Match day thread v. Ess

[markinUSA]

Free to Dawson. To Schneider. To McQ - Slow it down... took ball outside boundary. The bombers fans complain.
Ball back in play, Meirs, to Winderlich - Malchef goals for them.

[SaintSimmo]

I hate brian taylor, he is just about barracking for essendon..shut up!

[Saint4Eva]

Any chance Geary can speed up?? 3 times he has been caught and on tv you can see it coming long before!

[markinUSA]

They are scoring goals easily when they score... they can score quickly by breaking up the Saints zone... we are struggling to score, and it takes a lot for us to score.

They are up by 7 points now.

[Hughjarce]

FFS we are truly a pedestrian team.

[henno]

for f**** sakes saints just play some f****** football!!
so many form players in our team; dal, zac, armo, CJ, mcq, kosi.

[jonesy]

Our side is in dissarray....just pathetically slow,and terrible skills. We're having a dip,but our zone,and saints footy,well it's just about dead.
Do we have any other tricks up our sleeve, or is that it

[ralphsmith]

What kind of 50m penalty is that??????

[TriColourDisciple]

Why was that 50 against Milne?

[Calais]

My god, umps hate milney!

btw quick honorable mention fisher who really is presenting and trying his heart out!

[markinUSA]

Armo to Dal to McQ to Monty to Fisher... but Fisher didnt get it.
Hurley kamakaze in the air.
Milne tackled once, evades it... then tackled twice and caught. Milne didn't let the man up and a 50 m penalty against him.
Watson to Fletcher... in towards Gumbleton. Baker gets caught for dropping the ball - they are aiming from 50 - Monfries - kicks poorly and point to them.

23 mins in 3rd quarter,

Fisher on wing. To Monty to Ray... inside 50. Kosi flew, spoiled.
Fletcher to Rider... kick to Howlett. Play on... Davey to Hille. Opens up angle and goal to them.

[ralphsmith]

Another goal to essendon. They're up by 14 points.

[Saint4Eva]

Nice to see Essendon's big men can mark a football.....

[OneEyedSainter77]

Bombers lead by thirteen points!!!!!

We are in the biggest trouble we have been in for a LOOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGG time.

I have not been this worried as a St Kilda supporter since 1999.

[markinUSA]

They lead by 14 points.

Possessions: 94 to us; 75 to them.

Fletcher breaking the zone, they say.

19 tackles to them to 6 for us.

[TriColourDisciple]

Oh noooo...say it isn't so
We don't even look like the Saints of 09

[Hughjarce]

Almost game over now.

Again too many passengers, no forwards, slow midfield not a Top 8 team anymore.

[Devilhead]

Cant seemingly hit an open target in the forward line

Commentators saying that we aren't running on into the forwardline and not taking risks

Very disappointing - desperately need a goal before 3 quarter time

[OneEyedSainter77]

FFS, find something Saints. Don't you even bloody care about anything anymore?

[SaintSimmo]

shocking coaching by rl, WE CAN NOT PLAY LIKE ESSENDON!!! WE HAVE TO PLAY DEFENSIVE!!

[jonesy]

It's more than the result...

'Saints footy' looks to have been found out and cracked...it's dead. Now we look like a very ordinary football team,with no leg speed,and no youth coming through what so ever

[markinUSA]

Contested ball... Baker, Geary, Prismall... Essendon have numbers... Jedda also helps tackle. Centre wing. Hayes tackled, ball up again. gardiner to Dal to Ray to MCQ to Schenids, inside 50... Milne tries to do something miraculous, but out on the full. Milne has had 8 disposals so far.

[henno]

schneider would have to be the flaming worst player in our lineup.
constantly fumbling, nowhere near the player he was at sydney where he would tear sides to shreds.

[markinUSA]

Hayes kicks a point.

7.11. 53 to 10.6.66

[ralphsmith]

Right, it has been concluded that saints footy is dead.

What do we then? We have to nut it out oldschool style.