SainterK
Fair enough but ..
One thing that we should note -
.. our back line has been under even higher pressure and has still held the team together and even carried it over the line whilst we have slipped in a couple of areas.
It's time for no passengers/underperformers and to look at the backline for inspiration - they've been doing it consistently for 24 weeks straight..
Whoever needs to lift needs to do it for tha backline who have never let them down.
2 Areas we must improve in
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History says rucks are critical.
Think Salmon, Madden, Dear, Rehn, and that massive unit from Brisbane who always saved his most telling game for the big one.
Pretty sure Blake and King will cancel each other out but he way we manage Ottens defensively and Gardi's ability to inject himself into general play will be crucial.
Think Salmon, Madden, Dear, Rehn, and that massive unit from Brisbane who always saved his most telling game for the big one.
Pretty sure Blake and King will cancel each other out but he way we manage Ottens defensively and Gardi's ability to inject himself into general play will be crucial.
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I am just trying to make this a balanced view, that's all.samoht wrote:SainterK
Fair enough but ..
One thing that we should note -
.. our back line has been under even higher pressure and has still held the team together and even carried it over the line whilst we have slipped in a couple of areas.
It's time for no passengers/underperformers and to look at the backline for inspiration - they've been doing it consistently for 24 weeks straight..
Whoever needs to lift needs to do it for tha backline who have never let them down.
Of course power forwards are there to kick goals, but if the best that can be made of a situation is a contest, then I see no reason why suddenly the scoring opportunity will have passed us by....
There are still the kind of goals that small forwards should kick in crunch games are there not?
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[quote="mightysainters"]Milne and Schneider MUUUUST LIFT!!!
If they are dangerous we win because it makes it a multi dimensional forward line...
If Kosi and Rooey get consistent crumbing presence and determination to make the spilt ball terrorise the cattery Milney , Sneider, Dempster or a game reading Dal Santo could clock up a swag of game-busting goals.
PLAY WITH FLAIR and keep the ball in the Sainter forward line as much as possible. Only Front Foot will do - no time for wondering what may or may not happen.
Get it up there and keep it up there. The pressure will start to eat away at their expectations of a turn up and simply win attitude.
Put it right up to them Sainters!
If they are dangerous we win because it makes it a multi dimensional forward line...
If Kosi and Rooey get consistent crumbing presence and determination to make the spilt ball terrorise the cattery Milney , Sneider, Dempster or a game reading Dal Santo could clock up a swag of game-busting goals.
PLAY WITH FLAIR and keep the ball in the Sainter forward line as much as possible. Only Front Foot will do - no time for wondering what may or may not happen.
Get it up there and keep it up there. The pressure will start to eat away at their expectations of a turn up and simply win attitude.
Put it right up to them Sainters!
The boy can play and we can build a defence around him that will have respect.
I don't know what you guys think, but how about this.
Whilst watching our saints up until our 1st loss this season, I noticed a trend. We didn't have just one go to man. Goals were being kicked by any number of different players from all over the park. Then, allmost simultaneously after all the 8 players came back from being rested, it seemed we played a slightly( very hard to pick but it was there) different game. Nick seemed to be the go to man. And sometimes they would revert to the other style, ie the last quarter v Essondon. Just to get out of a hole. We came so close in that game.
My point is. Is Ross Lyon about to pull one of the worlds biggest sucker punches ever on an unknowing Geelong.
They won't know what hit them. Massive defensive plays finished with majors from all and sunder.
Well that's what I believe and I can't wait.
Whilst watching our saints up until our 1st loss this season, I noticed a trend. We didn't have just one go to man. Goals were being kicked by any number of different players from all over the park. Then, allmost simultaneously after all the 8 players came back from being rested, it seemed we played a slightly( very hard to pick but it was there) different game. Nick seemed to be the go to man. And sometimes they would revert to the other style, ie the last quarter v Essondon. Just to get out of a hole. We came so close in that game.
My point is. Is Ross Lyon about to pull one of the worlds biggest sucker punches ever on an unknowing Geelong.
They won't know what hit them. Massive defensive plays finished with majors from all and sunder.
Well that's what I believe and I can't wait.
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Some talk round these parts that Dempster or R Clarke should play the lead out role and Roo will start on the wing a la Richo....
Has a bit of merit I reckon.
Has a bit of merit I reckon.
"The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break in the game. Every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches that's gonna make the f***in' difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!'
