Do they actually understand what is going on?????
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Do they actually understand what is going on?????
I saw a guy today wearing a Saints jumper (not often you would see this in the gold coast) and immediately went up to him to talk about our great win yesterday.
He went on to tell me how crap we were, that we couldn't play outdoors and that we were in BIG trouble. We were s*** yesterday and lucky to win 'cause the pies played even worse than us.
I was shocked......unfortunately though, not all that surprised.
Reading a few of the posters on this forum I am convinced that some people just dont get it.
Are some people not 'smart' enough to fully understand what our Mighty Saints are doing to opposition teams. We are awesome....in fact so good that teams do look 'crap' against us.
I love watching us play, I reckon we are simply incredible.
I have always liked hard contested - sometimes lower scoring - games as compared to end to end shootouts and just reckon our style is simply phenomenal.
My question is.....Are many of our fans (and some footy fans in general) simply not able to 'get' the way we go about it and are they unable to realise how wonderful our TEAM is because they want to see the flashy moves and lots of goals - something we can also do - this was very much our game plan under GT.
It seems really clear to me how and why we are soooo good and as I said earlier I simply love the way we play. After all 21 wins from 23 games really speaks volumes you'd think.
What do you think? Do some of our supporters simply not 'get it' ?????
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He went on to tell me how crap we were, that we couldn't play outdoors and that we were in BIG trouble. We were s*** yesterday and lucky to win 'cause the pies played even worse than us.
I was shocked......unfortunately though, not all that surprised.
Reading a few of the posters on this forum I am convinced that some people just dont get it.
Are some people not 'smart' enough to fully understand what our Mighty Saints are doing to opposition teams. We are awesome....in fact so good that teams do look 'crap' against us.
I love watching us play, I reckon we are simply incredible.
I have always liked hard contested - sometimes lower scoring - games as compared to end to end shootouts and just reckon our style is simply phenomenal.
My question is.....Are many of our fans (and some footy fans in general) simply not able to 'get' the way we go about it and are they unable to realise how wonderful our TEAM is because they want to see the flashy moves and lots of goals - something we can also do - this was very much our game plan under GT.
It seems really clear to me how and why we are soooo good and as I said earlier I simply love the way we play. After all 21 wins from 23 games really speaks volumes you'd think.
What do you think? Do some of our supporters simply not 'get it' ?????
Thoughts.
Re: Do they actually understand what is going on?????
tell guys like this to ask opposition supporters how good they think we are. that might turn him around.Finna wrote: What do you think? Do some of our supporters simply not 'get it' ?????
Thoughts.
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We don't aim to in by 80 points.Batnoe wrote:In some aspect he's right, if we played well we would have won by 80 points, we starved them of the ball and we almost doubled the inside 50's only to have 4 or 5 more scoring shots
So if we had played well, we could have smashed them, which we didnt
We aim to win. We did this very well.
To the OP, no. People don't get it at all.
collingwood did not deserve to score in the second half, we completely shut down and controlled the game. They had nowhere to go, and players like didak and medhurst were exposed for being the soft pretenders that they are. We may have won by 28, but it might as well have been 80, collingwood were so far out of the contest.
Leigh Matthews said earlier in the season that Saints style makes opposition look bad, due to both pressure and perceived pressure, it makes them nervous and fumble the ball. So far he seems to be the only one I've heard say it (I could be wrong), people have got to understand that when the opposition looks like they're playing like crap, it's most likely that the Saints are playing really well.
I agree, there is a collective that just don't get it at all. They are most likely the same people that shout "kick it long" and such at the games...rodgerfox wrote:We don't aim to in by 80 points.Batnoe wrote:In some aspect he's right, if we played well we would have won by 80 points, we starved them of the ball and we almost doubled the inside 50's only to have 4 or 5 more scoring shots
So if we had played well, we could have smashed them, which we didnt
We aim to win. We did this very well.
To the OP, no. People don't get it at all.
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Sure the Saints control the other side, possession, ball movement...and do it better than any one else at the moment...but I still get the sense that we do not put enough scoreboard pressure on for the amount of effort and control we have.
Unless we get more scoreboard value for the team's efforts...we could be knocked over by a Geelong and possibly Adelaide or the dogs if they only have a few minutes of brilliance.
The forwards/mids have good defensive skills now but must be more offensively damaging too.
Forward 50 entries must have a higher conversion rate.
Unless we get more scoreboard value for the team's efforts...we could be knocked over by a Geelong and possibly Adelaide or the dogs if they only have a few minutes of brilliance.
The forwards/mids have good defensive skills now but must be more offensively damaging too.
