'Just f****** win'. Yep... I don't care if it's from the inside a bubble or a belief cloud or a cuddle. But people maybe forget what 'the bubble' was a response to, and how well it deflected so much horse shyte and saw us to successive GF's, both missed by the bounce of a ball. the bubble was becua...

This bit certainly sounds encouraging. "The consistent theme from even the senior group was that our development had not been emphasised as strongly as it should be," Pelchen said. "I had (AFL Victoria general manager) Grant Williams comment that we have gone from either the worst or ...

None of the articles have mentioned Raph, is he signed up already?

This means that what WAS picks 25, 35, 37, 42, 60, 68, 78, 96 actually becomes picks 24, 34, 36, 41, 57, 63, 66, 71 Looks much better when you actually look at what pick order we actually have in this draft! I'm excited! There's a reason all those picks are being used for rookie upgrades. The talen...

JB are you arguing that Ross Lyon could not have done a single thing better in his time at the club? No I have never said that. However it has to be looked at in context. Lyon coached to give us a shot at the flag which he did very successfully. One of the consequences of 19 straight wins in 09 and...

No we didn't. His 2009 (his first year with us) was generally excellent, so much so that he kept Maxy out of the team late in the season and into the finals. This. God help us if he recaptures his 2009 form because everyone here will spew, guaranteed. My favourite piece of commentary from Kelli Und...

HitTheBoundary wrote:I predict that our Full Back next year will be the best Full Back currently playing in the WAFL. (Whoever that may be.)

Bookmarked.

I'd hope the club were looking at Nathan Blee for a key defender as well... 21, 192cm, 90kg. As a WA boy I'm sure our new coaching group would have plenty of insight on him.

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If the Saints want to avoid completely bottoming out the drafting of recycled hacks has to stop. Thankfully it's unlikely they'll do anything of the sort. But a few mature age recruits wont hurt They sure won't, hoping to see some spark from Saad and/or Milera, and I'd expect one of Boseley or Blee...

Too much weirdness for my liking - IMO needed to let others make decisions too The trouble with the majority of your post is the claim that all of these decisions were unilaterally made by Lyon. Some of them probably were, but to throw them all in together weakens your argument. I don't recall ever...

If the Saints want to avoid completely bottoming out the drafting of recycled hacks has to stop.

Thankfully it's unlikely they'll do anything of the sort.

They think they are better than us and hate it when they lose. Yep... they talk themselves up every time, and come crashing down with a thud. Part of it is that for a couple of years they had a tendency to "jump" us with a 4- or 5-goal to 1- first quarter. After getting smashed twice in 2...

The remodelling of both welfare and development has also been a target of new Saints football boss Chris Pelchen, who described the revamped coaching and development program at the Linen House Centre yesterday as ''one of the biggest turnovers I've seen in football'' Read more: http://www.theage.co...

The Fremantle supporter basically said; the get out clause was in the contract so Ross Lyon didn't do anything wrong... that there is no "spirit of the contract", it's in black and white and he was within his rights to use the get out clause. I admit that is a fairly compelling argument a...

"Ultimately, you want a club with a critical mass of leaders and you have to ask, 'Who is captain?' That's what I would like to build." 8-) Scott has not and will not create any new leaders with this group. As such a mature group we already have them. It is obvious Big Mac will become a l...

The cats have not finished in the botttom 4 since the introduction of the draft. That's impressive, even when the good fortune they've enjoyed through the father/son rule is taken into consideration. Geelong's father/son selections over this period include Mark Blake, Nathan Ablett and Adam Donohue...

Isn't it relative though....will there be more "poor" 50 game players in a crap team, than in a good team? There are two layers to the answer to that... first, "crap" teams get lower draft picks which are vital, particularly in the first two rounds. Second, "crap" team...

Oh man. Not this old chestnut again. Rising Star nominations work in an inverse relationship with ladder position. WHY did Geelong win 10 over the same period then??? Geelong fielded 10 Rising Star nominees in the 2009 Grand Final to St. Kilda's 11. You've banged this drum before. http://www.saints...

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/125361/default.aspx If you take Nick Tedeschi's view that it takes at least five years to get a proper grip on the true quality of a draft class, and a draftee playing 50 AFL games is the measure of whether a pick was worthwhile, it is possibl...

Oh man.

Not this old chestnut again.

Rising Star nominations work in an inverse relationship with ladder position.

borderbarry wrote:Is it possible we will use one to promote a rookie? Cant see it now that Walsh has deserted us.

The flip side is there will be not much worth taking at pick 78 in this draft. I reckon a rookie elevation is on the cards. If Ferguson isn't ready yet and neither is Archer it must be Curren.

saintly wrote:nick heyne still has a year to go on his contract? doesn't he?

Yes, and they won't be trying to fit his payout in this year's salary cap... rookie list for 1 year is a certainty.

Ok we have a new coach hence new game plan and structure. So how long could the transition be from old programing of RL structure and to what effect could we be possibly looking at? It's not as if the team has had one "program" and now need to "switch" to another. http://www.sai...

Who says there are any new ideas in football?

Agree with the above - it would be nice for a change to have half back flankers that can not only run, but bring good kicking and decision-making to the role.