I saw a St Kilda side.

[Skinny]

I saw a St Kilda side that could have rolled over at half time...they didn't.

I saw a St Kilda side without a recognised ruckman take on the biggest and best rucking combination in the Afl winning the clearances in the second half.

I saw a St Kilda side coming off a six day break and facing the toughest interstate trip in the comp running the game out strongly despite being limited in their rotations.

I saw a St Kilda side that looked undersized in most positions on the ground not give up.

We may not win the flag this year ...or next, or maybe we will... these guys will have a crack, their effort was great

Go Saints!!!

[Dr Spaceman]

I saw a St Kilda side that could have rolled over at half time...they didn't.

I saw a St Kilda side without a recognised ruckman take on the biggest and best rucking combination in the Afl winning the clearances in the second half.

I saw a St Kilda side coming off a six day break and facing the toughest interstate trip in the comp running the game out strongly despite being limited in their rotations.

I saw a St Kilda side that looked undersized in most positions on the ground not give up.

We may not win the flag this year ...or next, or maybe we will... these guys will have a crack, their effort was great

Go Saints!!!

Excellent post sir.

Nothing wrong your eyesight

[SainterK]

I saw a St Kilda side that is used to playing at Etihad.

[jonesy]

All mostly true but one noteable and important absent point

* I saw a Stkilda side who were as weak as p*ss in the first half today when it mattered

[saintspremiers]

Great post.

We could've rolled over like Melbourne, GWS or Carlton but we didn't.

All we needed was Rhys to not go down and some non-corrupt umpiring and we may have won!

[perfectionist]

I saw a St Kilda side that is used to playing at Etihad.

At least for the first half. But what's the alternative? Our game is the only one in the world where the playing field is not a uniform size. You could understand it once, but shouldn't that be a condition of ground accreditation?

[spert]

I saw a lot of experienced St Kilda players getting beaten and playing undisciplined footy for most of the game today, and ultimately getting beaten by 5 goals..onto next week.

[bigred]

8 day vs 6 day break....

[Thinline]

I saw a side that will s*** on Sydney from a high vantage point next week.

Awful start - not the first team to get swamped at Subie early - but latter stages proved to me we are not far off the mark.

[SainterK]

Agree TL

Will beat Sydney.

[saintspremiers]

I saw a St Kilda side that is used to playing at Etihad.

At least for the first half. But what's the alternative? Our game is the only one in the world where the playing field is not a uniform size. You could understand it once, but shouldn't that be a condition of ground accreditation?

Cricket???

[TJMcCarthy]

We saw a west coast side kick eight goals from free kicks!

[Richter]

Well said skinny

[hungry for a premiership]

I saw two St.Kilda sides.

1st half vs 2nd half was chalk and cheese.

[Dave McNamara]

Hi Skinny, great post!

Why don't you post more, ...and where's 'Mildy' ?

[Teflon]

Please stop whingeing bout 6 days breaks. Interstate sides travel weekly often with 6 days breaks....its not a valide excuse IMO and the second half proved that.

We were mentally at the starting gate when the game started and got a rocket at half time. Shame we werent switched on early.

[OneEyedSainter77]

People have to realise the old St Kilda is no more.

In the eighties, nineties or noughties, a 50 point deficit at half time would have blown out further, ESPECIALLY by an undermanned side coming off a six day break travelling to one of the msot hostile grounds in the competition. With six days to recover, weren't we supposed to be tired and down on energy. Yet I felt we gave it a huge crack and possibly run the game out better.

It has been ten years since we lost a match by one hundred points - only one team currently in the league ahs gone longer - The Sydney Swans who last loss by three figures back in 1998 - and guess who that was to?

The same team which has countless times come close to dying or merging; the same team who has won one premiership in a hundred years and the same bloody team who is turning everything around - when we win that second premiership, the third fourth and fifth won't be far off it.

We are turning our history upside down and giving the middle finger to the historians.

Who really cares who won the wooden spoon in 1923? ( I don't actually know if that even was us)

Or who scored the lowest score of all time.

