Preview St Kilda v Adelaide at AO, Sunday Mar 16 at 12:30 (Melb time)

[stavro#4]

Fair enough, if accurate it was pretty ordinary by Battle. I can understand him being told not to go to the B&F.

Both sides won’t come out of it well. It’s history now.

 

[hangdog]

Hey guys, would your team only be flying into Adelaide this morning? Was just told there were a lot of Saints people only boarding a flight in the last hour (same one as Port). Just seemed odd to me given the game is at midday!

I think it was because the boys had a corporate tent at the F1 yesterday. Free beer and mini quiche all day.

 

[Pakenhamsaint]

Hey guys, would your team only be flying into Adelaide this morning? Was just told there were a lot of Saints people only boarding a flight in the last hour (same one as Port). Just seemed odd to me given the game is at midday!

Post covid clubs are leaving it later to travel. They learned from when they did FIFO

 

[Saintbloke]

As I mentioned multiple times last year.

It was Battle or Dougal.

Night of the pies game. We had a deal agreed with Battle - SOS was telling everyone. Ralphy was even running with it by the nights end.

Whatever happened in between. He wanted more money. We were going shit.

We said no. - this was the business decision.

We were very confident we would get a a band 1 pick.

The BnF stuff isn’t just based on the week he walked out. It’s a culmination of what happened.

Battle was very unhappy with the treatment of Ratten by the club, and I believe wanted to walk then- money was a good excuse to go elsewhere.

 

[stavro#4]

Battle was very unhappy with the treatment of Ratten by the club, and I believe wanted to walk then- money was a good excuse to go elsewhere.

As I said. History will show that both sides dropped the ball.

But ultimately it doesn’t matter. We potentially have a star on our hands with that direct compo pick - Tauru.

Battle plays for his beloved Hawks and they are contending this year.

 

[Remboy]

I think it was because the boys had a corporate tent at the F1 yesterday. Free beer and mini quiche all day.

I don’t think Ari went to bed last night. On the pi5s all night with his mates.

 

[Remboy]

Post covid clubs are leaving it later to travel. They learned from when they did FIFO

We flew in from the Sunshine Coast two weeks in a row and knocked off Port and the Crows.

 

[Coconut_twirl]

We got him, we thought he was good, after a while certain people started bitching about him.
We often put up with less than perfect talls, because its harder to find them.

His 2020 season was very good. Dougal had a terrific season and finished 3rd in that year Best and Fairest. People forget that on here.

 

[Jade Buddha]

King, howard, battle, owens, sharman gonna struggle

Mate they didn’t even make the flight.

 

[TheJackal]

Sam's wife and family situation was probably perfect for seducing the Battles.

Its our own fault for recruiting nice kids who make their bed and get married and have kids.
We should have drafted those bad boys who never sleep in their own bed and don't even know if they had kids.

I'd never seen a photo of her, it all makes sense now, she'd probably be able to recruit me without much effort as well

Edit: just googled, seems this photo is an anomaly, if you catch my drift. I take it back, I'll stop talking about people's wives now.

 

[Jade Buddha]

Good thing about Boydy and Hally they are trench warfare warriors.
Don’t they they’ll take a step backwards today.
Crack in.

 

[dudeintheswamp]

Good thing about Boydy and Hally they are trench warfare warriors.
Don’t they they’ll take a step backwards today.
Crack in.

Yep, O'Connell too.

 

[TheJackal]

Pitch report
Cool morning with light breeze, light over night rains so surface will be greasy.
Expect conditions to be a bit tricky.

Missed opportunity, Indian bookies will pay good money for that type of intel!

Fair enough, if accurate it was pretty ordinary by Battle. I can understand him being told not to go to the B&F.

We'll know for sure when we play them. Might even be worth giving Moose a debut or put Boydy on him just to sort him out, not that I'm condoning that type of thing.

 

[littlecreatures]

I’m glad they learnt something. But again to be clear.

If we desperately wanted to keep Battle. We could have.

Club made a decision inline with what they are talking up. A rebuild. Youth. 20 list changes in Lyons time.

If you need further confirmation. Rewatch that new show Rooey is on.

He said they made a business decision to let Battle go. Money isn’t and never was a problem for us.

We flew up yesterday. Delayed as we were booted off a flight aswell.

Rooey also said they got blown out of the water by Hawthorn (and couldn’t compete) in the same segment/discussion. Make of that what you will.

However, agree in terms of Battle’s departure reflective of the club prioritizing a more longitudinal view with re-generating the list and not pushing out contracts for our current 25-28 year old cohort.

 

[Speck]

Hey guys, would your team only be flying into Adelaide this morning? Was just told there were a lot of Saints people only boarding a flight in the last hour (same one as Port). Just seemed odd to me given the game is at midday!

There's TikTok content of our players in the lounge yesterday, so I don't believe that's accurate.

Maybe support staff or something?

 

[The Slug]

Back for another year. Not really sure what to expect today, but hope it's a positive showing regardless of result.

 

[ScrappyDo]

I'm not allowed

Where's George?

 

[austinnn]

This post suggests it was last night

Jesus, was that Wilkie at the end? Been up all night at some rave by the look of those scary eyes

 

[Southeastsainter]

good to se the threads back on track you bastards



agree
nowhere near it
especially when being named emerg in the first round

we can only pray to the gods he somehow stays on the books in some capacity as mentor after his last game and keeps taking the young fellas in
absolute invaluable

Our forward line is completely decimated, he wouldn’t have had a better chance to “make it” than round 1. Hopefully dominates VFL and gets a gig soon.

 

[PoppedCorn]

raw as hell
wont be long
certainly not 'nowhere near it'

 

[CaptainRisky]

We flew in from the Sunshine Coast two weeks in a row and knocked off Port and the Crows.

And since

 

[Hayes4PM]

 

[Hayes4PM]

Cordy hanging out the back of the pack as goal keeper, misses it completely, we're cooked.

 

[CaptainRisky]

This should help

 

[Hayes4PM]

Fellas this is... not ideal