Match Thread Saints v Dockers Round 17 2022

[1966]

Butler and Jones are not AFL standard footballers.

[Wayne42]

Free kick count
Saints 21 v Freo 16.

[Banger9798]

We won't win a flag with this list, need to keep turning over players until we get it right.

Yep, still 2-4 years away.

We are still being haunted by the Trout era.

There should be a news article about just how horrendous his time in charge of the list was.Absolute , first class dipshit

[bangaulegend]

Freo have won this game playing one good quarter of footy.

Absolutely laughable.

They got a bit of help.

[saintbob]

King will almost take 20 marks one day.

Unless he gets in the gym that’s all it’ll ever be

[Ghost Like]

Won’t win a flag in my lifetime at this rate and I’m 34.

thanx
i needed that laugh

I said that 25 years ago, gets a little less funny now

[Wayne42]

Now 40 points behind.

Since half time Saints have kicked 3 goals 4 Freo have kicked 11 goals 4.

= shite by the saints

[SaintPav]

Give Ratts another decade.

[Wayne42]

Saints still bombing it to King, Freo, whilst laughing, clear it again.

[seano1]

Were never going to win finals with this list ….

[nobhead]

Need a semi-rebuild.

Trade out the duds worth anything.

Got a good core of youth.

2025 is the new 2020.

Another prime time game everything to play for and these pea hearts just crumble like they always do .so disapointing AGAIN for supporters of this club .can't help wondering if these players really give a s*** about success or premierships.

[1966]

Maybe try Billing up forward. Is a very ordinary wingman.
150 mediocre games and is never going to be anything more than a second stringer.

[Waltzing St Kilda]

Max King.

Should be a musclebound colossus by now.

Should NOT be twirling the ball on his run-ups.

Should be leading to empty spaces.

Should NOT be showing bad body language.

In short, everything a good coach would have turned him into.

But at the Saints ... well, we don't want to hurt his feelings.

[Lennylegs]

Painful to watch, on so many levels. Far out

[samoht]

Too much run, too many skillful playmakers, too much pace for us.

Back to the drawing board.

[Wayne42]

Ratts, Rath and Gags just got a wake up call, let's hope in the trade and draft windows they do something.

[Banger9798]

Watching the replay of that 50m given against Butler....how the hell is that not cheating by the umpire.

That was the very definition of a free kick to Butler.

[The_Dud]

Another great opportunity flushed down the drain.

Absolutely dominated the first half for nothing.

Didn’t turn up in the third and game over.

Lol

[seano1]

Again highlights the need to refine our recruitment , stop trying to top up this team with mature age guys looking for pension monies we need skilled youth

[The_Dud]

Watching the replay of that 50m given against Butler....how the hell is that not cheating by the umpire.

That was the very definition of a free kick to Butler.

Irrelevant, Butler shouldn’t have given the 50 away. Effectively killed the game for us.

[Yorkeys]

Ratts won't last 2 years.

This is actually a coach killer
Like Sydney game
Like Essendon

You would have thought they were meeting each other for the first time

Hope they give it to him at the presser

[skeptic]

The true tragedy here is that I stuck $5 on a SGM on about 15 legs. About $150 return.

At this point, the only unrealistic leg is a Saints victory

Yep... with Sinclair crossing over that 25 possession mark, my one failed leg is the St. Kilda win.

It was only $5, but I’ve lost more than $150 in winnings

[Impatient Sainter]

Thats what you get Bassett, Finnis & Lethlean when you extend a tactically defunct coach in Ratten. He is an absolute dud on match days.

This club doesnt deserve to play finals and wont make finals again under Ratten IMO.

[Ghost Like]

If a team wanted to give a 1st rounder for Gresham, take it & run!

For that matter, besides Steele & our first year players, do we have anyone else who should not be on the table?

[saintbob]

No urgency at all in that last quarter, we continually f***ed around with it for 20mins and then Freo just go on a goal kicking spree.

Seriously our game plan is one of the best in the comp!!

Freo were way too good, but f*** we could make Nth Melbournes ressies look good at times