SAINTS to NZ on Wednesday !!

[saintbrat]

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/a ... 2d9oj.html



if they have taken 10 players - Only one more to be identified.

[saintbrat]

Training this morning

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[saintbrat]

video from yesterdays TV appearance
http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast/2013-01-24-video-5325134

at 1 hour and 2 min for a couple of minutes.

[mcadam05]

Big Mac on New Zealand radio

http://radiosport.co.nz/player/ondemand ... ur-in-wgtn

[saintbrat]

you haven't come across the Watters and Wilkes audio have you mcadam05?

[mcadam05]

the only one up on the radio sport site is the McEvoy one

[saintbrat]

found the one Scott and Beau did this morning
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/player/onde ... ilkesjan24


pS Beau speaks very well and I could say has a great voice for radio

[saintbrat]

Touring party have had a busy two days
Training today
https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#! ... tos_stream

before a little boat ride


after fans session and yesterday helping out at the NZ combine day

[St Lenny]

I dont know how to post pics, but it would seem the whole team is there from pics on Facebook

[St Lenny]

I dont know how to post pics, but it would seem the whole team is there from pics on Facebook

[saintbrat]

I dont know how to post pics, but it would seem the whole team is there from pics on Facebook

only 10
mixture of mature and young- list above.

Lenny is in Sydney for cadbury 9's game tomorrow

[Sick Nal Danto]

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/a ... 2d9oj.html


if they have taken 10 players - Only one more to be identified.

Armitage, Wilkes, Saad, Saunders, Newnes, Joey, CJ, Big Mac, Gwilt and Ray

[Dr Spaceman]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/more-ne ... 6562162254

"ST KILDA expects an open-ended ticket from the AFL to play Anzac Day matches in Wellington from this year as the club begins the journey into the sport's newest frontier.

The Saints will play Sydney on Anzac Day for the premiership points - the first league game to be held outside Australia - and foresee an arrangement where they play an Anzac Day game off-shore for at least the next 10-20 years.

So embraced with the concept, Saints chief executive Michael Nettlefold was open to the suggestion the game remained a permanent fixture.

"Clearly, this is the first step and we'd like to think it is long-term," Nettlefold said.

"We've taken a long-term approach, investing a lot of time, effort and energy, and we're doing that because we see the long-term prospect of working with New Zealanders, developing our business in New Zealand.

"My view, it would have a 10, 20-year framework.

"We have an obligation to keep developing our club and the club's commercial interest, developing our culture, leadership and vision ... we're restless in our approach to do that.

"And this is good to be at the forefront of ... it's great for all of our club."

The Saints have an agreement to play on Anzac Day for the next three years at Wellington's 34,500-seat Westpac Stadium and will play an extra game for official points in August of 2014 and 2015. NAB Cup games are also planned.

But as the Saints forge a partnership with the Australian Defence Force and the New Zealand Defence Force, it's Anzac Day they want to own, as much as Essendon and Collingwood has at the MCG.

The match will be telecast live on Fox Footy immediately after the Pies-Dons match.

"It's a significant day, an historical game," Nettlefold said.

"It's the first game outside of Australia for premiership points and it will acknowledge the Anzac relationship between Australia and New Zealand.

"Our intention is to embrace Anzac Day quite significantly.

"We have a number of past players who lost their live in overseas conflicts in our 140-year history, we have a close working relationship with the ADF, they play their carnival at Moorabbin, we are doing work now with the ADF in some of our leadership and cultural programs, so our intention is to embrace it wholly."

It's anticipated the AFL's two senior executives, Andrew Demetriou and Gillon McLachlan, will attend the game, while Prime Minister Julia Gillard will also be invited.

Nettlefold would not reveal the club's projected windfall from playing in New Zealand - potentially upwards of $500,000 a game.

"It's fully underwritten for us at the moment, but from a financial aspect we're not quite sure where the returns are going to finish," he said.

"We hope it's going to be strongly positive because it's commercially important for the club that it is."

The Saints yesterday held a brief training session at the "Snake Pit", the stadium where the game will be played, and reported that its surface was as good as any they had played/trained on."

[plugger66]

Great. 2 matches a year next year. Cant wait till our only games in Victoria are away games. NZ just love AFL footy.

[saintbrat]

Photos from Training at the cake tin
http://commercial.aflphotos.com.au/phot ... ection:AFL 2013 Media - StKilda Community Camp Day 2&sub_code=all

and the boat ride.

[saintbrat]

Scott was on radio very early this morning
https://soundcloud.com/#ana-47/scott-watters-final

[saintspremiers]

Great. 2 matches a year next year. Cant wait till our only games in Victoria are away games. NZ just love AFL footy.

Fair point, will make getting a reserved seat poor value next year.

[realdeal]

Apologies if it's in another thread but has there been anymore news about flight deals to the game this year for saints members??
I'm yet to book a ticket to the game as I don't fancy a 9 or 12 hour flight to NZ.. Will there be more direct flights to Wellington added? will there actually be any deals announced or are we going to have to spend $700 odd for a return flight? Cheers.

[saintbrat]

have just put some info in this thread 'realdeal'

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=78926&p=1289086#p1289086

alternately is try Flight centre or Webjet or even Qantas for specials which may give really good accomodation despite the $$$$ flight costs.

some alternate package s may be possible through
http://www.sportsnetholidays.com/events ... -v-sydney/

or http://www.anygameanywhere.com.au/see-saints-wellington#

[saintbrat]

several new short video's on the boys activities in Wellington last week
and Scotts audio from the weekend interview on All Night Apetite ( thanks Darren)

http://www.saints.com.au/media-centre/video-and-audio

[The Redeemer]

Great. 2 matches a year next year. Cant wait till our only games in Victoria are away games. NZ just love AFL footy.

Agreed. Let's just see if anyone gives a crap about our first Wellington game before we go booking in more trips to play more matches.

If nobody turns up apart from me, Batnoe and Pluggsey-wuggsey then it has been deemed a failure.