Saints vs Lions Match Day Bitching Thread

defacto · Post: # 1063503Post **defacto** » Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:04pm

mullet wrote:
gringo wrote:Sam Fisher may have a hammy now Great
I thought the days where I gringed when a player went down thinking it was the end of our season were long gone. what happened to that team that dropped half its side and still won in tassie. I actually bet on the lions tonight because I thought it would soften the blow if we happened to loose. I feel so bad cos I have actually given up on my team after 49 years.

this

ralphsmith · Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:04pm

Muir_32 wrote:we lead by 4 points, half time. 40-36

Yes, this is actually true.

We are winning the game. The commentators give me the impression that we are losing by 10 goals though. Gerrard wately relishes the utterance of phrases like "stkilda well and truly off their game tonight."

bergholt · Post: # 1063505Post **bergholt** » Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:05pm

Jewellzy wrote:If McQualter comes on to replace Fisher, we are screwed.

I'm positive the plan was to replace Mini with either Kosi or Stanley. That has to be the plan.

stanley to the backline?

the first few minutes were positive but since then they've lost confidence again. similar to the tiges game. not winning contests and not going forward with any sort of feeling.

3rd generation saint · Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:05pm

We have to be the worst side to watch.
Ross ban the backward kick, maybe if they give Kosi something to run and jump at he might get a touch.
We get the ball and we panic, don't take first option and back ourselves.
They need to inject some speed into this team because we look so slow, not only in running, but in decision making.
We don't play on, we don't run and carry, we don't attack.
They look like they are not interested.

lurker#134 · Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:05pm

Can we just win the thing? I'd be happy with that at the least/

Pwoit · Post: # 1063512Post **Pwoit** » Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:06pm

ralphsmith wrote: That tripe was some of the worst tripe we have ever dished out in out long history of tripe deliverance.

You didnt watch last weeks game

ralphsmith · Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:07pm

We are on a quest to find the vibe.

The vibe has been missing, the players can't see the vibe or feel the vibe.

When the vibe comes back we'll see a different saints.

But, the quest for the vibe is f****** hard. It's f****** tough. As tenacious d once said of the road.

It's the only frisking road I know.

Ajer · Post: # 1063517Post **Ajer** » Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:07pm

We might be playing poorly but we are winning, so that has to be a positive. The fact we can play so poorly yet still lead.

Come on Saints! I reckon we'll run over this mob in the second half, they wont be able to handle the humidity as well as us.

3rd generation saint · Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:07pm

3 tackles in our forward 50, pathetic.

bergholt · Post: # 1063522Post **bergholt** » Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:09pm

jones 15 touches, 7 tackles.

he's playing on rich:

rich 9 touches, 3 tackles.

i reckon jones is going pretty well.

AnythingsPossibleSaints · Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:09pm

Ajer wrote:We might be playing poorly but we are winning, so that has to be a positive. The fact we can play so poorly yet still lead.

Who are we playing though? A side that is firmly entrenched in the bottom 4.
Right where we belong at the moment.
We might be winning this particular game at the moment, but we're losing so much else.

noob · Post: # 1063525Post **noob** » Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:09pm

I want the AFL to introduce the rule were a backward kick in the back half is play on. Could actually help our side to attack more.

ralphsmith · Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:10pm

Dal Santo 3 kicks 3 handballs. Culd be doing much more.

Goddard 8 kicks ok?

Life Long Saint · Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:11pm

ralphsmith wrote:
Muir_32 wrote:we lead by 4 points, half time. 40-36
Yes, this is actually true.

We are winning the game. The commentators give me the impression that we are losing by 10 goals though. Gerrard wately relishes the utterance of phrases like "stkilda well and truly off their game tonight."

Gerard is right. We are playing like crap...The fact that we're only 4 points in front of the second worst team in the comp says far more about us than it does about Brisbane.

We are a team bereft of confidence. Worse than that is the unwillingness of senior players to stamp their authority on the contest. I've lost count of the amount of times we've missed a tackle or missed a target or put a loose ball back in to the corridor in our defensive half. How we are not at least 5 goals down is only though Brisbane's ineptitude.

If this is what we are going to serve up for the rest of the season, we should hope for a bumper snow dump so we can all go skiing in September.

It's looking like we've missed our chance to have the last two flags. Stanley needs more time to get touch, Kosi looks worse than I ever remember him looking. Gram should just put on a Brisbane jumper and get a spare one for Gilbert too.

sendmehomehappy · Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:11pm

What the hell has happened since the middle of the 1st quarter?!

