Preview Round 2 - GWS v St Kilda [Saturday 21 March 2026 • 4:15 PM (AEDT) • Engie Stadium]

[stavro#4]

Honestly I kind of see where he's coming from. Some of the questions are just SO dumb. Like, "is there more pressure on you now to win because you got players". I just think he's fed up with the stupidity and the way the media are all in this weird vacuum where they feed themselves.

He doesn’t help himself. This looks really average.

 

[beside the seaside]

He doesn’t help himself. This looks really average.

That was a poor choice of words for sure. We can't all be gifted athletes.

 

[stavro#4]

That was a poor choice of words for sure. We can't all be gifted athletes.

Maybe he should put the smart ass crap aside for a few weeks. talk to facts and win a few games.

 

[Joffaboy]

Bring Dougal in and move a tall defender forward--Hammer or Viking.

Hammer, he is not a backman.

 

[akaifu]

Apparently Hall hardly trained today, Shrapnel thinks its maybe the flu

 

[Joffaboy]

Very Fiesty in here today. Many on edge.

Relax 0-3 is not the end of the world.....

or maybe it is

 

[St Steady]

if pou plays, i'd like him to be told keep it simple

watched that training snippet the other week and seems to me he's overcomplicating it all

pou, see ball, get ball, give ball

nas, get little wins and the big wins will come, feel he thinks he needs to do more than he actually has to

disclaimer - 4 beers in

 

[Joffaboy]

??

Who would have thought Jack Steele would have been in by round 2?

 

[stavro#4]

Very Fiesty in here today. Many on edge.

Relax 0-3 is not the end of the world.....

or maybe it is

Neither is 0-4,0-5,0-6.

Trump on the hand. That’s a watch

 

[SainterinSydney]

Apparently Hall hardly trained today, Shrapnel thinks its maybe the flu

If Wilkie and Hall don't play, we are #@$%ed!

 

[SainterEire]

And a slim chance of another problem

Is Hall not training what Tony is referring to so?

 

[stavro#4]

If Wilkie and Hall don't play, we are #@$%ed!

Apparently a few who went down to training said We have a handful who are apparently sore and all will be named because they are reporting improvement daily.

 

[Saintos The ITK]

Just back from outpatients. Six stitches above right eyebrow.
Wasn’t sitting down.

 

[beside the seaside]

 

[Captain Paddy]

What do you want him to say in the pressers?

“Yeah the boys who took heaps of coin are really feeling the pressure because you guys have been roasting anything they do that isn’t superhuman”

These boys took the huge cash, with that comes the responsibility to perform week in and week out and if they don’t, they will get criticism.

If they don’t want that pressure, they could’ve taken an average salary and had an average career.

He’s setting standards and expectations and not just getting dragged down into the media fishbowl.

We win this week and next and the media narrative will be “did we expect too much too soon from the saints?”

AFL media is just reactive hot takes - that’s it.

It’s only going to take one person with some level of status to say that they like Ross’ pressers because he doesn’t get dragged into the mud by the media and that will become the new narrative.

At the moment no matter what he says, the media will paint it as smartassery

 

[jwikked]

if pou plays, i'd like him to be told keep it simple

watched that training snippet the other week and seems to me he's overcomplicating it all

pou, see ball, get ball, give ball

nas, get little wins and the big wins will come, feel he thinks he needs to do more than he actually has to

disclaimer - 4 beers in

He has to have been told
To move the ball on as quickly as possible, and in the moment he doesn’t realize that he has more time than he realises to actually do it.

That’s why he fumbles so much, he tries to give it off before he has a hold of the ball

 

[jwikked]

Drop caminiti for Howard not that hard

I’d like to see him moved back forward. It’s where he’s played his best footy for us. I’ve never been sold on his defensive ability.

At least switch it up during the match. I think it could have been good to move him forward in last weeks game

 

[botts]

Apparently Hall hardly trained today, Shrapnel thinks its maybe the flu

No Wilkie or hall would be a disaster

 

[The Punter]

No Wilkie or hall would be a disaster

To be honest, Wilkie would be bad but at least we have cover and it would balance things out better in the backline.

Hall would be very bad.

 

[AirWinmar]

Decision making in key moments across lots of scenarios can absolutely be trained.

Getting a man on the goal line on a set shot should be a team value not an individual one. And a good team organises and doesn’t just expect. A good team will have a small on the goal line if no big is around. Trainable? Absolutely.

Same with manning up elite kicks when the opposition have marked on our midfield line.

Same when our poorer kicks have the ball in our defensive zone.

Ruck should be on the goal line for that one. Thats generally a set structure i woukd think

 

[Joffaboy]

Just back from outpatients. Six stitches above right eyebrow.
Wasn’t sitting down.

Beauty, he is back to where he was around christmas. On course to be the late inclusion in the first wildcard game.

 

[pebblesofsand]

A report from our VFL game against Casey

'In the ruck, Max Heath provided a strong aerial target around the ground, taking several clunking marks and offering a reliable option down the line.'

Whoops sorry - he was playing for Casey wasn't he.

 

[The Cobra]

That was a poor choice of words for sure. We can't all be gifted athletes.

Wrote this last week - I’m a fan but he is feeling the heat & needs to pull his head in. Someone he respects (Lenny?) needs to have a word.

 

[Sarcoidevo]

And a slim chance of another problem

Byrnes is fit and ready to go?

 

[Mowman]

Honestly I kind of see where he's coming from. Some of the questions are just SO dumb. Like, "is there more pressure on you now to win because you got players". I just think he's fed up with the stupidity and the way the media are all in this weird vacuum where they feed themselves.

Love his press stuff, remember what Richo and Ratts were like to listen to

Treats the press with contempt they deserve, seriously some of the questions they ask