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  1. NarklesHelmet

    Autopsy AFL 2024 Round 1 - Cats v Saints Sat March 16th 7:30pm AEDT (GMHBA)

    Gee, from a genuine no-lifer that spends his whole year on a footy forum talking anything but football (all done with the aid of a 14 year old boy’s sense of humour) that really stings :rolleyesv1:.
  2. NarklesHelmet

    Roast St Kilda in no mans land

    I agree that Longmuir plays in a similar way to Saints and Lyon. And I don’t thing they’re going anywhere either playing that way. Maybe a final’s series but never anything more. The “haven’t got the cattle” trope is trotted out by fans the world over to excuse dour defensive football. In an...
  3. NarklesHelmet

    Roast St Kilda in no mans land

    I actually couldn’t care less about Lyon but talking more about defensive-minded coaches in general and how their time to shine has come and gone (for good) in our sport and many others world wide. As Lyon has coached my team for many years, I’ve seen him first hand. I’m still trying to be...
  4. NarklesHelmet

    Roast St Kilda in no mans land

    Pretty much. I think understanding of tactics is pretty low across the Aussie Rules community in general, and especially at board member level. A strong personality like Lyon, getting his tires pumped up in the media by the likes of McGuire and the other morons will be hard to resist for a lot...
  5. NarklesHelmet

    Roast St Kilda in no mans land

    People (and Ross) will tell you he has changed, but not really. As you say, with defense first coaches like Ross - no matter the sport- their beliefs are pathological. Sadly, what those in charge of the Saints fail to realise is that pathologically defensive coaches are dying in world sport...
  6. NarklesHelmet

    Autopsy AFL 2024 Round 1 - Cats v Saints Sat March 16th 7:30pm AEDT (GMHBA)

    It’s interesting mate: we had Adam Kingsley for years as our assistant under some dreadful coaches. Kingsley and the way he has his teams moving the ball and the way he coaches patterns of movement show he is the real deal. Could easily be the same situation with Enright. We have zero clue as...
  7. NarklesHelmet

    Roast St Kilda in no mans land

    Again, agree. A lot of Saints fans are being hoodwinked by Ross talking about us being a team with “speed”. But this means he just drafts and trades for fast blokes, becomes even more defensive and gets more men behind the ball more quickly, and then tries to get these fast blokes to hit...
  8. NarklesHelmet

    Autopsy AFL 2024 Round 1 - Cats v Saints Sat March 16th 7:30pm AEDT (GMHBA)

    It hurts to say but I tend to agree. Reckon it was an awful loss for the Saints. We are still prioritizing “effort” over skill execution as a footy club. Have signed Ross for years now when the game is heading in another direction to what he offers as a coach with his skill set. That...
  9. NarklesHelmet

    Autopsy Round 1, 2024: Geelong v St.Kilda *COLLARD, WILSON DEBUT*

    Geelong are no good and were there for the taking. Very poor loss and performance. Zero skills and composure when it mattered. “Speed” and effort matter little when you continually butcher the pill and make poor decisions.
  10. NarklesHelmet

    Game Day Round 1, 2024: Geelong v St.Kilda *COLLARD, WILSON DEBUT*

    We still can’t kick. So can’t move the ball. Nothing will ever change with this club until that does. Ross parking bus and “sling-shotting” (but we’re so fast) isn’t going to win us s**t in this league now where attack and footskills are king.
  11. NarklesHelmet

    Autopsy 2nd Elimination Final, 2023: St.Kilda v GWS *WEBSTER 150TH* *BATTLE 100TH*

    Better system won out. Sliced and diced on the outside. Way, way better footskills and composure. We either went sideways, or went long to 50/50s. Forget lists, this was a systematic dismantling. A lot of work for coaches to do. We looked like a team playing footy years out of date compared...
  12. NarklesHelmet

    Game Day 2nd Elimination Final, 2023: St.Kilda v GWS *WEBSTER 150TH* *BATTLE 100TH*

    Random, frantic, panic, long bomb/skill error, turnover. Rinse repeat. Zero composure.
  13. NarklesHelmet

    Game Day 2nd Elimination Final, 2023: St.Kilda v GWS *WEBSTER 150TH* *BATTLE 100TH*

    Our kicking and ball movement is so bad compared to decent teams.
  14. NarklesHelmet

    Game Day 2nd Elimination Final, 2023: St.Kilda v GWS *WEBSTER 150TH* *BATTLE 100TH*

    We cant kick. Defensive tactics like we have is finished in pro sports, will go nowhere playing like this.
  15. NarklesHelmet

    Autopsy Round 21, 2023: St.Kilda v Carlton

    Another reason we’ve got to stop obsessing over lists and midfields and thinking it will take years of “elite” draft picks is because it takes the focus off the main area we have to improve: development. Look at Hawthorn. Their best mid fielder is Newcombe. A kid the picked up in the MIDSEASON...
  16. NarklesHelmet

