Saints Cats GAME THREAD

Iceman234 · Post: # 637592Post **Iceman234** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:42pm

52-14.

Hmmmmm

saintDal · Post: # 637594Post **saintDal** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:44pm

X goals. C'mon Saints still got over a half of footy left.

Splayd · Post: # 637595Post **Splayd** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:44pm

10 - 6 to Geelong.

Need to stick tackles or we will get pumped.

Iceman234 · Post: # 637596Post **Iceman234** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:44pm

Goal to X

52-20

Life Long Saint · Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:45pm

Ryanstein wrote:can anyone tell me the free kicks to Geelong

10 - 7 Cats way.

Possessions: 201 - 146 Geelong's way so a +3 Free Kick count is not unexpected.

Iceman234 · Post: # 637598Post **Iceman234** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:45pm

Possessions 201 - 147.

They're on target again for their benchmark

Life Long Saint · Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:46pm

Splayd wrote:10 - 6 to Geelong.

Need to stick tackles or we will get pumped.

Aren't we now?

Splayd · Post: # 637602Post **Splayd** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:48pm

Gotta get off this forum.

Watching a P2P stream from France which is coming from the US and the forum is about 3 minutes before I get the vision so I am sitting here waiting for X to goal for a couple of minutes

Iceman234 · Post: # 637605Post **Iceman234** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:50pm

Half time

52-20.

Still not impossible Saints...

brown-coat · Post: # 637607Post **brown-coat** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:50pm

To get the point.

This is absolutley s***.

We're kicking to volt to often who has 15 geelong players on him.

WE'RE NOT HOLDING THE TACKLES.

Not enough players are willing to die for the team.

We need a huge second half.

Winmarvellous · Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:51pm

32 pts down at half time. Not looking good. Bartel on track for 40 possessions, and no semblance of a forward structure. Roo having an off day, and not sticking tackles. Pies at the G next week looking more and more likely.

Life Long Saint · Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:51pm

Iceman234 wrote:Half time

52-20.

Still not impossible Saints...

Just highly improbable!

Milne · Post: # 637610Post **Milne** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:52pm

Honestly though, did anyone expect any less than this?

brown-coat · Post: # 637612Post **brown-coat** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:52pm

We could be doing much better, that's the point. Some silly things happening. We should only be 2 goals down imo.

sunsaint · Post: # 637613Post **sunsaint** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:52pm

The Saints have gone back in their shell, playing reactionary football to gellong. We are looking for "safe" passes rather than hard running forward movements. The thing that impresses me about the pussies is in contested situations we are happy to get a stoppage ball up, they keep the ball alive & steal possession at all costs.

Life Long Saint · Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:53pm

brown-coat wrote: WE'RE NOT HOLDING THE TACKLES.

Not enough players are willing to die for the team.

That has been the story for a lot of games this year. Geelong are not Freo, Essendon or Adelaide.

Iceman234 · Post: # 637615Post **Iceman234** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:53pm

Life Long Saint wrote:
Iceman234 wrote:Half time

52-20.

Still not impossible Saints...
Just highly improbable!

We just need to have one of "those halves" we've become accustomed to in the second half of the season.

It can happen, trust me...

battye · Post: # 637617Post **battye** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:56pm

We aren't playing badly. Our intensity is right up there, and skills aren't too bad considering the slippery weather.

But Geelong are just so good...

Harvey is standing up. This is where we miss guys like Thompson and Peckett - we are lacking in experience.

Life Long Saint · Sun 07 Sep 2008 4:58pm

The distrubing thing is that we are 51 possessions down at half time. That is the equivalent of 4 or 5 extra midfielders. They have had 17 scroing shots. We've had 5!

gO.SainTs · Post: # 637619Post **gO.SainTs** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 5:00pm

StK* wrote:
Iceman234 wrote:

It can happen, trust me...
t it won't and do you know why? Beacause St Kilda SUCK!!

HAHAHAHAHA LOSERS!

Troll...

CHBench · Post: # 637620Post **CHBench** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 5:01pm

StK* wrote:
Iceman234 wrote:

It can happen, trust me...
t it won't and do you know why? Beacause St Kilda SUCK!!

HAHAHAHAHA LOSERS!

omg.

talk about loser....you stayed home insted of going to the game so you could come on and troll on saintsational.

derby Street · Sun 07 Sep 2008 5:03pm

Their midfield is running riot - no wonder we don't look like it ! Any chance we could just shut down a couple of their guns - a better defensive (forwards and midfielders) effort this final might see us get some credibility back.
Would Birss been worse

than Mini ? Hmmmm

fonz_#15 · Post: # 637622Post **fonz_#15** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 5:04pm

there isn't much we can do they are dominant and we cannot hold a tackle. stoppages are embarrasing they just walk it away

Iceman234 · Post: # 637623Post **Iceman234** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 5:04pm

derby Street wrote:Their midfield is running riot - no wonder we don't look like it ! Any chance we could just shut down a couple of their guns - a better defensive (forwards and midfielders) effort this final might see us get some credibility back.
Would Birss been worse than Mini ? Hmmmm

Is Mini running with someone?

Has he been given a shut down role?

Splayd · Post: # 637625Post **Splayd** » Sun 07 Sep 2008 5:05pm

They're awsome through the midfield - we cannot get a tackle to stick.

Considering the amount of inside 50's they've had it is amazing we aren't further behind.

Even when we hold them for a time - we seem to concentrate so much on this that we do not look like scoring ourselves. An opputunistic snap from Milne, a free kick from X and a good mark from Schneider is simply not good enough.

I would clear out deep in the atacking 50 leaving Roo and Milne/Schneids there and try to form a wall across the centre of the ground. The way Geelong are pushing back to double/triple team our talls mean we have no hope. (If it were Sydney or Saints doing this they would call it flooding). Then bottle up the middle of the gound.

Hopefully we could get some running goals from on 50 then. Otherwise it's the pies next week.