We should start a thread on dumb footballers who for some reason are allowed to become dumb football commentators. The one commentator who has me diving for the mute button when the Saints are playing is the one & only Brian Taylor 'B.T'. Look he is probably a good guy but he shouldn't be allow...

Would be funny to swap it back for jaeger!! Speaking of which, he's again not selected this week. Very expensive car to have sitting in the garage not being used. How is Freeman going? He's played as many games as the kid Collingwood got with the pick we traded for him. But we can pretend we sold t...

BigMart wrote:Sinclair and Minchington are a long way above VFL

wasn't minch named for the 1s this week?

desertsaint wrote:we're in the unusual position in round 6 of needing a win to improve our draft position!

unusual but not unfortunate which is fortunate, but not if we lose.

I still come down to the fact that Carlisles clock is ticking at 26. Hes' in his peak and we want to maximise our flag chances with him (while still feeding strong young blood in to keep us up for a while - tricky balancing act). Whitfield is the perfect age/experience to give us that class outside...

Do we have pick 5,23 and 40 in rookie draft??? according to the saints site we only have pick 10 so i was and am still a little confused myself Don't be confused We have pick 10 Then we add two pre-listed Irishmen one as a rookie A and one as a rookie B Then if no-one takes Mitch McCarthy we are fr...

If you're worried about pvc then don't even start researching DHMO - http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

Con Gorozidis wrote:Can we offer him a two year contract but rookie list him as a dfa? Then we simply upgrade him next year when Dempster retires.

i don't think you can rookie list a DFA. i think you can only get to the rookie list via the rookie draft (unless you are one of those international category B? rookies).

I'd like to keep both 1st rounders, but you entertain offers and can land big fish.

Oshea is 25 before next season, so not a kid. He looks ok and ticks some boxes, but rather rookie if we can.

If we keep the two first rounders next year...
(Traded our second rounder)

Would be OK as a rookie.

I'd like to see us pick 3 18yo kids in the draft.

11-13 wins. As long as we finish above Collingwood.

Sanctorum wrote: Round 5: Geelong - ES - WIN
Round 6: Hawthorn - US - WIN
Round 7: GWS - ES - WIN
Round 8: Carlton - ES - WIN
Round 9: Sydney - ES - WIN
Round 10: WB - ES - WIN

This run looks a bit overly optimistic. 4 wins from those 6 would be a very good result.

No short arses. The future is not smaller players. Think of the Bont ahead of the Bill, etc. Bulldogs have a heap of smaller players and they kill it - Libba, Hunter for example. We have some bigger bidies now would be happy to take a smaller mid if they have the speed and skill attributes we need....

Devilhead wrote:I think there is some story about a curse being placed on the club - something about an indigenous curse?

Collingwood had that

How did Hawthorn get away with giving their 2017 second rounder to Gold Coast instead of that from GWS via Carlton. From AFL Indicative Draft "If a club trades a future first-round selection, it may not trade any other future selections from the same draft. However if a club retains its future...

I feel like Saints fans valuation of picks goes like this: Saints second round given up for Freeman who's only managed a few very average VFL games "Very low chance of getting anyone decent with that pick anyway so well worth the risk. Very average draft year anyway outside the top 8. Didn't l...

How did Hawthorn get away with giving their 2017 second rounder to Gold Coast instead of that from GWS via Carlton. From AFL Indicative Draft "If a club trades a future first-round selection, it may not trade any other future selections from the same draft. However if a club retains its future...

Roo has kicked 119-50 in the last three years - 70%

minneapolis wrote:

fugazi wrote:So its 23, 36, and 61 for our live picks

Probably an upgrade for Blake with late pick?

Sorry Fugazi. I don't understand this comment.

I assumed he meant one of the rookies to be upgraded, but not sure who he meant by "Blake". The word is Holmes.

Both kennedys for the right price, but I would expect others to pay more than we would be prepared to based on needs. Yeah but imagine the problem of having two Josh Kennedy's in the same team. Opposition players: Who is on Josh Kennedy, I am, no I am, coach who is on Josh Kennedy. You are on Josh ...

They are due; hopefully we can hold it over them again at the dome with the return match at the G having a finals spot riding on it.

If we wanted to do something like that we now have our precedent.

Both kennedys for the right price, but I would expect others to pay more than we would be prepared to based on needs.

They match bids on their academy players if made by other clubs. They would never pick their own academy players until they start running out of list spots (they'll take their academy players as late as possible so that they can draft others they want, as they can trump someone else's attempt to dra...