Biggest "Destroyation" ever!!!

[perfectionist]

I know it was only a 10 goal win and there a have been many bigger, but if there has been a bigger "destroyation" (to use a Jack Dyer term) of a team from their last line of defence through to their forward line then I have never seen it.

Had we taken advantage of the opportunities that "the ultimate pressure machine" created then we could have won by 50 goals, the domination was so strong.

And then in the last quarter, whilst we played a very unattractive brand of footy, it was discipline personified. We were 10 up so, if they still wanted to put numbers behind the ball, well we were just going to kick it around. And it was done to perfection.

This looks very much like a team that, once it's in front, is going to be impossible to beat, if we remain disciplined. Go Saints!

[Eastern]

Let's add that many so-called EXPERTS suggested that this was a danger game where we might just get over the line, or even drop the game. Today's opponent has gone from contender to pretender in 2 hours !!

[BakesFan]

I thought The Crows were meant to have improved since we last met them on their dungheap.....hahahaha

[Milton66]

It was clinical to say the least. When we turned up the heat, they crumbled and fumbled.

I love these goaless quarters. I was expecting a closer game, but this was unbelievable.

Another challenger consigned to the scrap heap.

[Stillwaiting]

The pressure in the second and thirds quarters was unbeliavable, great to the them forced back in defence only to eventually turn it over.

[Enrico_Misso]

It was fantastic team pressure.
Not only did we put the ball carrier under pressure but we put pressure on ALL his options leaving him little room for error.

[stinger]

Let's add that many so-called EXPERTS suggested that this was a danger game where we might just get over the line, or even drop the game. Today's opponent has gone from contender to pretender in 2 hours !!

have the match taped on fox.....hird and healy both went for adelaide....ffs....

[plugger66]

Let's add that many so-called EXPERTS suggested that this was a danger game where we might just get over the line, or even drop the game. Today's opponent has gone from contender to pretender in 2 hours !!

have the match taped on fox.....hird and healy both went for adelaide....ffs....

How can anyone pick against us. I take it you get 8 every week because i do.

[stinger]

Let's add that many so-called EXPERTS suggested that this was a danger game where we might just get over the line, or even drop the game. Today's opponent has gone from contender to pretender in 2 hours !!

have the match taped on fox.....hird and healy both went for adelaide....ffs....

How can anyone pick against us. I take it you get 8 every week because i do.

why do you always have to be a jerk and make smartarse comments.....

[plugger66]

Let's add that many so-called EXPERTS suggested that this was a danger game where we might just get over the line, or even drop the game. Today's opponent has gone from contender to pretender in 2 hours !!

have the match taped on fox.....hird and healy both went for adelaide....ffs....

How can anyone pick against us. I take it you get 8 every week because i do.

why do you always have to be a jerk and make smartarse comments.....

Probably for the same reason you always make stupid comments.

[SainterK]

Destroyation, but aren't we tired?

[InkerSaint]

Tired? Did they look tired?

They look fresh as a daisy to me.

That is the most pleasing aspect about it... the Saints managed their post-blockbuster fatigue very well. Still racked up a win last week. And looked bloody fearsome yesterday.

I think of Adelaide as something of a St. Kilda-lite. Neil Craig has made no secret of how much he admires the Saints and strives to match their pressure.

It's one thing to imitate that pressure... it's another to defend against it!!!

[SainterK]

Tired? Did they look tired?

They look fresh as a daisy to me.

That is the most pleasing aspect about it... the Saints managed their post-blockbuster fatigue very well. Still racked up a win last week. And looked bloody fearsome yesterday.

I think of Adelaide as something of a St. Kilda-lite. Neil Craig has made no secret of how much he admires the Saints and strives to match their pressure.

It's one thing to imitate that pressure... it's another to defend against it!!!

Of couse they didn't look tired. It was just a poor attempt at sarcasm on my part, more of a rhetorical question.....

[matrix]

i was actually worried about this game....but sheeeesh the crows looked pretty ordinary and their heads went down quick when we piled a couple on in a row.

i might go in to work early today.....just to rub it in for an extra hr than normal

[InkerSaint]

Of couse they didn't look tired. It was just a poor attempt at sarcasm on my part, more of a rhetorical question.....

D'oh! I should've caught that one.

A would have helped...

[asiu]

might go in to work early today.....just to rub it in for an extra hr than normal

prior preparation and planning prevents piss poor performance

good thinkn matrix ...enjoy

[matrix]

might go in to work early today.....just to rub it in for an extra hr than normal

prior preparation and planning prevents piss poor performance

good thinkn matrix ...enjoy

well the dayshift manager/supervisor proceeded to tell me over the two-way (so the whole site could hear) that if i wanted to take the little knitted crows coloured footy boots he has draped over his pc monitor i was quite welcome.

i mentioned something about needed a s*** and something soft to wipe my ass on....

[AnythingsPossibleSaints]

I know it was only a 10 goal win and there a have been many bigger, but if there has been a bigger "destroyation" (to use a Jack Dyer term) of a team from their last line of defence through to their forward line then I have never seen it.

Had we taken advantage of the opportunities that "the ultimate pressure machine" created then we could have won by 50 goals, the domination was so strong.

And then in the last quarter, whilst we played a very unattractive brand of footy, it was discipline personified. We were 10 up so, if they still wanted to put numbers behind the ball, well we were just going to kick it around. And it was done to perfection.

Go Saints!

Agree. It was as much a thrashing (except on the scoreboard) as almost any game I can remember. And lets not forget, they did the same thing to someone else last week and had won the last 7. Incredible. Awesome.
Just another example of what's possible, Saints.

[matrix]

11 goals 11
to
3 goals 4

after qtr time

73 tackles to 50

[spert]

Probably the most ruthless and tough I've seen us play in a couple of quarters..pity we couldn't have played like that against the Crows in the '97 GF.