Saintmatt wrote: ↑Sun 11 Aug 2024 5:21pm Howard really is stinking it up again

If Battle goes and we’re reliant on Howard as a key position defender we’re knackered.
He’s a squib. Never gets body on body and runs to the contest like he’s wading through treacle wearing flippers.

chook23 wrote: ↑Sun 04 Aug 2024 8:21pm Caminiti Sharmen Butler Higgins

Had their pants pulled down

So did Howard, Hill, Wilkie Wood, Stocker, Steele, Sinclair, Owens, Marshall and Jones.

skeptic wrote: ↑Sun 04 Aug 2024 8:13pm Games like this are club killers

Mmm… I’m a little unsure why we re-signed Hill. Was it his hardness at the ball, willingness to tackle hard and put his body on the line and lead by example?

Too many senior players standing around with their hands on their hips looking disinterested.

CURLY wrote: ↑Sun 04 Aug 2024 7:14pm Big O throws Marshall play in

Dumbarse for Marshall still trying to wrestle when he’s getting continually slaughtered in that area.

shrodes wrote: ↑Sun 04 Aug 2024 6:17pm Dougall poor again, if you’re going 2 man up you have to kill the contest

He has to man up first. He shirks the physical contest and runs like he’s wearing flippers in treacle.

Mitch Owens only had four possessions in 85 minutes being on the ground. Membrey the same amount of possessions for 84 minutes.

saintkid wrote: ↑Fri 14 Jun 2024 11:19pm Their cream rose to the top when it mattered.
King had his chances but he struggles to hold his marks too often.

He’s tentative when marking. Doesn’t impose himself on the game. He lacks aggression. Won’t chase and tackle or put a heavy shepherd on. His second efforts are woeful.

bigcarl wrote: ↑Sun 09 Jun 2024 11:05am

samuraisaint wrote: ↑Sun 09 Jun 2024 9:18am King was being held all night.

And is every week. He’s just got to find ways to get separation from opponents. Lead, lead, lead.

Instead of initiating a wrestling match. He ain’t no Brute Bernard.

He’s lost the players. It shows. Sincs was interviewed by Saints TV on youtube. He looked stunned, just trotted out the same empty phrases that we've heard before. Steele said the same thing after Doggies game. Sincs repeated himself twice as if to reinforce in his own mind, as he has lost the plot...

Harley Reagles is currently getting a hard pumping by 80+ pts yet they will likely go in as favourites against us We will be sitting 3rd last next Saturday night 41 of the so-called 43 expert tipsters in yesterday’s West Australian tipped the Eagles to prevail over the Saints, in spite them being h...

Torrential rain is forecast for Perth late Saturday afternoon. Hopefully it arrives around midday to even up the skill and speed deficiency we have through the middle and down the spine. If there’s fine weather and the noise of affirmation is added….things will be looking gloomy.

I don't think anyone is thrilled with where we're at this season. That said the overreaction is extreme. Reality is we're a middle or the road, young side in a competition where if you're off your game by 10% any side can beat any other. Some early season bad luck has led to a lack of confidence. W...

Waterman, the new version of the G-Train (W-Train) is going to tear us a new one. We need to get into his ear. But who is the toughest player in the backline capable of putting the wind up him? Hard-nut Howard? Hopefully the rain, as forecast, will precipitate down which will help our plodding midf...

Euro-Woke is more like it.

Devilhead wrote: ↑Sun 26 May 2024 6:58pm Our ability to guard space is exceptional

Shame the ball never goes there

Howard is the guard space and plod along champion. Wilkie is also copying his sulkiness. This spitting the chewie attitude is in epidemic proportions.

Port got up by 1 point That they did - 0:03 seconds to go - but seriously - after last weeks game I fully expected Hawthorn to lose by 10 goals - it was only their lack of experience (we also suffer from this) that saw them try and close down a 28 point lead for a whole quarter. What I found intere...

I’m watching the Eagles and Melbourne game. I can’t see us getting within cooee of both these sides. Superb endeavour, speed, hardness and commitment from both sides. It’s much better than the agony of watching the Saints playing predictable, plodding, boring, dumb football.

Just shows how out of touch our match committee is Could have left Pou in for another week, let him pick 20+ in the midfield and watch his confidence soar. Instead, we crush his confidence by playing him when he is down on confidence and not ready . We didn’t crush Phillipou’s confidence. Lyon did ...

Jack Steele might be carrying a niggle. Didn't he have a crook knee a few weeks ago? I really don't know what's going on because I'm not on the inside, but he looks dispirited at times. Craig McCrae played Jordan De Goey exclusively in the forward line as he's coming back from a sore groin. Why doe...

The players, like Egghead Junior, have worked Lyons out. He’s the uninspiring, bumptious reincarnation of Foghorn Leghorn. He just keeps on flapping off at the mouth.

CURLY wrote: ↑Sat 18 May 2024 11:05pm Player smothers Wood off a mark no 50

Wood ran off his line. The umpire called play-on. I could hear the call in Perth. Wood had no peripheral vision.

shrodes wrote: ↑Sat 18 May 2024 10:01pm That was absolutely useless by Dougs

He’s not a backman’s ring piece.

The_Dud wrote: ↑Sat 18 May 2024 9:29pm Dougal's man a mile on his own kicks a goal, vintage Howard!

Lumbering, zone off, insipid, slow thinking Howard. He searches around looking for someone, anyone, to blame for his own inadequacies.

What a meandering load of codswallop. No wonder the players are confused. He just dribbles on meaninglessly.