Match Thread Saints v Cats Round 22 2021

[I love the saints!]

Better team Sydney? Lol. Without the umpires being so awful the Saints win by two goals.

[I love the saints!]

Gelong are not even a good team. And Hawkins is one of the worst 3 time premiership winner I have seen. For a "star".

[saynta]

God, I despise Hawkins and Selwood. Can't wait until those two see you next tuesdays retire or get rubbed out for good

[saintbob]

Turning point the free against McKenzie.

Horrendous call.

The Menengola is allowed to mark it in the front row.

Hawkins deliberately takes out Steele goal.

The two misses by King and Sharman were costly as was the horrible forward entry by Dunstan.

[Hawkesbury Saint]

I hope the Hawkins slam of Joyce’s head into the turf gets looked at. With your second cousin umpiring why would it get looked at, at the time.

[Banger9798]

I hope the Hawkins slam of Joyce’s head into the turf gets looked at. With your second cousin umpiring why would it get looked at, at the time.

You know it won't....protected species at the best of times

[Scollop]

They interviewed the little princess Dangerfield on the ground after the siren and he let slip how “easy” it was taking that mark to kick the winning goal

He tried to cover up and say that his team mates made it easy, but what he was really thinking was that he knew he wouldn’t get much of a contest against Seb Ross, and the fact that none of the other Saints players wanted it as much as he did was what made it ‘easy’

[saintkid]

I've said it before and will say it again. Look at the hurt and pain in Steele after the loss and then look at Hill. He happily congratulates the opposition and jokes and smiles away.

Hill is only there for the money, he's had his premiership success. He doesn't bleed for the red, white and black.

[st.byron]

F****** Geelong. If they win the flag I'll throw up. Unwatchable.

Is there a more boring team to watch....it's just rubbish, chip, chip, chip and chip

I can't think of a current player I detest more than Selwood. Dangerfield not far behind

[I love the saints!]

He knew it would be easy because the umpires made it easy for them.

[Banger9798]

Well, I got to say , we played well and showed alot at times.
Dangerfield carried them over the line by pure will.

Sharman is such an exciting young player....get a Pre season into him.

Sinclair serious gun

Joyce has developed into a KPD option....he is much better and stronger now

Higgins is very good, great pick up.

As bad as the year has been, we have found 5 or 6 players....

[Banger9798]

Well, I got to say , we played well and showed alot at times.
Dangerfield carried them over the line by pure will.

Sharman is such an exciting young player....get a Pre season into him.

Sinclair serious gun

Joyce has developed into a KPD option....he is much better and stronger now

Higgins is very good, great pick up.

As bad as the year has been, we have found 5 or 6 players....

[I love the saints!]

Selwood, sorry Duckwood should have not even played as I said.

[silverhalo]

Roma must be carrying something.......uncharacteristically poor today, only took the 1 mark, 9 possessions was smashed by Stanley in the hitouts

[Scollop]

I've said it before and will say it again. Look at the hurt and pain in Steele after the loss and then look at Hill. He happily congratulates the opposition and jokes and smiles away.

Hill is only there for the money, he's had his premiership success. He doesn't bleed for the red, white and black.

And neither does Lethlean

[st.byron]

Why Kent plays and not Long or Bytel. Well, interesting. And I think if Highmore were fit, we win.

Indeed. Why? If they give him another contract ....surely not. Kent Schment.

[I love the saints!]

Banger, the umpires carried them over the line.

[saintkid]

F****** Geelong. If they win the flag I'll throw up. Unwatchable.

Is there a more boring team to watch....it's just rubbish, chip, chip, chip and chip

I can't think of a current player I detest more than Selwood. Dangerfield not far behind

Whatever we think is just hearsay. Winners are grinners and we just don't seem to cut it.

Geelong would never have signed Hannebery and Hill on the $$ and long contracts we did. Then again, Geelong would not allow someone like Lethlean to take control of their club like St Kilda have.

[bangaulegend]

All in all good effort & I don't usually bag out umpires but they were gifted a few goals from questionable decisions but bottom line don't play injured players (obviously Max was not over his injury) & get rid of dead wood (Kent not up to it ). Positive signs & if we can recruit some class mid fielders ,get some injured players back next year should be something to look forward to however I thought the same thing last year almost ground hog day . We were pretty good today just not good enough.

[Scollop]

They had more contested marks than us

More contested possessions than us (not to mention all the uncontested control of the footy)

They out tackled us

They had more inside 50’s than us

They had 41 clearances to our 30

Their disposal efficiency was 78% and ours was 72%

But yeah…the umpires cost us…seriously

Yes they got 3 more frees than us!! Oh sorry….we did beat them on one stat

We had more clangers than they did it

[saintkid]

I've said it before and will say it again. Look at the hurt and pain in Steele after the loss and then look at Hill. He happily congratulates the opposition and jokes and smiles away.

Hill is only there for the money, he's had his premiership success. He doesn't bleed for the red, white and black.

And neither does Lethlean

Exactly. We have no time or respect for this insipid administrator. He's been a cancer to our club with his decision making. How would the young blokes and new talent feel having the pathetic or zero output of Hill and Hannebery, who happen to be two of the highest paid players at the club? Not a good culture going forward.

At least Geelong's highest paid players are on the park, lead the way and contribute in a big way to their wins.

Herein lies a big issue /flaw with our club going forward unfortunately.

[Teflon]

Just a better team and when the game was there to be won, they won it.

One thing for sure, midfield too slow. At least one needs to go.

Totally agree
Our outside pace is treacle
Jones like a headless chook at times lacks composure
We badly need an injection of class
Imo Bytels disposal already better than Toss and Dunstan he doesn’t get enough of it yet but is a class above VFL surely you have to play him??????
We can’t keep playing the same guys and whinge we are t getting better you have to develop and plan to get better it doesn’t just happen

[The_Dud]

I think we’ve shown enough times this year that we’re good enough to match it with the best, the issue is too many down games from too many players too often, need to fix that up for next year.

[Vortex]

Good effort for nearly 4 quarters, the 3rd quarter lacked a bit of energy for small patches and kind of looked like we were unfurling the white flag there for a moment. I was half expecting us to not show up in the 4th but was happy how it played out.

Question: Hannebery had an ok first game back but looked to get real busy in the last, was it his leadership that helped keep the energy up in the last?

[SaintPav]

F****** Geelong. If they win the flag I'll throw up. Unwatchable.

Is there a more boring team to watch....it's just rubbish, chip, chip, chip and chip

I can't think of a current player I detest more than Selwood. Dangerfield not far behind

Hawkins. Cameron as well.