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'Nervous gilbert Coming Home Saturday Night
'NERVOUS' GILBERT COMING HOME SATURDAY NIGHT
NERVOUS GILBERT HOME SATURDAY NIGHT
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009
St.Kilda defender and Gold Coast product Sam Gilbert is used to playing at the MCG in front of 90,000 AFL fans. But according to the Gold Coast Bulletin’s Nick Smart, it is when he runs out in front of 10,000 people at Carrara that he experiences the butterflies in the pit of his stomach.
Smart today profiles the 22-year-old defender, who recently re-committed to the Saints to put himself out of reach of the Gold Coast expansion franchise.
"I played quite a few games there and it feels like home when I do play there," Gilbert told the Bulletin.
"I get a lot more nervous when I do play there because I know how many family and friends there are around me at Carrara.
"I have had a lot of messages the past couple of weeks so there are a few coming. Hopefully I can have an all right game for them."
The former Southport Shark will line up for St Kilda against Melbourne at Carrara on Saturday night.
Gilbert is arguably the most improved player in the competition this season and has become a vital cog of the Saints' backline.
He has impressed with his run off the half-back line, but has also proved he is no one-trick pony and can match it one on one.
He came of age when he shut down Magpies forward Travis Cloke earlier this season in what many believed was his best game for the club.
Gilbert put his good form down to the strong leadership at Moorabbin.
"I had a good pre-season and we have good leaders around the club that have really helped me from the start of pre-season," he said.
"Even last year to now, we have Sam Fisher there and SOS (Stephen Silvagni) our backline coach who has helped me a lot.
"There has been a lot of leadership around me that has helped me out."
Coach Ross Lyon experimented with Gilbert up forward during the NAB Cup before going down back again.
Although it was a fleeting change, he said it helped certain aspects of his game. "In the pre-season when I was playing up forward I did a lot more marking than usual so that helped me as well," he said.
Gilbert made headlines recently when he ignored the incoming Gold Coast Football Club to re-sign with St Kilda until the end of 2012.
He said he was loving life in Melbourne and never entertained the prospect of heading home.
"There were no discussions about it -- once the Saints said they wanted to re-sign me I was ready to go," he said. "I am very happy there and really enjoying my footy at the Saints."
NERVOUS GILBERT HOME SATURDAY NIGHT
http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page ... onID=56333
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
St.Kilda defender and Gold Coast product Sam Gilbert is used to playing at the MCG in front of 90,000 AFL fans. But according to the Gold Coast Bulletin’s Nick Smart, it is when he runs out in front of 10,000 people at Carrara that he experiences the butterflies in the pit of his stomach.
Smart today profiles the 22-year-old defender, who recently re-committed to the Saints to put himself out of reach of the Gold Coast expansion franchise.
"I played quite a few games there and it feels like home when I do play there," Gilbert told the Bulletin.
"I get a lot more nervous when I do play there because I know how many family and friends there are around me at Carrara.
"I have had a lot of messages the past couple of weeks so there are a few coming. Hopefully I can have an all right game for them."
The former Southport Shark will line up for St Kilda against Melbourne at Carrara on Saturday night.
Gilbert is arguably the most improved player in the competition this season and has become a vital cog of the Saints' backline.
He has impressed with his run off the half-back line, but has also proved he is no one-trick pony and can match it one on one.
He came of age when he shut down Magpies forward Travis Cloke earlier this season in what many believed was his best game for the club.
Gilbert put his good form down to the strong leadership at Moorabbin.
"I had a good pre-season and we have good leaders around the club that have really helped me from the start of pre-season," he said.
"Even last year to now, we have Sam Fisher there and SOS (Stephen Silvagni) our backline coach who has helped me a lot.
"There has been a lot of leadership around me that has helped me out."
Coach Ross Lyon experimented with Gilbert up forward during the NAB Cup before going down back again.
Although it was a fleeting change, he said it helped certain aspects of his game. "In the pre-season when I was playing up forward I did a lot more marking than usual so that helped me as well," he said.
Gilbert made headlines recently when he ignored the incoming Gold Coast Football Club to re-sign with St Kilda until the end of 2012.
He said he was loving life in Melbourne and never entertained the prospect of heading home.
"There were no discussions about it -- once the Saints said they wanted to re-sign me I was ready to go," he said. "I am very happy there and really enjoying my footy at the Saints."
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gazrat wrote:when?St.Kilda defender and Gold Coast product Sam Gilbert is used to playing at the MCG in front of 90,000 AFL fans.
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.everybody still loves lenny....and we always will
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I can assure you, Nick Smart does not live by his nameevertonfc wrote:Nick Smart knows his footy.aussiejones wrote:"Gilbert is arguably the most improved player in the competition this season and has become a vital cog of the Saints' backline. "
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Saint Bev wrote:I can assure you, Nick Smart does not live by his nameevertonfc wrote:Nick Smart knows his footy.aussiejones wrote:"Gilbert is arguably the most improved player in the competition this season and has become a vital cog of the Saints' backline. "
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that's a fair wack of the population isn't it....???
.everybody still loves lenny....and we always will
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Here, here.aussiejones wrote:"Gilbert is arguably the most improved player in the competition this season and has become a vital cog of the Saints' backline. "
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
Now that I am old and know so much more, I know that I know so much about so little, and so little about so much.
If you are not engaging AI actively and aggressively, you are doing it wrong.
You are not going to lose your job to AI.
You are going lose your job to somebody who uses AI.
Your company is not going to go out of business because of AI.
Your company is going to go out of business because another company used AI.
- Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA
When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
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You are not going to lose your job to AI.
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That's state-ist!stinger wrote:Saint Bev wrote:I can assure you, Nick Smart does not live by his nameevertonfc wrote:Nick Smart knows his footy.aussiejones wrote:"Gilbert is arguably the most improved player in the competition this season and has become a vital cog of the Saints' backline. "
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A true Qld tosser.
that's a fair wack of the population isn't it....???
The future's so bright I've got to wear shades...