great effort by Pies to lose by<goal

[saintsRrising]

great effort by the Pies...

They just refused to lay down

[saintsRrising]

If PA knock off the Kangas......the Cats will not have it as easy in the ruck against them with Lade and Brogan.

Ottens really kept the Cats in it....and he showed what an influence that a good ruckman can have.

The Pies pace and run certainly bothered the Cats....and PA are quick....

[gO.SainTs]

Yeah, it was a shame that they lost by 5 points I actually wanted them to win


And to think that the Saints went through the same thing in 2004, losing the Preliminary Final against Port Adelaide.

I wasn't too pleased with the umpiring though.....

[chook23]

Really proved the importance

of a ruckman

a big ruckman

and GOOD big ruckman

[joffaboy]

Nah F*** the pies. too bad they didn't lose by a point.

no johnpeterbudgefanclub crapping on here tonight.

[strauchanie]

Really proved the importance

of a ruckman

a big ruckman

and GOOD big ruckman

Ottens is not that. He was essentially playing against two Rixes.

[saintsRrising]

Really proved the importance

of a ruckman

a big ruckman

and GOOD big ruckman

Indeed....the cats would be very thankful that they traded for Ottens....without him the Pies would have rolled them.

[gO.SainTs]

If Travis Cloke kicked that goal earlier then it could of won them the game...

[chook23]

Really proved the importance

of a ruckman

a big ruckman

and GOOD big ruckman

Ottens is not that. He was essentially playing against two Rixes.

He is good

I did not say great.

[satchmo]

great effort by Pies to lose by<goal

wish they'd do it more often.

[saint66au]

Geelong could have put the Pies away a couple of times. 4 points in 5 minutes at the start of the 3rd quarter could have hurt

Pies got the vast majority of 50-50 free kicks

The better side won on the night IMHO, Cleaner when it counted

G Ablett Jnr = freak

[luke.l_26]

not only ottens though...
I mean sure, he got the tap, but he tapped it to colingwood players many times.
well done to the Geelong midfield for being able to gain possesion and get it out of the center.

[Bernard Shakey]

Pies are crap, couldn't even beat Crows in round 22.

Why on earth would you want them to win.

Cats needed the run tonight and will demolish whomsoever they play next week.

Bring on 2008 The Year Of The Saint

[Dal_Santos_Gal]

Pies are crap, couldn't even beat Crows in round 22.

Well they were better than us this year, they played finals and didn't have to hope another team would lose to get into the 8

If the pies were crap then what would you call the other 12 clubs that didn't make a prelim final this weekend ha

sorry but you can't make a statement when we didn't even make the 8 this year..... get over the fact they didn't win in round 22, the fact was we were not good enough and had to hope the crows would lose to make the 8.. we were simply not good enough.. end of story

[Bernard Shakey]

The only team that matters to me is the Saints.

In the end the only reason we didn't make the finals, is the inability of Collingwood to beat the Crows in round 22, otherwise we would have played finals football. Fact.

[Dal_Santos_Gal]

The only team that matters to me is the Saints.

In the end the only reason we didn't make the finals, is the inability of Collingwood to beat the Crows in round 22, otherwise we would have played finals football. Fact.

If you have to rely on other teams winning to make the 8, means we have not won enough games in the first place to get into the 8.
FACT we were not good enough, hence we didn't play finals.

[Saints Premiers 2008]

collingwod like us when we were there still didnt get it done

big deal

they still didnt win so its an opportunity down the drain

[Dal_Santos_Gal]

collingwod like us when we were there still didnt get it done

big deal

they still didnt win so its an opportunity down the drain

yeah you have summed that up to a tee.
If you don't hold that silverwear up at seasons end.... it means nothing, making the 8 or not.

[my les foote]

It wasn't the Collingwood - Adelaide game that kept us out of the finals. It was the Collingwood - St.Kilda game when we were 20 points up in the last quarter and couldn't win.

Reverse that result and we make the 8, Collingwood doesn't.

[Stephen Theodore]

Joffaboy wrote:
Nah F*** the pies. too bad they didn't lose by a point.


Couldnt agree more, Joffaboy.

[aussierules0k]

[johnpeterbudgefanclub]

Nah F*** the pies. too bad they didn't lose by a point.

no johnpeterbudgefanclub crapping on here tonight.

I'm here JB......what's up???? Did we lose? Hmmmm yeah so we did.....oh well. Good game though I must admit.....I was proud.....no slanging my own team tonight. Everyone had a real crack at it and stuck to our game plan well.

Nup.......no complaints. Wasn't on JB because I was at the game........

[johnpeterbudgefanclub]

If you don't hold that silverwear up at seasons end.... it means nothing, making the 8 or not.

Hi there DSG and thanks for your perspective regarding Bernard Shakey(?)'s thought provoking posts once again. Most of us know the real answer there.

Anyways with regards to the above I agree in some ways but in other ways to make the top 8 and get some finals game into your younguns is invaluable, so would stand u in better stead for having those finals games as experience to draw upon. We had a number of players under 21, now the experience that these guys would have endured this campaign can only benefit them for future finals experiences.

We had one guy out there last night who had never picked up a football until last year and wasnt far from best on last night.

[markinUSA]

The advantage of playing in the finals isn't just experience - it is important financially, for the club in terms of revenue; and also helps the club attract sponsorship dollars.

[st_Trav_ofWA]

i think the thing that stuck ito my mind is when the pies over ran us about how it was seen as such a bigg thing about how bad we were but in retrospect we were really seeing the pies come of age