It's like back to the future - in this case 1987.
Instead of Marcou, McConville, Wow Jones, Kourkemelis, Kenny Sheldon and Ricky Nixon, now it's Stocker, Dow, Kid Caminiti and Carroll. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Jack Silvagni came across too you know.

My wish list: Our newly annual MCG Home Game fixture should feature us against Carlton this year. They'll turn up and we match up well against them. Win-win. I would prefer us to play North Melbourne twice at Docklands instead of traveling to Perth or Adelaide to play the Eagles or the Crows. I woul...

Fingers crossed.

Unfortunately, as someone old enough to have St. Kilda play at the Junction, albeit as a 'visitor' against Fitzroy, the Junction will never see football at the top level played there again. I remember even Fitzroy couldn't make it work financially for them, despite them making the top 5 five times ...

It's fair to say that recruitment staff at St Kilda made some monumentaly poor decisions in drafts in the past (taking David Armitage at 9 ahead of Jack Riewoldt 13 in 2006) was my all-time howler. But Robbo failed to acknowledge that in recent years they picked some really good ones, most recently...

Two pure midfielders. No messing around.
No flankers, no project ruckmen, no forwards who can 'play in the middle'.
The Carlton game in the last round said it all for me - 15 of their best 23 out, but because their midfield was intact, they stayed with us until the last 20 seconds.

Say what you like. No one is going to change my mind. I went to see the saints nearly every second week for decades growing up. The place was a smelly slum . To add insult to injuries the dump was in the total control of the Cricket club. I never saw us play there as the home side, but I saw us pla...

I think Moorabbin Oval is our future tbh. When we do win a Grand Final, sure, do our celebrating at the Junction Oval as a nod to our historical links to the area, and maybe a Captains' Run in a pre season as part of the St. Kilda Festival, but apart from those things, I think a focus on our real gr...

I hope this isn't a slippery slope, although it would be incorrect to say that this is our first rebranding.
We were called the Southern saints in the 80s and that was on our shield too at that time.

Furthermore, the dot below the T has always annoyed me, it’s incorrect, there’s no dot in St Kilda. I suppose you know that 'st' isn't a word. The correct spelling is St Kilda. No dot. Just like St John Ambulance or St Vincent’s Hospital. It is an abbreviation that doesn’t always use a dot. Correct...

I reckon we should go back to being called The Panthers, hasn't done Penrith any harm!
And by the way, there is no Saint Kilda, it is St. Kilda - like Roskilde.

You have to have experience around your young players. Membrey and Jones were both very good in the back half of the season IMHFO.
I am glad we kept Jones, and wish we were keeping Tim Membrey. Jet!
In the 70s players like Phil Stevens worked with players coming through in the magoos to help them out.

Unfortunately, as someone old enough to have St. Kilda play at the Junction, albeit as a 'visitor' against Fitzroy, the Junction will never see football at the top level played there again. I remember even Fitzroy couldn't make it work financially for them, despite them making the top 5 five times f...

SaintWiki wrote: ↑Fri 18 Oct 2024 11:58am Thanks for your service Tim and best of luck for your future. Our kids are ready to take the next step.

We hope. We looked a lot better in the second half of the season when Membrey was in the forward line for mine.

Don't like it - he kicked five goals in a game this year. Tim is a very handy player and will be next year. We look better up forward when he is marking the ball 60 metres out and delivering the ball inside the forward 50. Watch some of his passes against Geelong or his five goal effort against the ...

We must select two pure midfielders. We haven't got this right for a long time. It has been mentioned enough during the season proper by our coach which clearly tells us that the cub are well and truly aware of this. Even though we won the game, the final round against Carlton highlighted where our ...

With the two top ten draft pick midfielders we pick up this year, Max will have better kicks supplying him than he has done over the past four seasons.

FortiusQuoFidelius wrote: ↑Fri 04 Oct 2024 5:00pm

older saint wrote: ↑Fri 04 Oct 2024 12:03pm
If Battle comp is 8 , with Ashcroft becomes 8&9

Most likely will become 9 & 10 given there will likely be an early bid on Gold Coast Academy player Leo Lombard.

Oh, no, not this Gold Coast Suns bid garbage again. They are like the gift that keeps on giving, aren't they.

Keep the two Top 10 picks - draft two pure midfielders.

Do not draft half forwards, or half back flankers, or ruckmen.

I think the Swans will struggle to be as good next year.
Let's be honest, they were not worthy finalists in 2023 either as an umpiring mistake gifted them a (short-lived) finals berth.
I can see them dropping out of the Top 8 next season completely.

A lot of the coaches mentioned in this chain have coached an awful lot of wins. Port have to travel every second week, and regularly finish in the top four at the end of H&A seasons. Melbourne have been a regular finalist since 2018 and won a Grand Final by over 12 goals. Plenty of worse coaches...

A winning culture is why the last win against Carlton was more important than the Draft Order That and the fact that St Kilda supporters over 35 rarely saw wins against Carlton and at one stage we hadn't won against them in an away fixture for a generation. Beating Carlton means a lot to me and my ...

Well, anyway you call it, Port have had our measure since 2012. They've won 14 out of 15 and beat us everywhere. And it is their midfield which does the damage. Having said that 6 out of the fourteen losses have been by less than a goal, but it is pointing out the bleeding obvious to state that we ...

You make it sound like ALL of them were exclusively GWS players and no one else could bid on them. That's not true and you know it That's why I specifically mentioned Taylor and Daniels This year... there's changes being made to NGA rules which will possibly benefit St Kilda. Is GWS going to whinge...

We need two pure midfielders though. That much is obvious - even in the final game where we beat Carlton, you can see we lack run and carry. We should pick them up in this year's draft. How very St Kilda of you!!! :D We need 2 players - ready made - to make St Kilda Great Lets get 2 x 18 yo recruit...