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SaintDippa wrote: ↑Sat 12 Jun 2021 11:13pm
Like I've been saying since round 3. No system of ball movement, no structures, no run past ball carrier, no clearance strategy, no F50 structure, no creation of space in f50. Everything is random .
What has Ratts taught this group over the last 6 months? We were 5.5 on the back of abismsal Crow turnovers.
Ratts and his assistants are the problem.
Some truth in this
There is clearly no forward structure or plan when bringing it in - our goals are scrappy, haphazard yet we have talented players in there who will stagnate with this level of incompetence in our coaching and development
Hamil is a **** pool builder
Lade has been a liability at port Richmond and under Richo with us
Skronolsck ?? Who the **** is this guy the cleaner ???
All that’s on Ratten
He has 1 year or he goes IF they renew him 5 games in I’ll spew
Our ability to clear a ball from defence is **** atrocious
Gutless , insipid football club
skeptic wrote: ↑Sat 12 Jun 2021 11:09pm
The umpires can go and get rooted
This is why I just hate freakin watching the AFL these days
Umpires ruined a good contest with incidental BS free kick. There was like 10 of them in the last 10min and 3 that were actually there.
NO ONE WANTS TO WATCH YOU UMPIRES
They sunk us with that BS free on the goal line that wasn’t there and and just kept paying soft ones one way
Only have ourselves to blame.
Umps give us soft frees in forward 50 (Lonie) and we butcher it.
What’s Howard doing tackling a bloke to ground for about 3 seconds after he got rid of it??
Us not being able to move the ball or hit a target had nothing to do with anybody but ourselves.
I don’t disagree with that or even that we deserved to lose but I don’t freakin turn the TV on to watch the umpires pay a ton of incidental free kicks one way or another. And that’s what they did for the last 15mon of that match and it ruined a hard fought contest
How freaking complicated must this game be that these players that have played it all their lives broke the rules 55 times in 80mon of actual play
skeptic wrote: ↑Sat 12 Jun 2021 11:09pm
The umpires can go and get rooted
This is why I just hate freakin watching the AFL these days
Umpires ruined a good contest with incidental BS free kicks. There was like 10 of them in the last 10min and 3 that were actually there.
NO ONE WANTS TO WATCH YOU UMPIRES
They sunk us with that BS free on the goal line that wasn’t there and and just kept paying soft ones one way
I’ll cop a loss any day of the week but the freakin umpires are what turned that last quarter around
That free against Howard was rubbish
The bustling on the line happens several times in every single game.
Hardly ever paid.
It's just normal bustling with fwd trying to mark and defender trying to spoil.
Howard definitely held on too long, he should be smarter than that.
St Kilda is a dumb football side.
We now look worse than the Richo era.
The Saints are under review, will it make any difference to the underachievers ?
skeptic wrote: ↑Sat 12 Jun 2021 11:09pm
The umpires can go and get rooted
This is why I just hate freakin watching the AFL these days
Umpires ruined a good contest with incidental BS free kick. There was like 10 of them in the last 10min and 3 that were actually there.
NO ONE WANTS TO WATCH YOU UMPIRES
They sunk us with that BS free on the goal line that wasn’t there and and just kept paying soft ones one way
Only have ourselves to blame.
Umps give us soft frees in forward 50 (Lonie) and we butcher it.
What’s Howard doing tackling a bloke to ground for about 3 seconds after he got rid of it??
Us not being able to move the ball or hit a target had nothing to do with anybody but ourselves.
I don’t disagree with that or even that we deserved to lose but I don’t freakin turn the TV on to watch the umpires pay a ton of incidental free kicks one way or another. And that’s what they did for the last 15mon of that match and it ruined a hard fought contest
How freaking complicated must this game be that these players that have played it all their lives broke the rules 55 times in 80mon of actual play
Ugly to watch... way worse then the skills
Yeah conditions didn’t help that, especially when the rain came in the last.
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skeptic wrote: ↑Sat 12 Jun 2021 11:09pm
The umpires can go and get rooted
This is why I just hate freakin watching the AFL these days
Umpires ruined a good contest with incidental BS free kicks. There was like 10 of them in the last 10min and 3 that were actually there.
NO ONE WANTS TO WATCH YOU UMPIRES
They sunk us with that BS free on the goal line that wasn’t there and and just kept paying soft ones one way
I’ll cop a loss any day of the week but the freakin umpires are what turned that last quarter around
That’s true but let’s face it from halfway through second we ran out of legs again
We have No forward entry game plan....it’s kick and hope stuff
Shambles these coaches are amateur hour
You watch they’ll move 1 on....and say they e five a thorough review..,
It’s your job on the line Brett....better get it right
SaintDippa wrote: ↑Sat 12 Jun 2021 11:13pm
Like I've been saying since round 3. No system of ball movement, no structures, no run past ball carrier, no clearance strategy, no F50 structure, no creation of space in f50. Everything is random .
What has Ratts taught this group over the last 6 months? We were 5.5 on the back of abismsal Crow turnovers.
Ratts and his assistants are the problem.
Some truth in this
There is clearly no forward structure or plan when bringing it in - our goals are scrappy, haphazard yet we have talented players in there who will stagnate with this level of incompetence in our coaching and development
Hamil is a **** pool builder
Lade has been a liability at port Richmond and under Richo with us
Skronolsck ?? Who the **** is this guy the cleaner ???
