come to think of it. while sheeds and malthouse were trying to recruit from ireland - how about the saints head to the congo and grab ourselves some gorillas. we could train them up.

who cares. last time i looked we were tying to win a premiership not a nobel prize.
ill take a team full of gorillas if we can win one.

Riewoldting wrote:Sam Fisher for Craig Bolton?

Isla Fisher for Michael Bolton

does 2 years give us long enough to bring a young kid through? This is probably delusional - but im still thinking Mick Gardner might be around for a while. After that I guess we are looking at Van Rheenan. I hate to say it but the Pies have done well out of all of this. Wood will be a 100 gamer at...

yeah ok. thats right. thanks.

hang on here. dont we have to pass on charlie gardner to the swans?

hang on - i thought charlie gardiner was going to the swans?

Armoooo wrote:

Oh When the Saints wrote:Buchanan turns 25 on Wednesday.

I would give up our first round pick for him.

Yeah I probably would too, it would be perfect if we could have most of our players form 24-28 in '09.
With 3 or 4 older and 3 or 4 younger.

id take wood for those two.

I thnk the one thing Geelong have shown is a no hacks policy. The game can still harbour players of all shapes and sizes - as long as they are good enough. Geelong had no liabilities or passengers. They all contributed and did the right thing when it was in their area and they all run like mad. sain...

Gehrig said it when he retired ... the game is "too fast" for blokes like him now. A. Rocca is useless nowdays. Ditto Tredrea. Even Lloyd has to play a different role, and he's not as good. Guys like Rooey and Kosi who are mobile will be fine, but the days of Watts/Rocca/A. Lynch/Dunstall...

bozza1980 wrote:I wouldn't mind either in the red white and black.

It all comes down to what you have to give up for them.

agreed.

id take them both for sure. I cant stand the idea of us wasting another high draft pick on a dud.

time for gwilt to to step up next year. i think maxy is almost gone - if i were Ross, id tell gwilt to prepare for 20 games next year. lets find out if he can play.

How did Port go last year with injuries? Where was the attitude? The development of all these battlers that Williams transformed? Ok. Port are rubbish. Wlliams just keeps getting lucky with injuries . Saints are the best chuckout the rest. Anyone on this website STILL telling me that Hammil is goin...

Williams is a top coach and an expert in player development. Who has Williams developed? Oh dear. You have to be kidding me. What Port have done since entering the competition is breath-taking. Im a saints fan but Port dont get the credit they deserve over here because everyone is too buy making bo...

Whats the whole point of this will he/wont he play discussion. He is contracted for 2008. Makes no difference whether he plays or not. Well it makes some difference. He wont play. He will coach. End of story. We have to count him in the salary cap. Whoever signed him for 5 years should be fired. No...

I'm in on all that joffa! That is a big goer. The platform ideas that swung me were: 1. punching Adrian Anderson 2. buying Cranbourne so I can evict crannypete 3. punching Adrian Anderson 4. No Rod Butterss mentioned 5. Performance enhancing drugs - god knows I need them! 6. did I mention Adrian An...

For what it's worth I heard Sheldon on SEN saying that Goose was overseas at the moment and expected his contract to be settled when he returned. Heard the same thing and that's what he said, just didn't sound that convincing to me though if u are as good a player as goose and out of contract in oc...

dids wont be going anywhere.
i expect a new contract for him this week.

I would have agreed for sure that he was gone. But after Friday night - I think the Pies and Dids may patch up the relationship. He had a great game. Anyone that plays that well in a final wont be sent packing easily. Despite the off field stuff. I think Dids may have earnt himself a contract and de...

I think he will be retained on our rookie list. Lets remember that this time last year he was playing 2nd Div Under 18's for Scoresby in the Eastern Footy League. He needs time. Has more than enough up side to remain on our rookie list !! Definitely worth another year or two to develop. Good on him!

FFS - ENOUGH- RIX and BROOKS are both hacks, muppets, duds. Move on. We need a good ruckman. Neither of these two will ever be any good. Gardner is the great white hope. We need to draft a young quality Ruckman in the next 12 months with a high pick and hope that KOSI and GARDNER can shoulder the ru...

its not a perfect analysis. but it is a good general indicator. i mean if you are a complete muppet - you arent likely to play more than 20 games. you will get the ass. If you restricted this analysis to the last 3 years (2005-07) saints would look bad. we havent had many games out of our recruits i...

JeffDunne wrote:I'm disappointed those that bag our recruiting weren't prepared to do further analysis on the comparison I detailed above (or with any other club for that matter).

was a very good analysis. no question. i was impressed.
I still reckon saints have been bad at recruiting in the past 2-3 years.

Im happy to keep Rixy on on a year to year rolling contract basis. Im just saying you dont give people 3 years based on a rumour that another club might be interested. You give him one on his own merits. If someone else offers more years - like everitt and ackland - well good luck to him and let him...