I think Freo are the most overrrated team in the competition right now. They have never done anything in their history to show that they will be anything other than a band of freewheeling undisciplined individuals who play a handful of good games each season (at home in WA which has the best home gr...

Not everyone can be Jimmy Stynes either mate. Those guys don't come along every season. For mine, Tommy Walsh just doesn't look at home with the oval ball.

After Kosi, Ledger is my new fave player. This guy is going to be fantastic.

Getting to a practice game by 6:40 is hard, especially if you come from half an hour or so outside of the CBD. I missed the entire first half of the Swans match because of the early start. Mind you I am glad I did - but I am very happy to say that I saw the entire Geelong match! How good is Ledger g...

Well, if Longmire is fair dinkum and Tommy is a project player, then he better hope that he stays healthy and injury free otherwise they will never get two draft picks worth of games out of the man. Personally I reckon he will get a few senior games, get found out, and then bob up and down in the ma...

At the expense of sounding somewhat pedantic, the actual suburb of Collingwood bordered by Hoddle St, Victoria pde, and the suburb of Fitzroy (Wellington St?) is actually very small, and mainly made up of shopfronts and high rise tower blocks, where few footy supporters would live anyway. I have per...

Agreed re: professionalism. As Grant Thomas always liked to say - when a club gets that winning feeling and keeps it for a sustained period the players and supporters go out each week expecting to win - and usually will. If we can just have bit of luck with guys like Ledger, Cripps and Siposs this y...

There are absolutely heaps of St Kilda supporters in the Chelsea, Bonbeach, Edithvale and Aspendale dormitory (City of Kingston) and Carrum/Patterson Lakes. Car stickers, flags on windows grand final weeks, primary school murals include St Kilda players and colours, Auskick jumper numbers, as well a...

well said OlderSaint - agree 100%

Comments like Collins' regarding Seaford show how out of touch with the footy-going public he really is. For most people, living between 30 and 40 kilometres out of the CBD (from the GPO in the old language) is a simple fact of life and makes basic good economic sense. Most people who attend footbal...

It has been stated on forums before that our style of play has been unattractive to watch. Personally I don't agree, but then I'm a die hard supporter and I much prefer winning games, playing finals and competing in Grand Finals to finishing 9th of 10th. But it can't really be denied that to stimula...

Have to agree with Dave Mc on that one. Family live in Perth and remember hearing about how the Weagles were doing all these weights three times a week in the preseason and their players said that after each training session they were so wrecked that they couldn't even drive. They ramped up what Ken...

This year we would have finished top 4 if the following things had NOT have happened Lenny doing his knee Gwilt doing his knee/leg Cripps/Siposs/Ledger all being unavailable after round 10 when they were starting to hit their straps Goddard hadn't had to play sore all year Gardiner unavailable all y...

Is that THE Attila Siposs - dad of our forward and spokesman of the Keep St Kilda At Waverley Group (late 90s)?

Because it's topical and because he nearly played for us at a time when we could have, and probably should have, won a premiership. Totally agree that he would have been a far better prospect than naffer Lovett. Geelong had passed on him the year before, and no-one, not even Sheedy at GWS (who gave ...

Hawthorn won 5 premierships in 10 years and 8 in 20, plus were dominant over an extended period 1983 - 91, and high school kids growing up then are buying memberships - plus the Flag they pinched in 08 helps - that's how. Same reason as why Richmond have such a large supporter base. I expect North's...

anybody remember the night grand final 96 - dwarfed the number of carlton supporters at the game and the numbers of richmond supporters who had turned out a couple of years before for their night grand final in 93 - a supposed big four club - we had possibly 60,000 of our own supporters there that n...

Milburn was never sh*tt*ng himself bud.
And by all accounts when he was in the car park after the game walking to his car (by himself) he just laughed at people giving him a spray.

Maybe one of our best ever ruckman in terms of raw talent Plugger, but one of the rare instances in my footy going career that I ever saw a St Kilda player who in my opinion didn't try. In this much discussed particular game against Geelong, there was one clear passage of play when the ball came in ...

saw Freddy Negro's band The F*ck F*cks do a rowsing rendition of When The Saints Go Marching In at the Espy on the eve of the 97 finals -

Darren Milburn - going the hit against SOS at Princes Park then sticking it up the Carlton ferals who went after him gesturing and postulating wildly from right behind and to the side of the interchange bench as well as in the car park after the game.
He just laughed at them.
Gold!

I work with somebody who played a preseason game against Collingwood at Warrnambool in a pre season match in 1983, which we lost by a goal, but Rod Owen at 15 years of age kicked a bag of goals against some very experienced Collingwood names. Lockett didn't play that day apparently - it would have b...

The Hawthorn game in 1990 has possibly faded into a bit of insignificance as people tend to forget just how dominant they actually were. I think they played in something like 15 straight finals series, 8 or 9 Grand Finals, won something like 7 grand finals in 13 years and consistently finished on to...

Has anybody on this forum ever visited St. Kilda on the outskirts of Adelaide? - adjectives, or perhaps pejoratives is a better term - like desolate, bleak, lonely, grim, windswept, definitely come to mind. It is like visiting the Carnival of Lost Souls. Visited there recently and all I can say is t...

Thanks for that McAdam!