – A.Jones
HF: N.Winmar – S.Loewe – J.Smith
FF: B.Hall – J.Heatley – M.Lappin
R: P.Everitt – R.Harvey – N.Burke
I/C: J.Daniels – D.Sierakowski – M.Young – L.Vidovic



2009
FB: Z.Dawson – M.Hudghton – S.Baker
HB: S.Gilbert – J.Blake – S.Fisher
C: L.Montagna – L.Hayes – F.Ray
HF: B.Goddard – N.Riewoldt – J.Gram
FF: S.Milne – J.Koschitzke – A.Schneider
R: M.Gardiner – C.Jones – N.Dal Santo
I/C: L.Ball – J.Geary – A.McQualter – S.King


There are so many promising young names in that 1997 squad who went on to have very good careers elsewhere (Lappin, Everitt, Smith, Hall), shame really.

If that had have beenthe grand final side we would now have 2 premierships not 1

[JABBER]

B Penny Max S Fisher
Hb Voss goose A Jones
C Hayes Harvey Black
Hf Montagna Reiwoldt Hamill
F milne Gehrig loewe
R koschitke Thompson Burke
I Dal Peckett Baker Spider

zero is not a number the first year starts with 01 do we have June 0
the first day is the first of june ask any one who studies maths will tell you
numbers start with 1

[BigMart]

Jabber.....

can you explain to me how 5 players who never had a top ten B&F finish made your side ahead of L.Ball - who has won a B&F, Finished 3rd in another and was an All Aust and Captain????.....

and how exactly did the most overrated player to have played for us in H.Black.....with one top ten finish (8th in 2004) in sixty odd games....actually came into consideration......seriously....and he made the 18 ahead of Dal who has had 4 top 5 B&F finishes and has played 150 games....and would be leading atm?????

Black was twice dropped for average form in a season (03, 05) and made the team of the decade.........Gram - Runner up B&F in 2006.....

[saintsRrising]

zero is not a number the first year starts with 01 do we have June 0
the first day is the first of june ask any one who studies maths will tell you
numbers start with 1

No...we do not have 0 June, but June is not continious....but we do have zero year.

Were you born 1 year old?

No you were born 0 days, 0 years and only got to be 1 year old after a year.

Years are counted at the end of the year and not the beginning.

Whereas the convention for day date is that the date starts in the first second asa whole unit.

[JABBER]

luke Ball is a very good player better player than Black but Black better on a wing its my opinion a lot of players missed out

the great numbers debate when you start counting do you say 12345678910
or0123456789
the other week at a trivia night the question was who was the first victorian team to win the flag in the 21st century. the answer was Gellong 2007 Essendon 2000 was last year of the century.

[saintsRrising]

luke Ball is a very good player better player than Black but Black better on a wing its my opinion a lot of players missed out

the great numbers debate when you start counting do you say 12345678910
or0123456789
the other week at a trivia night the question was who was the first victorian team to win the flag in the 21st century. the answer was Gellong 2007 Essendon 2000 was last year of the century.

Yes you are correct...and I have just realised that I was wrong
Should have remembered as most people celeberated the new millinium one year too early.

Year are counted differently that people birthdays...which I guess is where the confusion comes from.

[Otiman]

FB Ferguson Stone Delaney
HB Ryan Schwartz Davis
C Begley Callaghan Fiora
HF Howard Wulf Gale
FF Sweeney Watts Murray
R Brooks Beetham McGough
INT Ackland Plapp Charles Capuano
Emg Oliver Walton Campbell

No Lawrence? Elliot? Moyle? Pfitzner? Monkhorst? Please!