Welcome aboard, please post more this forum needs intelligent people like yourself who know what they're talking about.
FWIW, I had nothing to do with the missile crisis back in 63, just wanted to let you know
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It's a breath of fresh air to read someone on here who has some perspicacity and perspicuity, but be warned Castro this place has more than it's fair share of numbnuts and it won't be too long before the pshco babbling buffoons will have you thinking, why did I even bother coming here, but stick around this place needs youCastro wrote:Barks4eva, thanks so much for your feedback and for welcoming me to this forum. Now that I am a member, I shall be making a regular contribution. My passion for our club has led me here - hopefully it will be an outlet to speak with like-minded people such as yourself and exchange thoughts and ideas. My only concern is that our collective thoughts will not be channeled to the people who make the ultimate decisions at St.Kilda. Having said that, it is still a wonderful opportunity to express our views.
Montagna is actually one player who's progress, I'm very pleased with, I seriously think it's a matter of too much being left to too few and Joey, like Hayes need some young kids with some pace coming through, our mids are pedestrian and under the pump for this very reason.I'm not sure whether or not you will agree with me on this, however I see a few of our better players seemingly in "cruise-control". For example, Jason Gram and Leigh Montagna seem to have lost their explosiveness and attacking mentality. I don't mean to single these two out, as this is slightly unfair to them, however I feel that the damaging run that they have given us in the past is no longer there. This seems to stem from a lack of mental application more than anything else.
Gehrig has become a major liability and is holding back the next wave of development of the team as a whole and for a player of his size he does not impose himself on the game.I failed to mention Fraser Gehrig in my first post. Sadly, I believe that his lack of endeavour and inability to make a valuable contribution is becoming too detrimental to our side.
To focus on some positives, I believe that Brendon Goddard has come back in tremendous fashion and will only become more polished with each match.
I know that Stephen Milne is often criticised by our supporters, however I cannot fault his endeavour this year. Yes, his goal kicking has been off by his standards, however this can very easily be fixed through lengthy sessions at practice.
I still think he is one of the premier ruckmen in the competition, an amazing pick up, if only we had some quick young mids with some skill to polish off all the good work.I see our new recruits as being enormous acquisitions, with Steven King appearing to be as fit and damaging as he has in years. People tend to forget that he was widely considered to be the premier ruckman of the competition a number of years ago.
Again, agree entirely.I don't know about you, but I genuinely feel that Charlie Gardiner was a very solid contributor in the games he played this year, therefore I am somewhat bemused by his omission from the senior side when the likes of Blake and Fiora are selected.
We currently in my opinion do not have the leg speed or skill level required to compete with the elite.I am well and truly over hearing the constant banter from all of the so-called experts talking about "potential" and what a brilliant list St.Kilda has. The fact is that none of this will matter unless this list achieves the ultimate success, that being a premiership. Our players should have a think about what sort of legacy they want to leave. They have an opportunity to win the second premiership in the history of the St.Kilda Football Club and etch their names in history. All of this talk about coaching and game plan is meaningless if the players on our list do not have a hunger, a willingness to succeed and a desire to be a part of history that no one can ever take away from them.
More of a clue than you'll ever have mebabblemeher baba wrote:Hey Fidel!!
Good to see that, now you have retired from political life, you have returned to your first and only true love, sports commentating.
I have read that you were a gun baseball commentator in Mexico in the 1950s.
Well it seems like not much has changed. Your analysis of AFL is of the standard that I would expect from a gun baseball commentator from Latin America......................
Be fair B4E, I actually suggested that Lyon should be given until the week after next.barks4eva wrote:You want to sack Lyon and replace him with.....wait for it, Bundy as early as next week.
Our current problems are more closely related to Bundy's recruiting calls than any drivel you offer up.
FAIR DINKUM and YOU have the gall to call Lyon a dinosaur
meher baba wrote:During the second half of 2006, we were able to play an intense, powerful brand of footy,
Why are we slipping behind these clubs?meher baba wrote:But it's not simply about results. The fact is that - regardless of where we finished according to the AFL's warped way of determining things - we were clearly the best of the Victorian clubs in 2006. Since then, we have been passed by the Cats, the Hawks, the Dogs, the Filth, the Roos and are undoubtedly going to struggle against the Bombers as well. We are going backwards at a rapid rate of knots.
Surely you must be able to see that.
I dont know why you even bother barks.barks4eva wrote:Why are we slipping behind these clubs?meher baba wrote:But it's not simply about results. The fact is that - regardless of where we finished according to the AFL's warped way of determining things - we were clearly the best of the Victorian clubs in 2006. Since then, we have been passed by the Cats, the Hawks, the Dogs, the Filth, the Roos and are undoubtedly going to struggle against the Bombers as well. We are going backwards at a rapid rate of knots.
Surely you must be able to see that.
RECRUITING
Surely you must be able to see that.
You are joking right?joffaboy wrote:
However, it will take another season or two to get the pace we need to compete against the Geelongs and Bulldogs run.
If Scarlett is found up in his forward 50m it suggests that the chase was lost and the forward pressure was generally not enough byt the whole team. Neither Fraser or Kosi would keep up.Iceman234 wrote:Unfortunately G's second goal was after the final siren, when we were down by 48 and the game was done and dusted an hour earlier. Prior to that that he was beaten mercilessly by Scarlett.
Umpires didn't lose us this game, we did. G should have kicked 5, 6 7 etc etc. - he didn't....
G gets flogged against quality, as much as I have loved him over the years, he only stands up against poor defences.
He should fly a much tougher flag than he does for us. If it's just for one year, start taking over some physicality role that's been missing for so long at the Saints.
I also saw Scarlett blistering through the midfield at one stage, very early on (not when the game was over - maybe early 3rd) and G was about 50 metres away on our half forward flank jogging.
Yeah he takes a quality back, but that quality back slaughtered him today and set up far too much of Geelong's play.
Thats right, everything is fine.Shaggy wrote:FFS Focus on your own strengths and make the competition come to the Saints. Don't try and be a sheep because it doesn't work.
I said we were very athletic ... not quick. IMO quick, run and athletic are all very different concepts (but from SS you would think it is all the samejoffaboy wrote:Thats right, everything is fine.Shaggy wrote:FFS Focus on your own strengths and make the competition come to the Saints. Don't try and be a sheep because it doesn't work.
We are a very quick team and everything is rosey.
I'll give you a couple of names. Woljinski (sic) how old is he? Gamble? What about Selwood?
What about Akermanis? Cooney, Hill, Harbrow (sic) drafted in 1996 were they?
Fair Dinkum, if you are going to debunk what i say, dont come up with BS.
It's certainly happened to me on a regular basis. I don't necessarily rate the opinion of those I defend to though, given that prior to the move, I had roughly the same number of conversations with roughly the same kind of people who thought the the club could never win a premiership with Thomas in charge. In less than 2 years out of a coaching job he's gone from dunce to Choco Williams in the eyes of those who would bag the Saints.meher baba wrote:That said, I still believe that the 2006 decision to sack a coach who had taken us to the verge of major success (perhaps the greatest in the history of our club) and his clearly talented assistant and replace him with a virtual unknown with three highly inexperienced assistants (none of whom had any background at the club) still ranks as one of the stupidest decisions made by any club in the history of the AFL.
I consider this opinion to be correct and am going to continue to hold it. Interestingly enough, I find that is held by almost every AFL supporter of any club I meet in real life: so much so, that I usually find myself in the strange position of defending the club and Lyon against ridicule. Doesn't that happen to you guys as well??