Armitage kicked a couple of goals, but with his inability to cover a lot of ground, he was little help to our other midfielders. He just might be the slowest player on our list. Without the extra hard-running assistance in the midfield, Hayes, Goddard, Dal Santo, and Montagna did it hard. Ball and A...

A lot of our players look like they're running through treacle at the moment. Is fatigue setting in? I've noticed that Sam Fisher has been grinding it out for quite a few weeks now. His early season dash has evaporated. Montagna, Hayes, and Goddard are starting to run up and down on the one spot. It...

If Cinton Jones had played on Jobe Watson today, we would have won by 5 goals. Watson slaughtered us. I doubt that our rucks and midfielders will collectively again have the stinker they had today. Also, I've never seen Sam Fisher and Sam Gilbert play so poorly. Essendon have the one weapon we canno...

Don't be surprised if one of the emegencies plays.


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Seems to me that a lot of it boils down to whether the player has a big engine. Eddy and Dempster both do, and that's why they're in. I don't see anything in Eddy's game to get excited about, but obviously Ross Lyon does and at 17 - 0, who can argue with him? Eddy is a midfielder who moves like a ru...

They are better than us in two respects. They have a very creative, third tall forward and a full-back who is the best in the game (I hate saying that about the man with the serial-killer eyes, but it's true, damn it). In every other way, we match them. So, to me the key is to shut down Johnson, and...

Didn't see Robert Eddy play for Sandy today, so I can only assume one of our midfielders need to pass a fitness test tomorrow morning.

The thing that Raph Clarke has over Gwilt and a few others mantioned is that he can play tall and small, he can play in defense or on a wing, and he reads the game well, gets into good position, and has evasive skills. In a nutshell, he gives us flexibility. Gwilt has been better than he has in prev...

The biggest concern about McEvoy is that he has no spring. He just doesn't get off the ground. If there is no improvement in this area, then he will always be troubled by athletic types who can really jump (like Kreuzer). However, he seemed pretty sharp with his hands in heavy traffic, and doesn't p...

Yep, John Barker going was good for us, and Tudor has already made a huge impact in relation to strategy and his ability to communicate with the players. Our first decent forward coach since Daniher.

Thank goodness!!!!!!!!!



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All this does is underline the fact that we simply don't have enough coverage for our key defensive positions. There has been no succession plan regarding Hudghton. Can someone name me a genuine young key defender who has been recruited by us in tha national draft in the past five years? If Zac Daws...

Whoops, I forgot Gram. I think I could squeeze him into the top group.

I know some on here have pretty high expectations of the Saints this year. However, it's sobering to look at the non-dependable aspects of the list. The way I see it, we can only count on only ten players to play consistently at or near their best, despite the imput of their team mates or the pressu...

Geelong
Hawthorn
Bulldogs
Carlton
Collingwood
Brisbane
North Melbourne
Richmond

Port Adelaide
Adelaide
St Kilda
Sydney
West Coast
Essendon
Fremantle
Melbourne

I think he's got more going for him than Fiora. He could be a good replacement for Gram at half back, assuming Gram is moving into the midfield. I think he may have had some fitness issues at the Dogs, which hampered his ability to run out games. I hope the saints have addressed this. If so, he coul...

What about Steve Baker?

A very handy inside midfielder and tagger

NO He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy! I wish the Tigers well. They've got a lot of work on their hands. In fact, a heap of it! I hope they've got the resources to help Cousins stay on the straight and narrow, assuming he's on it already. But really, who can say? Every big drug dealer and...

The club got it right in the end, I just they'd have made up their mind earlier. The main considerations for me were 30 years old Hasn't played football in 18 months and has not been training with an AFL club When he was last playing at his peak, he was doing it with the use of amphetamines and coca...

Most recruiters had McEvoy ranked around 16th to 20th pick. It could very well be that history will show they were pretty close to the mark in their assessment of him. Hopefully for his sake and ours, he exceeds those expectations. If he turns out to be merely a tap ruckman who is useless around the...

That level of trading would be outrageous, and wreaks of desperation. We simply don't have enough players worthy of being in our top 25 who are tradeable with a likelihood of a gain for us through the trade. Most scenarios see us giving up way too much for a relatively high risk option like Kerr (ba...

Yep, I saw that too. It was amazing how their mids ran forward of the play while the ball was still in dispute - absolute faith in their team mates winning the contest. Did you also noticed Mark Blake's tactics in the ruck? As he and the our ruckman landed after their ruck contest, he pulled the fro...

X - it showed that he had been out of the team for a long time. Sloppy hands early on. Raph - quite good considering the ball was being pumped into defense at an alarming rate Kosi - Woeful. One of his very wost games. His decision making was deplorable in disposal and in making position for his tea...

We know we lack depth in the midfield, so with Ball and Baker in the grandstand and Eddy and Mcqualter on the ground, it just hurts a bit more against such a strong midfield. We have a few players who are not quite there or 'just there'. I speak of Eddy, Gardiner, Mcqualter, Gwilt, and Jones, althou...

Interestingly, Gwilt's father's background is Welsh, and the word Gwillt in Welsh means

WILD

Let's hope he goes wild on Sunday

I think he's a dangerous forward when he's fit, but his knee is hampering him a bit at the moment. Even when fully fit, he is an ineffectual tap ruckman. He can no doubt play, but he's just not a ruckman and never will be. 197cm is not ruckman height these days (unles you've got a huge leap and grea...