He does a bit of media work, so I wonder if he will go into that area?

how much of our previous losses were due to injuries to key players at key times? Sydney and WCE were able to win on the back of having their star gun players fit and available at Finals times during the year. Sydney were bemoaning the loss of kennealy and hall as critical, wce were basically missi...

Must be a great incentive for Watts and Co...knowing they won't get a gig no matter how well they do, or how bad their competition does..... Then again Lyon has his favourites.........that much is obvious......CJ....cough, cough :roll: I agree. Find me a coach who doesn't have favourites though. Fr...

Interesting comments by Schwass about the physical demands of the gameplan. That is why our players need a massive pre-season at the end of this year. I think Lyon has recognised this problem though, and has been using Fiora on the ground for the whole of last quarters ... Fiora is fresher for not p...

In response to your comments re: the gameplan meher baba ... you said in another thread that none of the Lyon supporters have responded. I don't disagree with how you have described it. All I agree with is the fact that, when executed properly with confidence and a fit 22, it works. It has worked fo...

Didn't play the first three games, and then put in 2-3 ordinary games in the first half of the year.

His second half has been sensational, but this is an "odd year". Riewoldt never gets any honours in an odd year ...

2002, 2004, 2006 B&F
2004, 2006 All-Australian
2004 AFLPA MVP

etc.

Some interesting points IMO: Sounded the most relaxed and confident I have heard him. Was joking at one stage and was coherent and expressive. Was happy with our pressure and effort last week. Said that there were 134 tackles in the match, which is very high. Thought we butchered the footy in the la...

He's also a trained veterinarian. The club might have set up a job at a clinic so he can do that and ruck coach on the side. Maybe he could get a role with training services. He could look after Goose, Fish, Roo :lol: :lol: He might have been able to cure "Mad Dog" Muir too if he had been...

Geez, you are all far to generous IMO. They have all had it except maybe G and Gardiner. We need to make some hard decisions on blokes like Mark Williams did at the end of 2005. Q: Are these players finished? 36 - Robert Harvey................ YES (saddens me to say it, but he won't be part of our ...

He's an Adelaide boy ... why would he stay in Melbourne as ruck coach when all his ties are in South Australia, and he could play SANFL and ruck coach over there?

Fair enough carn_sainter. From when I did the reasearch for the original post, the team with the highest average games per player was Sydney with about 100 ... The lowest was Carlton with about 60 ... That is a significant difference ... the Saints were abouut 85. Really, I was not trying to excuse ...

Just looking ahead a bit ... We have seen the emergence of Sam Gilbert this season, and he has become an excellent player for us. He is capable of playing key defence on a tall forward for the opposition, but is equally damaging with his run off the half-back line. In the long-term, he will become a...

so you arguing that we have some young developing of players coming through? Almost. In 2004 and 05, we had developing players coming through - Joey, X, BJ, Grammy, Chips, Fish etc. Now those developing players are in our team each week. And they are still developing. And yes, we've still got devel...

What experienced players have we lost in the last few years that haven't been replaced with equivalent or better players? My point was that the players who have come in as replacements are equal in ability, but inferior in experience and development. I believe that at AFL level footballers are not ...

From: http://saints.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/5315/Default.aspx?newsId=49004 EXTRACT [quote]...... “We can’t have our finals hopes relying on other teams losing. It’s not the way we want to move forward. “We need to win every game from here on in. Gram, who collected 12 posses...

But, leaving aside GT's annoying behaviour, were the changes we have seen to our playing style what we really needed to "move to the next level"? No. Fundamentally, I believe GT has the right football philosophy. Sometimes he struggled with matchups and the tactics of the opposition coach...

LOL on one hand we have people telling us we aren't blooding new players on the other we have people telling us we are in experienced. The facts tell you we are inexperienced. Fact #1: We had the 5th lowest average games played of teams on the weekend Fact #2: We have the 6th highest number of play...

Too much abuse and going around in circles.

Last warning or the thread is locked.

I'm not sure who the "most people" are, but I personally always saw this as an enormous downside in the decision to get rid of a pretty successful coach and his experienced 2IC in September 2006 and replace them with a rookie coach and three rookie assistants. I don't think anyone would d...

Meaningless when you look at Hawthorn and Port Adelaide with 16 and the Kangaroos with 13. It shows what ou can do with a game plan where the players are encouraged to take risks and a little self belief. All those sides have been coached by the same person for at least 3 years. In Port's case, the...

Destroyed Fevola in the second half.

Destroyed Brad Johnson.

Destroyed Hall.


He's in great form, and was easily BOG for us against the Swans.

If you look at the game in a positive light: Sydney received 4 goals from free-kicks, at least 2 of which were questionable. Additionally, they received 2 goals from blatantly incorrect decisions (a mark paid that shouldn't have been, and a terrible holding the ball decision). Add Xavier Clarke's aw...

dear mods the comments by saints premiers 2006 are completely unacceptable and the poster should be banned. this forum is not a place for any comments of a racist nature and those comments made had serious racist undertones as a football club and as a group of supporters these comments cannot be al...

Third behind Priddis (dominating for the Eagles) and Bandy (former 100 game AFL player) in the Sandover Medal. Plus two B&F's in a finals team at South Freo. There was obviously something to work with ... he would have been in the best 650 footballers in Australia. He was worth a punt and we had...

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Sorry MSG, if you wouldn't mind re-posting in the above thread.

Cheers.