St Kilda Best Team of Last 15 Years

[menzel case]

1999-2014.

FB: S.DEMPSTER* M.HUDGHTON S.BAKER

HB: B.GODDARD S.FISHER* A.JONES

C: N.DAL SANTO L.HAYES (vc) L.MONTAGNA*

HF: A.HAMILL N.RIEWOLDT* (c) A.SCHNEIDER*

FF: S.MILNE F.GEHRIG S.LOEWE

RR: P.EVERITT L.BALL R.HARVEY

INT: N.BURKE A.THOMPSON J.GRAM J.STEVEN*

COACH: ROSS LYON

loewe would be back-up ruck in this team.

thoughts?

 

[King_Steele]

FB: S.Baker M.Hudgton S.Dempster

CHB: A.Jones S.Fisher B.Goddard

C: L.Montagna R.Harvey N.Dal Santo

CHF: A.Hamill N.Riewoldt S.Loewe

FF: S.Milne F.Gehrig A.Schneider

FOLL: P.Everitt L.Hayes N.Burke

INT: L.Ball J.Blake A.Thompson J.Peckett

Coach: Ross Lyon

Director of coaching: Grant Thomas

 

[Bull3tblitz]

FB: S.Baker - M.Hudgton - S.Dempster

CHB: A.Jones - S.Fisher - B.Goddard

C: L.Montagna - R.Harvey - N.Dal Santo

CHF: A.Hamill - N.Riewoldt - S.Loewe

FF: S.Milne - F.Gehrig - A.Schneider

FOLL: M.Gardiner - L.Hayes - N.Burke

INT: L.Ball - J.Gram - A.Thompson - J.Steven

Coach: Ross Lyon

 

[Barrels]

FB: Baker - Hudghton - Blake
HB: Fisher - Penny - A.Jones
CR: Goddard - Hayes - Gilbert
HF: Hamill - Riewoldt - Schneider
FF: Milne - Gehrig - Everitt
RK: Gardiner - Harvey - Dal Santo
Int: Thompson - Montagna - Dempster -Burke

Coach: Alan Richardson

 

[Big Mart]

Blake. Hudghton. Baker
Dempster. Fisher. Jones
Goddard. Hayes (vc). Dal Santo
Montagna. Riewoldt (c). Schnieder
Milne. Gehrig. Kosi
Everitt. Harvey. Steven
Ball. Thompson. Gram. Gilbert
Emerg
Voss. Jones. Powell. Hamill.

 

[saintbill]

Good thread.

Hudgton Gehrig Baker
Goddard Fisher Jones
Montagna Hayes Del Santo
Schneider Reiwoldt Hamill
Kosi Lowe Milne

Foll: Everitt, Harvey, Burke

Bench: Dempster, Steven, Thompson, Ball

Gehrig at full back is debateable. His time there was short lived but he was an absolute rock down there. Also, the backline looks a little undersized without the G train down there (always thought we were super unlucky with Luke Penny, he could have been epic). Finally, having Gehrig down back allows me to squeeze all of Reiwoldt, Lowe and Kosi in the team. Kosi a bit lucky (partially in there for structure), would be just as happy with the Big Show as Gards and Everitt were both dangerous forward (particularly Spider).

 

[Grav]

Baker, Hudghton, Blake
Fisher, McGuire, Goddard
Ball, Hayes, Montagna
Reiwoldt, Lowe, Hamill
Kosi, Gehrig, Milne
R. Gardner, Harvey, Burke
Int. Jones, Thompson. Peckett, Dempster.
Coach... Lyon

 

[Armo #20]

B: Gale Dawson Lawrence
HB: T. Delaney Pattison Fiora
C: Beetham Davis Ledger
HF: Murray C. Gardiner Callaghan
F: Gamble Watts R. Powell
FOLL: Knobel Birss Attard
INT: Dennis-Lane Archer Howard Wulf
COACH: Malcolm Blight

 

[Grav]

B: Gale Dawson Lawrence
HB: T. Delaney Pattison Fiora
C: Beetham Davis Ledger
HF: Murray C. Gardiner Callaghan
F: Gamble Watts R. Powell
FOLL: Knobel Birss Attard
INT: Dennis-Lane Archer Howard Wulf
COACH: Malcolm Blight

