Match Thread - Saints V Freo

[IluvHarvey]

We are either useless or tanking. Which is it?

Clearly useless

[magnifisaint]

The game plan stinks. How the f*** can you kick 8 goals and expect to win. We are sadly lacking in defence.

[silverhalo]

Doesn't matter how many changes we make this week, it's just shuffling the deckchairs around on the Titanic - just don't have the depth

[sendmehomehappy]

There's a live auction for the used game jumpers.

I'll bid a gold coin.

[Nick DalSanto Claus]

I'm starting to worry about next year already. This team is being slowly drained of all dare and creativity. Like a boa constrictor strangling itself. 12 fewer scoring shots has disguised a thumping from a team that probably won't make the 8.

We've become almost impossible to watch. It's torture having to watch us play like this. We showed last year that we're way better than this. Why have we regressed so badly?

[SydneySainter]

We are either useless or tanking. Which is it?

Well, we are clearly a bottom four side so why not tank?

Name the last first round pick since Riewoldt we turned into anything meaningful?

We couldn’t even get our last pick 1 right in the Petracca draft.

[Teflon]

Doesn't matter how many changes we make this week, it's just shuffling the deckchairs around on the Titanic - just don't have the depth

Yep
I think only Marshall holds his head up
Insipid and should’ve lost by 10 goals
Oddly to half time felt like we had more of the play …just can’t score
We turn it over out of back half weekly
Drop chest marks
Players who ALL run at the tackle ….leave an opponent spare, free to walk by away with ball??
Handballs to guys about to be tackled …
WTF is that shyte?
Even AFTER ball was brought back, touched on line… we turned it straight over??
Lyon has work to do - I’m afraid cuddly Ross needs to start by culling in the box
Harvey , Goddard must go - both have proven they ain’t up to it
Its also time to seriously cut the deadwood, unskilled cr@p from this list and stop pretending we can finish 10th

[Devilhead]

No run again ... just static .... can't move the ball

When we do ... we run ourselves into trouble

Not sure what our gameplan actually is

[magnifisaint]

What did Philipou do at Sandy that warranted selection?
He was horrible. Steele played a shocker, Jones hardly touched it, King tried. It seems to me that Lyon hasn't got the game plan to get the best out of this group.

[bobmurray]

And Fred blamed Ratts when he loved the list, i wonder who he'll blame next ?

[Banger9798]

There's a live auction for the used game jumpers.

I'll bid a gold coin.

Gold?!

[magnifisaint]

Like all Saints supporters we are sick of this s***.

[TheGreatZacsby]

I’m done with this club. I’m actually soul destroyed. I’m only in my late 20s and I don’t know how you old bastards still support this basket case of a club.

[The_Dud]

Doesn't matter how many changes we make this week, it's just shuffling the deckchairs around on the Titanic - just don't have the depth

Yep
I think only Marshall holds his head up
Insipid and should’ve lost by 10 goals
Oddly to half time felt like we had more of the play …just can’t score
We turn it over out of back half weekly
Drop chest marks
Players who ALL run at the tackle ….leave an opponent spare, free to walk by away with ball??
Handballs to guys about to be tackled …
WTF is that shyte?
Even AFTER ball was brought back, touched on line… we turned it straight over??
Lyon has work to do - I’m afraid cuddly Ross needs to start by culling in the box
Harvey , Goddard must go - both have proven they ain’t up to it
Its also time to seriously cut the deadwood, unskilled cr@p from this list and stop pretending we can finish 10th

Marshall's games are less effective than they appear on the stats sheets.

Should be working on giving first use to the midfield instead of just hacking it forward himself.

[saintkev]

Player smothers Wood off a mark no 50

Wood ran off his line. The umpire called play-on. I could hear the call in Perth. Wood had no peripheral vision.

[CURLY]

Player smothers Wood off a mark no 50

Wood ran off his line. The umpire called play-on. I could hear the call in Perth. Wood had no peripheral vision.

He was in the protected area it’s 50

[Ajantis]

Doesn't matter how many changes we make this week, it's just shuffling the deckchairs around on the Titanic - just don't have the depth

Yep
I think only Marshall holds his head up
Insipid and should’ve lost by 10 goals
Oddly to half time felt like we had more of the play …just can’t score
We turn it over out of back half weekly
Drop chest marks
Players who ALL run at the tackle ….leave an opponent spare, free to walk by away with ball??
Handballs to guys about to be tackled …
WTF is that shyte?
Even AFTER ball was brought back, touched on line… we turned it straight over??
Lyon has work to do - I’m afraid cuddly Ross needs to start by culling in the box
Harvey , Goddard must go - both have proven they ain’t up to it
Its also time to seriously cut the deadwood, unskilled cr@p from this list and stop pretending we can finish 10th

100% and Ratten said the same and St.Kilda Board didnt like it, so they sacked him.

