Saints v Pies Match Thread

[SemperFidelis]

Look, we're being belted now. It's not the umpire's fault. But WTF was that? 3 shite calls in a row. How did Steven get that against him?

[3rd generation saint]

You can't be serious, that umpire should be terminated immediately.

[3rd generation saint]

You can't be serious, that umpire should be terminated immediately.

[skeptic]

Pendles ducks into a tackle for soft contact = free

Schneider goes for the ball, gets a knee to the head and was penalised

Unbelievable

[Devilhead]

Paddy should have gone back and had a shot

[Austinnn]

Newnes sounds like he's not particulary tidy with the ball. Can he improve?

[Grimfang]

Contact below the knees is a free that only gets paid against us, apparently.

[footyhead]

Our Disposal numbers are similar to them.. Finish is the problem. Although would love to get 10 frees in a row now. Something is not correct here are we that bad at giving away frees?

[Austinnn]

This is just ridiculous.

[SemperFidelis]

Frees 28 to 16

[Austinnn]

Congratulations to the Umpires and the Magpies.

You'll not destroy us, we will be back.

[saint6709]

Newnes sounds like he's not particulary tidy with the ball. Can he improve?

2 clangers tonight were embarrassing

[SemperFidelis]

Newnes sounds like he's not particulary tidy with the ball. Can he improve?

2 clangers tonight were embarrassing

Weirdly bad kicking from Newnes tonight. He's usually better than reliable.

[WinnersOnly]

Reality check.

Dont blame umpires it is not there fault!

Collingwoods mids and quick clean hands killed us. We are geniunely a slow and poorly skilled side.

[BringBackMadDog]

Reality check.

Dont blame umpires it is not there fault!

Collingwoods mids and quick clean hands killed us. We are geniunely a slow and poorly skilled side.

Welcome back, missed you last week

[The Fireman]

Reality check.

Dont blame umpires it is not there fault!

Collingwoods mids and quick clean hands killed us. We are geniunely a slow and poorly skilled side.

this....wow I thought we were fit.

[Devilhead]

The 6 day break off an interstate trip was always going to be tough - umps kept Pies in it during the first quarter and after that we lost our legs - umpiring amazingly inconsistent but I think the result was probably inevitable given Roo was out and our side being quite inexperienced

Think we can bounce back against the Blues

[Scollop]

Newnes sounds like he's not particulary tidy with the ball. Can he improve?

2 clangers tonight were embarrassing

Colingwood fans are embarrassing, the umpires were embarrassing at times with frees against Mav for tackling too fiercely even though his tackles were legal....and Cloke is embarrassing especially when he kicks from 10 mtrs out on a set shot OR when he tries to speak

[dragit]

Welcome back, missed you last week

lol

[suss]

Does paddy know who he's playing for?

[anthony_13]

Ppl are bagging paddy... It's only his first game and he probably wasn't even read for a debut yet!!! I'm more worried about billings tho, hasn't shown much, even his best mate Sinclair who we took from the rookie draft has shown more.

[Zed]

Would love it if someone could find out how many of our handballs just missed the target. I certainly lost count.

And what about kicking into the man on the mark or directly to a Collingwood player ?

And finally, just how many times did our players lose their feet or get easily knocked off the ball whilst their opponents held their feet.

Ugly last 3 quarters - and not the type of loss I would have expected at this time of the season. No excuses.

[Austinnn]

I couldn't see, was just listening, but it seemed to me that the problems were:

poor skills from players who were seeing a lot of the ball: Weller, Dunstan, Newnes, Schneider, a few others.

criminal umpiring

unable to find a second gear and stem the flow in the crucial 2nd quarter

A few key players in the Pies who were able to turn the game: Grundy, Broomhead, Swan, Oxley.

We were lucky that Cloke is such a junk kick.

I don't think we were disgraced, the margin is pretty big, we're just a bit too brittle at the moment. Webster and Ross will improve the side. We'll still beat Carlton.

[whiskers3614]

Does paddy know who he's playing for?

Just for a little perspective

Round 15 2001 Riewoldt debut 1 Mark 3 possessions 1 behind!

[dragit]

Bit harsh on paddy suss, first game on a wet night was never going to be much fun.

I thought Roberton was super tonight, back to his 2013 form.

Bruce came back to earth & our younger guys looked more rushed with the greater pressure.