That team just might & I say that with trepedition, give the Kilburn footy club a run for their money.
http://www.footyjunkie.com.au/news/how-did-the-worst-team-in-australia-go-this-week/

 

[King_Steele]

B: Gale Dawson Lawrence
HB: T. Delaney Pattison Fiora
C: Beetham Davis Ledger
HF: Murray C. Gardiner Callaghan
F: Gamble Watts R. Powell
FOLL: Knobel Birss Attard
INT: Dennis-Lane Archer Howard Wulf
COACH: Malcolm Blight

Raph Clarke as waterboy?

 

[Armo #20]

Raph Clarke as waterboy?

The scary thing is Raphael was way too good to make that team!

 

[Barrels]

B: Gale Dawson Lawrence
HB: T. Delaney Pattison Fiora
C: Beetham Davis Ledger
HF: Murray C. Gardiner Callaghan
F: Gamble Watts R. Powell
FOLL: Knobel Birss Attard
INT: Dennis-Lane Archer Howard Wulf
COACH: Malcolm Blight

Bit rough on the bolded blokes.... Besides...

FB: Begley - Elliott - Johnson
HB: R.Clarke - Stone - Polo
CR: Fiora - McGough - Howard
HF: Sweeney - Watts - C.Gardiner
FF: Jam.Cripps - Brooks - Capuano
RK: M.Clarke - Beetham - Francis
Int: Gamble - Charles - Eddy - J.Smith
Em: Archer - Plapp - N.Winmar

Special mentions: Knobel, Ackland, Monkhorst... Christ we had some ordinary ruckmen.
Coach: Tim Watson

But come on now, they all pulled on the jumper, so let's love 'em all.

 

[Armo #20]

Bit rough on the bolded blokes.... Besides...

FB: Begley - Elliott - Johnson
HB: R.Clarke - Stone - Polo
CR: Fiora - McGough - Howard
HF: Sweeney - Watts - C.Gardiner
FF: Jam.Cripps - Brooks - Capuano
RK: M.Clarke - Beetham - Francis
Int: Gamble - Charles - Eddy - J.Smith
Em: Archer - Plapp - N.Winmar

Special mentions: Knobel, Ackland, Monkhorst... Christ we had some ordinary ruckmen.
Coach: Tim Watson

But come on now, they all pulled on the jumper, so let's love 'em all.

Justin Sweeney! I was trying to remember his name to put him in my team. Didn't Sweeney, Howard and Armitage all debut in same game vs Hawks at MCG in 2007?

 

[12Chill]

What's sad is looking through these teams and seeing how many of those guys were in the same team in '09/'10 and we still couldn't do it.

 

[By a Point]

if we included Luke Beveridge, it could keep the entertainment on Mad Monday 'in-house'

 

[L_W_P]

Baker - Hudghton - Dempster
Gilbert - Fisher - Goddard
Montagna - Hayes - Harvey
Hamill - Riewoldt - Schneider
Loewe - Gehrig - Milne
Koschitzke - Ball - Dal Santo
Gram - Blake - Burke - A.Jones

EMG - Maguire - Peckett - Thompson

Captain - L.Hayes
Snr VC - N.Riewoldt
VC - A.Hamill

Director of Coaching - Alan Richardson
Senior Coach - Ross Lyon
Forward Coach - Terry Daniher
Backline Coach - SOS
Mids Coach - Leigh Tudor
Reserves/Development coach - Grant Thomas
List Manager - Chris Pelchen
Recruitment Manager - Ameet Bains

Hardest call is who should be President.

Butters was effective but a headcase. Westaway totally missed any chance of cashing in on our success under Lyon and Summers hasnt been in the job long enough.

 

[St Kilda Death]

B. Baker dawson blake
Hb. Gram fisher gilbert
C. Goddard harvey montagna
Hf. Loewe riewoldt hammil
F. Milne gehrig dal.

R. Everitt hayes burke

Bench. Jones thompson ball blake.

Steven to make it next year

 

[BigMonty]

Had a giggle when we talked about some of the worst.... Got me thinking. Can we make a team out of First Round picks that never fulfiled their potential. I apologise to all the players that I am going to ridicule as they played football to a level that I could not achieve.