[SaintWiki]

Great effort from Mattaes late in the game and unlucky not to have been paid that mark...but game was all but lost by then. He had 2 possessions up until that stage

Out of Cooper Sharman and Mattaes Phillipou...who would you say has better form? Who has better touch? Obviously it's Cooper.

Why take the guy off who has better form?

Sharman is a guy who gets taken off after half time, so the Lyon devotees (and the Sharman critics) will tell you it's logical.

NO IT'S NOT!!

That made no sense at all
I have gave RL plenty of slack but he is now taking the p*ss, surely.

[Scollop]

Ratten said the same and St.Kilda Board didnt like it, so they sacked him.

If Ross Lyon wasn't available they wouldn't have sacked Ratten.

Apparently Ross is going to take us to our next Grand Final

[Sainter_Dad]

2025

2035

2066

[Sainter_Dad]

There's a live auction for the used game jumpers.

I'll bid a gold coin.

Just on that - they are player issued - not match day jumpers - you can bid on a Max Heath Jumper.

[takeaway]

Doesn't matter how many changes we make this week, it's just shuffling the deckchairs around on the Titanic - just don't have the depth

Yep
I think only Marshall holds his head up
Insipid and should’ve lost by 10 goals
Oddly to half time felt like we had more of the play …just can’t score
We turn it over out of back half weekly
Drop chest marks
Players who ALL run at the tackle ….leave an opponent spare, free to walk by away with ball??
Handballs to guys about to be tackled …
WTF is that shyte?
Even AFTER ball was brought back, touched on line… we turned it straight over??
Lyon has work to do - I’m afraid cuddly Ross needs to start by culling in the box
Harvey , Goddard must go - both have proven they ain’t up to it
Its also time to seriously cut the deadwood, unskilled cr@p from this list and stop pretending we can finish 10th

Marshall's games are less effective than they appear on the stats sheets.

Should be working on giving first use to the midfield instead of just hacking it forward himself.

Yes, hard to criticise Marshall who gives 100% and has been almost permanently in the best players, but imo your statement is true.

One of the many things to work on

[B.M]

Marshall was Huge

A ruckman to deliver the numbers he does is ridiculous

[Sainter_Dad]

Doesn't matter how many changes we make this week, it's just shuffling the deckchairs around on the Titanic - just don't have the depth

Yep
I think only Marshall holds his head up
Insipid and should’ve lost by 10 goals
Oddly to half time felt like we had more of the play …just can’t score
We turn it over out of back half weekly
Drop chest marks
Players who ALL run at the tackle ….leave an opponent spare, free to walk by away with ball??
Handballs to guys about to be tackled …
WTF is that shyte?
Even AFTER ball was brought back, touched on line… we turned it straight over??
Lyon has work to do - I’m afraid cuddly Ross needs to start by culling in the box
Harvey , Goddard must go - both have proven they ain’t up to it
Its also time to seriously cut the deadwood, unskilled cr@p from this list and stop pretending we can finish 10th

Marshall's games are less effective than they appear on the stats sheets.

Should be working on giving first use to the midfield instead of just hacking it forward himself.

Yes, hard to criticise Marshall who gives 100% and has been almost permanently in the best players, but imo your statement is true.

One of the many things to work on

The take out of the ruck should be a surprise weapon - not a go to move - it implies he does not trust the midfield (perhaps rightly so)

[Teflon]

Doesn't matter how many changes we make this week, it's just shuffling the deckchairs around on the Titanic - just don't have the depth

Yep
I think only Marshall holds his head up
Insipid and should’ve lost by 10 goals
Oddly to half time felt like we had more of the play …just can’t score
We turn it over out of back half weekly
Drop chest marks
Players who ALL run at the tackle ….leave an opponent spare, free to walk by away with ball??
Handballs to guys about to be tackled …
WTF is that shyte?
Even AFTER ball was brought back, touched on line… we turned it straight over??
Lyon has work to do - I’m afraid cuddly Ross needs to start by culling in the box
Harvey , Goddard must go - both have proven they ain’t up to it
Its also time to seriously cut the deadwood, unskilled cr@p from this list and stop pretending we can finish 10th

Marshall's games are less effective than they appear on the stats sheets.

Should be working on giving first use to the midfield instead of just hacking it forward himself.

Were you at the ground?????
Marshall was one of our few shinilights
We’d have lost by qtr time if not fit some of his effort
And who does he hit the ball down to exactly??
Midfield is dogshyte - worst in AFl by sone margin