I DON'T WANT MILNE BACK IN THE SIDE

[aussierules0k]

[Winmar7Fan]

played 153 games and has been goaless in 23 of those.

mic

Ok how many games has he kicked 1 ?

Now we are talking 1. If that isnt enough do we go to 2 and so on. Some people just are never happy with our players.

I'm talking about whats exceptable 2 is . Do you think 1 is for a goal kicking forward ?

he's averaging over 2 goals a game this season.....

i can't see your point

If you can't see the point that there's a difference between average goals over a number of games and contributing to the team consistently instead of doing most of it all one game here and there I'm not the idiot. And yeah i agree he's in our top 22 which really says a lot.

[twirlyhair]

I still think he needs to go...I honestly dont believe the guy has what it takes when it really matters..like a few others

[The_Dud]

I still think he needs to go...I honestly dont believe the guy has what it takes when it really matters..like a few others

So beating Richmond off his own boot wasn't good enough for u?

If you can't see the point that there's a difference between average goals over a number of games and contributing to the team consistently instead of doing most of it all one game here and there I'm not the idiot. And yeah i agree he's in our top 22 which really says a lot.

first off, he's the highest goal scorer in our team, so that says enough

but, i know what your saying, but it still doesn't make sense. he's only gone goaless in 30 odd games in his career, and averages about 2 goals a game, isn't that what u want? the whole point of having averages is because every forward kicks 5 goals one week, then none the next.

Milne has contributed nearly every week, and has had one or two bad games, like everyone else in the team

[borderbarry]

Farmer is the only small forward with a better goal rate than Milne, and that would be a carry over from his Melbourne days. For all intentional purposes, we have lost our best goa; licker, Fraser, we dont want to lose our 2nd best, Milney, at least not until a replacement is developed. I dont hear calls to get rid of Schnieder, but he is a mile behind Milne as a goal kicker.

[Winmar7Fan]

Farmer is the only small forward with a better goal rate than Milne, and that would be a carry over from his Melbourne days. For all intentional purposes, we have lost our best goa; licker, Fraser, we dont want to lose our 2nd best, Milney, at least not until a replacement is developed. I dont hear calls to get rid of Schnieder, but he is a mile behind Milne as a goal kicker.

I agree with that I've highlighted .The difference with Farmer is he contributes and gets involved in other ways other than just kicking goals . Milne is very one dimensional and if he's not kicking goals most of the time he's not doing much else and as for Schnieder I agree but it's his first season and has to be given a chance but yeah no improvement next year he can go.

[Behind Play]

Milney's day at the Saints are numbered. I think his AFL days are also numbered.

[Sainterone]

Such a lot of rubbish in this thread about Milne.

Milne used to average 2 + goals a game.
Back then, he was allowed to camp at the feet of our FF and score.
I remember he kicked 61 goals in 2005 - at 2.5 + per game.
In 2005 he had 268 disposals - an average of less than 15 per game but that was OK - he kicked goals.

Then a few years ago, that wasn't good enough - Milne had to perform more - we tried him further up the ground - on the wing and down back.

Sure, he still played forward but not all of the time - and it's pretty hard to score goals when you're kicking from the wing.

Milne lost confidence during this time I think and his game suffered. Over the last few years, he has spent much more time on the bench - it's pretty damn hard to kick goals when you are warming the bench.

In 2008, Milne has 152 disposals and 27 goals from 12 games - better averages than in 2007 and in 2006 when he scored 32 and 29 goals from 22 games.

But still they want more - for time on the ground and in the forward line he probably is the BEST scoring small forward in the AFL.

Personally, I don't care how he kicks them - playing on, over his head, lying on the ground, from the bench - just so long as he kicks two plus goals in a game. Just leave him in the forward line.

And he IS in our best 22.

The Milne / farmer comparison:

Milne 153 games - 1620 disposals (av. 10.6) - 298 goals (av 1.95)
farmer 241 games - 2742 disp (11.4) - 479 goals (1.99)