So nice to be playing tomorrow.....

[cwrcyn]

....instead of tonight. When the ball is bounced tonight it will be a balmy 8C.

Blues fans will have blue fingers.

[Banger9798]

Agreed. Freezing today, hopefully warmer tomorrow

[cwrcyn]

The 'feels like' temperature tonight will be 2.5 C

Maybe those Blue tears will turn to icicles

[The_Dud]

Saturday arvo footy is still (and forever IMO) the best footy.

It will be a sad day when they eventually move the GF to night

[markp]

Nights like this you're grateful for the docklands' roof.

Hope the filthy weather is the least filthy thing about the scums' night.

[Yorkeys]

Where are GWS staying tonight?
Did they get to practice on the MCG today. Find Brayshaw's teeth ? Catch pleurisy?
If this was South America there would be a trumpet and drum band outside their pub all night.
That team has been given so many legs up it would be fitting for a hard scrabble working class team like us to take them down.
When Leon was coaching GWS was referred to as the Ferrarri. I guess we then are the Ford Ranger. Hope they stall on the grid and we roll right over their 3 exhausts.

[SaintPav]

Sydney are insipid.

[shanegrambeau]

I think it’s gonna be 13 tomorrow - that’s max.

Will that help us?

Let’s hope so.

Max to wear long sleeves.

Helps hold in this bouncy chesties.

[shanegrambeau]

I think it’s gonna be 13 tomorrow - that’s max.

Will that help us?

Let’s hope so.

Max to wear long sleeves.

Helps hold in this bouncy chesties.

[Teflon]

Umpires killing Sydney
Shane to be see soft free kick goals given up one end
Let go the other
Way to much influence on the game

[saintkid]

Umpires killing Sydney
Shane to be see soft free kick goals given up one end
Let go the other
Way to much influence on the game

It's always the case when the crowd is so one sided.

My beef is seeing Acres do so well for them when many of us could see he was a keeper...

[SaintPav]

Acres.

Nice one Saints

[bigcarl]

Umpires killing Sydney
Shane to be see soft free kick goals given up one end
Let go the other
Way to much influence on the game

It's always the case when the crowd is so one sided.

My beef is seeing Acres do so well for them when many of us could see he was a keeper...

Yes, it was blindingly obvious he would be a player. Let’s hope for no more of these for a while.

[King Max]

I think it’s gonna be 13 tomorrow - that’s max.
.

I’ll be happy if he kicks 10.

[Sainter_Dad]

I think it’s gonna be 13 tomorrow - that’s max.
.

I’ll be happy if he kicks 10.

I saw what you did there!

If Taylor breaks down - it would be a special day for a break out game!

[meher baba]

BOM forecasting a possibility of hail this afternoon.

Nice...

[meher baba]

Umpires killing Sydney
Shane to be see soft free kick goals given up one end
Let go the other
Way to much influence on the game

It's always the case when the crowd is so one sided.

My beef is seeing Acres do so well for them when many of us could see he was a keeper...

Yes, it was blindingly obvious he would be a player. Let’s hope for no more of these for a while.

He certainly didn't look like a keeper when he left us, and he didn't achieve much at Freo.

But players with great skills who perhaps don't train hard enough and don't always follow instructions can sometimes eventually come good. We might see the same happen with Gresham and Billings if they go at year's end.

This is why I'm not anywhere near as inclined as are most posters on here and BF to fixate on the idea of cutting as many players as possible at the end of seasons. If I were list manager at a football club, I would be inclined to try as hard as I can to hang onto Gresham, Billings, Howard, Clark, Coffield and Jones and certainly woudn't dream of trading players like Steele or Marshall. I would also have tried to retain Ball, Dal Santo, Goddard, McEvoy, Stanley, Dunstan and probably Acres too. Of course, I wouldn't try to hang onto players who were desperate to get out. But I tend to see the secret to sustained success at a football club to lie in gradually building up a strong and cohesive group of players.

Never mind the personalities involved, but I recall that, in the early 2000s, two clubs which had disappointed their fans over many decades decided to embark on this sort of a journey. One was us, but we got waylaid by various things (multiple sackings of coaches, lack of interest/investment in player development in the late 2000s and early 2010s, dreadful recruiting and list management). The other was Geelong, who stayed the course, showed loyalty to Thompson and then Scott through thick and thin, hung on to their best players as tightly as they could and built up a strong and loyal core of players, and went on to win four premierships.

