What is more important. Development or recruitment. How do the likes of hawks cats swans stay up with limited draft opportunities.

Anything could happen but

We won't score more than 60 points and we will lose by 36 points

Freezer can't take a trick

ATM
Milney
Rioli
Betts
Matera
Farmer

That's how I see it

s*** group. s*** coach. s*** recruiting. He has not lost the players. Stan lost the players. This is different. This is broken. Is it our recruiting that is crap or is it our development. Other clubs seem to find diamonds in the rough, we tend to turn highly touted players into deers I'm front of h...

Can we get a quote to fix our team too?

If he didn't get rubbed out in his medal winning year then there is nothing to see here

I wouldn't even say that we have a team. Too many people playing for themselves. Jack Steven's goal should have been a handpass to membrey. Instead he checksides it for a dribble goal. Also Billings and others were free 20mts out on many occasions and he got burnt.

Recruiters to go first And a fair chunk of the list. We don't have any quality tall forwards on our list, very hard to find, we'll have to continue to play tall plodders, Wish we had some quality small forwards to compensate. Is it the recruiters and players, or is it more systemic than that. I thi...

Hard to get rid of the ball when your knocked out due to a knee to the head

How was the Carlisle incident not a free to us

Apart from the fact Melbourne started there rebuild in 08 ... (Sssh, it ruins the story.) Plus the AFL got Paul Roos out of retirement and corrected there board to get them back on track. Also pick 2 then pick 3 for Frawley which should have gone second round which made up for their tanking fine. I...

All I want is the team to have a crack. I also want the coach to change it up a little. Please no more bomb it in long. It just doesn't work. Lower the eyes and hit targets. The manic pressure doesn't work either. We don't have the speed or the skills to pull it off. Please AR. Do something different.

Has he been the only shining light this year.
So far I believe he is the only one that has exceeded expectations with everyone else either maintaining or going backwards..

The problem is our management of our club got it wrong. They put hope in us to be knocking on the door from 2018. Even the media like saying we are/should be finals bound this year. The moment the Dees beat us for the first time in years a couple of years ago was the start of our backwards progressi...

I like everyone's optimism but I cant see us being within 60 points of them. I can see the first 100 point drubbing this season.

We cant even kick goals FFS.

As much as I would like Carlisle to go forward, we need him in defence. What I would rather is have Membrey as the only tall and put a midget fleet around him. Rotate Membrey and Acres. If Membrey had a tank, he would be Ruccuto like in the midfield. We need to lock the ball in. Where is our forward...

For bulk parts of the game we had control. It just seemed that each goal we kicked needed to be masterfully created were the crows scored with ease. How many gettable goals were points.
I think our forward line is very suspect and our game plan to get it in there is not much better.

Long time reader and first time poster. Seriously, some of you so called Saints supporters need to show some bloody ticker! One bad loss and everyone is at the club's throat from the CEO, to the coaches, players, recruiters, backroom staff, etc. Then there is talk of folding and relocating and clea...

Linton Lodger wrote:No change, if any Dunstan in for Steele, however that would depend on Dunstan's form in the Sandy game.

Agreed

We move the ball fast by disposal but that also causes us to turn it over because we dont move fast. We are not a fast team in running and spreading. Lucky Dunstan was not in and i dont think we can play all three inside mids in Steele Dunstan and Stevens. Steele seems too defensive so far and needs...

Yes but then we need less inside mids and more mids with pace. Having 3 talls and a slow inside mids makes us look like treacle.

Correct me if i am wrong but i thought Steele didnt have a great game.

When are we going to learn to pass by foot

I reckon Bruce will return to form and be a formidable opponent for all other teams this year. Especially if he stays out of the ruck.
I hope Paddy has a good year but i think he is one bad head knock from retirement