Match Thread Saints v Weagles Round 19 2021

[samoht]

We almost had them on their home turf.

Their 2 big forwards in the first half, our poor 2nd quarter, and their more efficient F50 entries was the tiny difference.

We have a few players to get back - so, we are better placed than them.

[DJ Higgins]

Great result. A few goals down against eagles at Home when we are half a team. Plus Max King is the real deal, owned it tonight. See this season out and get a few heavy hitters back for 2022 things are looking good

[perfectionist]

Two appalling frees cost us the game.

Darling free and goal

Nic Nat on 3/4 time

Both terrible.

The Darling free was there. He was grabbed momentarily by the jumper. It had no effect but it's paid these days (when seen). Why do they still do it?

[supersaints2]

Put Marshall in the side and we win

Agree ... with Marshall we probably win
Sad end to the season .. but I’m very proud the way we went about it....

[bergsone]

Tall and strong backman on the shopping list next year

[Banger9798]

Great effort Saints it almost feels like a win . If you take out the second quarter fade we were pretty good . Max King you give me a reason to believe ,you were amazing today if I could I would kiss you well done mate

We had a couple of games this year where a win felt like a loss....this is strangely the other way

[Trev from the Bush]

Great effort Saints it almost feels like a win . If you take out the second quarter fade we were pretty good . Max King you give me a reason to believe ,you were amazing today if I could I would kiss you well done mate

Take a step ladder with you when you go to kiss him.

[CURLY]

Two appalling frees cost us the game.

Darling free and goal

Nic Nat on 3/4 time

Both terrible.

Hunter.

Sinclair’s last goal.

How many free kicks did King get today???

It’s less than 1.

[saintkev]

Nice kick out Dougal

Terrible game from Howard. He won’t man up. Abuses others for mistakes, but makes a bundle himself.

[The_Dud]

Two appalling frees cost us the game.

Darling free and goal

Nic Nat on 3/4 time

Both terrible.

Hunter.

Sinclair’s last goal.

How many free kicks did King get today???

It’s less than 1.

Same amount as Kennedy

[Bruce G McAbee]

Butler had his best game for the year.

[CURLY]

Nice kick out Dougal

Terrible game from Howard. He won’t man up. Abuses others for mistakes, but makes a bundle himself.

Howard has no support in the air he’s trying to defend his man and cover others. He was ok again today.

[samuraisaint]

To allow them 30 uncontested marks per quarter is shocking

When you KNOW that’s how they win

Press up on them and play one on one footy!!!

Marshall, Battle, Carlisle, Paton, perhaps Joyce, all would have helped there.

Still, the guys we had out there tried their guts out.

Hopefully King and Butler can build on their confidence based on what they brought to the table today.

We seem to like the bigger grounds these days. Might help us a bit against the Swans if we have to play them at Metricon or the Gabba in a couple of weeks time.

[roskilde]

Nice kick out Dougal

Terrible game from Howard. He won’t man up. Abuses others for mistakes, but makes a bundle himself.

Needs a massive kick up the bum for that effort in the contest where Kennedy took the mark off his knee. If you look closely he was actually expecting to mark the ball even though it was barely over head height for Kennedy.

[saintkev]

Eight points. The difference in the end was their ability to score from centre clearances.

Disappointing but I am not disappointed.

Their ability to score so easily and our innate ability to pick out opposition backmen, for the first three quarters was the difference.

[CURLY]

Two appalling frees cost us the game.

Darling free and goal

Nic Nat on 3/4 time

Both terrible.

Hunter.

Sinclair’s last goal.

How many free kicks did King get today???

It’s less than 1.

Same amount as Kennedy

King kicked 7 was in countless contests not one free. We had one forward 50 free that was to Hunter.

[Teflon]

Let’s get real
Midfield poor
Last kick in 50 poor
Kick out defensive struggle
We lack their skill and need an outside damaging goal kicking mid plus KPD
But King just showed why u get his brother
We’ll be unstoppable
Make it happen
Bro g on draft picks no more rubbish talk of finals
Play the long game...

[StPeter]

Did Connolly finish with 28 touches???? If so bloody hell for a new young kid that’s superb

Connolly 11 possies! Quiet game. I am not sure what game you were watching!!

[samoht]

Did Connolly finish with 28 touches???? If so bloody hell for a new young kid that’s superb

11 touches.
Not sure how much game time he had.

[saynta]

The boys actually played pretty well and could have won apart from.some bad kicking by Longy and Kent.


The second quarter was also pretty shocking.

But overall they did better than expected, even though finals are now out of reach.

Can't wait for 2022 and a full list to choose from.

[darylcowie]

We seem to like the bigger grounds these days. Might help us a bit against the Swans if we have to play them at Metricon or the Gabba in a couple of weeks time.
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Why wouldn't we play Sydney at Marvel, after all it's our home game and teams should still be able to travel to Melbourne in a couple of weeks, whether crowds are allowed or not.

[B.M]

Connolly had little impact. He’s only a kid, I don’t think he is at the level yet. He needs time to develop to see if he can play at the level.

2 nice kicks last week
But at the end of the day he had 6 kicks total

He’s had exposure which is great. But a way to go

[Teflon]

Did Connolly finish with 28 touches???? If so bloody hell for a new young kid that’s superb

Connolly 11 possies! Quiet game. I am not sure what game you were watching!!

Sorry Billy Connolly re run got mixed up

[samuraisaint]

Well, Simmo will be happy - he can just point to Max and say 'there. I rest my case."

[Teflon]

Butler had his best game for the year.

Yeah I’ll put my hand up as an early critic but thought he finished ok actually decent game 20 and 2