"I’m ready to play ‘hard’ this weekend" - Lu

[saintbrat]

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Being 'soft' is not us
Thursday 29 May, 2008 - 17:02 by Luke in Default

Being called ‘soft’ doesn’t sit well with me at all and it shouldn’t with anyone. As an AFL player it is probably the worst thing someone can say about you or your team and we have been stuck with that label after our poor performance against the Brisbane Lions on the weekend.

Bottom line is we didn’t go in hard enough for the ball and the Lions applied plenty of tackle pressure. They destroyed us in a game we didn’t turn up for.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>......

[Armoooo]

Looks like the message has gone through, good to see...

[Dan Warna]

as a player of character and toughness, Luke ball is already there.

If he works any harder he'll kill himself.

go go luke

Along with trevor barker, nathan burke and Robert Harvey my admiration grows for you with each passing week.

[bergsone]

ALL players should be ready to play hard,EVERY week

[Ralphy]

Luke you play hard every week just give your all,

[StSteven]

ALL players should be ready to play hard,EVERY week

Exactly and you should be sacked if you don't. Are they that thick that they have to be reminded to "play hard"? I give up.

[LENNY LEADS THE WAY]

Luke Ball u go hard every week no doubt. When Ross was commenting on soft players he wasn't talking about u or Lenny it's the majority of the players that need to take ur stance in the hard at it stakes

[Eastern]

Lets hope the boys know where that imaginary line is. We don't want any of them going over the top and getting reported !!

[saintspremiers]

ALL players should be ready to play hard,EVERY week

exactly.

No doubt there will be some fire from the Saints this week, but will it last?

Let's not forget the squibbish effort for 3 quarters against Footscray.

Seems like it takes a while for them to learn.

[St. Luke]

As the paper said the other day, our two most determined and productive players are Ball and Hayes. I'd be totally cool if Ball did nothing more to exert himself....but get the other 20 off their butts and maybe we've got a real chance this season!

I had a bit of a chuckle this morning reading the paper in regards to Roo claiming we're not consistently soft, while he was doing "light" training drills

I'd love to believe we can get this baby back on the tracks this Sunday! Let's go Sainters!

[Saints_45]

I wouldn't mind seeing a few of our boys getting cited for being hard at the ball. Nothing dirty off play but it seems success comes at the same time you have more tribunal cases. Saints 2004, Hawks end of 07 and 08 are examples.

Just go hard at the ball and player with the ball

[Animal Enclosure]

Pardon me but I'll believe it when I see it.

Not talking about Bally but the amount of hot wind that comes out of Moorabbin these days is ridiculous. There's been too many grand statements made by players and coaching staff to believe their crap until I see it.

More action & less meaningless statements would be great.

[kalsaint]

as a player of character and toughness, Luke ball is already there.

If he works any harder he'll kill himself.

go go luke

Along with trevor barker, nathan burke and Robert Harvey my admiration grows for you with each passing week.

Exactly right. We need some second stringer players to stand up and take the challenge. I dont want Ball to be injured due to lack of spirit from other players. I dont question Luke Ball's endeavour.

[matrix]

i dont think bally could go any harder.
outright workaholic too...

i have a funny feeling that having the coach come out and call u soft publicly (for the other players) is going to result in us seeing a diff team this week.

ill be quite disappointed if we dont