Will be super hard to beat the blues this round they are so pumped with their new coach and all.. But guess what Ratten is a former blue with more than one thing to prove.. Sacked by the blues as we know.. There is more on the line here than we know.. If the saints win this one Ratts is our man. Se...

Eddie probably throws them a bone. Given that the AFL refuses to employ them as professional full-time umpires, I can't say I can blame them if they're accepting bribes. In my view, the umpiring standards will only continue to suck (particularly for lower-market clubs, like St.Kilda) for as long as...

At the risk of feeding certain posters with fake moon landing "evidence"... Saints are certainly not the umpire's pets this year. Bulldogs and Pies up there. https://i.imgur.com/dDhgUCY.jpg Not too surprised about the Pies. If they’d show a deficit, Eddie would run amok through AFL headqu...

[quote= BTW your signature is disgusting and repulsive. Do you have a mother, sister, girlfriend or wife? In the age of trying to educate the community about violence against women your signature is very out of step with how we should behave towards women. [/quote] 1++++ I'm surprised he gets away w...

Call me a cynic, but I just have the feeling that Jack simply does not want to play for the Saints any longer. So mental illness is a convenient out. IF the trade rumours are true, I bet your bottom dollar that “mental illness’ will no longer be a problem when playing for Geelong - there won’t be an...

SNAFU

Not to mention the person who used pick 1 on a diabetic I don’t think diabetes can be blamed for Paddy’s shortcomings. Diabetes did not hamper him from playing well. It was his uncanny knack to get concussed which now sidelines him and, really, recruiters could not foresee this. As for the other re...

I don't buy into the Umpires being biased. I just think umpiring standards are below where they need to be. It was just a classic display of Umpires not having a feel for the game. Terrible display all day and they should be dropped next week. You could be right. I only said could be... But we have...

The_Dud wrote: ↑Sun 10 Mar 2019 5:55pm

Grimfang wrote: ↑Sun 10 Mar 2019 5:51pm 26 free kicks to 7. Umpires are a joke.

I don’t think it says anywhere that the free kicks need to be even?

Maybe not, but this is a bit drastic.

Anyone else had money deducted from their card for next year's membership without permission? They tried it on with me - and four others I know of. When you call them to say WTF they pretend you must've ticked a box on a form the year before - then finish up by having the gall to ask if you plan to...

if it's not about winning and losing why do the afl want carlton up and about? because bringing in the dollar is all about winning and losing. especially longer term. especially in the current afl climate. "The AFL has turned to its powerhouse clubs Essendon and Collingwood to rescue the highe...

[/quote] So we have the easiest draw and Collingwood the hardest? I can’t wait to see how Curly tries to spin this into one of his absurd conspiracies :lol: [/quote] To be fair it seems to be exclusively based on last year's ladder position, rather than breaks / travel but yeah it looks good for us ...

Then the #1 pick will be ours, and we can focus our efforts on how to waste it. :D :D :D I was loving your post until I read your last line and reality set it. What in the Zeus’s butthole is wrong with some people here with their obsession with the #1 draft pick in order to become a better team! Th...

Hi there when logging in from my phone i get a message saying the following: You have been permanently banned from this board. Please contact the board administrator for more information. Can anybody help - it seems to be indicating that a ban has been issued on my phone's IP address only started h...

I am a passionate supporter of the club, BUT I am NOT a supporter of the destruction of this club! I've been a member for 25yr and had a reserve seat for 15. For first time, I'm seriously considering not renewing next year. I do not want to support those that don't deeply care about making this clu...

I won't be signing any such petition. I can tell you that now. :roll: :roll: Why would you believe that all SS members are Saints members for a start? No one other than a fully paid up member should have any say in such matters. I second that, anyone that's not a member has absolutely no say in the...

- we're just a stepping stone and that's how the current crew play for us. Like mercenaries who happen to be wearing the red, white and black today but tomorrow.... But isn’t this a bit like the seventies and eighties. St Kilda being a poor club was the stepping stone for many good players. This is...

Linton Street Saint wrote:I actually want us to get blasted by a record margin. Something has to give. I have had enough.

Wouldn't worry about getting blasted today. Next week is Freo in the West, then Collingwood, Richmond and West Coast in the west again.
Lots of blasts to come.

I don't think it is deliberate but I think there are subconscious factors at play for sure. I don’t think there is a conspiracy against St Kilda. However, I do believe bias definitely comes into the umpiring. We all grew up with barracking for our team. Then we have some teams we sort of like, some...

Grimfang wrote: Not sure which rules the umpires were using at one point.

Maybe we should ask the Bulldogs to reveal their secret to get all those fee kicks. In their game against Sydney, they got 13 more free kicks, and yesterday against Freo it was 10 more free kicks.

saynta wrote:

bigred wrote:

kosifantutti wrote:

Bernard Shakey wrote:

kosifantutti wrote:Yes he missed the mark. It still should have been a free.

If you know the rules, it is not even arguable. It was a free kick every day of the week. Unless you are a St Kilda player, that is.

+1. I wonder if the situation was reversed, would the umpires have given GWS a free Kick?

In reality our win against Brisbane, albeit far from a stellar performance, was decent. Our first quarter was good and from red time in the third we were good (at times superb). Obviously we got smashed inside, but that improved, Steven stepping up and Longer lifted a bit. I think we are disrespect...

Sainternist wrote:

dragit wrote:He and his dad didn't want a bar of st kilda.

Source?

Now this is a surprise. Do you blame them?

Greg Denham, Senior Sports Writer for The Australian, has written a very frank appraisal of St Kilda's performance against North Melbourne on Good Friday, and the likely serious consequences. I have no doubt that this article will serve as a massive wake-up call to everyone at the club, the Board, ...

I remember 1997, we lost four out of the first five games, two of which were absolute beltings, when we went on to finish on top of the ladder for the first time since 1965, and play off in a Grand Final for the first time since 1971, but I also remember a lot of crisis meetings and Stan Alves near...