Match Thread

[Winmore]

We’d be totally out of our depth in a final.

[Scollop]

We need our best players to lift.

Hunter Clark. Almost a miraculous goal a few minutes before 3 quarter time. Would have inspired the team.

Clark, Billings, Steele, along with Marshall, Membrey and King are the ones I predict will get us over the line

[SaintPav]

Why do they keep showing Simpson?

[Stephen Theodore]

Seriously hard to watch

[stkfc1]

Panic possesion football. Get ball, kick ball as long as possible in hope. No structure around stoppages. We're letting their players waltz around. Pressure is ok and effort is there but just DUMB football. Ratts needs to sort it out. Our team balance is awful. Kent and Hind might as well not be playing. If they can't go into the midfield, then they shouldn't play.

[Wayne42]

Disgusting Hind,Kent,Butler & Hill really need to lift!

It's becoming obvious why their former clubs were happy to trade them.

[SaintDippa]

No doubt the Lonie Kent Hind haters will be out in force. But what hope do you have with systemless ball movement, systemless stoppages, systemless F50 entries... pretty much systemless everything. By the time the ball is bombed in its 14 v 12. We should have been 6 goals up at quarter time. Hopefully we win purely on rotations.

[Cordz2]

The only way we know how to move the ball is bombing it.

Bomb it outside D50

Bomb it down the line

Bomb it inside forward 50

That’s what happens when a team is holding good position ahead of the ball and there is pressure on the ball carrier - lots of handball and bombing it. Look what happened when we pinpoint and Ryan intercepts. Our pressure is
Pretty good. They just have more match winners and a stronger system.

[Rocket]

Makes some moves Ratten ... isolate King with Butler or put Clark on ball ... Long forward.

Very Richardson like ... no moves, or versatility

[shrodes]

Why do they keep showing Simpson?

He smiles for the camera

[Saintmatt]

So, our coaching group I has given up on Ross? No accountability that quarter, just head to head. Fvck me ...

As I’ve said a bazillion tikes before, we’ll never be competitive with Ross playing anything other than our 22nd player.

Lonie, Kent Hind also hopeless but maybe skid it in there and see if they can do anything with the pill on the ground. They’re unlikely to do anything more by kicking it to Barrass

[Enrico_Misso]

Only 4 marks inside 50

[bangaulegend]

Are the Saints players fatigued or just not up to it.

Both mate

[eel33]

Hunter Clark was in the midfield that quarter, at least. So Ratts is trying something.

[portosaint]

I'll get shot for this. But in 6 weeks of football, Brett Ratten's credentials have taken a massive tumble for me.

We are repeatedly losing games of football in the same way. Matching teams in the hard stuff, but not being able to put it on the scoreboard.

Time and time again sending the ball long and high in hope. It is not working. It is one dimensional and predictable. If it is not a coaching issue, then there is not enough pineapples to go around. And that's saying something in QLD.

[SaintPav]

The fact is we don’t deserve to play finals. We’ve had numerous golden opportunities to secure our spot, but through poor selection, poor gameplan and poor effort we’ve blown them all.

Clear out the plodders and try again next year

Nonsense.

If we win one of these last two games we deserve our place.

[Scollop]

We just can’t kick goals. Need to back our forwards and just lead and find options

How the hell did we kick 100 points against the Swans? They aren’t that shitt are they?

[desertsaint]

c'mon saints!

[Wayne42]

I'll get shot for this. But in 6 weeks of football, Brett Ratten's credentials have taken a massive tumble for me.

We are repeatedly losing games of football in the same way. Matching teams in the hard stuff, but not being able to put it on the scoreboard.

Time and time again sending the ball long and high in hope. It is not working. It is one dimensional and predictable. If it is not a coaching issue, then there is not enough pineapples to go around. And that's saying something in QLD.

Bombing it high and long didn't do anything for Richo's career, deja vu watching this.

[skeptic]

Bloody hell Ross, thank you

[Cordz2]

We need our best players to lift.

Hunter Clark. Almost a miraculous goal a few minutes before 3 quarter time. Would have inspired the team.

Clark, Billings, Steele, along with Marshall, Membrey and King are the ones I predict will get us over the line

Hunter’s been one of our best so far.

[bigred]

About time.

Come on.

[roskilde]

Well done sebby.

[Scollop]

That’s what happens when you get deep entries

[Wayne42]

Ross kicks a goal, how about that.