New Zealand, Shanghai, Timbuktu - none have been in the past nor ever in future be happy hunting grounds for St Kilda. Emphasis must always be on getting the 4 points - sustained success brings crowds to the games and viewers to watch on Foxtel, plus headlines in the media. That will also force the...

New Zealand, Shanghai, Timbuktu - none have been in the past nor ever in future be happy hunting grounds for St Kilda. Emphasis must always be on getting the 4 points - sustained success brings crowds to the games and viewers to watch on Foxtel, plus headlines in the media. That will also force the ...

One doesn't have to go that far back, in fact one only has to review the 2023 season to know we are a fair way off it, for large portions of the season we were very average, had it not been for a very easy draw and results from other clubs going our way we wouldn't have got anywhere near the finals...

Methinks CQS is using an AI bot....he's probably watching the cricket and having a few beers, totally oblivious to what's been written.

Not a big deal, Toce has been at St Kilda for 9 years in variuous roles and it's not at all unreasonable or unusual that either the club, or Toce, or both, decided it was time for a change. Let's face it, the final decisions on which draftee or trade prospect comes into the club is collegiate, betwe...

Does any of the contract stuff have anything to do with why he was picked week in and week out (Pou) even when others may have impacted more? I don't think so, I believe a far greater factor in Phillipou's destiny to remain with St Kilda medium/long term is how the team performs overall in the comp...

I've concluded for some time that St Kilda will make top 4 in 2024 and if that turns out to be true there's good reason to argue the team can go all the way to the GF and win that elusive 2nd flag. Even the media pundits who think St Kilda will slide out of the eight have admitted that St Kilda has ...

There might be some who will be interested to read the following article in yesterday's Hun by reporter Josh Barnes - I expect anyone who has previously declared on this forum they despise the Murdoch Press and News Ltd will give this a miss on principle: " DARCY SETS A CRACKING PACE Draftee Da...

Life Long Saint wrote: ↑Sat 09 Dec 2023 12:24pm

Sanctorum wrote: ↑Sat 09 Dec 2023 11:56am As for the future, my money is on Arie Schoenmaker, who at 194 cm is the same size as Tim May, to become St Kilda's long term fullback in due course.

Why are you comparing the size of a former test off-spinner with a footballer?

Definitely a senior moment....

Howard's at a crucial junction in his footy career, he turns 28 in March next year and should be at his prime, yet was injured and lost form, played 18 games last season in 3 of which he was subbed off. With Lyon's strict policy of players doing their utmost to work hard and get the best out of them...

To some extrent I agree with Nick Dal Santo Claus insofar as the lengthy episodes of both the Unlaced Podcast and Saints TV can be terribly tedious to watch. Despite this, as amateur productions by ardent Saints supporters, they deserve respect. I was interested to hear Mason Wood classify Brad Scot...

You might have something there skeptic. In the the current 'woke' era of political correctness it is not at all surprising that some clubs will have dismissed Schoenmaker lest his past history, even if of trivial concern, might be evidence of the club having a poor culture. I'm banking on St Kilda's...

Those with a good memory will remember after the 08 finals series that everyone predicted that we would slide down the ladder. We finished top 4 by smashing the bombers reserves team by over 100 points in the last game of the H&A season to win either 13 or 14 games. It was a very average group ...

I do agree we were lucky to make finals in '23. We peaked in that narrow loss to Collingwood and by mid-May, after the Adelaide debacle, we were on the slide. However, we seemed to hang on and hang on thanks partly to other results and having a crack. I think we might be better next year if injurie...

The Fireman wrote: ↑Fri 01 Dec 2023 9:27pm Hmm you’ve told everyone on here you have a PhD but you can’t spell …. Is that possible?
What is latext ?

It's impossible to say with any degree of certainty that the new players will in every case be better than the players who've departed. Neither highlight reels nor reports of their form in junior footy or at the draft camps can be relied upon to determine that they will perform well in senior footba...

Well, yeah, that was over the top, but more to the point Darragh Joyce only played 5 games for the Lions in 2023, so clearly the Lions came to the same conclusion about him as St Kilda.

I like it, no adverse reflection on Lenny, but BJ is a far more aggressive individual and may well take that characteristic into how he wants the midfield to play. In many ways midfield as the engine room of the team is the most crucial coaching role at a club. I was hoping to read that Robert Harve...

What’s the rumour here? All I can find is he bought alcohol for underage teammates which seems much ado about nothing. That's all I could find, and his response was humbling enough to chalk it down to a teenager making a mistake. A second indiscretion becomes a problem. He also had to face up to hi...

I'm not sure you can draw parallels between Test cricket and AFL football in terms of youth v age Shane, one is a relatively gentle game, the other an extremely physical contest. However there is no question that in footy having too many young players will not win many games, it certainly requires a...

Me suspects they did not intend to take 5 picks but when they realised that Schoenmaker was still on the board they pounced. In German the "E" immediately after the "O" indicates there should be an umlaut on the O converting the sound to "ur" as in Danke Schoen, the Sc...

In one of the clips Collard is interviewed and when asked who he aspires to play like he responded' "Shai Bolton". Looking at some of his highlight reels he certainly shows some of that mercurial dash and leap for marks that Bolton does, so if he can produce that for St Kilda that will be ...

Very happy with this pick but did he look a bit deflated in the interview? That occurrred to me as well Vaz, but the following quote by a team mate on the FoxFooty link dispels that: " Bushrangers’ teammate Connor O’Sullivan was full of praise for Wilson’s dedication and work rate. “Darce, if ...

For anyone interested in the facts of Gaelic footballers playing in the AFL, the full history can be read on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_experiment_(Australian_rules_football) It reveals that almost every AFL club has either recruited players from Ireland or toyed with the idea. I...

Why any genuine St Kilda supporter would rubbish the club trialling a young Gaelic footballer from Ireland is crazy. Liam O'Connell has been signed as a category B rookie so it's not as though he will be competing for a spot in the seniors until well after he's proven that he has all of the footy sk...