That statistic says it all.

The best pure stopper in the AFL.

I've only seen him beaten badly once, and that was by David Neitz when he broke the AFL/VFL record and kicked 5 goals from outside 50m.

I wouldn't be trading anyone. Delist your deadwood, stock up with kids via the draft and possibly recruit a mature aged player in the PSD if you can. Get your improvement next year from the return of injured players - Baker, X, Attard, Ball, Maguire - and the improvement of young kids - Steven, Armi...

Agreed saint patrick. We have made a lot of progress this year, and our playing group is in good shape and clearly has a "future". The loss of Harvey makes us all feel a bit empty and like there is something missing, but IMO we are actually well poised to move into the post-Banger generati...

Geelong are the best football side I've seen.

Will win fairly comfortable I believe.

Delist Fraser Gehrig (retired) Robert Harvey (retired) Charlie Gardiner Matthew Ferguson Aaron Fiora Leigh Fisher Michael Gardiner Andrew McQualter Eddy will be promoted, and possibly Attard. That leaves us with 6 spots on the list ... Fiora may be saved by the fact that he is contracted, leaving u...

Result would have been 3-4 goals closer had Ball played ...

Miss him enormously.

We're closer to a grand final than we were a couple of years ago. IMO we are genuinely the 4th best team in the AFL ... we beat everyone below us at least once, but only one side above us (Hawks, Rnd 16). So we need to improve .... but we are starting from a good base. Games into the youngsters and ...

8 weeks ago Raph was probably close to being delisted at season's end, even considering his personal situation. He's copped a very ill father, a diagnosis of epilepsy and a huge wave of criticism and responded in a way he should be proud of. Was in our best players both last week and this week in hi...

Lenny looked great 20 games into his career with 4 possessions too ...

Give 'em time ... we have some talented youngsters ...

Statistically Franklin's worst performance in at least 18 months ...

Jack Steven
David Armitage
Jarryn Geary
Robert Eddy
Ben McEvoy
Jarryd Allen
Luke Miles
Eljay Connors


We have a good strong group of young players coming through ... give them another 12 months and most of those will be part of our side ....

List is in good shape.

Lyon has said that there are "strong indications" he will play on next year, but they are giving him a few weeks to consider. Dermott for once made a good call ....... said it was a disgrace Hudghton wasn't All-Australian, and had a far better season than Harley for one. You won't ever see...

5. Hudghton
4. Hudghton
3. Hudghton
2. Hudghton
1. Hudghton

Maxie played one of the great games by a full back you will ever see.

Would have had 10 spoils and destroyed the best player in the AFL.

Wow. What a champion.

Dogs should have drawn level, and if they'd added scoreboard pressure to their tackling effort, the result might have been very different ...

Accurate kicking is as important in winning a game of footy, especially a final, as any other stat.

We need to kick straight ...

We've been waiting and negotiating 5 years. How long do we need?

You can wait and negotiate until the Second Coming.

We've gotta do this.

We are behind everyone else. It will affect our on-field performance.

You guys seem like we should be happy the club has finally got the deal done , as in, we were running out of time? Don't get me wrong, I want a real home, I want it now too... But is this the best we could do for the long term of the club? Or the best we could do right now? We were running out of t...

And for every single St Kilda fan born after 1966, what use is a piece of paper with the world "freehold" written on it?


I'd rather have a cup engraved with "Premiers".

evertonfc ... why is it a white elephant? Why is a training facility that, when built, will be the equal of anything in the AFL, a white elephant? Our players will have a state of the art facility in the St Kilda heartland. Ok, so financially it's not going to benefit the club as much as there is no...

Is it confirmed that we don't gain an asset of any sort out of this deal?

And what about when potential players are taken to see our facilities and realise our state of the art, modern centre of excellence is actually in a backwater, dirty part of the world? No offence to the Frankstonites... I would have settled for Frankston Oval, but Belvedere Park? Gimme a break. Tal...

Rain should suit us a little more I would hope ...

We have the edge hardness wise, and with the contested footy and in the ruck ... when we are playing well that is ...



Plus we have the best wet weather footballer in the AFL. Sir Robert.

The other point is that unless you have a pick in the top 5-6, there is never normally a standout, obvious choice. So the very nature of the draft gives you a lot of flexibiity with needs vs. best available. If you rate a key defender and a back flanker equally ... then obviously you go for the key ...

Harvey was one of the quicker players in the AFL at his peak.

People forget that.

Watch Judd start to lose his pace in a couple of years ...

Trained strongly today.