All that’s on Ratten
He has 1 year or he goes IF they renew him 5 games in I’ll spew
Our ability to clear a ball from defence is **** atrocious
Gutless , insipid football club
Some or all of these assistants need to go......the skills now are deplorable across the board and only getting worse. Players are always more talented when they arrive at the club and they eventually become shadows of their former selves
skeptic wrote: ↑Sat 12 Jun 2021 11:09pm
The umpires can go and get rooted
This is why I just hate freakin watching the AFL these days
Umpires ruined a good contest with incidental BS free kicks. There was like 10 of them in the last 10min and 3 that were actually there.
NO ONE WANTS TO WATCH YOU UMPIRES
They sunk us with that BS free on the goal line that wasn’t there and and just kept paying soft ones one way
I’ll cop a loss any day of the week but the freakin umpires are what turned that last quarter around
That free against Howard was rubbish
The bustling on the line happens several times in every single game.
Hardly ever paid.
It's just normal bustling with fwd trying to mark and defender trying to spoil.
Howard definitely held on too long, he should be smarter than that.
St Kilda is a dumb football side.
We now look worse than the Richo era.
We panicked a lot in the backline under immense pressure in the last.
No system to move the ball out of D50 didn’t help.
All posters are equal, but some posters are more equal than others.
skeptic wrote: ↑Sat 12 Jun 2021 11:09pm
The umpires can go and get rooted
This is why I just hate freakin watching the AFL these days
Umpires ruined a good contest with incidental BS free kicks. There was like 10 of them in the last 10min and 3 that were actually there.
NO ONE WANTS TO WATCH YOU UMPIRES
They sunk us with that BS free on the goal line that wasn’t there and and just kept paying soft ones one way
I’ll cop a loss any day of the week but the freakin umpires are what turned that last quarter around
That free against Howard was rubbish
The bustling on the line happens several times in every single game.
Hardly ever paid.
It's just normal bustling with fwd trying to mark and defender trying to spoil.
Howard definitely held on too long, he should be smarter than that.
St Kilda is a dumb football side.
We now look worse than the Richo era.
Absolute BS
The free for high was probably there not holding as Richo also said
Umpires **** screwed us but we are rabble and unfit so only have ourselves to blame
Maybe we'll get another 'keep up the good work fellas' message from the President, the CEO will clap on about some theme round, Roughhead will continue his 'yeh-nahs' and the 'Sounds of the Saints' podcast will spin out more of the same.
I don't think the club gets it. We have become a laughing stock.
A total and utter laughing stock. The competition is genuinely mocking us and they've got every right to. Our footy club has become focused on everything except winning. This is the sum total of all those things coming home to roost.
For once, I'm not shocked. I'm not surprised. This was absolutely in line with what I expect and have been warning about for a long time. This mentality, culture, attitude and approach is what we are. We've embraced the soft option; the cuddle culture and the weakest link approach.
Right now, under this leadership, this is what St Kilda stands for now.
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Wilh Clark injured we will probably have to go with the same duds next game and add another spud which should not be hard to find.
Certainly heading for an early draft pick so time to upgrade the recruiting staff
This happened a bit in the Richo years... the opposition started dominating the contests so all we could do was kick the ball long to packs of players.
That’s the attitude that needs to stop. We weren’t winning them anyway... may as well kick 1:1 on the other side of the field and back your better players... or switch it around a bit or something
evertonfc wrote: ↑Sat 12 Jun 2021 11:22pm
Maybe we'll get another 'keep up the good work fellas' message from the President, the CEO will clap on about some theme round, Roughhead will continue his 'yeh-nahs' and the 'Sounds of the Saints' podcast will spin out more of the same.
I don't think the club gets it. We have become a laughing stock.
A total and utter laughing stock. The competition is genuinely mocking us and they've got every right to. Our footy club has become focused on everything except winning. This is the sum total of all those things coming home to roost.
For once, I'm not shocked. I'm not surprised. This was absolutely in line with what I expect and have been warning about for a long time.
This is what St Kilda stands for now.
I agree with this. Honestly, I think the marketing department is more important than the football department at St.Kilda. It's what we care about more, unfortunately.
Dont blame umpires our players are so overrated its not funny.
Butlers gone backwards alongwith Battle Billings Lonie etc. Hunter is not AFL standard.
We just believe our bull s*** at St.kilda something we have done forxm a long time. We need a massive clean out .
As a long tine supporter/membet i am totally fed up with this s*** club and they can stick their membership where the sun dont shine.
Get St.Kilda people running our club and not zig and zag afl rejects along with the circus clowns we have now.
I think it it obvious there is internal issues that i am sure will come out soon.
Dougal kicks in to a crowded wing with every point scored in that last qtr …..why not get Hill to use his pace and run from the crowded wing to the other to quickly get it down to our forward line
Dud hit the nail on the head in an earlier post... we let them back into the contest with easy misses when we had the momentum
Lonie was abysmal
Butler couldn’t get near it
Higgins had a disappointing miss late
And no one else looked capable of doing anything to square one up
End of the day... we lack players that have the mentality to do the job themselves
seano1 wrote: ↑Sat 12 Jun 2021 11:28pm
Dougal kicks in to a crowded wing with every point scored in that last qtr …..why not get Hill to use his pace and run from the crowded wing to the other to quickly get it down to our forward line
My two kids are mad Saints supports.
7 & 5. Went to bed at half time and will be totally gutted in the morning.
Really feel like telling them to support another team.
Supporting this club is just a lifetime of pain.
