Mach thread: saints v bombers

[Ghost Like]

Is Howard playing?

He is & Wright says, "Thank God!"

[bergsone]

Should be the BIGGEST rev up of all time coming

Should NEVER have been needed at all this week.

No such thing as a ‘rev up’ or ‘spray’ anymore!

Well there should be

[Teflon]

Even before the game we had posters worried about a game that we shouldn’t be worried about

Why? Because deep down we know how brittle this side is. Flashy players like butler gresh Higgins don’t like pressure
Displeasing

Correct
These guys are front runners
Jack likes getting out the back
Butler can’t even manage that
Jones - useless
Gresham - dumb footballer of headless chook variety
Marshall - invisible
Crouch - is he playing?
List goes on but just mistake after mistake

[The_Dud]

Should be the BIGGEST rev up of all time coming

Should NEVER have been needed at all this week.

No such thing as a ‘rev up’ or ‘spray’ anymore!

Well there should be

Amen

[SaintWiki]

Should be the BIGGEST rev up of all time coming

Should NEVER have been needed at all this week.

Agree there

yep

[cwrcyn]

This game is over. I should have stayed at home. Sick us serving up this garbage against this team. Makes me want to puke

[desertsaint]

embarrassing effort on danny's day. i hope ratts gives them an old fashioned spray, bloody soft millenials.

[The Fireman]

Yep I think Ratten needs to wear this

Atm we look like dropping this game. How can he explain his way out of it ?

[Ghost Like]

At least Butler is getting to the ball to be criticised. Higgins is invisible, actually making Butler look dangerous.

[skeptic]

I think what’s challenging is our lack of intent.

Players don’t know whether to take the game on or be unselfish.

Look at that certain goal Butler fluffed late in the second.

In what universe does he not get it and snap the goal immediately every time (other than ours). Instead he thought to pass, hesitated, backed up and came under pressure before stuffing up.

These guys just need to back themselves and take the game on.

[bangaulegend]

Doesn't look good but hopefully the guys can regroup & do it for Spud . Come on Saints you are so much better than that effort dig deep FFS

[Teflon]

if the last week didnt tell us surely this week shows that we need that extra tall in coops instead of having two of butler and higgins. even more glaring every time we send members back in defence - which seems to be happening a lot.

Even bog standard footy supporters like us can see that the Match Committee are way off the mark with our forward structure

Time for them to fkn wake up

Can’t tell Brett
He just reverts to smalls up forward a week later
Can’t adjust is what it’s telling me
On this performance you could not mount an argument to re-sign him
It’s 2-3 more years in the wilderness
Get ruthless St Kilda
Be bold ffs don’t accept a few wins over mostly substandard opponents and rush to sign
Go to the market and make that known
But I fear we’ve backed ourselves into a corner here

[Wayne42]

The team might come out after half time and blitz, but then again....

[skeptic]

At least Butler is getting to the ball to be criticised. Higgins is invisible, actually making Butler look dangerous.

Yeah I kind of agree. He’s made a few really bad decisions but Butler has turned out and is trying to make things happen. He’s running to the right spots and has almost been damaging.

I’m not going to praise him per’se... but he’s not where I’d swing the axe first

[SunnyErnie]

embarrassing effort on danny's day. i hope ratts gives them an old fashioned spray, bloody soft millenials.

I hope Ratts takes full responsibility for this debacle and resigns. As I have been saying since last year, he does not have the nous of the modern day greats. He is a coach right out of the 1980’s.

[samoht]

Hind 16 possessions to HT. He couldn't manage that over a whole game with us.

[Ghost Like]

Marshall doesn't need to go to Bali to cut zeroes off his contract. He cannot get close to it.

Jones & Gresham need to do the simple, both do not help their team mates, they love the football bling. Selfish footballers.

[WellardSaint]

The club can't do a Sainter of the Day for this week.
If they're fair dimkum

[The_Dud]

At least Butler is getting to the ball to be criticised. Higgins is invisible, actually making Butler look dangerous.

Yeah I kind of agree. He’s made a few really bad decisions but Butler has turned out and is trying to make things happen. He’s running to the right spots and has almost been damaging.

I’m not going to praise him per’se... but he’s not where I’d swing the axe first

Why did he refuse to kick the easy goal from 25 out??

[BadRossco]

Lot of slow second rate players out there and all wearing the same colours, can’t continue to go with Butler and Higgins hard to pick which one to drop both maybe a good option. I could see this result coming despite most on this site expecting an easy win but again the poor skills and decision making of our plodders is letting us down, Westcoast must be looking forward to playing us and the other sides looking for a percentage boost.

[Teflon]

I think what’s challenging is our lack of intent.

Players don’t know whether to take the game on or be unselfish.

Look at that certain goal Butler fluffed late in the second.

In what universe does he not get it and snap the goal immediately every time (other than ours). Instead he thought to pass, hesitated, backed up and came under pressure before stuffing up.

These guys just need to back themselves and take the game on.

What????????
Players don’t know when to take game on????
Butler Higgins Gresham ……we’ve run ourselves into trouble all night “taking the game on”
They need some bloody composure
Bombers walking the ball length of ground
Short kicking through our zone with ease
We have no plan b at all
Been found out by a crap side yet again !!

[CURLY]

First option football. Don’t bounce the ball when you have a team mate 30 meters clear in front of you. Inside 40 kick the goal not try to baulk and be fancy.

Don’t zone off.

[Wayne42]

Hind 16 possessions to HT. He couldn't manage that over a whole game with us.

We never played him at half back, we weren't smart enough.

[1966]

Test of character here.
If they serve up another half like the first then it’s year over and big changes needed.
Lack of effort is never acceptable.

[Devilhead]

I am hoping come end of the game someone give us forumites a spray for not having belief because we end up winning ..... can't see it happening though

Good teams don't lose to s*** teams

Huge wake up call coming up