We were leading by 3 goals and playing attacking footy.

then the backwards buulshyte started..again

Hell...it is awful to watch.

Gram is soft...and I reckon after that set piece goal, he will reckon he has done his bit for the night...want to be proved wrong.

If we are going to lose this...at least go down by playing attacking footy and backing eachother....but they look so slow and out of sorts

kosi and stanley...wtf?

AnythingsPossibleSaints · Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:11pm

noob wrote:I want the AFL to introduce the rule were a backward kick in the back half is play on. Could actually help our side to attack more.

+1. I'd love it, was really surprised that they didn't bring that rule in about two seasons ago, when backwards kicking was becoming an epidemic.

bergholt · Post: # 1063533Post **bergholt** » Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:13pm

Life Long Saint wrote:Stanley needs more time to get touch, Kosi looks worse than I ever remember him looking.

different standards? kosi's playing his first game for the year, stanley his second. they've had about as much influence. maybe they both need more time to find touch.

AnythingsPossibleSaints · Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:13pm

sendmehomehappy wrote:What the hell has happened since the middle of the 1st quarter?!

We were leading by 3 goals and playing attacking footy.

then the backwards buulshyte started..again

Maybe they thought they had enough of a lead and were hoping to protect it for the next 3 and a half quarters?

gringo · Post: # 1063537Post **gringo** » Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:14pm

Stanley is a young guy with under 15 games, give him time. Terrible decision taking an extra tall when the ground is wet from humidity. The people that wanted more young guys might need to reassess. Maqualter is not a bad sub for us as he is a small guy with the ability to run, won't hurt us. Kosi is still being carried and so is Stanley, we really didn't need to take 2 passengers in one area of the ground.

Armo needs to take the game on a little more, and Smith for that matter. We are hopefully just holding back some energy to take into the second half and will take off at some point.

gringo · Post: # 1063541Post **gringo** » Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:16pm

The attacking quarter happened against the tiges too. We attacked then went defensive and nearly lost it, that's why I question our fitness. How can they just stop abruptly?

Dr Spaceman · Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:16pm

mullet wrote:
gringo wrote:Sam Fisher may have a hammy now Great
I thought the days where I gringed when a player went down thinking it was the end of our season were long gone. what happened to that team that dropped half its side and still won in tassie. I actually bet on the lions tonight because I thought it would soften the blow if we happened to loose. I feel so bad cos I have actually given up on my team after 49 years.

No doubt we are playing very poorly. And that is very depressing.

However am I to believe that what you are experiencing now is worse than at any other time over the last 49 years?

Sorry, but I find that very hard to accept.

mullet · Post: # 1063543Post **mullet** » Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:17pm

sendmehomehappy wrote:What the hell has happened since the middle of the 1st quarter?!

We were leading by 3 goals and playing attacking footy.

then the backwards buulshyte started..again

Hell...it is awful to watch.

Gram is soft...and I reckon after that set piece goal, he will reckon he has done his bit for the night...want to be proved wrong.

If we are going to lose this...at least go down by playing attacking footy and backing eachother....but they look so slow and out of sorts

kosi and stanley...wtf?

I cant even abuse the players cos they are really really mentally gone. It is really sad and scarey. Like the time we were up by 50+ points against hawthorn and they got up and beat us. that took ages for the players to get over. I guess the media will love it though, a bit of stkilda bashing
God I cant believe how sad this is.

Thinline · Post: # 1063546Post **Thinline** » Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:18pm

So many unfamiliar posters on game day and most squealing like bitches.

Harden the f*** up.

We have lost the spark. I'm only repeating myself from weeks gone by but win or lose this doesn't matter a fig. It's to let go of what might have been and reconfigure. Koz is first game back on a greasy night, so leeway granted. Stanley is a nup. Jones is a nup. Gilbert's attack on it can't be questioned but in this new era his skills ain't good enough. So nup unless he's a sniff on the ball as a big hard battering ram. Could work.. Smith is a yep. Steven is a yep. When they're fit lets have a look at Winmar, Cripps, and Ledger. Pension off Blake or Baker, elevate Walsh - nothing ventured. Simpkin and Jonston get a go.

Tough call time. Tonight's result won't change that.

bergholt · Post: # 1063547Post **bergholt** » Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:18pm

ross talking to richo about the tall forward line:

"coming in we thought it was right and clearly it's not, so we'll have a look at that."

ralphsmith · Thu 21 Apr 2011 10:19pm

Come on saints show some fight!!

Start of the 3rd free kick to the saints.