Remember this? http://www.afl.com.au/video/2014-07-19/head-clash-knocks-dempster-cold Has had 3-4 of these (stretchered off) at his time at the Saints. Don't know at the Swans. I think it was in Perth where they had to administer oxygen to him before he could be taken off the ground. Like other pla...

Carlisle The statue Stands at CHB and hopes the opposition kick it to him and not his opponent If he is the great white hope, god help us He is only of value if the opposition have a Kosi like fwd Brown was worse than Carlisle IMO, he was meant to be the guy who could stop Hogan who was running ram...

Wayne42 wrote:Motlop was woeful, hope the Cats keep him until he decides he wants to retire.

Like any outside player.... downhill skier when their side does not control the ball. Same as ours look when we played sides like the Eagles, Crows and 2nd half against Swans.

I doubt the club would have both Fisher and Dempster in the same 'boat'. It has been reported that the club is waiting to see what happens during trade week to determine Fishers future - rookie/listed/retired. They have not mentioned Dempster at all. With Dempster they may have waited until after th...

Interesting that at the 20 minute mark of the last quarter WCE have had 5 - yes, just 5 - more disposals than the Saints. And Free Kicks are 23-12 in their favor. So is there a story there somewhere? Not knowing anything of the game apart from the AFL site Stats, who has been on who particularly in...

It's a problem any club has if the mid-field does not provide protection for its defence eg games against Bulldogs & GWS. If the mid-field doesn't get back to help out in the D50 and also turns the ball over then in todays footy the defence has little chance. Also the forwards need to pressure t...

Easter Sunday and a fresh season... You'd expect Adelaide Oval to be jumping early... I'd hate for the guys to be like deer in the headlights in that kind of atmosphere and get off to a really poor start, they could end up getting smashed by 100 pts if the Power get away to that kind of flyer. On t...

Think it's Dempster's 150th for the club also.

Has been very resilient as has only missed 3-4 games since mid 2010. On last Sunday's, The Bounce, Frawley let slip that he had an operation on his nose on Sunday.

West Coast midfield destroyed us, which made it very difficult down back. Can't understand the wraps for our mids! Correct. We look good when we have the ball but our midfield and forwards at times do not know or want to defend. This places enormous pressure on our short and at times inexperienced ...

5. Hayes
4. Armitage
3. Dempster
2. Steven
1. Fisher

kosifantutti wrote:Haven't seen the Robinson and White ones yet but I thought Murphy was lucky.

Robinson gave a round arm on Newnes if it's the one i'm thinking of.

with Dempster i do think the cattle around him is effecting his game , as you rightly point out he is perhaps spreading himself too thin as he is needed kinda everywhere and i think thats where Gwilt being so much out of form is really hurting us At the game last night I noticed he was coming off t...

Freebird wrote:Are st kilda training today?

I believe Wednesday is the return to training day.

Unfortunately backmen don't seem to get a look in when it comes to salary and awards. Dempster could possibly be one of the lowest paid AA recipients ever. Doubt he would be on anymore than the AFL average.

It's interesting, peoples perception of players kicking efficiency. I thought I would look at the last record I have (Essendon game) and see what the player performance chart has to say. Of the defenders......................... Goddard 72.5% Gram 67.3% Fisher 75.2% Dempster 79.4% Geary 72.0% Gilber...

All the very good players are on set contracts no matter how many games they play. So anyone on a $300K+ contract does not get match day payments? I woiuld say those at the lower end would be on a base plus match payments , those between say $100k & $300k could be on a base plus match and/or bo...

Geary Simpkin Gwilt Gilbert Fisher Schneider Montagna Hayes Steven Millera Reiwoldt Goddard Milne Stanley Saad McEvoy Hayes Dalsanto Clarke Armitage Sippos Jones Out Blake Gram Kosi In Stanley Saad Simpkin I agree rexy, except I'd keep Kosi and (very reluctantly) send Tezza to join Wilkesy and Ledg...

This needs a blanket ban… Keep it simple, no gloves, no player should be advantaged by equipment or gear IMO I agree as marking is a unique skill to Aussie Rules. No player should be able to wear a glove unless for an injury. Lets not go down the path where technology is responsible for improvement...

resaintlee wrote:Otherwise they will fall over

No but they might go around in circles like some of our left footers.

If we go after left footers lets hope they also have a right foot.

Each of them will be waiting to see if anyone walks, therefor feeing up more cash for their own contracts... If Dawson goes then the others will want a piece of his allocated funds... Contract chess. The way the club has mishandled the salary cap I doubt freeing up Dawson's salary will be going to ...

matrix wrote:ok so who is actually out of contract?
ray
dawson

gamble?
polo?
peake?
raph?
cj? (someone said that he mentioned at the sponsorship dinner that he was signing a 2 year deal?)

who else?
what about all the vfl level players?

Dempster

fingers wrote:I am waiting for his signature on a saints contract and I'm in for 1.

I'm gessing he is a required player as his name hasn't been brought up as a possible trade candidate. Therefore lets hope the club isn't penny pinching due to so called salary cap issues.

ST KILDA is yet to re-sign up to a dozen players, including valued stopper Sean Dempster, as the club deals with severe salary cap pressures that are dictating its Trade Week movements. http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/124979/default.aspx Why are we under salary cap pressure?...