Riewoldting wrote:Baker stopped suddenly and Farmer ran straight into the rear side of his shoulder, busting his nose. Farmer dropped like the proverbial sack and Bakes moved from a jog to a sprint, making the next marking contest

that's what i saw, too. farmer really should watch where he's going

kaos theory wrote:r. clarke is a real talent

agree. could be anything. now it all depends on hard work, confidence and luck. i thought he was very good today

agree. bottom line is that the midfield looks a lot stronger with blake in there.

i'm a bit of the philosophy that ruckman have to do more than win tapouts and blake certainly provides plenty around the ground and holds his own in the tapouts a lot of the time

trueman legend

that is players that have dropped off a little.... R Clarke is one and another is Leigh Fisher ... Surely Fergs should get a chance to show why he was re selected i thought r clarke showed today he is on the way to being a lot better than just a GOP and imo no way will he be dropped. l. fisher was ...

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kosi should play forward to stretch west coast's defence like last time.

leave clarke and blake in the ruck.

they were good today and if it's not broken don't fix it

same attacking game plan as today and we should win it

duckduckduckgoose wrote:um so i take it satire isnt your strong suit luke?

spert wrote: 1. S Gilbert (for doing a nice "dont argue" and getting out of a tackle)

he's good at those "don't argues" isn't he. looks a bit like a young fraser gehrig when he does one of those.

that could be bakes's defence. he was striking a blow for the battered women of australia.


in any case, who is saying that farmer didn't just trip and fall on baker's knee. that was my reading of it

Nick Riewoldt said on SEN after the match that NOTHING had changed in terms of gameplan and structure during the week, and that the players had just worked on executing what Lyon wanted looked like the 2004-2005 game plan to me. whatever it was it worked a treat. i agree with you Life Long Saint ab...

Was One on One, with a bloke called Heath Black 4 times today.......won three of the contests.....drew one... Interesting to see the supposed 'hard nosed Black' running around behind the pill getting handball recieves...............whilst 'fiona' was running through the middle, generating play....b...

i'd be appalled if dal tried to become an "accountable" robot type of player he is what he is ... a creative and offensive weapon. make them match up on him ffs. i agree with whoever said his goal today was a game-breaker. took all the wind out of freo's sails and after that it was simply ...

i've always said raph would be a super player. was only ever a question of confidence and whether his attitude and work ethic was there.

thought today he showed glimpses of being extra special. X was good, too.

they seem to spur each other on to greater deeds

i went to the game and haven't listened to any radio.

does anyone know what happened to kosi?

Life Long Saint wrote:This is the way we should have been playing all season. This is what I expected. Take some risks when we have the ball and be accountable when we don't have it.

exactly. should be challenging for the flag, not hoping to fall into the 8

3. G-Train
2. X. Clarke
1. R. Clarke.

Special mentions to Goose (good to have you back son), the Fishers, Fiora and virtually anyone in a Saints guernsey

... thought i'd jumped in a time machine and travelled back to 2004-2005 the way we played today. gone was the ultra-defensive uber flood and negative mindset. instead we played positive, attacking football and backed ourselves .... and surprise, surprise .... we won in a canter. funny about that. b...

meher baba wrote:Best ever spin bowler, but is ein dummkopf!!

howwitzerzat!

I hope Raph plays the full game forward, we have been breaking down all year across half forward with only the 1 target (Roo). Having Raph and Voss as extra marking targets could be just what the doctor ordered. couldn't have said it better myself. imo this has been our major weakness since hammer ...

"He just motivates me. And he's straight up. You know exactly where you stand with Ross. He's brutally honest, doesn't pull any punches, and I think that's why I've got confidence in him. I can tell him anything, and if I've got something on my mind, I can shoot it at him and know that he'll t...

And how did Thomas's game plan fail exactly, genius? Must have been in that it won us too many games and enabled us to score too many points!! :lol: :lol: :lol: the lesson out of all this, teflon, is that if it's not broken don't fix it. i am looking forward, mate, not back ... i don't particularly...

if we back ourselves and make them respond to us we'll sh*t it in. if we go into defensive lockdown mode we're in trouble

Otiman wrote:Selection of Raph still baffles me.

me too. wouldn't have thought he is RL's type of player. bit of flair but takes too many chances and too many mistakes, not accountable enough etc.

he must have been blitzing for casey

The key this week is getting our hands on the footy through the middle blake in ruck is a step in the right direction imo. at least we don't waste a spot on a big bloke who might win a few more hit outs but does nothing around the ground. goose is also a ruck option. i can remember him performing c...

brown-coat wrote:I want to see Ross try something revolutionary..putting Stkilda players in the attacking forward 50.