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I reckon most on here think the Saints have got a lot of things right over the past few years. Thought I'd add my two cents. My dad turned 80 today. Been a Saints fan since his older brother was selected for the Saints under 19s back in the 50s! Of course, we couldn't get together so we had a...

It seems like none of you slackers has started a new media thread, so here goes. And why not start by potting the media? I'm not usually one to think that the Fourth Estate has it in for us, but it's hard to think otherwise when you read this story about the 25 moments that mattered in 2018...

Excuse me for parading my loserdom on the page, but me and four others have plane tix to Hobart but no tickets to the match. May have got my purchasing in the wrong order. Anyway, if anyone has tickets for the match and they no longer need them, please PM me. Even if it's one or two, I might...

A quote from aussierulesrules in another thread got me thinking. Plugger played most of his career at the Saints competing one or one. Then in 1991 he kicked 34 goals in his first 3 games (for you youngsters, just look at this year's Coleman table after 10 games and then have a think about...

So, I watched the game on Saturday night with a group of peeps and couldn't hear most of the commentary. I'm now watching the replay and it is so atrocious that I think it deserves a little roast on here. The amount of time they spent talking over the play was worse than the average ABC VFL...

Although I'm not a prolific poster, I've been around here for a while now and have kept coming back because it's a pleasant place to talk about all things Saints. Traditionally, you've had to say something pretty stupid to cop a well-earned bake from a fellow Saints fan (thanks for the memories...

He'll turn 29 in May next year, but I wonder whether Goose Maguire may not be homesick for Melbourne, and whether we shouldn't get him to spend his last three or four years as the gorilla minder we so desperately need. Maybe that's hare-brained, but if nothing else I'd like to say - Goose...

What are the odds that we could go win-loss-win-loss through 21 rounds this year? We've already done it from round 3 to round 12 - consider the run for the rest of the year and what we'd "need" to do to keep the run going. North (W) Essendon (L) Brisvegas (W) Swans in Syd (L) Bulldogs (W)...

Hey, what's all this guff about a short pre season. We've still got five more practice matches before the real stuff starts.

So, with our win today we move to 26 points, 16 points behind 4th-placed Carlton. But we have a game in hand on the Blues - they have a bye in round 23 when we play the Kangas, who we will smash - so let's call it 12 points behind 4th. We play Carlton on the way home, so when we beat them...

Tonight, the cumulative score for the "red time" - that is, from the 20m mark of each quarter - was: Bris 6.5 StK 1.4 During the past few years, we have not scored much during red time, so nothing's changed there. The difference is that our opponents pummelled us during that time. It's...

Greg Baum, whose pomposity is on display here, has written an article I had to read twice before I realised that he wasn't just talking about one club. Anyone want to have a crack at who's who? http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/preseasons-in-the-sun-20110218-1azqt.html THIS club has never...

Sainters, Two grand final defeats, the departure of a beloved son to Collingwood, one of the greatest trade catastrophes of all time and two wretched off seasons have stretched us to breaking point. What to do? Spew forth anger? Burn the membership card? Demand resignations? For me, the answer...

2010 Grand Final (1) score: Saints 10.8 68 Collwd 9.14.68 1977 Grand Final (1) score: North 9.22.76 Collwd 10.16.76 1977 Grand Final (2) score: North 21.25.151 Collwd 19.10.124 It's probably no surprise that the second GF in 1977 really opened up and was a much higher scoring...

Apparently our bottom six is worse than Collingwood's bottom six and, for that matter, the bottom six of any other team in the league. There's just one problem. Who are these bottom six? Tonight Dermie reheated this old soup and then when asked who they were couldn't name a single person. The...

That Robert Eddison bloke was awesome tonight. The number of 50-50 balls that went our way because of his intervention was amazing. He was dropped after the prelim last year, but Roberto Eddbert just played himself into a Grand Final side. Props, young man.

13 SEPTEMBER 2010. BREAKING NEWS: Unless you're living in a cave, you'd know by now that Barry Hall went on a rampage against the Sydney Swans in last weekend's first semi final, killing five of his ex-team mates and wounding seven others before being apprehended in a Brett Kirk tackle. It all...

Did anyone get the Age this morning? Sixteen page - SIXTEEN PAGE - liftout on Collingwood in celebration of them being minor premiers. This is: a) hilarious; and b) a superb way to completely blow the lid off. The pressure just keeps building on the Pies. They are a good team, but things...

I have a bit of a problem - have an unavoidable engagement for Prelim Final weekend, but can choose whether it's Fri or Sat night. From memory, the AFL last year gave us the Friday night PF because we were the highest-placed of the two teams with the week off. If that's the case, then this...

I noticed this event, where Demetriou will be talking about social responsibility. May be of interest to someone: http://www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2010/annual-lecture-10.html Andrew Demetriou, CEO of the Australian Football League "A matter of leadership: the AFL on the...

Really, all Saints fans should check out this thread on the Doggies' board. It's piss-funny. OP: I just watched the last half of the St Kilda v Geelong game and I realised how much I dislike the St Kilda team. They have welched on the draft system for years to build a team and then they had...

The problem with being a football writer who doesn't write about football is that there just aren't 22 off-field controversies to write about each year, as much as the media would like to have you believe otherwise. Hence this wretched little piece of writing that hardly even rises to the...

Chris Judd splits Pav's face open and the MRP says he didn't make sufficient contact to warrant a suspension. The next week Stevie Baker delivers a series of love taps to his opponent and the MRP - stung by criticism of their soft performance on Judd - offer Baker a lazy 12 weeks out, 9 if he...

Our team is one of the best at blocking out distractions, and using adversity to advantage. Be afraid, Melbourne. We're going to take it out on you.

I wonder if the mods aren't deleting threads about Brian Waldron b/c I am amazed nothing's on here at the moment. I will keep myself to the facts. The Melbourne Storm has been handed the greatest penalties in the history of professional sports in this country today. At the press conference...

I like to get on someone each year at $251 before the season starts. Last year, Goddard. Didn't quite work out. This year, I'm hoping for better. So, drum roll. Jason Gram. Awesome GF, awesome preseason. Is flying and is over the niggles he carried last year. Will also be expected to carry...

Chances of that guy going though the season without belting someone - 100-1

I thought I read somewhere on here that King has been offered a position as ruck coach for next year, while still playing. Is that right, or did I imagine that? If that's so, do you think that King has been told he'll start next season as 3rd banana?

Interview with Ross Lyon on the Saints website. Notable for a few things: - Luke Holmesby was obviously told not to ask about Luke Ball. - Lyon actually mentions Ball as a leader of the club - Names Armo, Steven, Geary, Raph and Eddy as the ones to step up - This means Raph is not being...

I don't take much notice of what the GF losers usually do, but this does seem unusually sombre. Thought those who hadn't seen it might be interested... The wall of tears Mark Robinson From: Herald Sun September 27, 2009 12:00AM...