Ben King 2022?

[Impatient Sainter]

I hope for Bens sake it is not as bad as feared?

[The Fireman]

both bros with serious knee injuries all ready ...................I will now be worried everytime I see Max leave the grd for a mark

[WellardSaint]

both bros with serious knee injuries all ready ...................I will now be worried everytime I see Max leave the grd for a mark

I live in Perth n saw the game vs WCE last year, my seat was behind up near the goals, so had a great view in the last qtr when he came of age.

As he jumped high over McGovern for that epic mark, we all held our breaths in the Saints-dedicated bays.
Cos with his long lanky limbs, he resembles a very young horse.

Very early in the last qtr, when the ball was down the other end, Max was standing with a trainer, head bowed, looking really pained. May have been winded or something. Geez we were a bit worried.

But a minute later as the ball came back into F50, trainer left and he took his first classy mark of that qtr and we were all relieved.

[saint64]

both bros with serious knee injuries all ready ...................I will now be worried everytime I see Max leave the grd for a mark

Rooey did his knee in his first year, as did Petracca. Plenty of players have had outstanding careers after serious injuries early on.

[Wayne42]

both bros with serious knee injuries all ready ...................I will now be worried everytime I see Max leave the grd for a mark

Rooey did his knee in his first year, as did Petracca. Plenty of players have had outstanding careers after serious injuries early on.

Rooey's knee injury wasn't an ACL injury but it did give him issues for most of his career.

[Goose is king]

I used to fear every time Max flew but last year I stopped worrying. McCartin on the other hand I was always nervous for.

[Waltzing St Kilda]

GCS and GWS.

Demetriou's follies.

Good Christ -- they didn't even give them distinguishable names. How often have you read GWS and thought GCS? And vice versa?

Pure amateur hour from people with more spreadsheets than common sense.

[Wayne42]

GCS and GWS.

Demetriou's follies.

Good Christ -- they didn't even give them distinguishable names. How often have you read GWS and thought GCS? And vice versa?

Pure amateur hour from people with more spreadsheets than common sense.

The Pelican loved his spreadsheets.

[Gershwin]

GCS and GWS.

Demetriou's follies.

Good Christ -- they didn't even give them distinguishable names. How often have you read GWS and thought GCS? And vice versa?

Pure amateur hour from people with more spreadsheets than common sense.

No never had a problem. It is the middle letter that makes all the difference. Bit like ‘hat’ and ‘hot’.

[saynta]

GCS and GWS.

Demetriou's follies.

Good Christ -- they didn't even give them distinguishable names. How often have you read GWS and thought GCS? And vice versa?

Pure amateur hour from people with more spreadsheets than common sense.

No never had a problem. It is the middle letter that makes all the difference. Bit like ‘hat’ and ‘hot’.

Or s*** and shot.

[shanegrambeau]

It’s enough to see the future…
Ben will stay there.
He will have a family and live in a ‘gated community’ with its own golf course and department store with a giant Atrium with crocodiles swimming in the canalS next to the walkways. The next Truman Show will be filmed there.
There will be a sister city relationship with one of the two ‘Gold Coasts’ in China.

We will play Gold Coast in China and the ground will called the Golden Kingdom for the Kings.

Then in a generation, as China is becoming a massive rust belt as its population ages, people will calm down and love China, and as its sterile ‘new’ cities start to empty, we will lament the destruction of old China. It will all be sweet in the end, but Ben won’t come back to lovely Moorabbin.
At the last minute, in his 50s, Ben will use his Chinese connections to save St Kilda.
(I won’t say buy the JO..I’ll leave that)

[shanegrambeau]

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2022/02/14/ ... -circling/

Nice one SG.

[Gershwin]

'King returned home to Melbourne last week where he will undergo a knee reconstruction.'

And he will be looked after by Mum and Dad and brother Max and all his Melbourne friends.

He is ours for the taking.

[saintly]

'King returned home to Melbourne last week where he will undergo a knee reconstruction.'

And he will be looked after by Mum and Dad and brother Max and all his Melbourne friends.

He is ours for the taking.

There saying he signed a extension for 2 years

[Gershwin]

'King returned home to Melbourne last week where he will undergo a knee reconstruction.'

And he will be looked after by Mum and Dad and brother Max and all his Melbourne friends.

He is ours for the taking.

There saying he signed a extension for 2 years

No that is the offer from GC. Has been on the table for a while and he has not accepted.

[magnifisaint]

I think the GC will fold. Really stupid idea to have a 2nd team in Qld. It should have been Tassie. And I can't wait for it to happen. Even with Gablett up there they couldn't make the finals and it won't change soon. There's no soul there.

[shanegrambeau]

I think the GC will fold. Really stupid idea to have a 2nd team in Qld. It should have been Tassie. And I can't wait for it to happen. Even with Gablett up there they couldn't make the finals and it won't change soon. There's no soul there.