We gave up without a whimper back in the old days, even back in the eighties when we were putrid or the nineties when we weren't much better.... well we don't now.

We have far too much pride to let a team walk over us for four quarters.

Not only did we twice draw to within 17 points, we gave ourselves a good chance of winning the game.

No longer can people go on about the St Kilda culture because its dead and buried.

This is the new St Kilda culture.

We may not win the flag for another three or four years, but we will NEVER sink to the depths that say Melbourne have...

[SMS]

I saw a stkilda side lose to a half fit eagles team ...

We suk its all over lets not be richmond fans and be happy we lose well!!!

[BigMart]

I saw a stkilda side lose

[OneEyedSainter77]

I saw a stkilda side lose to a half fit eagles team ...

We suk its all over lets not be richmond fans and be happy we lose well!!!

Not necesarily happy we lost because i would never be happy with losing but losing is either really bad if you give it a crack and go down in an honourable loss or awful if you suffer an embarrassing hundred point loss.

It's not just black and white....

And as for the half fit comment, we lost two players throughout the match who were vital to our structures and not to mention we already had our top choice ruckman and best two defenders out of the side.

West Coast have a lot more depth than people give them credit for...

[Enrico_Misso]

Yes, Happy with the way we fought out the second half one man short, six day break, disgraceful run of freekicks in front of WCE goal etc. and got right back into the game.

But the first half was our worst half of football for the year.
We played like Melbourne.
Complete crap.

[ShanghaiSaint]

I saw a stkilda side lose to a half fit eagles team ...

We suk its all over lets not be richmond fans and be happy we lose well!!!

go support/attack another team u muppet

[hungry for a premiership]

People have to realise the old St Kilda is no more.

In the eighties, nineties or noughties, a 50 point deficit at half time would have blown out further, ESPECIALLY by an undermanned side coming off a six day break travelling to one of the msot hostile grounds in the competition. With six days to recover, weren't we supposed to be tired and down on energy. Yet I felt we gave it a huge crack and possibly run the game out better.

It has been ten years since we lost a match by one hundred points - only one team currently in the league ahs gone longer - The Sydney Swans who last loss by three figures back in 1998 - and guess who that was to?

The same team which has countless times come close to dying or merging; the same team who has won one premiership in a hundred years and the same bloody team who is turning everything around - when we win that second premiership, the third fourth and fifth won't be far off it.

We are turning our history upside down and giving the middle finger to the historians.

Who really cares who won the wooden spoon in 1923? ( I don't actually know if that even was us)

Or who scored the lowest score of all time.

We gave up without a whimper back in the old days, even back in the eighties when we were putrid or the nineties when we weren't much better.... well we don't now.

We have far too much pride to let a team walk over us for four quarters.

Not only did we twice draw to within 17 points, we gave ourselves a good chance of winning the game.

No longer can people go on about the St Kilda culture because its dead and buried.

This is the new St Kilda culture.

We may not win the flag for another three or four years, but we will NEVER sink to the depths that say Melbourne have...

Totally agree 1eyed.


St.Kilda is a strong, proffessional organisation now, and if it just keep going strong, as it has been since 2000-2001, eventually, sooner or later, be it in 2 or 12 years, St.kilda will land a flag, and I totally believe that once we get that one flag, more flags will start to follow and we'll start getting premierships every decade.

[saintsRrising]

8 day vs 6 day break....

?????

Does not explain the first half.
It may have explained a second half fade-out....but that did not occur.

We had a great second half. But that first half was SOFT.

[Bushman]

Shyte in the first half and much better in the second. All sots of valid excuses blah blah blah but we lost a game we were expected to lose against probably the best and close to full strength at their home. Lack of height in the back line was evident, but watching Dawson's inspid performance this week made me so glad he's gone. Add Gwilt, Fisher and with better structure we are okay, the WC forward line was as open as the grand canyon, better readers of the play will stop that. All in all no wrist slitting from me, I think we can bounce back and beat Sydney. All I do really know is this team is sooo much better to watch than when Lyon was the boss win or lose.