A step in the right direction for St Kilda. Maybe now we won't have guys like Armitage sitting on the pine for most of the first half of the season for Casey. Gee, that was really good for his development, wasn't it - not to mention his overall fitness? Put a St Kilda man in charge and be done with ...

BEWARE THE 'SHELDON FACTOR'

1. Who cares
2. 7th
3. Chip buttie
4. Ablett or C. Cornes
5. Carlton
6. Watch footy
7. SFF
8. Yes
9. No one is overrated
10. Hudghton
11. Peach
12. No
13. Felinfoel or Guinness
14. Sam Lane. Christy needs to regularly wax her top lip to avoid looking like you know who

15. Clever, not funny.

Geelong's depth? When has it been tested this year? They've had no more than two regular players missing from their team for the whole year. In fact, for most of the time they've had only one player missing. Pretty much the same at North Melbourne. Much easier to look like a super-team in those circ...

Old cod chops can have it. The worst gig in town for the next five years

Judd is not the answer to our prayers. For God's sake, one player does not make a football team. It was like all that nonsense when Sheldon put just about every player up for trade to try to get Greg Williams all those years ago. Better to focus on securing our remaining uncontracted players and set...

A guy I work with was at a restaurant recently, and three Essendon players were at the next table. From all reports, these guys were less than compimentary about their former coach. One of the players was an extremely high-profile player of impeccable character and another was a disgruntled ruckman.

So snake whacking day was a huge success then

A scenario that's almost plausible:


Goddard to Carlton for pick 3.


Picks 3 & 9 on-traded to West Coast for Judd

Don't get too excited folks. This is Ken Sheldon handling it, remember.

I suppose he'll fax a list of just about every player in our top twenty and tell the Eagles to choose whatever they want.

Dream on, Kenny. It's not going to happen.

With our salary cap being as it is, Judd will not be coming to us.

Anyway, with his OP, West Coast may have had the best of him.

The fitness of the players in recent years has had more to do with the previous coach (who was football manager also) than the board. Since the previous coach's departure, they have poured more money into the football department. Remember, important funds were diverted into very expensive end of sea...

Yep, all interesting points Meher and Kaos. It's what makes the thing so confusing in some respects. Outside of the debt clearance, I suppose the pertinent questions are: Why is our revenue so poor? Why has there been such a mess regarding the Mooorabbin re-development plans? Why appoint Ken Sheldon...

With such a history of poor financial management, it was important for the current board to clear the debt. I'm not saying they've performed perfectly in all facets of the club, but unless the debt was cleared, we faced treading water in any case. The current board needs to provide a clear plan to m...

1960s great team, average administration, new debt (Moorabbin) 1970s disintegration of playing list, woeful administration, bad debt 1980s Crap team, terrible administration, loaded with bad debt 1990s Good team, better admistration (Plympton), loaded with debt 2000s Good football team, strong admin...

1. Employ a new football manager, with Ross Lyon fully consulted in the selection process (ie Sheldon goes) 2. Provide assurances that the recruiting budget be tripled and steps put in place to have a topline network of recruiters employed across the land 3. Provide us with a realistic and achievabl...

A girl I work with lives with her partner, who is a presenter on Sport 927. About a year ago she mentioned to me that her partner had inreviewed someone very high up in St Kilda's hierarchy, and he told her that this guy was, well, off his head on a very addictive bubbly brown soft drink, and that t...

Laycock = Softcock

Who could forget Archer's big round arm punch on Raph Clarke two years ago?

This guy always gets off /never gets cited. Just another AFL untouchable golden boy.

Mooksy, Watts has played one senior game, then been sidelined for 14 months with a broken ankle (with complications). Remember, Gilbert played one or two games in 2006, but after being given a chance this year has blossomed. At least see him play in the seniors a few times when he's 100% fit before ...

Super talent

Seriously up himself

Just like Wayne Carey

Sounds like Thommo is trying to get back some of that money he had to pay back to Butterss. I suppose he's got 8 kids to put through private schools, so he'll need every bit of it. Just another stinking episode in the St Kilda annus horribilus. Didn't Alves try to sue the club after he got sacked? G...

Right on, Animal Enclosure. I got sick to death of hearing Thompson whining on about our priority picks (two in 20 years of the draft), and about the fact that they had to develop their list with first round picks between numbers 7 and 12. Boo bloody hoo. The fact is that they got the following play...

Ben Walton First round pick. No 15 overall John Beveridge had pencilled in Nick Stevens, but Alves had seen a tape of Walton where he kicked six goals in a quarter in South Australia and said "That's our man". Stevens eventually went to Port at pick 25! Whoops. Coaches should stick to coac...

Are you sur it wasn't Steve Strange?