Why we need to smash Sydney!

[saintspremiers]

Ok, so top 2 is done and dusted, and with Round 21 and 22 as bye games (North and Melbourne), we have virtually 19 wins and top spot in the bag also.

BUT....

We need to obliterate Sydney for these reasons:

(1) We have a shocking record of losing in Sydney that needs to be addressed.

(2) Hall/Goose payback (standard excuse each time we play them!)

(3) Mentally scar Sydney and put them back in their hole for the rest of this year and into the pre-season.

In some respect, point (3) is the most valid - we are capable of destroying the confidence/ability of crap sides, and set them well back from the benchmark team (us!).

Weather permitting, this is a 10 to 15 goal hiding in the making.

Bring it on!

[saintlee]

Ok, so top 2 is done and dusted, and with Round 21 and 22 as bye games (North and Melbourne), we have virtually 19 wins and top spot in the bag also.

BUT....

We need to obliterate Sydney for these reasons:

(1) We have a shocking record of losing in Sydney that needs to be addressed.

(2) Hall/Goose payback (standard excuse each time we play them!)

(3) Mentally scar Sydney and put them back in their hole for the rest of this year and into the pre-season.

In some respect, point (3) is the most valid - we are capable of destroying the confidence/ability of crap sides, and set them well back from the benchmark team (us!).

Weather permitting, this is a 10 to 15 goal hiding in the making.

Bring it on!

Personally, I don't see any of those reasons as being important at all, I would have thought this should be a stock-standard win over an average side and move on to the next game.

[James]

We addressed our record of losing at AAMI in remarkable fashion. Let's do the same here.

[Pwoit]

No - just win the game no injuries, move onto next game.

[saintdooley]

hall/goose payback? both of those guys wont be playing and we cant pay them back, they went on a won the GF that year. they get the last laugh until we get a premiership (hopefully with in the next few months)

[SydneySainter]

Smash 'em?

I'm expected nothing a but the typical dour, tedious arm-wrestle we more times than not have against them. That's how Sydney play their best footy and their desperate, not a good combination!

[matrix]

wonder who kirk will go with
hayes, joey or dal

[plugger66]

wonder who kirk will go with
hayes, joey or dal

Has always gone to Hayes and is well ahead so hopefully he may go to someone else this time. As for smashing them couldnt give a stuff. No injuries for me is far more important.

[borderbarry]

Has always been intense rivalry between the Saints and the Swans, going back to the days of the Lakeside Premiership. Increased when they moved to Sydney and we got Paul Morwood etc. from them.

[AlpineStars]

They halted our 10 match streak, so lets not let them do it again.

[Selhurst Saint]

We have nothing to prove to anyone.

The players take the attitude that every time they play or train it gives the an opportunity to improve. This is just another opporttunity.

[OneEyedSainter77]

St Kilda 5.4 18.5 29.7 32.11.203
Sydney 1.1 1.5 1.7 4.11.35

That good enough for ya saintspremiers?

We eased off a bit in the last quarter as you can see.

[mick13]

St Kilda 5.4 18.5 29.7 32.11.203
Sydney 1.1 1.5 1.7 4.11.35

That good enough for ya saintspremiers?

We eased off a bit in the last quarter as you can see.

Can you imagine the boos when we're chipping the ball around with the scoreline reading 181-13...?

[hotdish]

No Kossi or Gardiner this week it seems.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/ ... fault.aspx

[joffaboy]

Apparently we cant play outside Jihad Stadium (even though we have won at AAMI twice, Subi, and GC) so the Swans are a monty.

We are due for a loss (have been for a year apparently), and are cherry ripe for the picking (just like against WCE, Adelaide, and the Bulldogs).

We are gone. Espically without Kosi, Gardiner, Zac, and Ball (none of who played last week when we slaughtered the Dogs, but hey).

Sydney by 15-20 goals at least.

[White Winmar]

Don't forget how tired, so very, very tired the saints are. So tired that they've fallen over the line in their last 8 or so games, ever since someone in the media mentioned they were starting to get tired.

