I think Lethers so called brilliance was well overstated by some of the fans.

His first master stroke move was bring in a busted Hannebery on a godfather contract.

Then, being party to that debacle of Ratts re-signing, only to be shown the door 6 months later.

His reward, the CEO role???

skeptic wrote: ↑Sun 07 Jan 2024 12:34am

SydneySainter wrote: ↑Sun 07 Jan 2024 12:30am What on earth does GOAT mean?

Greatest of all time

Thank you, it must be my Sydney ignorance.

What on earth does GOAT mean?

Our opinion of his value in the end means nothing. It's the assessment by the current coaching group that determines what happens, and it looks like their assessment is that Billings is not part of their best 23. Now, if Billings was considered of real value, clubs like North Melbourne would have b...

While I’m not hysterical enough to say this is one of worst ever trades, we are the losers in this trade, make no mistake. We traded Billings for chump change and we’re still paying a portion of his salary. He was contracted, we didn’t have to do squat, but we’re now paying him to play for the compe...

Loserville style of trade.

Anyone who labours this as a good outcome is kidding themselves.

We might as well reminisce as to what great trades the Cripps or Hickey deals were, or what a stellar recruit Hannebery was.

Disaster for the club imo.

His salary not withstanding, I have that feeling he’ll become their game day danger man and we’ll look like turkeys.

Not sure I’d be moving Sinclair out of a position where he has been a dual AA Running backs are probably the most important players in footy atm He is elite and Nasiah is fast becoming that too. How bout this idea? Instead of drafting/trading for a HB in order to move Jack into the middle Draft/tra...

Just had a closer look at Shiels stats. If you disregard this year he looks a good recruit. 2022 - averaged 23 disposals, 6 clearances (4 center), 5 tackles, 313 meters gained For comparison this year. Jack Steele - 24 disposals, 5 clearances (2 center), 7 tackles, 280 meters gained Brad Crouch- 27...

The volume of capex this clown turned down because apparently Essendon were going places is frightening. The trade, assuming it comes to fruition, makes sense. But Shiel was overrated 5 years ago when several clubs (including us) were recklessly opening their wallet to lure him and he remains overra...

Could have either Petracca or De Goey, but Trout had bigger plans for pick 1… Seriously, Trout and the gutless “yes” men who were too weak to stop him despite knowing how much his approach stank have so much to answer for. 2014 was probably our biggest draft disaster yet. Needed to be our defining d...

From HS this morning Moneyball: All the latest player movement, contract and free agency news The latest on the Bombers attempt at a double free agency strike, North’s options if Todd Goldstein departs, how a Crow can unite with his brother and more trade news here. Jon Ralph,Jay Clark and Glenn Mc...

I actually can’t think of many trades with the Swans where we have lost out? If you’re referring to Plugger and Hall, we were compensated. Both went on to become cult figures at the club, but it’s not as if they walked for nothing. There was Tommy Gun, but he didn’t become what either we or the Swan...

I think the consensus is that we’re not quite ready to challenge and the only way we will be is to keep bringing these young guys through. The club made the decision largely to go with the team that got us to finals in the first place. I think that is reasonable. You could argue Howard for Cordy, b...

Of course no one is happy with the result, especially seeing that it was apparently a “home” final.

But what comes first, the chicken or egg?

It’s actually frightening to think as to how little finals experience even the senior players have been exposed to.

This is starting to remind me a bit of the Hickey v Longer argument, as in who is the less mediocre. Howard, a bit like Longer is arguably better in a physical one-on-one contest (but like Longer, also a bit overstated in that department by some of the fans), but his disposal is a liability. Also, h...

Moods wrote: ↑Sun 06 Aug 2023 11:12pm So why come on here if you hate the club so much? Go support Sydney

Never. It will be GWS

SydneySainter is a flog, a tool, a troll. Someone refusing to attend Sydney games unless a win is guaranteed. A wanker, who would not even meet, in Sydney, to discuss St Kilda. A fraud! I never said guaranteed, but at least a win being remotely plausible. After witnessing 7 straight drubbings in a ...

Teflon wrote: ↑Sun 06 Aug 2023 10:23pm Quality thread
Sadly I think some of the regular doomsdayers on this forum probably like him

Tefs, no one likes me on this forum. Who are you kidding?

Worst midfield in the comp. Been one of worst for the last decade.

come on folks, get around sydney sainter, clearly he's struggling but at the end of the day he's a sainter and just having a moment. Cheers Vortex, but this is it. The club through its Finnis years of chasing family values and positive PR has consequently established a culture where winning is bare...

Really , really you are happy Tony74 or just a publicist If the plan was to finish 9-12 then mission achieved . Well done , pat on the back, how wonderful are we Many saints supporters had much much higher expectations exspecially with our great start. We watched basically an inactive selection cha...

We have not been out of the eight all year. Yep, I agree we probably won’t last there but honestly how many of you after Round 21 would have thought that. We have a group of new coaches and a new game plan. There will be a turnover of players at season end as the coaching panel mould the squad to i...

The so-called defensive master???

We kicked one goal in an entire second half on our own dung heap.

Only St Kilda…