sainter
11 Aug 2001, 19:07
The boys definitely made me proud today.
Unfortunately I knew at quarter time that we wouldn't win. When you have a good side like Port on the ropes, you really just have to bury them. If the 3 goals 8 could have been 8 goals 3, we would have been a big show to win.
The umpring was disgraceful (including the boundary umpires). I think we had 6 free kicks up until three quarter time. And that's not to mention the soft frees given against us that resulted in goals when we had the momentum. Having said that, we knew that the obligatory last quarter "even up the free kick count rule" meant that we would get a few soft frees late in the game.
Brett Moyle in his first game back from a broken leg was excellent, I liked Milney's game again, Beetham continued to impress, Blake played his best game for the year (good to see Thomas is giving him a chance), Callaghan is a little champ, Gehrig beat Tredrea in the second half, Aussie's game reminded me of 97, Thommo was inspirational, Traianidis must be kept on the list at the end of the year and Knowles deserves more of a chance. I felt a little sorry for Kosi, Cornes gave him a bit of a bath but he is continuing to learn the game.
That's comprehensive enough. ;)
When you add Harvey, Burke, Hayes and Powell to the midfield, Hall, Loewe and Riewoldt to the forward line and Lawrence down back, our list isn't too bad. (The 8 or so players to be given the axe at the end of the season is not too hard to work out either)
To put in such an effort but still be 5 goals down at three quarter time, I did think that we would have been blown out of the water in the last. But the guys not only hung in there but took it right up to a very good football team. Disappointingly it was a couple of skill errors at crucial times that cost us dearly. The effort was definitely there today and I was proud of them.
I've been away from big footy all week and won't bother replying to any of the innuendo floating round about our club from now on. I will say though, that Nathan Burke when interviewed on MMM covered my thoughts exactly. He said he has grown to become very cynical about the media over the past few weeks and that sports reporting has gone from reporting facts to mostly opinion pieces based on pure speculation. And sadly, many of our supporters have taken the opinions of these journalists as fact. I won't be believing anything I read and I hope some of our supporters stop believing everything they read and take is as gospel.
With what our club has gone through over the past 100 years, we aren't going anywhere. The St Kilda spirit is alive and well. After the events of the past few years, we WILL become a force in the AFL and those of us that have stuck around will enjoy the time like no other.
Unfortunately I knew at quarter time that we wouldn't win. When you have a good side like Port on the ropes, you really just have to bury them. If the 3 goals 8 could have been 8 goals 3, we would have been a big show to win.
The umpring was disgraceful (including the boundary umpires). I think we had 6 free kicks up until three quarter time. And that's not to mention the soft frees given against us that resulted in goals when we had the momentum. Having said that, we knew that the obligatory last quarter "even up the free kick count rule" meant that we would get a few soft frees late in the game.
Brett Moyle in his first game back from a broken leg was excellent, I liked Milney's game again, Beetham continued to impress, Blake played his best game for the year (good to see Thomas is giving him a chance), Callaghan is a little champ, Gehrig beat Tredrea in the second half, Aussie's game reminded me of 97, Thommo was inspirational, Traianidis must be kept on the list at the end of the year and Knowles deserves more of a chance. I felt a little sorry for Kosi, Cornes gave him a bit of a bath but he is continuing to learn the game.
That's comprehensive enough. ;)
When you add Harvey, Burke, Hayes and Powell to the midfield, Hall, Loewe and Riewoldt to the forward line and Lawrence down back, our list isn't too bad. (The 8 or so players to be given the axe at the end of the season is not too hard to work out either)
To put in such an effort but still be 5 goals down at three quarter time, I did think that we would have been blown out of the water in the last. But the guys not only hung in there but took it right up to a very good football team. Disappointingly it was a couple of skill errors at crucial times that cost us dearly. The effort was definitely there today and I was proud of them.
I've been away from big footy all week and won't bother replying to any of the innuendo floating round about our club from now on. I will say though, that Nathan Burke when interviewed on MMM covered my thoughts exactly. He said he has grown to become very cynical about the media over the past few weeks and that sports reporting has gone from reporting facts to mostly opinion pieces based on pure speculation. And sadly, many of our supporters have taken the opinions of these journalists as fact. I won't be believing anything I read and I hope some of our supporters stop believing everything they read and take is as gospel.
With what our club has gone through over the past 100 years, we aren't going anywhere. The St Kilda spirit is alive and well. After the events of the past few years, we WILL become a force in the AFL and those of us that have stuck around will enjoy the time like no other.