Who do OERites want to win on Saturday?

[Judge Roughneck]

Richmond should attempt to get a the like of David Armitage or Nathan Djerrkura

[mightytiges]

You would think Hudghton may retire having missed out on the GF. He isn't even named as an emergency. I wonder if there'll be any backlash from Saints supporters towards Lyon over this if they fail on Saturday.

Richmond should attempt to get a the like of David Armitage or Nathan Djerrkura

No way would either be let go for nothing and I think we've learnt our lesson by now about trading picks away for opposition fringe players.

[tiger101]

im tipping geelong.
dont wanna see ablett cry again lol.
he is a great player though enjoyed seeing him finally win a brownlow the other night.

[Infamy]

I must admit, I do think Geelong may win, but I can't believe StKilda is at $2.40 to win, that is ridiculous
Especially given the line betting is something like 8.5 points, if you think it's going to be that close I don't know how the underdog is at such long odds. Very strange.

[Smokey]

Especially given the line betting is something like 8.5 points, if you think it's going to be that close I don't know how the underdog is at such long odds. Very strange.

The weight of money Infamy, nothing else.

[mightytiges]

Talk about controversy. Two critical ump calls each way. Hawkins' goal hit the post and Milburn getting pinged with abuse towards the goalumpire with seconds to go in the quarter. I guess it evened up but sheesh you'd be peeed off if those sort of things cost you a flag in a close game.

[mightytiges]

Well done to Geelong. Gutsy win.

As much as I didn't care who won I'm glad in a way the Cats did. A victory for pure footy over the Swan shutdown cloning Lyon has brought to St Kilda. The Saints must be gutted. Bad goalkicking is bad footy. They blew it big time. If ever there was an example of how important your bottom 5 is to a GF team it was today - Ralph Clarke, Milne, Schneider, Dawson had shockers today.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Poo house footy club. 

1 flag in 113 years. They have let it slip again after winning 20 in the home and away and losing three games for the season by to combined total of 19 points.

Last 3 Grand Finals led Hawks at 3qt time in 71 lost.
Led Adelaide at half time in 97 lost.
Let Geelong today at 3 qt time and won 3 qtrs and lost after a goalless last qtr.

Premiership window is closing and that bottom 6 of the Saints had no impact today. Under pressure close to the finish line the Saints crumbled. So much for them hurling abuse at us and our recent history. People who live in glass houses hey Saints fans............  At least we are still ten times the team they are with 11 years less history in the VFL/AFL and we have not won about 26 wooden spoons including four in a row 83-86.

Worst football club in the AFL 1 flag in 113 years.
Well done to the Cats they honestly at a minimum did deserve to win two flags from three years of dominance. Bomber was right the Cats were going to make amends this year from the pain they felt last year and you would believe him as the Cats had been dominant for 3 years. I can only hope the Saints return to their showpony crap and return back to mid table mediocrity where they belong. So nice to see Nick Riewoldt cry again.

[mightytiges]

LOL Tucky 

Here's a place to post it lol -------> http://www.saintsational.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

[Judge Roughneck]

How good is Lenny Hayes 

[Judge Roughneck]

You would think Hudghton may retire having missed out on the GF. He isn't even named as an emergency. I wonder if there'll be any backlash from Saints supporters towards Lyon over this if they fail on Saturday.

Richmond should attempt to get a the like of David Armitage or Nathan Djerrkura

No way would either be let go for nothing and I think we've learnt our lesson by now about trading picks away for opposition fringe players.

"Some people fall off and retire because of age, and we'll have a couple of them, maybe, and we'll get some new blood in like Ryan Gamble, or Shane Mumford comes up and plays in their first grand final day.

"It just evolves, and just continues year after year

What I'm looking forward to is getting into the draft this year, and we've got some salary cap problems, so we might have to trade," Thompson said after his team's premiership triumph.

"I'm looking forward to getting the best group of kids we possibly can, and training them up, and putting pressure on guys, and having the best football club in Australia."

There is nothing wrong with getting in players that were highly rated / high draft picks if still young and can add 10 years to Richmond potential wise.

I would look at raiding Geelongs list and trying a talent or two.

I would rather a Nathan Djerrkura type running around for Coburg or on the bench for Richmond than most of the spuds we have at the current.

[the_boy_jake]

Well the right team won in the end. It was poetic justice. In the latter part of the year Saints have played their shutdown game knowing they had the trump cards in Riewoldt and Kosi. Bulldogs beat them all over the park except they lacked a marking target up forward. Some people admire the way the Saints play, I found it negative and stifling. Today the rain washed away their trump cards. I'm glad that Geelong won. I think they try to play fast transitional play through the corridor and try to kick a winning score. The fact that Riewoldt, Kosi, Milne and Schneider have kicked probably 80-85% of the Saints goals says just as much about their talent as it does about their cautious style of keeping players back and implementing a sparse forward setup. Geelong too tough at the contest as the game wore on.

As far as punting goes well my tip that the bookies had got it wrong and that it would be a very close game and St Kilda were good value @ 2.35 earlier in the week was right, except all the money kept coming for Geelong. In the end I managed to hedge my big St Kilda bet by laying Saints at Qtr Time and backing Geelong at Half time.

All in all a good day 

[Tigermonk]

what a great day at the G, forget the weather the game was great. its a pity there must be a loser but that was one of the best GF l been too.
Both teams handled the ball better in those conditions than Richmond do in the dry weather  we are years from playing in a grand final 

[the_boy_jake]

On a humorous note did anyone see Spud's pre game prediction that the wet weather would harm the cats more than the Saints because

i) The Saints zone will be harder to break down in wet conditions
ii) Riewoldt and Kosi are good wet weather players.

1 goal each to the Saints big men. Saints zone didn't really seem to be working after the first quarter. 

[WilliamPowell]

Great result

WOnderful to see the Saints lose, which they did because in the final quarter they seemed content with treying to stop Geelong score rather than trying to win the thing

Absolutely magnificant to see all the players sooking and their supporters howling ...and to those lowlifes that abused Ma Powell a few years ago....... I hope you liked it because you got what you truly deserved