Match Thread Saints v Kangaroos at Boot Hill Round 1 2019

[B.M]

Blake Acres, trying to break a tackle 20m out in traffic, yep he is a smart player

[Bruce G McAbee]

Oh have you noticed, no ruck duties for him.

[skeptic]

Curly...

Have you ever posted on this forum about something other than the match day umpires

[shrodes]

Bruce looking unbeatable today

[Ape_Man]

Blake Acres, trying to break a tackle 20m out in traffic, yep he is a smart player

That barely looked like prior in slow motion

[shrodes]

Blake Acres, trying to break a tackle 20m out in traffic, yep he is a smart player

Serious question - do we overrate Acres? Six seasons and what's he done?

[The_Dud]

Again, Wilkie blatantly holding Brown right in front of the umpire, but the sooks will still sook

[magnifisaint]

How many goals have they been gifted????

[CURLY]

No prior only exists for North it seems. Cunnington and Ziebell just charge at tacklers.

As I type Brown lining up for Norths 6th goal from a free. That’s f***** 6 people we have 1 when Bruce received a down field.

f***** cheating pricks

[B.M]

Well he was called the GOAT after doing not much. He is a dumb footballer, and cannot play through the middle due to his lack of accountability

[CURLY]

Again, Wilkie blatantly holding Brown right in front of the umpire, but the sooks will still sook

But blatantly ignore Bruce getting held even when he has both arms out pleading as Thompson has a fist of jumper.

6 goals from frees is just a pisstake.

[saintfox]

To the dud.... truest you must be a troll that was no hold.
Just an umpire trying to influence a game

[saintfox]

To the dud.... truest you must be a troll that was no hold.
Just an umpire trying to influence a game

[Enrico_Misso]

Clearly the AFL want Norf to stay in Tassie and have briefed umpires accordingly.

[B.M]

Why was Carlisle off with two minutes to go to leave Wilkie 191cm 90kg in a marking contest with Brown 202cm 100kg

Good work on the bench with that rotation

[Bruce G McAbee]

The real problem with what Ziebel did is that we have no one who can hurt them back like that.

[degruch]

please dont blame the umpires. We arent in this game. If they arent going to try either am I

Why not...they were completely s*** for the first 20 minutes, now look at the score. f***ed over

What a joke.

Yeah it’s the umps fault our blokes look slow, that North are just running right around them, putting in zero effort, and kicking 1 goal to 7.

What a cop out.

10-3 four goals from frees. Umpire 2 blatantly cheated then tries to play the tough guy and pins Carlisle.

Our dumb players are giving away dumb free kicks in front of goal.

You have no idea what Carlisle said, so how can u even comment.

We need L Fisher back, who blatantly cheats in our favour it has been widely acknowledged.

Carlisle wouldn't have had cause to say anything had he not just been screwed over. Nice soft kick to Brown to finish off the quarter...never mind the forearm across the Saints defenders head. L Fisher, who incidently has given us a rough ride more often than not, would have just let the contest continue.

Newnes playing a very good game, laying tackles, kicking worm burners, Cho should have dropped him a month ago!

Lazy Acres...needs to be instructed to look for an outside option, he can't break tackles by wiggling his hips.

[Saintmatt]

What has happened to Ross?
He is a liability.

You make it sound like he was a gun to begin with. Seb is a solid C grade battler ... always has been; always will be.

[Beno88]

Again, Wilkie blatantly holding Brown right in front of the umpire, but the sooks will still sook

Looked 50-50 to me. Would be play on more often than not, but Wilkie didn’t have to do it.

Probably a two goal advantage to North thanks to the umps. The rest is just a reflection of how poor we are in so many areas. Effort better in Q2 but the midfielders other than Dunstan have let us down.

[Sainter_Dad]

Bruce pleading for a free as Thompson has a huge handful of jumper as he leads. You can’t miss that after what they’ve paid Norths way.

And the hand that gently nudged him under the ball making the attempt unrealistic.

[Ape_Man]

Well he was called the GOAT after doing not much. He is a dumb footballer, and cannot play through the middle due to his lack of accountability

We don’t have a very large sample size to make this conclusion about Acres in the middle.

I would like to see him there so we can get one.

Marshall leads our centre clearances with 2.

Yep - 2 is our biggest centre clearance number.

[Saintmatt]

A head coach with a bit of guts would drop Seb.

Like Hinkley did with Rockliff, Ryder and Westhoff? Good point!

[CURLY]

Bruce pleading for a free as Thompson has a huge handful of jumper as he leads. You can’t miss that after what they’ve paid Norths way.

And the hand that gently nudged him under the ball making the attempt unrealistic.

Yep a umpire watching both teams would pay that.

[B.M]

Cordz, obviously you have never been shirtfronted?!

Do you really think he had good technique in that contest, Zeiball turned an put his shoulder straight through his sternum.

Hunter won’t leave himself open like that again in a hurry, he’ll learn that incident that you protect yourself in a collision like that

[CURLY]

Well he was called the GOAT after doing not much. He is a dumb footballer, and cannot play through the middle due to his lack of accountability

We don’t have a very large sample size to make this conclusion about Acres in the middle.

I would like to see him there so we can get one.

Marshall leads our centre clearances with 2.

Yep - 2 is our biggest centre clearance number.

Mind you our mids a tackling like crazy in there and can’t buy a free.