From a 3AW article... "The AFL is on track to record its lowest average match crowds since 2004 and television broadcasters are reporting mixed results in audiences for games this season. The patchy results have added to growing calls for the AFL to reform its fixture to improve the closeness ...

I would have thought mid to high 30's would be par. Long Weekend, both sides down on form and other factors would have dragged the crowd numbers down. On the positive side; 30,000+ means that we make a profit, albiet a small profit !! Under the new stadium deals, every club is guaranteed $100k no m...

Non of us would have a club if we're talking about club integrity. Paying your players, coaches & creditors 8c or 22c in a dollar for services rendered? We are the last club to talk about club integrity, when we short change club champions like Trevor Barker and Allan Jeans for all their input f...

Pies headline NAB Cup Super Saturday Michael Warner From: Herald Sun October 26, 2010 10:55AM "SUPER Saturday" featuring lightning matches between Richmond, Carlton and Collingwood headlines the first week of next year's NAB Cup. The league has shaken up the format for next year’s pre-se...

I guess that makes it official. Last year was the worst draft in the clubs history with 3 players already gone out of 4. I would use Geartner in the ruck at Sandringham, he is 200cm and is pretty mobile. Walsh could be the player at full back in the future, if Brown can play ruck than why not Geartn...

That seems to be the vibe this year with Club CEO Nettlefold indicating: St Kilda is paying close to 100 per cent of its salary cap, leaving the Saints with little opportunity to recruit players from rival clubs in this week's player-exchange. "The by-product of retaining a strong core group o...

I also hope he hasn't forgotton Luke Miles, this guy is ready to play a huge role in replacing Baker, Blake in the backline and is quicker and kicks better then both of them. Miles in the backline helps to push Gilbert into the forward line & keeps Goddard in the midfield. The one player I would...

Nick Heyne for me, I know Ross likes defensive pressure in the forward line but all of our small forwards know this and try to tackle. But what the Collingwood game showed was that we don't have enough scoring options when a couple are closed down. Schnieder=very good, Milne =contributed, steven = q...

IF we put a enough stands for up to 30/40 thousand people emagine the money we would make with all saints fans against the interstaters.The money we lose at Edihad when there are 25/30 thousand there. Imagine the crowd at Edihad against goldcoast and West sydney we are going to loose a packet. Look...

From what I've seen at Sandy and his couple of games for the Saints, Heyne rivals BJ by foot. Now he needs to get the rest of his game together. Heyne and the coaches should get him tapes of Robert Murphy and tell him this is the sort of player we need and is his best option of making the team. Lea...

Tregear is quite impressive with his kicking, he is better than some of the players on the saints list. I hope he is one St Kilda is keeping an eye on for the future, especially as a half forward.

Didn't make it this year, a bit too far and was watching some boxing instead.

One of the reasons Collingwood, Essendon and Hawthorn have much bigger revenue is due to their non-football related activities. Essendon has the golf course, pokies, leisure centre thing, Collingwood has all those hotels which they have lost a lot of money on and Hawthorn is ripping poeple off left,...

No Tehmel, jeez he's unlucky.

So Kallen Geary didn't get picked up?

In hope that we are looking at Serhat Temel, what more does a kid have to do than kick goals in finals as a junior? He has size, take contected marks and is a pretty good kick. ST KILDA Pre-season selections: Nil Rookie selections: 5 (20, 36, 49, 60, 69) Locked in: Tommy Walsh - international Needs:...

I had a great chat with Greg Westaway at a wedding last week, he's a lovely bloke & was only too happy to chat about the Saints. He said Tommy Walsh is the most exciting thing he has seen in his time with the club. They're all very happy with his signing & what he can potentially grow into....

I would still love to see an alternative 3rd tall or smart crumber. I think the Hawks did OK with Hooper, sure he's trouble but who hasn't got one of those on a list. Do the coaches have something else in mind? (Nick Davis)? Do the coaches think this area is a weakness? If we can't solve this proble...

It called spending more than you earn. That is NOT the point. The issue is that despite really good crowds during the finals we lost money because the revenue obtained was less than the extra costs we incurred. This is not a StK bad management issue. It is a generic issue that applies to all clubs ...

Now that Luke Ball has gone, I think we should attempt to target Joel MacDonald. We are now probably going to take 3 players in the national draft with no one in the pre season. 2 young kids plus someone with a bit of experience, MacDonald played a running half back role with the lions and if everyo...

The Grand Final outcome and potential grand final opponents have and will dictate our trade and draft strategy. Let's not forget we were very lucky to be even in the grand final, the Bulldogs (potential grand finalist in 2010) beat us in every statistical category in the prelim and it took one of th...

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/sport/afl/story/0,26547,26232969-5016212,00.html Cats, Saints to meet just once Scott Gullan | October 19, 2009 11:30pm GRAND finalists Geelong and St Kilda will play only once next season - and fans will have to wait until Round 13. In a move that has shocked both...

Brisbane will just substitute in Joel MacDonald and he will go instead of MR.

MacDonald is a good player with good balance and a nice kick who can play on talls and small and I'm quite surprised he is being let go. I would have loved to have traded X for him.

Peake / Lovett are much more realistic trade options than Fevola. If you look at Ross Lyon's trades in the past, it has all been low profile stuff. Ray has been the highest drafted player we have dealt with. I would think the plan might be to recruit some depth for the mid-field then move Goddard as...

Max would have been killed by Chapman. Raph played the role he was expected and coached to play. When he was tackled by Rooke for the first goal, it was Fisher's fault, he should have sheperded Raph, protect the ball carrier. Instead Fisher went looking for the cheap handball like he had when he got...

Some rubbish on this thread. Some basically saying they know more than the coaching panel. Some saying Blake has to improve. Someone even saying Goose should play because of his 2005 form. There was no way Goose could play this week due to team balance. I would love someone to come up with a backli...