    Autopsy Round 21, 2023: St.Kilda v Carlton

    A lot talk midfields are missing the point. Midfields are funny things in our sport. You look at the Hawks midfield that we did well against last week. They smashed the ladder leaders yesterday. Centre bounce work can be a bit flukey. There’s a reason the most recent team to have a dynasty...
  17. NarklesHelmet

    Autopsy Round 20, 2023: Hawthorn v St.Kilda

    Just great to watch our team playing decent footy, getting a win and kicking goals and attacking with a bit of intelligence. No kicking one goal for 3 quarters against cellar dwellers like Norf. * that. We don’t ask for much as fans, forget about who is out there. Play like we did for a...
  18. NarklesHelmet

    Jumper clash fails

    What rubbish. Ball movement and zonal defense has completely changed the way the game is played making this a big issue now. You have to execute skills at lightning speed. What was once a non-issue now is one because of the above.
  19. NarklesHelmet

    Game Day Round 19, 2023: St.Kilda v North Melbourne

    What’s the excuse this week? I’m struggling to keep up with it. A new one this thread: gameplan not Ross’s but was Harvey, Hayes and Enright. At least Ross will be insightful in his press conference I guess (even though last week he simply threw the players under the bus - unheard of for...
  20. NarklesHelmet

    Game Day Round 19, 2023: St.Kilda v North Melbourne

    That’s partly my point: If you’re paying him that money and he’s such a “master coach”, then he shouldn’t be delegating something as vital as the gameplan to underlings. That should be something he is masterminding and taking from best practices from other sports. Even blokes like Clarko were...
  21. NarklesHelmet

    Game Day Round 19, 2023: St.Kilda v North Melbourne

    Ross Lyon rebuild incoming. Can’t wait for him teaching a bunch of kids outdated tactics and how to tackle like it’s 2010. Skills aren’t important. It’s all effort and standards. A real winning formula.
  22. NarklesHelmet

    Game Day Round 19, 2023: St.Kilda v North Melbourne

    The sad thing is, all those falling in line with Ross Lyon kicking the list will now get your wish. He’ll talk all his media mates and Bassatt into justifying the club needing a full rebuild. It’ll make all you “the list is a problem” people happy. But it will be a disaster that could kill...
  23. NarklesHelmet

    Game Day Round 19, 2023: St.Kilda v North Melbourne

    Coaches have to set up drills that ensure skills are executed on match day. Skills on match day are literally a real/time test for coaches and their drills during the week. If a whole team is “unskilled” that is on the coaches. Ross was good at parking the bus and defensiveness and tackling...
  24. NarklesHelmet

    Game Day Round 19, 2023: St.Kilda v North Melbourne

    Am glad a lot of our fans on here seem to get a real kick out of Ross’s press conferences because, I tell you what, the tripe his team has served up the past few weeks is up there with the worst footy the competition has ever seen. Atrocious disposal and skill. Headless chicken running and low...
  25. NarklesHelmet

    Game Day Round 19, 2023: St.Kilda v North Melbourne

    RoSs LyOn HaS iNcReAsEd StAnDaRds
  26. NarklesHelmet

    News 2023 St Kilda Media Thread

    Just to back up the whole “Ross is an effort coach” thing, besides loads of articles from his past coaching tenures, an article from his latest stint from earlier this year when we were top of the ladder, backs it up, this quote from Wood illustrates it: "Everyone and anyone is encouraged to do...
  27. NarklesHelmet

    News 2023 St Kilda Media Thread

    Sorry, that’s completely wrong. Lyon has said many times he coaches for effort and isn’t a coach worried about skill errors. Not sure how that can be in dispute. Coaches like Chris Scott are the ones who specifically say effort should be a given, not Lyon. That’s why it’s strange this week...
  28. NarklesHelmet

    News 2023 St Kilda Media Thread

    Proud of Ratts for sticking up for himself I must say. Riewoldt was a disappointing pundit when it came to diagnosing the Saints issues for years. “effort, effort, effort” was repeated as nauseum, even though it was clear the problems were more systems-based. Now, his best mate Ross, a...
  29. NarklesHelmet

    Autopsy Round 18, 2023: Gold Coast v St.Kilda *PERIS DEBUT*

    Problem is, no matter the list and supposed quality of it, Ross is incapable of teaching them how to move the ball and value skill over other things. He doesn’t value it. And it’s hard to teach. As in, we’d be better getting an AI bit to develop drills to teach them how to pick apart stacked...
  30. NarklesHelmet

    Autopsy Round 18, 2023: Gold Coast v St.Kilda *PERIS DEBUT*

    “We’ll take them to the deep end and see how they like it”. That was Ross the Boss’s mantra earlier this year when doing his team talks at three-quarter time and when we had our great winning run. So from the man himself, our good form was down to nothing tactically, just “run harder”. Now...
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