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Triple figures? Hundreds of dollars a year?!

I don't think refusing to play Tom Lynch or Jamie Cripps are valid arguments to say that the Lyon of old would play kids. Getting 22 games in your fourth season is very different to doing that in your second or third as well

I think he now accepts that it is necessary and not going to severely harm short term success to play young players. In the past he dropped a young David Armitage after a BOG performance because he wasn't a part of his regular squad. Lyon 3.0 is very different. Many similarities to the past...

Looks like an inspired and gutsy decision to bring Ross back. Got us a home final in his first season back while getting a whole lot of game time into our youth. He used to work with a squad of 26 experienced players while ignoring the rest of the list, but this year we've had kids playing key...

25.7 for the season so far. Stoked to have him at the club. Barring any serious injuries he should be a 40+ goal per year forward for another 6 seasons.

If every player on the list was fit and firing then not all of that list of injured players would get a game. But if any one of those guys were fit while the rest of the injury list remained the same they'd all 100% be playing.

Mitch Owens is eligible as well and I'd say he had a better game than Phillipou with 17 disposals, 3 goals and 4 tackles (3 inside 50). I'd expect Ashcroft to get the nom this week though.

Game style has gone to crap. No more fast ball movement and strong two way running which we saw pre-bye. Dumb coaching, dumb selection and dumb decisions with the ball.

After a very good first half of the season which finished with two massive games (for a combined 63 disposals, 19 marks and 1250m gained) he was clamped down on by Brisbane and had an off night. Not a big deal

Pretty impressive to misspell four out of ten names.

For all the talk of King being a crap kick at goal, if you take out his two 'misfire' games this year (1.3 and 1.7) he's kicked 27.11 from 8 games. An avg of 3.4 goals and 1.4 behinds. That says to me that he's generally a pretty good kick but can let an early miss or two get in his head and...

The idiots suggesting that we need to trade away our core players currently in/approaching their prime got me thinking about the playing list and it's looking pretty damn good to set us up to challenge for the next 3-4 years. This time of the year in 2025 we'll likely still have the following...

Wouldn't mind him having a shot from 45m out on a sharp angle. 30m out directly in front though.... He has the skill. I think maturity and experience will help him to deliver more consistently. Right now he's the type who will miss all day if he has a shocker early in the game but when he gets...

One thing that gives me a little hope for Paddy is that this was genuinely a pretty rough knock - his last 3-4 concussions with St Kilda were mostly glancing blows that wouldn't have rattled anyone else in the slightest. It was seriously concerning when he'd get gently clipped behind the ear in...

I think the start of the season showed that the playing group had a finals hangover and got ahead of themselves after 2020. There were also some very poor list management calls (recruiting Frawley/McKernan/Hunter, keeping Dunstan/Lonie/Kent/Geary) and they clearly screwed up the pre season which...

Again, he's an unrestricted free agent and will not be traded. If another team signs him it will likely be on a pretty low salary and we will receive something along the lines of a 4th round draft pick as compensation. Wouldn't surprise me if he ends up at Gold Coast on a 2 year contract at...

If he's leaving for a long term contract he'll want a lot more than $550k per year. I think the best thing for him to do would be to sign with St Kilda for $500k for one year and try to drive his value up with a more impactful 2022 season. At his best Billings is a 23 disposal, 1 goal, 1 goal...

I just ran a ladder predictor with us losing to West Coast and Geelong away and we ended up on 8th with 12 wins (Richmond and Essendon at 9th/10th with 10 wins each). We could genuinely be in with a shot.

This season is cooked and we have a staggering amount of deadwood to clear out. We have a solid base for a 2022 team though B: Paton, Howard, Wilkie HB: Coffield, Battle, Sinclair C: Hill, Steele, Clark HF: Gresham, Marshall, Billings F: Butler, King, Membrey Foll: Ryder, Crouch, Jones Int...

For our current team - Riewoldt, Harvey, Aussie Jones. Would have said Lenny but Steele is basically Hayes at the moment and we desperately need clean ball use from half back. Milne, Gehrig, Everitt, Loewe, Sam Fisher, Goddard, Dal Santo and Montagna not far off.

Valid point. Hill helped to set the tone last week with previously unseen intensity. Against Richmond he was back to his worst

Not to mention Goddard, who almost single-handedly won that GF for us in the second half

Make a prelim for St Kilda. There will be natural improvement from our young team and have added 2 new best 22 players without losing any. We made a semi final last year so the next step is a prelim this year. The players will also have had another year to train and learn Ratten's game plan.

B: Paton, Howard, Wilkie HB: Coffield, Battle, Long B: Billings, Steele, Jones HF: Higgins, Membrey, Gresham F: Butler, King, Lonie Foll: Marshall, Crouch, Clark Int: Bytel, Dunstan, Kent, Sinclair We'll need some help for King but it's a very strong under 26 side overall. That help could be...

Naughton has certainly played the most impressive games of the young crop, but they pretty much all came last year. You'd think if he can do that in his second year he'll be able to get going again in the future with a good run with injury and some more experience. You never know though, Cam...

He's not slow or overweight, though he is a tad soft and we've all known that for his entire career. He definitely hasn't had the impact we were expecting, although his last couple of weeks have been better. Seems like he's still figuring out how to play with his new teammates and hasn't quite...

MVT - Most Valuable Tagger maybe. I love Steele but he's not on par with a Dangerfield, Fyfe, Grundy or Gawn in terms of value and impact. May even be trailing Dan Butler in our B&F right now.

Our best 22 will be decent but a couple of injuries in the midfield, ruck or key forward stocks and we're cooked. Most of our list is key defenders, half backs and small forwards. This is the starting 22 I'd like to see, and I think it could push for finals if all goes well B: Wilkie, Howard...

Not exactly the 22 I want to see played, but this would be the strongest 22 we could field at the beginning of the season B: Webster, Brown, Geary HB: McKenzie, Carlisle, Roberton C: Hannebery, Steele, Acres HF: Billings, Marshall, Gresham F: Long, Bruce, Membrey Foll: Longer, Steven, Ross...

Agree with this. I don't mind him being thrown into the middle to try and generate some clearances if we're getting flogged there and can't get it inside 50, but his ability to outmaneuver his direct opponent inside 50 and kick goals from any angle is too valuable to make him into a full time...