[bozza1980]

Obviously a smashing is preferred to a non smashing, however a win will suffice.

The swans have prided themselves on contested ball and pressure at the contest, so if they are at their best it will be the sort of challenge our boys have relished this season.

No doubt our boys will put them to the sword if they can, I just have a feeling it will be a lowish scoring dogfight that we'll seal late one of those 13 goals to 7 sort of games.

[claystreet]

Just win it and get out of it with no injuries is all that matters.

[James]

Apparently we cant play outside Jihad Stadium (even though we have won at AAMI twice, Subi, and GC) so the Swans are a monty.

We are due for a loss (have been for a year apparently), and are cherry ripe for the picking (just like against WCE, Adelaide, and the Bulldogs).

We are gone. Espically without Kosi, Gardiner, Zac, and Ball (none of who played last week when we slaughtered the Dogs, but hey).

Sydney by 15-20 goals at least.

And Sydney have been in red hot form - check out that massive, powerful, brave win over Melbourne in Canberra.

[rexy]

Apparently we cant play outside Jihad Stadium (even though we have won at AAMI twice, Subi, and GC) so the Swans are a monty.

We are due for a loss (have been for a year apparently), and are cherry ripe for the picking (just like against WCE, Adelaide, and the Bulldogs).

We are gone. Espically without Kosi, Gardiner, Zac, and Ball (none of who played last week when we slaughtered the Dogs, but hey).

Sydney by 15-20 goals at least.

Joffaboy is Stephen Quartermain, piss off Hawthorn troll

[Smug Supporter]

Ok, so top 2 is done and dusted, and with Round 21 and 22 as bye games (North and Melbourne), we have virtually 19 wins and top spot in the bag also.

BUT....

We need to obliterate Sydney for these reasons:

(1) We have a shocking record of losing in Sydney that needs to be addressed.

(2) Hall/Goose payback (standard excuse each time we play them!)

(3) Mentally scar Sydney and put them back in their hole for the rest of this year and into the pre-season.

In some respect, point (3) is the most valid - we are capable of destroying the confidence/ability of crap sides, and set them well back from the benchmark team (us!).

Weather permitting, this is a 10 to 15 goal hiding in the making.

Bring it on!

Thank christ you are auctioning off your username so no longer any of us have to listen to the spiels about nothing remotely close to today's football and incident from the land of long long ago

[degruch]

Well, a win with no injuries will do me fine too...for the team, breaking our record for the number of wins in a season might be a nice incentive, together with our terrible showings at the SCG in recent times.

[Smug Supporter]

Well, a win with no injuries will do me fine too...for the team, breaking our record for the number of wins in a season might be a nice incentive, together with our terrible showings at the SCG in recent times.

Just play good football, the club has it right. We play well we win, we do not play well we do not win

Scg is a worthless ground in the scheme of things when the swans are not up the top of the ladder

[degruch]

Well, a win with no injuries will do me fine too...for the team, breaking our record for the number of wins in a season might be a nice incentive, together with our terrible showings at the SCG in recent times.

Just play good football, the club has it right. We play well we win, we do not play well we do not win

Scg is a worthless ground in the scheme of things when the swans are not up the top of the ladder

There's nowhere near enough smugness in that reply.

[stinger]

Ok, so top 2 is done and dusted, and with Round 21 and 22 as bye games (North and Melbourne), we have virtually 19 wins and top spot in the bag also.

BUT....

We need to obliterate Sydney for these reasons:

(1) We have a shocking record of losing in Sydney that needs to be addressed.

(2) Hall/Goose payback (standard excuse each time we play them!)

(3) Mentally scar Sydney and put them back in their hole for the rest of this year and into the pre-season.

In some respect, point (3) is the most valid - we are capable of destroying the confidence/ability of crap sides, and set them well back from the benchmark team (us!).

Weather permitting, this is a 10 to 15 goal hiding in the making.

Bring it on!

Thank christ you are auctioning off your username so no longer any of us have to listen to the spiels about nothing remotely close to today's football and incident from the land of long long ago

long time reader are you troll????