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dan0z said:
gehrig is finished.. so is maguire and r clarke. very sad to watch them play. they are a liability in the modern game..
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R Clarke was a little better tonight.

I agree matt maguire looks finished. Should of traded him last year. Just not the same player after that broken leg.:(
 
I'd rather Jarryd Allen sitting in the forward line doing nothing than Fraser sitting there doing nothing.

Club has gotta make some long hard decisions, especially when choosing players on their past form. i.e Maguire, Gehrig.

OUT: Gehrig
IN: Allen
 
Yeah, you gotta think, especially with Roo out, Allen's going to come in - but I have to say, I think it would send a real message about his coaching (and a darn good message, at that), if Ross made the tough decision, even under the circumstances, and asked G to just retire... again. Or at the very least dropped him.
 

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ChrisFooty said:
R Clarke was a little better tonight.

I agree matt maguire looks finished. Should of traded him last year. Just not the same player after that broken leg.:(
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maguire has one more on his contract.
don't think anyone would want him!
 
Fryman said:
Gave us nothing this game. Should have been reall fired up after being dropped but wasn't. The problem now is that even mediocre defenders aren't scared to run off him because unlike other years he doesn't hurt them on the way back. I would be a lot happier if Gehrig was stamped "never to return" and we could move on with finding a functioning forward line.
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Granted: G is not playing very well but the delivery to him isn't helping either. How many times have you seen the ball delivered quickly and cleanly into our forward line ala 2004-06 and the last part of 07?
 
SaintsSeptember said:
It almost seems that the time of Big men forward and back is over.
Apart from Gehrig , Hall is struggling, Lloyd, Rocca, and Brown not doing well.
Everyone want's talls who can run, and midfielders who can score.
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Somebody should tell guys like Franklin, Fevola and Roughead...
 
Former Collingwood skipper Nathan Buckley added to the intrigue last night, indicating that if Gehrig played on it would be only to help out the club. "I had a conversation with a friend of mine who knows the guy and one of the reasons for him (Gehrig) continuing is the club needs him with (Nick) Riewoldt down," Buckley said on radio 3AW.
Mark Stevens and Jon Ralph/Superfooty/20May08

Thanks Nathan - my cousin's mother's friend-at-the-bowls-club's son's mate-at-the-cricket-club reckons you're a tosser.
 
Former St Kilda coach Grant Thomas says Fraser Gehrig should be encouraged to play out the season. The future of the veteran full-forward could be decided today when he meets coach Ross Lyon. "It's difficult to make a comment on list management issues unless you are involved in the day-to-day running of the footy club," Thomas said. "The one thing I can say is that Fraser, even if it is just a stop-gap, should be kept for the rest of this year.
Scott Gullan/Superfooty/19May08


He reckons you're an interfering nob too, and that it's funny you've slagged the rest of the club but not said anything negative about Fraser. He supposes that Fraser knows where you live.
 
I love the man, If he goes out I hope he has a farewell. One of the best players for St Kilda over the last 5 years.:)
 

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SaintsSeptember said:
It almost seems that the time of Big men forward and back is over.
Apart from Gehrig , Hall is struggling, Lloyd, Rocca, and Brown not doing well.
Everyone want's talls who can run, and midfielders who can score.
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Hall was playing well before he broke his wrist
Lloyd isnt getting much ball + isnt getting good balls
Rocca is just crap anyway
Brown quad injury.
 
According to SS / SEN - on long term injury list ... who to elevate ??? Eddy?
 
Very strange announcement.

Mini is already up for Goose, and Van Rheenan is gone for the year. Eddy has been injured along with Chivers, Attard, and Miles. Harry (Haretuku) is playing ressies.

No idea whether they will be promoting anyone, but Eddy is the obvious one when ready.

I guess by the end of the long term injury timeframe Frser will decide whether he loves the game enough.

I'd have to say this is an indictment on the club. They have clearly played a guy who is not capable of producing an on-field commitment of AFL standard (or of the standard he expects of himself). Didn't we get past our history of putting injured players on the park???
 
Question: If rookie is promoted, does that mean we can add another player to our rookie list e.g Silvagni/Wall from the Scorps or some bloke dominating the SANFL or WAFL?
 
Squizzy1970 said:
I'd have to say this is an indictment on the club. They have clearly played a guy who is not capable of producing an on-field commitment of AFL standard (or of the standard he expects of himself). Didn't we get past our history of putting injured players on the park???
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Hay, Gasper, montgomery, Darcy, Kouta all retired before/during the season last year. It's not unusual. It happens.

As I said on another thread, some people on this board seem to be determined to take off their pants, put them on their head and run around screaming just at the moment.
 

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Squizzy1970 said:
Fehring - he hasn't retired (that's the point)!!!

And BTW, I do my best work when I wear my pants on my head.
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And Obama's not the Democratic Party nominee.

Let's face it, he's retired. If he was officially listed as "retired" we wouldn't have the flexibility to bring up a rookie in his place, which we'll probably do when Eddy is right. We'd have to see out the season one short.
 
Touche.

I just don't understand the whole strategy. No point elevating someone if you have a bunch of young mids who aren't getting a game now anywway like Geary.
 
It's just keeping the options open - we don't HAVE to do anything, but if we WANT to do something, well, Gehrig needing some naptime gives us those options.
 
Gehrig handed injury boost
31st July 2008
St Kilda have taken enigmatic forward Fraser Gehrig off the long term injury list.
The former West Coast Eagle has trained strongly in recent weeks after falling victim to chronic arthritis in his right hand.
However Gehrig, who has played 260 AFL games, remains unlikely to return to senior ranks this season and remains under the eye of club medicos.
“The club has given me all of the support and medical treatment I need, however I know where I fit in the current scope of the team and it will be really tough to get back,” Gehrig said.
“My return to football didn’t quite go to plan earlier this year and my body just hasn’t held up the way I would have liked.
“I’ve worked hard to stay on track, remain focused and give the Saints everything that I can.”
Gehrig quit football at the end of last season only to do a back-flip and return to St Kilda before the start of this season.
Coach Ross Lyon says the injury had been hard on the former star, who failed to reproduce his best form in five games earlier this season.
“Obviously it’s been tough for Fraser to sit on the sidelines and watch the guys play for the majority of the year but it’s a really positive step for him to have resumed full training,” Lyon said.
St Kilda says Gehrig’s return to training has had a positive influence on the playing group.
 
A strange sense of deja vu just came over me...
 

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