Great.

Now we've got Sportsbet against us as well.

Just one example: Port Adelaide in 2004. Beaten by North (by 91 points) in Round 7 or so and beaten comfortably by Essendon (at Telstra Dome) in Round 17 or so. Still rallied at the right time and won the flag. The Saints can still do it. Then again, all this is just hot air at the moment. The boys ...

Which part is indisputable? As a No 2 ruck would Kosi be better than Ben? The part where Matthews says Kosi is slow and cumbersome (and, by implication, not appropriate as a full forward). I agree with you that Ben is a better ruckman option. But I can't see that Kosi is going to improve. He's a li...

Leigh Matthews is stating the blindingly obvious. RL's one major flaw is a stubborn, defensive mindset that sees him throwing up barricades against the pressures of outside opinion, even when it's virtually indisputable.

Needs Heath Shaw to drive him home.

Has all the finesse of a Bunning's sales assistant.

It was on Ten news.

Re Baker-like tagging, said there was no room in the game for scragging and sniping. Said it was from a different era. I'm sorry? Did his team not scrag and snipe Barry Hall just weeks ago? Was the man himself not one of the game's biggest thugs? Did he not hurl Lenny Hayes into a fence? And purpose...

Sorry -- my post above is about Brad Scott -- mistakenly put it in this thread.

Re Baker-like tagging, said there was no room in the game for scragging and sniping. Said it was from a different era. I'm sorry? Did his team not scrag and snipe Barry Hall just weeks ago? Was the man himself not one of the game's biggest thugs? Did he not hurl Lenny Hayes into a fence? And purpose...

Bewildering comment from a complete oxgen thief.

The AFL should fine the tribunal for throwing the code into disrepute.

Two days ago I started the "Eight Weeks for Bakes" thread. It was supposed to be a joke.

Even going on the precedents, I thought eight weeks was at the far side of absurd.

Breathtaking.

Just going on the existing precedents: 2003: Flat on his back in the centre of the ground, Baker has his foot stood on by Essendon ruckman Steve Alessio. To dislodge Alessio, Baker gives him a harmless kick in the ankle. Result: 3 weeks suspension. Even Mike Sheahan said it was the most absured pena...

From the reports anybody would think that the police force was staffed entirely by St Kilda supporters. I dearly wish that were true, but logically the percentage would be under 10%. So that means that there's actually 90% of the force that would love to see charges laid , and St Kilda's season dera...

The Herald Sun. I tried using it as toilet paper once but my ar$e rejected it.

Milne Round 5 versus Franklin Round 13. Forget about the quality of the actual goals -- a packed MCG Friday night game will beat a rainy, poorly attended Port Adelaide match in the buzz-stakes. Plus Buddy is more fashionable than the Tiprat. Sadly, I think Milne will miss out yet again ... and to th...

Mal Brown doesn't think. Thinking is a subversive, socialist theory to such types.

You forgot to mention the way the team was relentlessly pilloried for its game style a few weeks ago. One would have thoughts we were terrorists bent on the destruction of the game.

We overcame that negativity as well.

The Age is a St Kilda sponsor, don't you know. And News Ltd in general feels no shame about hunting down people/companies/political parties "to teach them a lesson".

Isn't there a Didak DVD featuring his every goal or something?

I'd love to see a package of Milne's jawdropping goals -- must be about 70 of them by now.

Heard a fan calling him "Power Drill" on Friday night ... presumably after the Stanley tool.

Yeah, my favourite player, too.

Great skills -- not something the Saints have an overabundance of.

Might be an outrider but his skills are too valuable to put him at the bottom of packs. Rarely gets injured.

If those are the rules, then those are the rules. But I don't like the rules. I'm confident most supporters don't like the rules. The current obsession with clash strips is unnecessary.

I'm no apologist for Collingwood, but they have both a predominately white and predominately black strip. When we are the home team they wear the white one, and there's no clash at all. When they are the home team we wear our white based strip, and again no clash. No problem there that I can see. N...