rodgerfox wrote:

Teflon wrote:
And avoiding all the "20 games in and Ross is inflexible" dribble..(as Dodgy remarkably points out - HE IS TEACHING A NEW PLAYING STYLE

'Remarkably points out'??

I've been saying this since September last year.

what makes you so sure I wasnt commenting on your consistency?

The opening quarter by the saints was as red hot as anything I have seen in the past two years. Given we have fallen away in the last term many times this year we needed to maximize the dominance we had by putting a lot of score board pressure on. It appears the RL style of play is very taxing on t...

Will the announcement we have been dreading (for the past couple of seasons) finally be made over the course of the following week? Is this mere speculation (for want of something to start up a thread to get a debate going), or do you know something - even 1% of something? This is a discussion foru...

Hope ure right Casey.

Also from what I understand IF Pies lose they risk dropping to 6 or 7 and a trip to WA second week in.....not good....

Then why on gods earth would Malthouse be talking bout resting players????

IF Collingwood rest players ...tank....they might feeltop 4 is already gawn and therefore decide......play an equal town favorite in St Kilda? or face a travelling Adelaide???

Hmmmm......I reckon Mick knows who he wants to face......

Pies maybe get Fraser back next week also I think....

Not sure what they r like at the Dome...

Big dumb pr!ck...f@rk me.....

The Crows are gonna come hard for this and have a good record in big games...............Collingwood better do the right thing...

any injuries from crows/lions game......

Pies maybe get Fraser back next week,,,,,hopoefully nothing in the Rocca knock.........AND they get a real sniff for top 4.......they need that added spice to go top 4 IMO.

whats the Pies record against Crows like?

surely they now have th incentive of playing for a top 4 spot?????

geez solar ....Im prayin ure right....

GO PIES!

GO EAGLES...

Just to be sure,...

so.....assuming we win.......

SHOULD Collingwood/West Coast win....we are in? yeah?

Geelong 21 18 3 0 2411 1540 72 156.5 2 West Coast 21 14 7 0 2030 1811 56 112.1 4 Hawthorn 21 13 8 0 1992 1732 52 115.0 3 Port Adel 21 13 8 0 2175 1967 52 110.5 5 Kangaroos 21 13 8 0 2005 1886 52 106.3 6 Collingwood 21 13 8 0 1950 1907 52 102.2 7 Sydney 21 11 9 1 1899 1643 46 115.5 10 Adelaide 21 11...

I like this sort of discussion cause it focuses on where we are going BUT.......you end up reading through peoples lists and realise if we took that path we'd have 15 players left... Facts are we aint gonna get 4 Judds and a partridge in a pear tree at draft time....so I spose while its tempting aft...

hmm still need a bit to go our way.

Are Eagles next week effectively playing for a home final????

u have any good news?

yep thats how I see it....although I heasr Rocca may be in trouble for an indiscriminate smack in the mouth to Goodes....

The reality is that who else could have played on Cousins? No one at St Kilda is fit enough to keep up with him. That is the sad reality. Blake is our fittest player, and he was stuffed. Blake is fit...but he also didnt have the burst speed off the mark to stay with Cousins...or give him 5 meters h...

Yeah I feel the same way..........and should the Pies lose tonight...they simply HAVE to beat Adelaide next week...

Im leaning more towards...lets just knock Brisbane out of the equation soon as...

Obviously involves beating Richmond but looking at the different senerios I believe we should barrack for Adelaide to -night and hope like Hell that Collingwood beat them at Telstra next week...wouldn't be confident that Geelong will have an incentive to beat Brisbane at the Gabba in the last round...

does it matter? I can see Collingwood rolling Adelaide - Geelong in Brsibane...hmm..the Lions are a different side..and with Browne and their backs to the wall..(and would Geelong maybe give the likes of a sorfe Bartel the extra week off before finals?????...be temtping...) Collingwood have more to ...

Lorsi analysis is dribble and shows all the signs of someone who watched the game on TV.......you just dont see enough Loris Im afraid... 2nd half Blake simply didnt - for ALL his vaunted engine - have capacity to go with Cousins...he was stuffed and it showed when he started to allow Cousins 5/10 m...

Sorry Barks - midfield match ups in the 3rd didnt cost us the game - players who by foot could not hit the side of a barn ALL over the ground cost us. We had plenty of chances going fwd in the 3rd and stuffed it with pathetic skill errors and dumb decision making. I agree I wouldve moved (with hinds...

Our recruiting at St Kilda has been pretty average I think. To me it appears that we have been picking players for a hard, contested, old Brisbane of 2003 style game. Winning the contested ball being all important. The theory being it doesn't matter how fast the opposition is if they don't have the...