One positive for the week!
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One positive for the week!
Ryan BYRNES is back and named to play for Sandringham in their 1st game of the year.
One little glimmer of positivity after last nights debacle.
One little glimmer of positivity after last nights debacle.
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Re: One positive for the week!
Think our other young gun, Bytel was still suffering the effects of that knock from last week
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Re: One positive for the week!
The other positive last night was Nick Coffield getting back into some sort of form which was very pleasing!Impatient Sainter wrote: ↑Fri 16 Apr 2021 10:55am Ryan BYRNES is back and named to play for Sandringham in their 1st game of the year.
One little glimmer of positivity after last nights debacle.
"Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.."
Albert Camus (1913-1960) French philospher
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Re: One positive for the week!
Not allowed to say the word pleasing are we?
Even though Ratts said it half a dozen times in the WCE post match presser?!
Even though Ratts said it half a dozen times in the WCE post match presser?!
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Re: One positive for the week!
Can I suggest another: Saints have a top class administration and an excellent coach, record membership. We have been crucified by injuries and that has had a snowball of shite effect. Injured players and Paddy R can mostly return (there is one glaring weakness to that rule). Lethlean and Gags will be burning the midnight oil on recruiting big defenders, another ruckman and another big mobile forward. If they are out there we will get them. Ratts now has definitive knowledge of the abilities - physical and mental - of the playing list. This will be demonstrated in coming weeks. Clark and Coffield will return to form some time because they have great natural abilities. 5 positions in the 8 might be already decided, perhaps 6 when the Lions meet a kinder draw and umpiring. There is just a tiny weenie, weenie chance we could snag a lower spot if we can get a healthy list on the park and other results go our way (damn our hard draw). I am not holding my breath. Also be interested to see the course the Board, Management and Coaching staff plot from here. I think it will be a positive in the end, if tricky, exercise. One of the first agenda items may well be Hannebery - when does salary cap burden reach a tipping point if he doesn't play in May; and another, what obligations are there to the players that took a significant pay cut in 2020. I think that sacrifice cannot be disrespected so everything that can be done to get a competitive team going has to be done. Its not all on Ratts - or Brad Hill, at least he is on the park.
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Re: One positive for the week!
Can you see any link or conflict between the underlined.Yorkeys wrote: ↑Fri 16 Apr 2021 4:45pm Can I suggest another: Saints have a top class administration and an excellent coach, record membership. We have been crucified by injuries and that has had a snowball of shite effect. Injured players and Paddy R can mostly return (there is one glaring weakness to that rule). Lethlean and Gags will be burning the midnight oil on recruiting big defenders, another ruckman and another big mobile forward. If they are out there we will get them. Ratts now has definitive knowledge of the abilities - physical and mental - of the playing list. This will be demonstrated in coming weeks. Clark and Coffield will return to form some time because they have great natural abilities. 5 positions in the 8 might be already decided, perhaps 6 when the Lions meet a kinder draw and umpiring. There is just a tiny weenie, weenie chance we could snag a lower spot if we can get a healthy list on the park and other results go our way (damn our hard draw). I am not holding my breath. Also be interested to see the course the Board, Management and Coaching staff plot from here. I think it will be a positive in the end, if tricky, exercise. One of the first agenda items may well be Hannebery - when does salary cap burden reach a tipping point if he doesn't play in May; and another, what obligations are there to the players that took a significant pay cut in 2020. I think that sacrifice cannot be disrespected so everything that can be done to get a competitive team going has to be done. Its not all on Ratts - or Brad Hill, at least he is on the park.
I would suggest Galagher and Lethlean should both be immediately sacked for the LENGTH of the Hannebery contract.
Seems they were the only people in the footy industry that didn't know he was cooked.
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Re: One positive for the week!
Risk management. Risk of staying hopeless v trying to get things moving. Sure didn't work out. Are we overall in a better spot than that bland pitiful death spiral we were in. Time will tell. Check the balance sheet net assets - net liabilities. At a minimum we broke even playing finals after soooooo long, I'd suggest. An off with their heads approach might not help long term, but equally you might be right Whiskers, I take your point.
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Re: One positive for the week!
I think an outsider could get a read on the arc of our story like this.Yorkeys wrote: ↑Sat 17 Apr 2021 11:54am Risk management. Risk of staying hopeless v trying to get things moving. Sure didn't work out. Are we overall in a better spot than that bland pitiful death spiral we were in. Time will tell. Check the balance sheet net assets - net liabilities. At a minimum we broke even playing finals after soooooo long, I'd suggest. An off with their heads approach might not help long term, but equally you might be right Whiskers, I take your point.
1. Clean out and rebuild, leave a couple of champs there to help the young
2. Rebuild progress is honest but headwinds are strong ...new marque clubs prioritized, poor weak Melbourne teams to carry the can, crap fixtures
3. Team loses its appeal as go to destination, gray and bleak,
4. Team of honest young battlers emerge but there are “no stars”. No stars message reinforced in media for three years.
5. Club tries to recruit a Judd type star ...no takers, no appeal, eventually crab some has beens, some very ripe tomatoes and some fringe dwellers
6. Struggles to find players willing to come over...except suspicious situations...loses patience, fires coach
7. Young battlers not so young anymore, playing amid a cadre of cashed up older players..
8. Effort is inconsistent, class is questionable, future is questionable
You're quite brilliant Shane, yeah..terrific!
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Re: One positive for the week!
Great post YorkeysYorkeys wrote:Can I suggest another: Saints have a top class administration and an excellent coach, record membership. We have been crucified by injuries and that has had a snowball of shite effect. Injured players and Paddy R can mostly return (there is one glaring weakness to that rule). Lethlean and Gags will be burning the midnight oil on recruiting big defenders, another ruckman and another big mobile forward. If they are out there we will get them. Ratts now has definitive knowledge of the abilities - physical and mental - of the playing list. This will be demonstrated in coming weeks. Clark and Coffield will return to form some time because they have great natural abilities. 5 positions in the 8 might be already decided, perhaps 6 when the Lions meet a kinder draw and umpiring. There is just a tiny weenie, weenie chance we could snag a lower spot if we can get a healthy list on the park and other results go our way (damn our hard draw). I am not holding my breath. Also be interested to see the course the Board, Management and Coaching staff plot from here. I think it will be a positive in the end, if tricky, exercise. One of the first agenda items may well be Hannebery - when does salary cap burden reach a tipping point if he doesn't play in May; and another, what obligations are there to the players that took a significant pay cut in 2020. I think that sacrifice cannot be disrespected so everything that can be done to get a competitive team going has to be done. Its not all on Ratts - or Brad Hill, at least he is on the park.
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Re: One positive for the week!
Happy to see Byrnes back and good to see Coff clunk some good marks and dispose of the pill accurately.Sanctorum wrote:The other positive last night was Nick Coffield getting back into some sort of form which was very pleasing!Impatient Sainter wrote: ↑Fri 16 Apr 2021 10:55am Ryan BYRNES is back and named to play for Sandringham in their 1st game of the year.
One little glimmer of positivity after last nights debacle.
We’re Saints supporters. Finding the positives is inate.
And far better than pillorying Brad Hill (which I gather is a new social media sport) as if he was the only one out there.
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