saynta wrote: ↑Thu 04 Apr 2024 5:15pm Saints player or not, I have no time for drug trafficers.

100%. Depending on circumstances can have sympathy for users - addiction is an illness. Trafficking no way.

Didn’t they bring in David Wheadon as goalkicking coach last year or is that done?

One of the main reasons St Kilda is a better team this year than last is that Ross Lyon is an ardent disciple of the late Sir Alex Ferguson, arguably the most successful manager in the English Premier League who famously proclaimed "Attack wins games, defence wins titles". Tight, strangli...

skeptic wrote: ↑Sat 15 Jul 2023 10:40pm Some don’t know what rock bottom is

Correct. Always a good indication of someone's age if they think 6th is rock bottom.

B.M wrote: ↑Sun 09 Jul 2023 1:55pm Confirmed

ACL
Ankle syndosmosis
Rotator Cuff
Shoulder dislocation

Poor run with injury

Needs to get his body stronger

And his mind. Fragile both physically and mentally.

Bassett on SEN this week flagged big list changes. Will obviously be subject to contract commitments but change is coming.

Expectations were unrealistically raised by the first 4 weeks. We all knew we were a 6-12 team before the year started, now we’re playing like one. I’m okay with that as long as I see consistent effort and a plan. This year I’m seeing that, last year I wasn’t. We’ve been in every game except Adelaid...

My thinking is it took him a year (07) to bed in a new game plan last time, and that was with a much better list than he has now. I assume it will take about as long this time as, while he's learnt from 07, he is starting with a worse list.

So last year when Steele doesn't play to his usual standard post-shoulder injury that's due to the injury, but this year when he doesn't play to his usual standard post-collarbone injury that's because Ross told him to lose a few kilos. Righto.

Halle-bloody-lujah! I can't believe it's taken this long for the club to put one of my strategy suggestions into practice. Next stop, have spots on the list that are reserved for players who only get 2 years maximum to prove they are capable of playing in a GF side, high turnover on high speculativ...

Geelong? Freo in WA? How was your commentary going into r12 last season I remember everyone being pretty c**k a hoop! I'm sure everyone was excited to be 8-3, but it was noted by many that we hadn't put together any 4 quarter efforts apart from the Hawthorn game. Most of our wins came from 1-2 quar...

Do you know that for a fact His groin seemed ok in the first half of the GF I am a huge Ross fan - but he fkd up with Ball He definitely struggled to see out games, and conditions were very heavy, so good first half followed by sore second half makes sense. What I do know for a fact is that I’m ver...

Is that Luke Ball - who’s tackle numbers were elite? Yep, but also the Luke Ball described by Ross as needing to improve his spread. I would think that Collingwood showed the boss that he didn't know his arse from his elbow when it came to Luke Ball. His groin was better when he was at Collingwood ...

Was in the room draft night I believe.

B.M wrote: ↑Wed 21 Dec 2022 6:21pm Is that Luke Ball - who’s tackle numbers were elite?

Yep, but also the Luke Ball described by Ross as needing to improve his spread.

The Fireman wrote: ↑Tue 20 Dec 2022 1:24pm I’m sure Lyon will be able to extract the very best out of our talented and skilful list

I hope/expect him to extract the very best, but I'm sure he'll extract more than his predecessor. And his predecessor's predecessor. And the one before that too. And ideally even the one before that.

If we paid Karl Amon the reported 4.5m that Hawthorn has, this place would be in melt down. Exactly. Nothing to do with relevance. Everything to do with the size of the offer. Lots of uninformed whining on this site lately. So with your informed judgement what do you expect next year ? Didn’t say I...

CQ SAINT wrote: ↑Sun 02 Oct 2022 1:26am If we paid Karl Amon the reported 4.5m that Hawthorn has, this place would be in melt down.

Exactly. Nothing to do with relevance. Everything to do with the size of the offer.

Lots of uninformed whining on this site lately.

Still would’ve missed the 8 if we’d beaten Port.

Well we are talking about an incompetent football club. I don't really know what St KFC is good at, but i do know it isn't football. I don't think there is any question we are number one for sacking coaches when a scapegoat is needed. Lol We kept Richo for 5 yrs .....he was shite all 5 yrs Yeah we ...

Didn't Timmy Watson play Barry Hall at full back? That also worked out well...

Now that this season is effectively shot, time to look at the future. To me we need to focus on bringing in young players via the draft and stop trying these quick fix options via the trade period. It’s about time our recruiting team brought in some young mids that hopefully will become important p...

Needs more red.

It’s obvious to me when Dougal gets injured we are in a lot of strife. If Andrews ever becomes available I would ask our top 10 paid players to take a 10% pay cut and the next 10 highest paid players to take a 7.5% pay cut. Then I would make Andrews an offer to good to refuse. Any chance we could m...

It’s interesting that when Bassat mentioned they were looking to extend Ratten a few weeks ago, and Lethlean on SEN today, neither of them said he’s an outstanding coach. They said ‘we want to keep the coaching group together’. Lethlean’s comments today (not in so many words and with some serious r...