The 14 year old in me Is torn between it becoming a derelict perennial problem child that offers easy points and cult status and just simply just folding.

Every other part of me wants it gone and teams in Tassie and the NT.

Footy maybe sponsored by McDonalds, Toyota, alcohol and gambling, but they owe something to the bones- the skeleton underneath, that holds it all together.

No Tasso team as a travesty.

But remember the ‘head’ of the machine has no soul. It is just a monster with an MBA and a set of steak knives, eh..sorry, stake-holders. I think it is better ask Beetlejuice about it. He seems to see through a lot of the fog.

[shadrock]

This injury will play right into our hands. Will mean he spends more time away from the Gold Coast and in the company of family and friends as he recovers. He wont want to go back, and if he wanted to get away from the Gold Coast, this would be a nice easy transition away from them before a career in Melbourne. He could easily spin it to be he wants to be closer to family while he rehabs, nobody would hold it against him.

Id be shocked if he signed in the GC.

[Goose is king]

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This injury will play right into our hands. Will mean he spends more time away from the Gold Coast and in the company of family and friends as he recovers. He wont want to go back, and if he wanted to get away from the Gold Coast, this would be a nice easy transition away from them before a career in Melbourne. He could easily spin it to be he wants to be closer to family while he rehabs, nobody would hold it against him.

Id be shocked if he signed in the GC.
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I agree. Surgery here, initial recovery here with family and friends. Gold Coast will suck again, we will rise and we get him.

[Mr Magic]

This injury will play right into our hands. Will mean he spends more time away from the Gold Coast and in the company of family and friends as he recovers. He wont want to go back, and if he wanted to get away from the Gold Coast, this would be a nice easy transition away from them before a career in Melbourne. He could easily spin it to be he wants to be closer to family while he rehabs, nobody would hold it against him.

Id be shocked if he signed in the GC.

I agree. Surgery here, initial recovery here with family and friends. Gold Coast will suck again, we will rise and we get him.

And more to the point, I'm sure post surgery (during his recovery) he'll be going to watch his brother play.
In the rooms before, during and after games?
Getting to know all the Saints players.
IMHO the longer he stays in Melbourne the less likely he will return to the Gold Coast to play.

[saintly]

This injury will play right into our hands. Will mean he spends more time away from the Gold Coast and in the company of family and friends as he recovers. He wont want to go back, and if he wanted to get away from the Gold Coast, this would be a nice easy transition away from them before a career in Melbourne. He could easily spin it to be he wants to be closer to family while he rehabs, nobody would hold it against him.

Id be shocked if he signed in the GC.

I agree. Surgery here, initial recovery here with family and friends. Gold Coast will suck again, we will rise and we get him.

And more to the point, I'm sure post surgery (during his recovery) he'll be going to watch his brother play.
In the rooms before, during and after games?
Getting to know all the Saints players.
IMHO the longer he stays in Melbourne the less likely he will return to the Gold Coast to play.

Gold Coast would not let Ben go anywhere near the Saints .

[samuraisaint]

The Suns are in for a shocking season. No Greenwood - their best inside mid, and now no Ben for the season - their best forward.

[magnifisaint]

both bros with serious knee injuries all ready ...................I will now be worried everytime I see Max leave the grd for a mark

Rooey did his knee in his first year, as did Petracca. Plenty of players have had outstanding careers after serious injuries early on.

It wasn't an ACL

[Yallingupsaints]

I had a chat with a mate from the GCS last night. He believes there is 0% chance that BK will leave. He is making near on $1M per year and living the dream on the coast. Complete anonymity, living away from the family has made him mature, the young talent at GCS is as good as anywhere and they all
want to stay there. They will be playing deep into the finals in the next 3-4 years.The saints can’t play them both in the forward line, he would be wasted at CHB and you wouldn’t risk a jet like him in the ruck.

[Vortex]

I had a chat with a mate from the GCS last night. He believes there is 0% chance that BK will leave. He is making near on $1M per year and living the dream on the coast. Complete anonymity, living away from the family has made him mature, the young talent at GCS is as good as anywhere and they all
want to stay there. They will be playing deep into the finals in the next 3-4 years.The saints can’t play them both in the forward line, he would be wasted at CHB and you wouldn’t risk a jet like him in the ruck.

Yup! I've been hearing this for a while now, he is very happy up there, the AFL have thrown the kitchen sink not only at Ben, but the whole core of other young high DPs they want to keep together. The AFL can't afford to keep giving the GCS significant draft concessions to build a team capable of wining the flag only to see players leave en masse. So the AFL are now investing heavily in the next part of the equation: player retainment, and it makes sense from a business perspective.

I agree this current crop is the best they have assembled since inception and if they can keep them together they will be a finals force for a long time. In fact I think Queensland footy is about to enter a halcyon period over the next decade.

It's possible we could be fighting GCS this season for a final spot in the 8.