I reckon Kosi could have been anything if he'd had a good run with injury. I mean that stretch of games in 2005, when he was acting captain, was some of the most dominant and inspiring footy I've seen, but he then had a few injuries to end that season and some more over the following preseason and t...

Can you imagine what we'd have to give up to get Patton?! :shock: A top 3 pick would be a minimum requirement to get him, I would imagine and even that might not quite be enough. His family (and him) were heavily into us before he was drafted though, I believe. He is another one who apparently hasn'...

Tippets contract was only 2 years. And I doubt very much we had the money for BJ. That's the first I've heard of Tippett only signing for two years, as all the talk leading in was that he wanted a 4 year deal and the article in the Australian the day after he was drafted said that they believed he ...

So there is a connection already. It would mean yet another first round pick traded away do we really want to do that? If Tyson was available next year and he was given a clean bill of health and had shown that he was still playing the sort of footy that he was playing which saw him taken at no. 3 ...

So why didnt they get Tippett then? You have given us reason why they should not have taken him but then the next paragraph you said money wont be an issue. My guess is it will be an issue otherwise you would take the best players available. You'd have to ask them, but apparently they came out and ...

Yeah I think they could have gotten him if they'd wanted to, but with the fact he was only going to play for half of next year, plus the fact he is possibly one more concussion away from being in real strife and also the little matter that it is questionable if he is worth that much money anyway, th...

As I said, Stanley is the first one I would try there as well, for a couple of reasons, but I was just suggesting Lee as another option, especially if Rhys doesn't work out, or if we think there isn't a spot for Tom forward but that he's too good to be playing in the VFL, given that he's apparently ...

I was talking more in the immediate, for next year, if by some miracle all of Kosi, Roo and say Stanley, or Wilkes are all firing on all cylinders and keeping Tom out of the forward line, then he could be very handy down back, until say Kosi retires, or someone gets injured. In the long term I am ex...

Richmond may want him and he is apparently massively keen to get to them, but will they have a draft pick high enough to offer GWS for him? Given that they, as you said, won't want to add to their list, due to having to reduce its numbers, they won't want multiple picks, or a pick and a "GOP&qu...

I still think he isn't going to be anymore effective than Simpkin down back. We need a Gorilla not tooth pick. Lee is a forward. Have you seen any of his games when he's played down back? I've heard from some over in WA that he was just about as good last year when he was playing down back as he wa...

Dom Tyson is probably the one we would be most keen on, especially if Lenny happens to retire and is the one that it would seem is the most desperate to come home, after Richmond tried to get him in the trade period just recently (on the back of him apparently being super-keen to come back to Melbou...

Happy Christmas all, hope it's a ripper and a great year ahead for you and yours and our mighty Sainters!

It was pretty widely reported at the time. Here are a couple of the articles on it: http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/saints-captain-nick-riewoldt-reveals-hes-using-a-radical-german-medical-technique/story-fnelctok-1226440236272 http://www.smh.com.au/afl/afl-news/riewoldts-knee-treatment-a-success-20...

Roo's knee has reportedly been a heap better since he had that new treatment (the treatment that originated in Europe and which has reportedly also helped Cooney's knee to be the best it has in years), on it earlier this year and from what I've been told by someone very close to the club it is going...

After BJ left and we missed out on Mitch Brown (who we could apparently afford both of under next year's cap), we would have had a large amount of salary cap space unused next year, so I expect the club would have been keen to either ne-negotiate one or more contracts, (to front end them, so that mo...

Hey Thommo, glad that all this hasn't put you off posting on here and a very happy Christmas to you and yours. I was just wondering whether the club objected to what you said about Kosi and his lack of ultra professionalism off-field earlier this year? That was the first time I'd heard anything like...

Last I heard (just after he got sacked) was that Jason was living alone in his big new (relatively) house much closer to Seaford than Port Melbourne.

I think Wilkes is being a bit undersold on here, as he had earned the FF spot in our team by the end of this season and had effectively pushed Kosi out of the team through performing better than him in the last several rounds. As far as I'm concerned, it's his spot to lose now, if anyone in the team...

I have seen Lee play WAFL and the foxtel cup and he looks better than Watts but is probably older and more advanced. Watts is only ahead on reputation as a number one pick. If he was drafted at number 22 I doubt he'd still be on their list. I'm not even saying Lee is going to be better but any insp...

Agree with that.

I think minchington would be hard to upgrade because with Dennis- lane, Milera, Saad, Schnides and Milney there may be getting over endowed with speedy small forwards. He might want to play some on ball roles to sneak in. I have very high hopes for Minchington and have a feeling that of all those w...

With Kosi, he can look OK on the TV and he does generally do those things you mentioned well, wynner, but in the last 2/3 of his season he just generally wasn't doing those things enough, for whatever reason and I believe it put a lot of pressure on the rest of our team. You'd be sitting there at th...

Jack Watts: For once I have to disagree with APS. This bloke is the most over-hyped/under performed No 1 draft pick since Josh Fraser. I don't think Watts is particularly hyped at all (at least not based on his on-field performances so far- it's more that he gets a lot of attention and press becaus...

Don't want to jinx him, but at this point happy to stick with Lee. I actually expect Watts will continue to be good (and will get better) across HB for Melbourne (and he probably won't be needed much up forward from now on, now that they have Clark, Dawes and soon the big unit Jesse Hogan), but I th...

Cheers.