But I'm the sort of guy who never believes that the grass is greener. On the rare occsasion that I've had enough spare money to invest it in something, has just left it in that investment for years rather than continually shifting it around from option to option looking for bigger profits. (And, dare I say, it's generally worked out all right for me too.)

[B.M]

Acres was a hard trainer

He was top 5 in the club for running

It was his consistency and decision making that was a problem


He was inexplicably used as a part of the Hill deal with pick 10 and the following years pick 20

That is the most lopsided trade ever at stk

[meher baba]

He was inexplicably used as a part of the Hill deal with pick 10 and the following years pick 20

That is the most lopsided trade ever at stk

It was lopsided, but it was also the only big trade we have made in living memory that has achieved anything much for us. I've been pondering the team that is running out today and how devoid it is of what might be called "major recruitments." I think I'll start another thread about this.

[MC Gusto]

I thought acres was typically acres last night! Nothing special, hard running, couple of nice things and a few horrible turnovers

Was the same with us and the same with freo

[perfectionist]

I was watching Errol Gulden last night. Not only can he kick the ball well (but only on his left, he slices it as a get out kick instead of going to his right), he has an uncanny ability to spot players on their own - in an instant. On the other hand, most players can't - like Blake. There was a teammate waving his arms all on his own 40 metres out and Blake missed him and kicked to a pack. We do that a bit.

[MC Gusto]

Cerra on the other hand, now there’s a player, would have loved to have snagged him when he was moving back home

[bigcarl]

Umpires killing Sydney
Shane to be see soft free kick goals given up one end
Let go the other
Way to much influence on the game

It's always the case when the crowd is so one sided.

My beef is seeing Acres do so well for them when many of us could see he was a keeper...

Yes, it was blindingly obvious he would be a player. Let’s hope for no more of these for a while.

He certainly didn't look like a keeper when he left us, and he didn't achieve much at Freo.

But players with great skills who perhaps don't train hard enough and don't always follow instructions can sometimes eventually come good. We might see the same happen with Gresham and Billings if they go at year's end.

This is why I'm not anywhere near as inclined as are most posters on here and BF to fixate on the idea of cutting as many players as possible at the end of seasons. If I were list manager at a football club, I would be inclined to try as hard as I can to hang onto Gresham, Billings, Howard, Clark, Coffield and Jones and certainly woudn't dream of trading players like Steele or Marshall. I would also have tried to retain Ball, Dal Santo, Goddard, McEvoy, Stanley, Dunstan and probably Acres too. Of course, I wouldn't try to hang onto players who were desperate to get out. But I tend to see the secret to sustained success at a football club to lie in gradually building up a strong and cohesive group of players.

Well it was blindingly obvious to me that he'd be a player. I can't speak for anyone else. Agree 100 per cent with the rest of what you say. I really don't want to see talented Saints thriving at other clubs, coming back to haunt us as it were.

I get the argument that you have to give something up to get something in return and that sometimes it may be necessary to get someone off the books. IE, we are paying them more than what they are producing is worth. But let's be smart about it.

[bigcarl]

Umpires killing Sydney
Shane to be see soft free kick goals given up one end
Let go the other
Way to much influence on the game

It's always the case when the crowd is so one sided.

My beef is seeing Acres do so well for them when many of us could see he was a keeper...

Yes, it was blindingly obvious he would be a player. Let’s hope for no more of these for a while.

He certainly didn't look like a keeper when he left us, and he didn't achieve much at Freo.

But players with great skills who perhaps don't train hard enough and don't always follow instructions can sometimes eventually come good. We might see the same happen with Gresham and Billings if they go at year's end.

This is why I'm not anywhere near as inclined as are most posters on here and BF to fixate on the idea of cutting as many players as possible at the end of seasons. If I were list manager at a football club, I would be inclined to try as hard as I can to hang onto Gresham, Billings, Howard, Clark, Coffield and Jones and certainly woudn't dream of trading players like Steele or Marshall. I would also have tried to retain Ball, Dal Santo, Goddard, McEvoy, Stanley, Dunstan and probably Acres too. Of course, I wouldn't try to hang onto players who were desperate to get out. But I tend to see the secret to sustained success at a football club to lie in gradually building up a strong and cohesive group of players.

Well it was blindingly obvious to me that he'd be a player. I can't speak for anyone else. Agree 100 per cent with the rest of what you say. I really don't want to see talented Saints thriving at other clubs, coming back to haunt us as it were.

I get the argument that you have to give something up to get something in return and that sometimes it may be necessary to get someone off the books. IE, we are paying them more than what they are producing is worth. But let's be smart about it.