saintsRrising wrote:
Ditterich today would get suspended every game he played for example.

And that alone sums up everything that is wrong with the modern game.

Trying to listen to SEN over the internet. The sound doesn't seem to be working. Anyone else having this problem?

In general, the level of commentating, particularly on TV, is appalling. Their command of English is rudimentary, they basically just ape each other, and are entirely devoid of creativity. It seems like the only description any of them can use for a player who has scored a good goal is to scream the...

Apologies if this has been taken up in another thread. Was anyone else offended by the very lukewarm description of Darrel Baldock in The Age's 50 Greatest Players?: DARREL BALDOCK (St Kilda 1962-68, 119 games) St Kilda's only premiership captain, and an AFL Hall of Fame Legend, "the Doc" ...

Take a very close look at that list. None of these were ordinary players. Milne is in elite company! That says it all. His achievement cannot fairly be denied.

I say lose the rules comittee completely! No other major sporting code in the world piss farts around and changes rules on a whim like the AFL does. Why after over 100 years of Australian Football with very little change has there been more rule changes than you can poke a stick at in the last 5-10...

Just announced on 3AW that Kosi MIGHT have a light ACL tear and will require a few weeks rest.

Blight only has a job as a special comments man because he was a great footballer. It is yet another instance of "jobs for the boys." His "comments" are evidence of his utter stupidity and if decisions were based on merit in the business of AFL, he'd be on a putting green somewhe...

There was a panel to choose the coach. That is true. One can assume that the decision to appoint RL was, in the end, unanimous. But the bigger question is, what sort of self-respecting football club calls in a complete outsider, someone who played for Carlton at a time when they were our absolute ne...

ok here we go again, name another small goal forward who averages 2 goals per game regularly and 2 scoring assists per game? as for tackling, he compares very handily to other small forwards in the competition with regards to tackling and hard ball gets. he's what 300 goals, 1 1/2 effective tackles...

Boring, uninspired football characterised by woeful skills, our best players spending inordinate amounts of time on the bench, players played unfit or out of position, the team losing games, the supporters increasingly disillusioned and unlikely to sign up for membership next year in the numbers we ...

spert wrote:....I am worried about Westaway's throw-away statement about Lyon and 10 years etc..sounds directionless and weak.

Spot on! That's exactly what it sounds like.

Less than 45 minutes of skylarking. No serious training whatsoever. Goal kicking practice? What a joke. 95% of shots missed. Nobody was serious about it (all laughing and lairising). Saintsational mentality at its finest, people will find any way of blaming the coach when it's clear that the player...

The goal umpire in the '66 Grand Final, who comically and theatrically stumbled.

There are a number of boys, Gwilt among them, who are just being overlooked and quite possibly damaged in the long run because of it. It must be remarkably frustrating and not a little insulting to guys who are going well at Scorps, doing all that is asked of them, and yet they remain overlooked. Bl...

'66 team was balanced in skills, size and toughness across all positions on the ground -as was Geelong's last year, and as are most premiership teams. Once you recruit for that to happen, the rest sort of falls into place and then needs a coach who can motivate and communicate -a straight talker wa...

Coach worked in a job full time (policeman) and coached St. Kilda part-time.....not even part-time, more it was a few evenings a week & on saturdays. Most players had full-time jobs, or were full time students and fitted their footy around their careers. All were grounded in reality....... I gu...

Coach worked in a job full time (policeman) and coached St. Kilda part-time.....not even part-time, more it was a few evenings a week & on saturdays. Most players had full-time jobs, or were full time students and fitted their footy around their careers. All were grounded in reality....... I gu...

We have absolutely zero understanding between our midfielders and our forwards in terms of timing a lead. It's simply another area where we are being poorly coached. Spot on. I don't care how much the game has changed. The midfielder (used to be the centerman) spearing pass after pass down the thro...

It'll cost someone a Premiership and then the s*** will hit the fan. Once again, instead of putting up a fight, all the clubs have rolled over. They allow the AFL to get away with murder. They don't realize that THEY, not the AFL, hold all the cards because without the clubs the AFL doesn't have a &...

[quote="saint patrick"] "The loss in 71 was the first loss that cut me to the bone...remember it like lt was yesterday...think it was 18 points at 3 quarter time before Keddie came on an changed the course of history in 15 minutes...never did another thing but his role in histiry is u...

[quote="saintsRrising"] "I cannot undertatand peoples view that we need to molly coddle our so called stars." Disingenuous comment. Absolutely no one, irrespective of which side of the the issue they are on said that we ought to "molly coddle our so called stars." What ...

The problem with the Barney the Dinosaur approach to coaching is that it relies on the entire team giving 150% effort every week. He seems to want the team to work hard, but not to work smart. Our players with the greatest individual skills or spark - the likes of Riewoldt, Kosi, G-train, Grammy, B...

Spinner writes: "Of course there is no law regarding religion. Its like saying Victoria is a football state...meaning that of all sports, football is most popular. Australia is a Christian nation. Hence the calender system. I don't think they have an Easter Monday in countries like India, China...

Just on the issue of whether Australia is a Christian nation. It most definitely is not. While the majority of people might be nominally Christian, under the law, the nation enjoys separation of Church and State. Article 5, subsection 116 of the Australian Constitution clearly reads: 116. The Common...