The Dogs were playing for frees. They were pulling the defenders arms down when they Saint defenders were spoiling drawing the too high free. It worked 3 times. They also pin the arm of the tackler drawing the holding the man. They sucked umps in time after time. The umps need to be better...someth...

Disgraceful umpiring, but the Dogs as a group play way to milk frees. Yes, are they coached to milk frees? Wallis is - probably has been since he was a pint sized junior - dives forward if he feels even the slightest touch in his back - too natural to not be well rehearsed. Yes Wallis played for fr...

Awesome work JEJ
Best post of your SS career IMO

Good to have 3 in the team and Paton and Battle also good players who were eligible.

Grab Caldwell and we have a very good group of 6 who will all improve again next year

Very well deserved 6th..no soft draws this year and we also have the 6th best percentage... So we are very deserving of 6th and not far from 5th

Yeah.. who goes out for Zan Jones???

Actually a tough call based on tonight

Darling kicked 2 goals one of those was on a lead that maybe Usain bolt could have spoiled, Kennedy kicked 1, maybe Carlisle would have spoiled the Oscar Alan mark on the goal liNe but on balance I can’t see Carlisle making that much difference on balance I thought the backline did pretty well.The ...

Getting smashed in the air.. why can 100 fans see that Carlisle should play this week but the selectors cannot?

mismatches with Paton on Kennedy, Coff on Darling etc have cost us badly

WORK IN PROGRESS COMPLETED Wingard, Marshall and Ross can not all receive 5, one must have missed on 5 but two must have received 5. Four players must have received a 4 or 5. So that means Coffield got 4+0 That revises the top 4 Wingard 5+1 or 4+2 Marshall 5+0 or 4+1 Ross 5+0 or 4+1 Coffield 4+0 Bo...

So we passed based on junk science. And we probably paid decent coin to the psych. Brought snake oil and we are suffering the consequences.

We would be in with a big shot at the flag even this year if we added Petracca to this team. Absolutely in it up to our eyeballs.

So Lonie was just holding Kent spot while he had a rest

We will miss Clark, but he will come back refreshed

Coffield and battle really becoming very very good.

Pretty sure we got them both plus Long in a trade for pick 10. Both coff and battle looking like top 10 quality right now whilst long is looking a solid second rounder

With Gresham out we should get games into Bytel. Showed a bit.

Who made comments about Battle overcoming injuries? It was weird. Has had a decent run with injuries. The other commentators did not know how to respond. Awkward silence.

Pretty sure Jones struggled with the last short turnaround.. With his hammy issues maybe he will be rested?


Ross for Jones seems possible to me

Pretty sure Jones struggled with the last short turnaround.. With his hammy issues maybe he will be rested?


Ross for Jones seems possible to me

Surely someone has info on his contract? I mean, if it was front loaded and had trigger clauses, such as games played then it may be absolutely no problem! It makes a big difference if, instead of 800,00 fo the next three years, he were paid more the first two years when we could not even reach our ...

My answer is it depends what we are offered. If we could get a pick in the early 20's I would say yes. This is also dependent on Austin getting his body right and playing at least 10 games this year. If it works and we get pick 20, we take that and our first pick to the draft and grab one inside mi...

Betts, Casboult, McKay and McGovern, the Blues three main scorers, kicked a total of one goal and zero behinds between them. Yes, Paton had no trouble dealing with an aging Betts, Carlisle kept Casboult out of the game. Carlisle is a step up in class. Howard kept McKay out of it.. And Wilkie took a...

I love Battle but geez, his two misses have been shockers.
Game would be all over if he nails those two.

Carlisle should get the job done. He is a good match up for Casboult.

Match-ups?
For mine:

Wilkie takes de Goey
Paton on Stephenson
Carlisle on Cameron
Howard on Mihocek (maybe swap with Carlisle?)
Ben Long to Jamie Eliot

Would not mind having Geary for Jamie Eliot to be honest..

Yes, I realise it is a stretch, but the Marsh is looking like a beast and very Jake Stringer like in his speed and power. That play on Thursday when he kicked to Marshall had Stringer (at his best) written all over it. I remember 3-4 years ago there was some fun banter on here about Tim Membrey bein...

Lining up "Bennelong" on the HB flank is reminiscent of Justin Peckett, a player who made that spot his own with great distinction from the early '90's to 2006 - I think Frankie was more BP and then wing One of Peckett's major talent was that he was a superb judge of when to run into spac...

time will tell. True that we gave up pick 6 and a range of lower order picks, but Howard and Jones have the majority of their careers ahead of them and Hill has 5 good years left in him, we hope... Butler and Ryder were low picks and probably good value So... looks like a good trade period yes and b...