Tough draw ahead ....

Oh When the Saints · Sat 29 Mar 2008 10:52pm

Round 3 - vs. Western Bulldogs who were on fire today and are full of confidence and enthusiasm after winning their first two. Looked terrific against Melbourne.

Round 4 - vs. Geelong ... enough said.

Round 5 - vs. Essendon who are the form team of the comp. We always seem to play them at the worst possible time (eg '05 and '07).

Round 6 - vs. Port Adelaide over there; they are our bogey side and grand finalists. Will be a tough encounter.

Huge next 4 matches coming up.

Sam23 · Post: # 538895Post **Sam23** » Sat 29 Mar 2008 10:54pm

Beat Bulldogs

Lose Geelong Port

aussierules0k · Sat 29 Mar 2008 10:55pm

We'll smash all 3.

LaUrEnCe · Post: # 538901Post **LaUrEnCe** » Sat 29 Mar 2008 10:56pm

Sam23 wrote:Beat Bulldogs

Lose Geelong Port

tend to agree

Cairnsman · Post: # 538903Post **Cairnsman** » Sat 29 Mar 2008 10:56pm

Yep beat (not necessarily smash) all three and the media will be all over us.

james rose · Sat 29 Mar 2008 10:57pm

shape the season these three matches imo

Bulldogs think we need to bring a bit of pace back in (ie Jones) but our fowards should really trouble their back line as opposed to Carlton who height wise matched up well.

Geelong- will be as interesting as always, King vs Blake as a sideshow

Port- should really be tough.. both sides rebounding to attack.

if we are serious about the flag need to win 2

LENNY LEADS THE WAY · Sat 29 Mar 2008 10:57pm

Bombers round 5 Port round 6

maverick · Post: # 538909Post **maverick** » Sat 29 Mar 2008 10:57pm

We have the Bombers before Port, Port is round 6

super dooper · Sat 29 Mar 2008 10:59pm

realistically we need to aim to win at least 2 of the next 3 games, obviously winning 3 would be ideal...
If thats done we are just about set, very very important game next week and is a must win to go all guns blazing against the cats.

Bring on the doggies

Huzzad · Post: # 538923Post **Huzzad** » Sat 29 Mar 2008 11:02pm

Oh When the Saints wrote:Round 3 - vs. Western Bulldogs who were on fire today and are full of confidence and enthusiasm after winning their first two. Looked terrific against Melbourne.

Not hard to be on fire against the Dees though

We played average tonight against Carlton and still won by 40. Expect a great game against the Dogs. Probably close, but we should win. No excuses.

Round 4 - vs. Geelong ... enough said.

Exactly. I'll be happy if we have a close game, and we should. Happy to lose to these guys in a tight contest, but we have a great chance to beat them. Watch King to have a big game against his old club, and Charlie too if he comes back, will add a lot of fuel to our fire. Plus if Geelong pay too much attention to King like they did against Charlie in the NAB, they will take their eyes of the footy which gives us the advantage. King will be out to prove a point and Geelong will want to play a phyiscal game against him to unsettle him. Have every confidence in King to keep his cool and take adavantage of their rough tactics.
Definatly possible, but need to be at our best, which we are not just yet.

Round 5 - vs. Port Adelaide over there; they are our bogey side and grand finalists. Will be a tough encounter.

Been average against Port the last few years and need to stand up. We have the talent to win, we just need to be in form. G-Train and Milne need to bag a couple each for us to win. Should be a tight one

Enrico_Misso · Sun 30 Mar 2008 12:08am

To be a serious premiership threat we need to beat Dogs and Bombers.
AND win one of the Geel/Port games.

Big 4 weeks.

Ralphy · Post: # 539060Post **Ralphy** » Sun 30 Mar 2008 12:11am

Geelong arent unstoppable (think essendon will beat them tomorrow)

essendon will be the tough one i think ,

port, hmmm there hard to beat for us,

but we should beat doggies,

Saints Premiers 2008 · Sun 30 Mar 2008 12:13am

talls beat smalls...the dogs dont have decent talls...we have monster talls...that can play...

end of story

The_Dud · Post: # 539067Post **The_Dud** » Sun 30 Mar 2008 12:14am

on our first two weeks form, i think we'll struggle against all of them

we have to lift our game for the next month

Ralphy · Post: # 539071Post **Ralphy** » Sun 30 Mar 2008 12:16am

The_Dud wrote:on our first two weeks form, i think we'll struggle against all of them

we have to lift our game for the next month

thats right
right now we will get the s*** kicked out of us against geelong, essendon and port, so we need to lift, and lift alot i think dropping a few players and maybe swapping possitions will help fix this,

Saints Premiers 2008 · Sun 30 Mar 2008 12:22am

ralphysaints35 wrote:
The_Dud wrote:on our first two weeks form, i think we'll struggle against all of them

we have to lift our game for the next month
thats right
right now we will get the s*** kicked out of us against geelong, essendon and port, so we need to lift, and lift alot i think dropping a few players and maybe swapping possitions will help fix this,

dropping who??? and swapping who???

Armoooo · Post: # 539560Post **Armoooo** » Sun 30 Mar 2008 5:16pm

We will beat bulldogs by 35 points IMO...
Geelong will obviously be the tough one, I can't see us beating them on current form, we would need a huge list.
Essendon have been shown for what they really are today, a team in the rebuilding process, we will win that game quite easily.
With Port you never know, this could be our year, we have been quite good at Aami recently (off the top of my head, feel free to prove me wrong statisticians

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matrix · Post: # 539577Post **matrix** » Sun 30 Mar 2008 5:37pm

dogs and cats will be tough
Port are over rated.

Solar · Post: # 539581Post **Solar** » Sun 30 Mar 2008 5:44pm

I'm confused, we are scared of 2 teams that got done by nearly 100 points each today?

Should be a great month of football. No reason to think we can't win 3 to 4 of them and push hard for a top four spot.

Two top 4 teams playing each other this coming friday, should be a blockbuster.

Otiman · Post: # 539613Post **Otiman** » Sun 30 Mar 2008 6:18pm

Oh When the Saints wrote:Western Bulldogs - Looked terrific against Melbourne.

Not hard to do.

ace · Post: # 539618Post **ace** » Sun 30 Mar 2008 6:20pm

Tough draw ahead

I have to agree.

Each of our opponents have to face the mighty saints - that is real tough on them.

ace · Post: # 539623Post **ace** » Sun 30 Mar 2008 6:24pm

Dogs and Cats
Raining Dogs and Cats means you might get a bit wet.
That is only to be feared if you are as weak as water.

ace · Post: # 539626Post **ace** » Sun 30 Mar 2008 6:27pm

Would be premiers fear no one.
They look for to the challenge and the victory.

battye · Post: # 539627Post **battye** » Sun 30 Mar 2008 6:29pm

aussierules0k wrote:We'll smash all 3.

Absolutely. This year will be exactly like 2004, we'll win the first 10.

The only difference is we'll win the preliminary final

nicko016 · Post: # 539628Post **nicko016** » Sun 30 Mar 2008 6:33pm

We should be able to beat the Bulldogs and the Bombers and even if we lose to both Port and Geelong we'd be 4-2 which is a relatively good position. Today, suggests that everyone was a bit quick to jump on the Bomber's bandwagon but they'll be by no means easy to beat. We seem to have the wood over the Bulldogs and the running games of the Bulldogs and Essendon will be harder to play under decent pressure. So, if we bea both of them we'll be in a good decision no matter what happens with Geelong and Port and then maybe we could get a win out of those two.

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