The cynic in me suggests that this is another classic case of a player manager whispering to gullible media that his gun player is slated to go to another team, done entirely to jack up his new salary when his contract is up for renewal. Like the supposed Battle/Windhager BS rumour, meaningless nons...

Rumours, unless their sources are revealed, are nothing more than mischievous speculation to suck in the innocents, absolute nonsense, especially at this time of the year.

Why anyone would post this sort of garbage is beyond my comprehension!

Whilst the buck stops with the senior coach in modern football coaching players and teams involves input from a number of other coaches at the club. I share the view that it's surprising that Robert Harvey is responsible for the forwards as that was not his speciality when he played, in contrast to ...

Very good discussion. I felt really flat after watching the telecast of our team losing by 5 points to bottom 4 placed Hawks at Aspley Hornets AFL club with a good mate. It was yet another game where St Kilda never really got going, playing a poor brand of football which was in total contrast to 202...

Sending young Phillipou to play in the lower grade is much the same as Marcus Windhager spending time to learn his midfield craft there last year, a move that a lot of supporters could not understand at the time but obviously paid big dividends. Much todo about nothing, he'll turn out fine in the fu...

Why don’t you just come out and say it and stop hiding behind “he could/maybe consider his options” 😂 I think he knows that I’m also not privy to his mental state but you apparently are so fire away! OK, so what do you think is the reason King prefers not to take a set shot for goal from the 50m ar...

"Looks like Tarzan but playes like Jane" is appropriate for Max King. In the past 2 games he's played there have been at least 2 occasions when he was positioned to take a set shot from the 50m arc - on each occasion he betrayed his cronic lack of confidence by instead of kicking for goal...

Once again Arie Schoenmaker is in the top 3 best players for Sandringham, he is unquestionably in the frame to debut in the firsts, sooner rather than later with 96 AF ranking points from 27 disposals including 6 marks. If I were to have a say in selections for next week's game against Hawthorn I wo...

Agree with assessment of Byrnes as not in best 23.

However Riley Bonner is to my mind going strong.

Since he started in round 1, Bonner has racked up the following disposals: 28,17, 32, 24, 20,22, 22, 24, an average of 23.6 per game.

Right now well deserving of his place in the team.

"Looks like Tarzan but playes like Jane" is appropriate for Max King. In the past 2 games he's played there have been at least 2 occasions when he was positioned to take a set shot from the 50m arc - on each occasion he betrayed his cronic lack of confidence by instead of kicking for goal ...

The losses by small margins masks the issues - we struggle to score I like Harvey but don’t think he’s a forward coach I watched fumbles, overrun the ball, dropped chest marks last night….thats not game plan Seb Ross 9 possessions at HT ….thats not game plan Smashed in tackles ….not game plan Hill ...

So what's the def of boring? Clearly not close exciting finishes according to Scotty boy (who is he?). Ross must have embarrassed him in public. Who starts a newspaper story with a snide insult, amateur vindictiveness. Ross has a distinguished record, what's Scott got: a certificate in creative wri...

That's a very interesting analysis cwrcyn, well done! With a 2-5 record after 7 games St Kilda have certainly not followed up on their good form last year when they also started the season with a long injury list. The big difference this year is that unlike in 2023 in most games St Kilda have not pl...

Howard at best is just another fair to average quality player and it really surprised me that with Lyon's oft mentioned philosophy to get lots of games into the young fellas the selectors have not given a game to Arie Schoenmaker who has been knocking the door down in the reserves, with another stro...

Phillipou is obviuosly a highly rated and valued project player and that suggests the club regard him as a future marquee with elite skills, potential captain even! From the outside looking in we supporters are not privy to how the coaches assess individual players and as I see it if they believe Ph...

Max King is certainly going through a bad period right now and yesterday's 4 touch 0.1 goal effort shows that he's struggling mentally, demonstrated when he declined to kick for goal from the arc and instead tried to pass to a team mate which failed to hit the mark and resulted in a terrible turnove...

What's happened to the presumption of innocence?? In recent times state DPPs have come under severe criticism from judges for prosecuting alleged male perpetrators of sexual crimes against women only for these to be thrown out of court for lack of evidence. In some European countries the media are a...

I don't buy the assertion that St Kilda's kicking for goal is historically among the worst in the comp Acc: Accuracy = (Goals / shots at goal) 2024 - 15th - 41.6% acc (league avg 49.3%) 2023 - 10th - 47.8% acc (league avg 48.0%) 2022 - 10th - 48.1% acc (league avg 48.8%) 2021 - 10th - 46.9% acc (le...

I don't buy the assertion that St Kilda's kicking for goal is historically among the worst in the comp, nor is the senior coach in any way to blame for inaccurate kicking for goal either yesterday or any day for that matter - as a theory that is laughable! Every supporter of every team will from tim...

The talk has been 1 more draft then FA. The timing seems to work out for both our list profile and the available FA's coming up. Ross himself has said that hasn't he? I just wonder if it should be at least 2 more years at the draft, even three before Tasmania comes in. Ironically we haven't had a g...

Following article in todays Melbourne Age - more grist for the proverbial mill! " The Scoop - Who are the A-Graders in cashed up St Kilda’s sights? By Sam McClure - The Age 28 March 2024 St Kilda have identified a group of elite midfielders from rival clubs that they will target in the next 18 ...

Caminiti for King Butler for Henry Schoenmaker for Wood I'm not suggesting The Shoe is a 'like for like' with Wood as a wingman but rather that he'll be in the mix to play in defence instead of Cordy. Jones to remain sub, not sure he is ready to play 120 minutes yet but can come on in 2nd half to ad...

Almost identical? Nah. It was in the play. Actually it was very much like Maynard's last year. Went to smother then turned and hit Brayshaw in the head who was then concussed. 2 metre Pedro went to mark then turned and hit Cunningham who was concussed. That's my perspective as well, Wright's bump w...

Who cares?

I expect Lyon will do what he did last year and again in 2024 and place his trust in youth. Arie Schoenmaker, after a BOG performance in the reserves yesterday (139 fantasy points from 34 dispsals and 13 marks) is not just knocking on the door to get selected, he's smashing it down! Only 19 but at 1...