We’re obviously not mucking around here. We’re picking our best available team.

On the squad: I'm sorry to see Keeler hasn't been selected. Of all the players at the Zebras last year, I thought he was the most advanced and was hoping he'd get a lot closer during the pre-season. I wonder why Caminiti is in both squads? Perhaps he is only going to be used as a sub tomorrow in th...

SEN article saying Crouch has a “knee concern” which isn’t great, as he’s been recovering from a knee injury.

Strong squad. Looks like Crouch may have picked up a recent injury though. Wasn’t on the track yesterday from memory from what I read. Says a fair bit about Garcia and Wilson that they’re the only new ones from the last two drafts to be picked to play the first game. Would be a great bonus if we’ve ...

Their forward line is their big weakness and now they’ve lost Smith who played there in the finals and they’ll presumably have to play Petracca almost exclusively in the midfield again, which will further weaken their scoring power. Their top-end talent in the midfield is fantastic but it’s now pape...

Angus Brayshaw has been forced into retirement as a result of the concussion he received from the Maynard bump in the final. Awful news for him and a hammer-blow for Melbourne, who seem a shambles right now.

We won 12 games when he won his first B&F he made the AA Squad go 14 Brownlow votes and averaged 29.8ppg Misnomer that we were ‘crap’ In 2009 and 10 Joey was not an inside mid Lenny and Dal were elite CJ was a tagger Ball was a solid player I think Seb makes the team as a secondary mid off the ...

If history is anything to go by He is clearly our second best mid Equal with Crouch imo Criminally underrated by ignorant supporters Who’s our best? Steele? I would hope that Pou, Wilson and Owens surpass him and would be disappointed if all didn’t have better careers. Obviously Sinclair is a bette...

If history is anything to go by He is clearly our second best mid Equal with Crouch imo Criminally underrated by ignorant supporters Also criminally overrated by ignorant supporters. Not sure there's a metric that exists to back up the claim that he is currently equal with Crouch. Crouch AVERAGED 2...

SaintPav wrote: ↑Thu 15 Feb 2024 2:58pm From memory, at one stage deep into the first quarter, Roger James had 80% of Port’s possessions. He totally rogered us.

Yeah he had more disposals than most of the rest of their team put together.

WellardSaint wrote: ↑Sat 17 Feb 2024 10:10am Hoping an ITK can clarify.

Tony?

Apparently has “calf awareness”, and hasn’t been seen on the track training or even running for a couple of weeks now.

Port hadn’t even been inside 50 by the time of the ground invasion. The way things were going we could easily have been 6 goals up by quarter time, had Port not had that chance to regroup.

The way we started that game was some of the most scintillating footy I’ve ever seen us play.

WellardSaint wrote: ↑Tue 13 Feb 2024 1:33pm

AnythingsPossibleSaints wrote: ↑Tue 13 Feb 2024 10:51am Sounds like neither Collard or Sincs have trained for about two weeks now. Someone on BF said Sincs had a calf.

Sincs has 2 calves, FWIW.

And they're both enormous

I hear they have their own postcode!

Sounds like neither Collard or Sincs have trained for about two weeks now. Someone on BF said Sincs had a calf.

Byrnes showed what he can do in one of those games later in the season where a number of times he received or grabbed the ball in a heavily congested situation and just took the game on by charging through the pack and coming out the other side with it. It was a real “wow if he could do that consist...

What i do know is Hayes and probably Jones will be training away from the group. They will be my first 2 delistings at years end. Is this a new development with Jones? All reports so far indicate that he is fit, firing and killing it at training Recent reports I’ve read have said he’s being “ manag...

Collard seems a huge chance and obviously Wilson is someone who sounds like he could play immediately, but the issue he could face is that he’s likely to be behind Hill, Wood, Henry and possibly Byrnes in the pecking order for a wing or HFF. Not to mention Ross and/or Jones, if we want to squeeze th...

Our good friend Kingy going in to bat for us again. Tipping we’re a club that could push into the top 4. Kano disagrees.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2024/02/01/ ... 2024-hopes

Here’s one from the club. Pretty exciting news re Collard. Human highlights reel who is probably a couple of good praccy matches away from taking Butler’s spot in R1. We might have ourselves a gem there. https://www.saints.com.au/news/1485801/small-forward-shines-in-match-sim-as-season-opener-prep-h...

As long as we have one of Dow or the similar Jones that will be good and an improvement on what we had for most of last season. And even if we have neither that just means Seb keeps his spot and it opens up more midfield opportunities for Owens/Windy/Pou.

It’s ridiculous Mattaus Phillipou is rated higher than Seb Ross. Phillipou has potential but his actual performance is nowhere near some of the senior players he was rated higher than Other examples absurd too They’re predicting he’ll have a big season, on that back of what they described as a “bum...

We really need the youngsters to shine. Ross probably has two seasons left, Crouch three. The key is mids who can really run. The difference that Walsh makes for Carlton is enormous. Same with Neale at Brisbane, and Oliver at Melbourne. Having that kind of tank combine with speed is a real advantag...

The ratings are projections of what they think they’ll be contributing this upcoming season.

A good read so far, but a bit off factually, as he said that Hill switched “between half back and wing” last year, when in reality I don’t think he played off half back all year, and he also didn’t play very much wing. He played mostly high half-forward. The two that played the great majority of the...

2020 Steele Ross Hill Jones Clark (played half back) Hannebery (did not play) Billings Dunstan Bytel (2nd year player) Byrnes (first year player) 2024 Steele Ross Hill Jones Clark Dow Owens Windhager Henry Byrnes Hotton (2nd year player) Phillipou (2nd year player) Wilson (1st year player) We've ce...