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For those like me who arent there. Channel 10 are doing a cross to the Intraclub in a couple of minutes.
Colm and Ray getting a bit of it. Am i right in assuming they're scooping the loose ball off half back?
 
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Sam gives nod to new Saints

Terry Wilson February 10th, 2009
GOLD Coast product Sam Gilbert believes two recycled players can come up trumps at St Kilda this year.

Saints fans are expected to get their first look at several players new to the red, white and black in the NAB Cup pre-season clash against Brisbane at Gold Coast Stadium on Saturday night.

And Gilbert is tipping recruits from AFL rivals Brisbane and the Western Bulldogs will come right into the mix for places in the senior side when the premiership proper comes around in a month.

Former Lion, Irishman Colm Begley, and former Dog, Farren Ray, are the two Gilbert feels can add plenty. "Colm played for a couple of years at Brisbane and he looks like being a good addition to our back line," said Gilbert. "And I think Farren can become a really good player. He has worked hard through the pre-season in the weights room and he has become quite a lot stronger."

Gilbert also said to keep an eye out for two of St Kilda's national draft selections, forwards Nick Heyne and Tom Lynch.

Heyne, from the Gippsland under-18s, has what it takes to become a class half-forward flanker, believes Gilbert, who heads into his fourth season with the Saints after being drafted from Southport, via the Coolangatta juniors, in 2005. He has played 39 AFL games, including 19 last season when, after overcoming a shoulder operation, he finished as a jack-of-all-trades with roles in attack, on a wing and in defence.

The 22-year-old's development has him being earmarked as a future leader, but Gilbert said anything like that is a fair way off.
Ironically, St Kilda would normally be concerned about the Queensland summer heat, but the way the weather has been in Victoria, with the tragic bushfires and high temperatures, it will be different this time. "It'll probably be like going into a cold room," he said.

The Brisbane-St Kilda match is one of five AFL fixtures at Carrara this year.
 

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DanACTsaint said:
Round 1 NAB Cup. St.Kilda and Brisbane squad list

http://afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/default.aspxnewsid=71966
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St Kilda (from)
2. Steven King
5. Ben McEvoy
6. Leigh Fisher
11. Leigh Montagna
14. Luke Ball
15. Michael Gardiner
16. Raphael Clarke
17. Colm Begley
18. Brendon Goddard
19. Sam Gilbert
21. Nick Heyne
22. Farren Ray
23. Justin Koschitzke
25. Sam Fisher
26. Nick Dal Santo
27. Jason Blake
30. Brad Howard
31. Matt Maguire
32. Andrew McQualter
33. James Gwilt
34. Jack Steven
37. Eljay Connors
38. Clint Jones
40. Robert Eddy
42. Jarryn Geary
43. Zac Dawson
44. Stephen Milne
45. Luke Miles
47. Tom Simpkin
 
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29 players listed I think. Is it 6 or 8 on the bench and 2 subs? If its 6 on the bench, then there will be 2 subs and 3 emergencies.

I'll do my best at a team:

FB: L.Fisher Dawson Begley
HB: Clarke S.Fisher Ray
C: Montagna Ball Jones
HF: Heyne Kosi Gilbert
FF: Milne McEvoy Steven
R: King Goddard Dal Santo
I: Gardiner Blake Maguire Miles Geary Connors
S: Gwilt Eddy
E: Howard McQualter Simpkin
 
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Largely I agree with the assessment sinc emany people were creaming for him to be traded as he's shown nothing but he was at least serviceable and we all know what he's capable of when hes up and firing, so it's great to hear confirmation that he's going well in the drills, not as great to hear he's blitzing midfielders over 1km because the kinda should be the ones with pace and hopefully it is just a roll, last thing we need is him playing on it and then ligament damage.
 

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CJ looks creepier every time he has his photo taken
 
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Here's a really good article from today's Age.

It struck a chord with me because I was one of our supporters who was left quite angry with the decision to not recruit Cousins but to see the way Lyon dealt with it by challenging the players the morning after the decision was made is really encouraging.

If only that Riewoldt tattoo was real, we could have ended the Gold Coast speculation there and then.

Good article Caro.

Lyon down the law: Cousins inspires Saints
Caroline Wilson | February 14, 2009


BEN COUSINS and his dangerously expensive baggage never quite made it to Moorabbin but that did not stop the elusive anti-hero from leaving his footprint at the club that rejected him and his mark on the players who would have welcomed him.

Ross Lyon made sure of it. The late November morning after the St Kilda board - mindful of Cousins' decision to rid his body of all meaningful hair, an impending poor financial result and a nervous and heavily back-ended sponsorship agreement - decided that the player was not worth the risk.

The coach called his playing group into a meeting and told them: "If you were relying on a 31-year-old champion to come in and try to win you a premiership, then you are kidding yourselves."

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Yeah surprisingly good article from Caro. Ross made a very good point that I think us supporters can take on board as well, we were all sitting here waiting for Cousins to deliver us a flag when we had the talent to do it by ourselves all along. If all our players played with the effort Cuz or Roo did we wouldn't need anyone to win a flag.


Whilst we're on the subject of the article I'd also like to point this out:
"Ideally, I'd like to end my career at St Kilda," said Riewoldt, when asked about his playing future.

Ideally? "Look, it would have to take something really big for me to leave. My family is still up here, my parents, but we are as much Tasmanian as we are Queensland."
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Take that you dirty banana bending pricks! Specially you bastards on the Gold Coast who think he's gonna go 'home'. Riewoldt = Proud Tasmanian :D
 
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As much, his home is at the Saints take that Tassie and GC! :D

I like what Lyon did as I was apathetic about the Cousins deal, it was escapism to think he was a saviour but it was also entertaining since like Lyon said he was an immediate fix, so I like the priorities that as soon as it wa sshut down he was proactive in laying down challenges to people we would assume wouldn't need it. Great signs if that is taken seriously.
 

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Well done Saints :

The Saints are getting behind the bushfire appeal in several ways. Signed match worn jumpers from Saturday night’s game are to be auctioned online, the club will wear the Red Cross Appeal number on its shorts and players not involved in the match will collect donations outside Gold Coast Stadium.

Jarryd Allen, Khan Haretuku, Sean Dempster, Blake McGrath, Alistair Smith and Steven Gaertner did not make the trip to the Gold Coast and will collect donations at tonight’s Western Bulldogs v Essendon Bushfire Appeal Game at Telstra Dome.
 

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