No more Grand Final replay

[Sainternist]

Yeah, I'm a bit over the boo-hooing too, fits in with the narrative of people like Dermot Brereton and the majority of the media, that we're a cot case that'll never be any good, our successes are luck and far from the norm. I much preferred it when we rose from everyone second favourite team to be one of the most hated teams in history 2009-2010...let's do that again.

Whilst they're part of the subject, it worth noting the Pies have an outstanding list of footballing failures too, but they've risen above them with every successive generation and moved on. I have the feeling with have a generation of players currently that can rise above our past failures too and develop that killer instinct again. Sob stories (of even the recent past) don't help.

Yeah it's people like Dermot Brereton who seem to relish in seeing us fail. Isn't it strange to think he could have possibly become a Saint if we were given the Frankston recruiting zone that Hawthorn were somehow granted.

You're right about us in 2009-10 becoming a hated team. Goes to show how incredibly fickle football fans are and how much of a tall poppy syndrome culture there is in Australia. Remember how everyone hated Rooey? Now most of those haters have figured out what a force of nature he is on the football field and that they look pretty dumb in booing him. I wonder if people will start hating the Bulldogs if the manage to make a GF? It wouldn't surprise me.

[bigcarl]

I see the Saints of 2004-2011 as akin to the Geelong of the late 80s-mid nineties. Close but no cigar. Our next successful era will deliver not one flag, but a dynasty

[Sainternist]

I see the Saints of 2004-2011 as akin to the Geelong of the late 80s-mid nineties. Close but no cigar. Our next successful era will deliver not one flag, but a dynasty

This has also crossed my mind. Of course, seeing is believing, but I love this type of optimism.

[saintbrat]

Nick's response

http://www.espn.com.au/afl/story/_/id/1 ... k-riewoldt