Forward 50 entries must have a higher conversion rate.
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But there you are wrong.sendmehomehappy wrote:
...but I still get the sense that we do not put enough scoreboard pressure on for the amount of effort and control we have.
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I can assure you that is HUGE scoreboard pressure when the oppositon knows that they are scoring SLOWLY against us.
The Blues area freewheeling team and can ram home goals quickly...and they remind mea lot of the saints of 2004 /2005....god on a roll, but powerless to put the brakes on when the opposition are on a roll.
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We're a higher scoring version of what Sydney produced to win their flag! So you're correct in what you're saying here.rodgerfox wrote:We don't aim to in by 80 points.Batnoe wrote:In some aspect he's right, if we played well we would have won by 80 points, we starved them of the ball and we almost doubled the inside 50's only to have 4 or 5 more scoring shots
So if we had played well, we could have smashed them, which we didnt
We aim to win. We did this very well.
To the OP, no. People don't get it at all.
The reason why Collingwood looked crap was because of US! Nothing more, nothing less!
We look like we struggled against the last placed Melbourne, and then turn it on with a 4th ranked Collingwood! Doesn't take a mathematician to work out that we strangle the life out of a team and then score when pushing forward.
You don't go through a season and lose 2 games by a kick without bringing something substantial to the table! FACT!
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The worst call from Saints supporters "kick it, kick it, kick it" when there is nobody to kick it to. These people just don't understand.ohwhenthesaints! wrote:I agree, there is a collective that just don't get it at all. They are most likely the same people that shout "kick it long" and such at the games...rodgerfox wrote:We don't aim to in by 80 points.Batnoe wrote:In some aspect he's right, if we played well we would have won by 80 points, we starved them of the ball and we almost doubled the inside 50's only to have 4 or 5 more scoring shots
So if we had played well, we could have smashed them, which we didnt
We aim to win. We did this very well.
To the OP, no. People don't get it at all.
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But then again Collingwood were 'lucky' that our previous board saw fit to replace GT with someone who wasn't able to get our players playing at their 'best' consistantly.matrixcutter wrote:unlucky......
Surely that piece of 'good luck' would outweigh the 'bad luck' of losing a player so early in a game?
What I'm still confused about is how on earth we won the game, given that we had the 'bad luck' to have tha aforementioned coach in charge of us for the whole game?
Just imagine how good we would be if we'd had the 'good luck' to have a coach able to get our good players playing consistantly? We might even dream of winning 20 games in a H&A season?
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There's many years of conditioning we have to work out of ourselves, and couple with the fact we barrack for St Kilda, that means we will probably be in the stands, nervous for much longer than is necessary.
I kept looking at the scoreboard on Sunday, seeing that we were only three or four goals clear, and I wasn't happy with the gap we had put in the game. But then I looked at Collingwood's score, and the truth was once we had kicked ten goals, we probably had enough.
How many times this year have we looked at the scoreboard at three quarter time and think "the opposition have kicked six goals all day, and they have to kick five goals to none to win the match?" It generally doesn't happen.
I kept looking at the scoreboard on Sunday, seeing that we were only three or four goals clear, and I wasn't happy with the gap we had put in the game. But then I looked at Collingwood's score, and the truth was once we had kicked ten goals, we probably had enough.
How many times this year have we looked at the scoreboard at three quarter time and think "the opposition have kicked six goals all day, and they have to kick five goals to none to win the match?" It generally doesn't happen.
We had the spark .. the mojo .. for about 50% of the game on Sunday .. but that 50% was when it counted and the boys knew when to turn it on.
The first quarter & half we were stuck in 1st gear .. then BJ's bump on the Show Pony sparked em .. and we didnt lose the mojo till Kingy's stupid giveaway in the third .. would have buried em by 3 qtr time otherwise ..
4th .. turned it on once again to seal the game - then switched off to conserve when it was over ..
So no we didnt smash em .. and we were far from flawless, but we turned it on when it counted .. and I'm full of confidence they will switch it up another gear for longer in the Prelim .. and then absolutely full-tilt smash em up Rd.15 style in the GF ..
The first quarter & half we were stuck in 1st gear .. then BJ's bump on the Show Pony sparked em .. and we didnt lose the mojo till Kingy's stupid giveaway in the third .. would have buried em by 3 qtr time otherwise ..
4th .. turned it on once again to seal the game - then switched off to conserve when it was over ..
So no we didnt smash em .. and we were far from flawless, but we turned it on when it counted .. and I'm full of confidence they will switch it up another gear for longer in the Prelim .. and then absolutely full-tilt smash em up Rd.15 style in the GF ..