A couple of years back, on the back of not being overly successful in attracting high quality players from other Clubs and the realisation that the age demographic of the List was deficient historically, we went about recruiting players with experience at State League level Post Ratten, our younger ...

Callow, from North Launceston and mentioned by some on here, has, I am told, signed with a SANFL Club for season 2021

By extension therefore no AFL Club has been in discussion with him

Played the first match in 2020, a game St Kilda should never have lost but did Paid the price with Dunstan for that loss Had 8 disposals (Dunstan 20) With a defence comprising Carlisle, Howard, Wilkie, Coffield, Clark, Long and Patton could not force his way back in and finished the season with just...

If Marshall is a “gun” ruckman what does that make Ryder, who is a “gun” ruckman Marshall with his all round attributes is a potential “gun” forward with licence - and a handy back up ruckman We are very fortunate in having King and Marshall, both able to impact games due to their mobility and skill...

Hill has been a class footballer at a top Club And a class footballer at a middling Club He has the skills and character to be a class footballer at (we all hope) a rising Club He was curtailed by an injury suffered during a match in 2020 - not serious enough to keep him out but it impeded The more ...

Paddy Ryder is a class act - also as a footballer

Given the general agreement on our "best 22", with the debate being between Ross and Sinclair to fill out that 22, what are the realistic prospects of anyone invited to join our List at this stage pushing aside any of the generally agreed 22? Yes, we need depth. But we are talking about de...

Expectations are put on all players by the Coach and his support team Within the Club, votes are awarded including on the basis of the expectation/s set They do not correlate to what Umpires, media and supporters see IIRC Ross made his mark as a “lock down” mid where he had an ability to position to...

Missing from these contributions is that it is now 2021 Speculation is on which players will be running into the park in a couple of months time - for the 2021 season Everything else is past tense and irrelevant IF the players we now have on our List were all available in (say 2017), would we have w...

Wrong thread

What you get for watching the races from Hong Kong and scrolling a screen

As my wife would say “Men trying to do 2 things at the same time”

Referring to our sons of course

I defend them

Interesting To throw a spanner into the works, in assessing the performances of Australian players I look to Ashes performances because of the consistency of the competition home and away and the regularity of that competition both of which provides more meaningful appraisal tools Look at those aver...

The conversation the Coach had with Steele was for a reason When I have referred on here to St Kilda adding “polish” to our midfield, from a discussion after Steele showing what he was delivering and prior to the finals, that statement came from where it came from - no name was mentioned obviously b...

Steele was the one challenged by the Coach And Steele responded We introduced Hill and Jones Plus we introduced Butler, making Gresham a mid option Now we have Crouch And we are talking to Clark receiving midfield opportunity So, right there, you could be excused for suggesting that Ross has been pu...

Playing in a back pocket on the likes of Lade, and was found out

Brooks had never played as a defender

That was at the time the Opposition would push their rucks forward and inflict great pain on us

We rucked Maguire.

Lyon recruited both Gardiner and King.

John Beverage

Missing from comment is that Brooks was Drafted by Port Adelaide at 15, but due to the rucking depth of Port Adelaide did not play a game He was however regarded very highly as a forward/ruck at 198cm and 95kg - very athletic with a decent jump So Port Adelaide were nurturing him and sorry to lose h...

My concerns with Ross are that, despite his size he is not an inside mid, mostly with the ball in space which presents another problem Whilst in warm ups he appears to have straight line speed, he does not use that speed, frequently static when receiving the ball, being closed down accordingly and f...

We have a highly regarded Coach who bought with him a very experienced support staff The Coach has an analytical focus, his reading of the game streets ahead of the very great majority of us The challenge to the playing group, and particularly the younger contingent, was to showcase their skills and...

The debate should be about the players who can go to another level

And win games of footy for St Kilda off their own boots

And, in the process consolidate St Kilda such that finals footy is a given because to win Premierships you have to be a Finals side first

Yes Some are referring to the level of debt the Club carries and the impact of carrying (and servicing) that debt on future viability (where the broadcast rights used to include a certain number of Clubs, so binding the AFL to required financial support) Simply, that debt reflects the trading cycle ...

“on 31 October” But that $2.3 Million will contribute to the funding required by the Club to compete in Season 2021 So in terms of debt, the net impact of the $2.3 Million on the Clubs debt is? The “come and go” trading facility will reflect the pre-payments of Season 2021 Memberships, and then will...

It distorts (and from the foregoing it appears there is a change in treatment to exclude these pre-payments) Plus, if there is a need to refund for any reason? Because the product is not delivered Just examples What are you looking for the Financial Statements to provide? So in regards any particula...

So, by extension, the Club receives $2.3 Million in membership remittances in the month of October, the season concluding on the last day of September so a 4 week period until the Club closes its books I would have expected that such receipts pertaining to the next season would be treated as pre-pay...

In terms of Companies listed on the ASX200 there are always movements based on considerations such as the “pecking order”, so Capitalisation courtesy of performance, “spin offs” such as Coles as a Listed Company from Westfarmers, M&A’s, IPO’s etc etc In regard IPO’s it can go the other way and C...