Official thread St Kilda v. Brisbane NAB Cup Round 1

[henno]

absoutely terrible...almost every single kick in the first quarter was about 10 cms over the intended player's head! really missing kosi + rooey

[Ralphy]

lol this is funny

[pickle_weasel]

only reason we're playing the way we are is because of the lions, just being cheap and flooding making it a stupid risk to run in.

[bigcarl]

Get BJ forward and Chips.

not a bad idea. couldn't do much worse than we're doing tonight.

[skeptic]

lol Raph Clarke has been good skeptic?

made quiet a few mistakes and been just about our worst player. Certainly not the raph from late last season we are seeing tonight

it's wet though, you can't expect him to play the pack marking, pass it too leading players game he played late last season.

IMO he's been decent in the trenches. Hs skills by hand have been decent and he's one of the few players that has taken players on.
Skills by foot have been poor

[saintbob]

Fisher x 2
Goddard
King
Gardiner
McGuire
Ball

Are all looking ok,

Dawson
McQualter
Miles

Will spend plenty of time in the VFL, as will the umpires.

[skeptic]

only reason we're playing the way we are is because of the lions, just being cheap and flooding making it a stupid risk to run in.

we've flooded just as much

[Teflon]

I couldnt give a toss if we lose but geex footys looking down the barrell with that type of tiggy touchwood umpiring - ok, protect the head but do it for BOTH sides. I am fed with with patheic umpiring EVERY interstate game. I know they're human and will be influenced by crowd ertc but FFS be professional. You pull a holding the ball decision out of your @rse against Ball which reults in a goal and havent paid the m all night? ......THIS more than anything else will put people off our once great game. Its not just tonight and our games its been going on with inconsistency for so long.

As for our efforts - so far so ordinary. I watched tonight to see a glimpse of the future to get excited about...seen squat yet.

I pray to god we FINALLY do something about brining the ball into attack better this year even with Roo down fwd geezus we make life tough,....round the boundary, kicks to fwds as scrubbers, under pressure all the wayand so sloppy when teams rebound. That wont be good enough against Carlton this year let alone Cats/Hawks.

Rucks look ok...mids doing nothing with it. Id like to see some clearances from Goddard/Ball...Id like to see the kick out of defence given to someone else and Dal Santo played in a more attacking fwd role. FFS the games over - why not try a few things? give Maguire a run up fwd? Give Raph a crack up fwd?

Yeah yeah its NAB Cup but F*** me is it to much to ask to see at least a spark to get excited about???

[mad saint guy]

just crap style

or crap players playing crap style.....

our depth is poor.

It's hard to tell if our depth players/kids are any good because everyone is just another number around the packs. No one is given any chance to take the game on and try to create something. For all we know we could have the next Simon Black running around but we're trying to turn him into Andrew Thompson.

[plugger66]

Fisher x 2
Goddard
King
Gardiner
McGuire
Ball

Are all looking ok,

Dawson
McQualter
Miles

Will spend plenty of time in the VFL, as will the umpires.

It is already the umpires. Amazing that we are that unlucky that even in practice matches we get bad decisions.

[saint66au]

Weve had more posessions 171-167

We are smashing them in hitouts 27-9

but

Weve laid a mere 13 tackles for the game Brisbane 31

Frees 14-6 their way

[Beej]

Blame me for the loss.

Brisbane kicked their first goal the very second I tuned in.

Mr Rich must have been about 15 when his son was born! Nice cradle-snatching skills from Mrs Rich there.

[saint66au]

St Kilda...Centre the ball to a 10 man pack in front of goal. Give away free, Brisbane clear

Brisbane...Centre the ball to a teammate who outmarks 2 St Kilda opponents. Goal.

[pickle_weasel]

meh o well, just goes to show we rely on reiwoldt too much to even get a score on the board. Saints will be lucky to make the eight if theyre gunna lose to such a horrible overrated side.

[BallBanger]

Just a question: why is gwilt ( I know he's not on his own) still on our list after many yrs of failure....bad list management.
Must turn these types over

[plugger66]

meh o well, just goes to show we rely on reiwoldt too much to even get a score on the board. Saints will be lucky to make the eight if theyre gunna lose to such a horrible overrated side.

We are playing terrible in a practice match. It means nothing or if it did the swans wouldnt have won a flag in 2006.

[bigcarl]

Weve had more posessions 171-167

We are smashing them in hitouts 27-9

but we can't make it count on the scoreboard. go figure!

[skeptic]

Question for you statisticians

How many goaless 1/4s have we had since RL took over?
Seems to be happening more and more regularly these days

[Ralphy]

jack steven doesnt look that bad,
the get in there never give up attitude

[pickle_weasel]

meh o well, just goes to show we rely on reiwoldt too much to even get a score on the board. Saints will be lucky to make the eight if theyre gunna lose to such a horrible overrated side.

We are playing terrible in a practice match. It means nothing or if it did the swans wouldnt have won a flag in 2006.

So what if its a practice match, means st kilda has no depth once again.

[Teflon]

McEvoy to me looks lost.....

[Devilhead]

Goddard kicked a 9 pointer but it was only payed as a 6 pointer - the umpire called play on and he kicked it from outside the 50

Nice goal from Jack after following up from half back - good to see

[chook23]

McEvoy to me looks lost.....

1st rounder with a long way to go.

[Ralphy]

3 in a row,
bj,steven geary

im liking the look of miles leigh fisher Stevem

[skeptic]

8min of flood free footy and bam 3 goals