But we have the following players whose main job it is to kick goals....... Gehrig Kosi Riewoldt Milne Schneider It wasn't because the midfield didn't kick enough goals that we lost, it was because they didn't win enough ball and then use it effectively to deliver enough opportunities to the above ...

dont confuse hope with fact hope =7 out of 11 last yr ....draw against foots who lost their last 11 games,beat fn carl by a couple of points whilst they were tanking for draft picks,beat rich who won 3 games by a couple of points this yr- -4gls in 1st 15 mins against syd & 2 for the next 100 mi...

Yep, apart from Hayes and Harves and Ball's try hard efforts (as he really is a shadow of the player he once was), the rest were as soft as butter tonight. Dal Santo, Montagna, the Clarkes, Fiora and Blake were very poor. Can't be serious challengers with so many pretenders. The Doggies smashed us i...

I think that a softly-softly approach is the way to go. For a guy that hasn't played much footy since '05 it's a big step up. I'd rather him ready and firing to go against Geelong, and we can use King and Koschitzke in the Ruck this week. The rumour is a calf strain, and in that case he would proba...

We should not lose this game with the team we have named. If we do then we are dead set kidding ourselves. One thing has already become apparent this season after two rounds and that is Geelong being miles ahead of everyone else. One thing that needs to be discovered is which team can rise to chall...

fugazi wrote:Quartermain would have been one of those kids at private school who sucked up to the teachers in order to made a prefect. He is an obsequious little troll.

Good observation. He was very much one of those kids.

saintsrus wrote:Next week in BJ out Gilbert

More likely to come in at the expense of Raph Clarke.

I wouldn't even give Dermie the acknowledgement of discussing his comments. Didn't he make a fool of himself trying to extend his career at the Swans & Collingwood for more $$, after it was obvious to the Hawks (and just about everyone else) that he was a shadow of his former greatness and his ...

I wouldn't even give Dermie the acknowledgement of discussing his comments. Didn't he make a fool of himself trying to extend his career at the Swans & Collingwood for more $$, after it was obvious to the Hawks (and just about everyone else) that he was a shadow of his former greatness and his p...

Give me Clint Jones any day...knows what havin a crack is all about. Seemed everyone but me was bagging Clint Jones only a month ago...Can I finally say...."Told you so?" Just like blokes who have a dip......C.J. has a DIP He sure does. Fiora needs to take a leaf out of this CJ's book.

Ball is still on the bench. Please watch Fiora's pathetic effort when that Essendon guy marked on the half time siren. How weak and pathetic :!: Rix was out of position but made an effort, Fiora did the 'Fiona' thing that he is reknowned for. Him and Birss need to make way for another two kids. They...

The guys on SEN couldn't figure out whether Birss was injured or dreadfully slow. I know he's very much one paced, but was he injured or is he really struggling? Either way, Geary's well in front of him and so is Eddy, too. Imo, Milne is an integral part of the team. Sure he makes mistakes and stuf...

Fair enough as long as you dont have a basis like other people do. I don't have a bias with Milney and I do hope he proves me wrong this season because many supporters like him but he is beginning to remind me of a cameo, fringe player like Ronnie Burns was at Geelong (and we all know what happened...

Milne's second half was great. Please watch the game. Agree on the other two though. Plugger66, I did watch and although he touched the ball a few times and kicked a goal in the second half, he didn't do much. All the SEN guys are saying the same thing about him as I write this. Milne is not damagi...

The win was great and credit goes to many of the kids today, like Geary, Eddy, Armitage, Allen and little Jack Steven. Well done to them after getting those key injuries. However, a couple of those rookie kids already deserve a spot in front of Birss for sure. He is as soft as butter and Milne &...

Solar wrote:

Armoooo wrote:Milne is having an ordinary game, he will benefit with Schneider around...

we will benefit with schneider around

Sure will.

Milne's effort at the contest was pathetic too. Watch closely and his attack on the ball is often timid. Same old same old for this one trick player. All the new kids have more hardness (and heart) than him.

Well if it is purely a case of being careful, I see no harm with giving both, but in particular Gardiner, some badly needed match time, especially with the NAB Cup's extended bench. However, if they have some niggling fitness issue well that isn't promising for two already well renowned, injury-pron...

Extract on Gardi... http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,23160491%255E20322,00.html Saints to rest players before season 05 February 2008 Herald Sun Jackie Epstein The other players set to be put on ice early days are big men Michael Gardiner and Justin Koschitzke . [/i] ...

It seems as if some people on this forum are never going to get over GT. MB, my issue is not what GT did or didn't do. It is the public pronouncement he made on SEN a couple of weeks ago that 'you should never trade away your early draft picks'. No qualification was made to that statement by him. H...

Well if it is true that these 3 have gone, what does it say about the Thomas' foresight in recruiting young players. What a complete waste of first round picks! He professes to know so much on the airwaves about what's best for the club yet failure to bring on quality new blood into the team since 2...

GT on SEN now. Just said that were he still in charge, he'd have told Harvey that it was time to quit as the club had to move on. Nuff said. What a wank of a comment. This is the same guy who never looked to the future by trying to introduce a young newcomer into our midfield to inject some badly n...

As a footy player I have huge respect for Spud. However, the way he has handled himself since retirement in the media and coaching circles leaves a lot to be desired. Absolutely spot on. Doesn't seem like a terribly shrewed bloke, to be honest. But he timed the sale and subsequent capital gain on h...

Well put together email Patrick....very much to the point. The club cannot rollover with this should Bakes get an unfavourable result.

Geelong v Saints prelim Bakes will tear Chapman a new one. Frase will kick 11. Fiora will streak through the midfield finishing with 4 goals and 6 'goal assists' (3 Frase, 2 Milney, 1 Rooey) Milney will cause havoc...... and Leigh Fisher will smash Gablett behind play and ask, "Is that how you...