1991 R Malone Pick#12 Notable Pick #13 S Crawford also Greats for Saints D Flannagan 22 games and Lawrence Bingham 8 games -- Fail 2/10
1992 B Atkinson Pick #16 Notable Pick #17 K Koster & #18 L Colbert -- Fail 2/10
1993 M Frost Pick #8 Notable B Johnson # 11 & F Gehrig #16 -- Fail 1/10
1994 D Strooper #4 --- Fail 0/10
1995 J Smith #4 and T Brown #7-- Pass 8/10
1995 D Healy #6 B Hall #19 -- Pass 6/10
1996 M Hudghton #15 -- Pass 7/10
1997 B Walton #17 -- Fail 0/10
1998 Lennieeeeee #11 -- Pass 10/10
1999 C Beetham #9 J PLapp Swap #37 J Blake #24 -- Fail 4/10
2000 Riewoldt & Kosi Pick 4 D Waklein Port for A Hamill from Carlton who selected L Livingstone with #4 -- Pass 9/10
2001 Ball #2 X Clarke #5 B Hall out for H Black, N Dal Santo & T Knobel -- Pass 8/10
2002 Goddard #1 L Penny swap pick #17 Pass 9/10
2003 R Clarke Pick #8 J Gram swap pick #23 -- Pass 5/10
2004 A McQualter Pick #17 Swap H Black for A Fiora Fail 4/10
2005 F Watts Pick #17 S Gilbert #33 Fail 4/10
2006 D Armitage Pick #9 B Howard #28 Notable Picks C Dawes 28 K Tippett 32 Pass 5/10
2007 B McEvoy Pick #9 J Steven Pick # 42 A Scheider & S Dempster for Pick # 26 -- Pass 10/10
2008 T Lynch Pick # 13 Swap A Lovett Pick #16 N Winmar #32 Notable S Reid #38 F Ray swap pick #31 -- Fail 1/10

Observations
11 Good Years and 8 Bad Years
11 First Round Picks that played less than 20 games ( I reckon for the club)
Don't go looking for old Ruckmen (Inc Capuano Monkhurst & Pattinson in that lot)
2008 They must have been been sniffing glue for most of that year and then let B Cousins go............ That cost us 2 flags that one decision
If we drafted Crawf in 1991 we may have won in 1997 & 2003 & 2004....

Let see what happens next Thursday

 

[saintbatty]

1998 Lennieeeeee #11 -- Pass 10/10

Hard marker if 10/10 pick of Sir Lenny is just a pass mark

 

[BigMonty]

Hard marker if 10/10 pick of Sir Lenny is just a pass mark

10/10 is a pretty good result.

Interesting to look back at the rest of the drafts though. Difference between success and failure is a small margin. Hope we get it right next week.

Petracca
Best Slider (could be interesting to see who is available at the point)
Uncle Barrels boy Reece McKenzie we should just have on principal
Pick 41 is a lottery
Membrey

Rookie
Overlooked player from the Draft
McKernan
Petrenko
Taylor

May and watch Sandy next year could be quite a bit of fun

 

[Keg on legs]

FB: Baker - Hudghton - Blake
HB: Fisher - Penny - A.Jones
CR: Goddard - Hayes - Gilbert
HF: Hamill - Riewoldt - Schneider
FF: Milne - Gehrig - Everitt
RK: Gardiner - Harvey - Dal Santo
Int: Thompson - Montagna - Dempster -Burke

Coach: Alan Richardson

If we revisit this in 7 day's time does big Reece get a gig unc?

 

[Barrels]

If we revisit this in 7 day's time does big Reece get a gig unc?

In all KPs...

 

[Baughb]

B: Gale Dawson Lawrence
HB: T. Delaney Pattison Fiora
C: Beetham Davis Ledger
HF: Murray C. Gardiner Callaghan
F: Gamble Watts R. Powell
FOLL: Knobel Birss Attard
INT: Dennis-Lane Archer Howard Wulf
COACH: Malcolm Blight

3 way tie between Knoble, Ackland and Rix for the ruck spot.