Saintsational Fan Forum - A passionate community of St Kilda Football Club fans discussing news, history, players, trade rumours, results, AFL stats and more.
whiskers3614 wrote:Might average more than 6 goals "for".
Not playing for score-less draws anymore.
Sorry I misunderstood. I thought you meant losing games by 15 plus goals. Why would anyone complain if we win games having 15 goals scored against us?
You're definitely setting up a straw man there.
SainterK wrote:Well to be fair he hasn't said that, just that the balance needs to be better, and the teams he has coached have had better balance.
He implied a shift to a more attacking style - 'not playing for scoreless draws'. Watters was the line coach for one of the stingiest back sixes of the past two years. Now he's head coach of another one. I expect a lot of low scores.
Cairnsman wrote:Unless we can uncover 2-3 (absolute minimum) rare and gifted talents that can instantly step up to AFL level, or say within the first few rounds AND while adapting to a new game plan then I'd say blind Freddy on a space scooter will tell you what last years form meant.
It's as if you actually want St Kilda to fail..
Holder of unacceptable views and other thought crimes.
Cairnsman wrote:Unless we can uncover 2-3 (absolute minimum) rare and gifted talents that can instantly step up to AFL level, or say within the first few rounds AND while adapting to a new game plan then I'd say blind Freddy on a space scooter will tell you what last years form meant.
It's as if you actually want St Kilda to fail..
I can see how these sorts of opions would challenge you. I will try to avoid such confusion in the future.
Cairnsman wrote:Unless we can uncover 2-3 (absolute minimum) rare and gifted talents that can instantly step up to AFL level, or say within the first few rounds AND while adapting to a new game plan then I'd say blind Freddy on a space scooter will tell you what last years form meant.
It's as if you actually want St Kilda to fail..
I can see how these sorts of opions would challenge you. I will try to avoid such confusion in the future.
That's pathetic. Is that the best you can do?
Holder of unacceptable views and other thought crimes.
The reality is we had a shithouse year last year with only Dal Santo and Fisher able to say they had great years. The fact that Dempster finished so high in the B&F is a sign of that. Apart from the development of Mc Evoy and Steven we didn't show much. At the end of the day we will go up or down, the positive folk think with less injuries more development and luck with injuries it's up. The negative folk think the further slide as age and the challengers improve. Truth is that we won't know for about 10 rounds whether we are still capable.
My feeling is that the challengers are getting better but our legacy from lyon, is that they have been to the summit and slipped and know the path back. If a few things go right we are in with a chance another Roo or lenny type injury and it gets a lot harder. Carlton, West Coast, Richmond, Essendon, North, Adelaide, Freo could all be anywhere from 2 to 13th this season but we have an advantage of having jumped the hurdles before. Getting through a prelim is a huge psychological jump and we know we can do it.
