Just Quietly

[cub]

Looking forward to see how the boys back up Friday.

[bushranger]

Not seeing us play last week, I will be a lot in the dark.
But I'm thinking we might have jumped our biggest hurdle last game.
And we are set to hurt a few higher teams now.
The saints being one of them.
 

[cub]

Not saying we will win by any stretch, but have maintained my stance on the above the shoulders aspect of the game.
Should be interesting! believe we need to put on a couple of hard tags and anything could happen.

[the_boy_jake]

Going to be very interesting whether the boys can lift 6 days after a slog in the wet and 142 tackles against a side that tries to choke the game into a physical armwrestle.

[bushranger]

The one thing that I think really is in our favour is the young legs.
If this is so, I think we can out last the Saints with good ball movement.
And running the Sants around the park all day.
Though I would not rule the Saints out as they are a good team.
So this will be a real good test to see if we can out last them.

[MADTIGER2010]

Same here  
If we can bring Post into defence then our team will be more complete looking to the future. I think we're a decent chance this Friday. The Saints are more like a top 8 team without Reiwoldt and with their game plan worked out. We have improved ever since we brought in Astbury and also with the return of Foley. We were always going to find it tough with only 1 tall forward and being short on midfielders in the first 3 games. But Astbury and Foley have been reasons for improvement and now with Griffiths and Webberley entering we are ready to win games now. Not to mention Nason and Martin improving every week. Our 2nd half of the year should be very good now that we have all 3 tall young forwards available with some games under their belts. With Cousins fit again and Foley and Jacko to return to the midfield and Connors and Thursfield to return to defence we'll start seeing exciting footy as the players continue to learn the game plan. Morton and Taylor will get back in soon too

[Tigeritis™©®]

 
you guys crack me up

we all enjoyed the win but cmon there's a big difference between Port ans St.kilda.
I wouldn't be suprised if we get smashed but it will be good to see how they back up against quality.

my biggest hope is that someone can finally stop the dill from kicking a bag.
hopefully my mate Farmer can do the job.


Edited for legal reasons. You cannot in any make implication regarding what happened years ago - we could still be liable to legal action. Fair? Probably not but that's how it works

[tigersalive]

We'll get run over in the end.  6 day break after a wet slog while St Kilda pranced around the dome won't help us.

At least I know we'll put up a decent fight.

[cub]

At least I know we'll put up a decent fight.

All I'm hoping for

[Tigermonk]

We'll get run over in the end.  6 day break after a wet slog while St Kilda pranced around the dome won't help us.

At least I know we'll put up a decent fight.

 

[Francois Jackson]

Going to be very interesting whether the boys can lift 6 days after a slog in the wet and 142 tackles against a side that tries to choke the game into a physical armwrestle.

the saints are a pathetic team who only try to choke the game against the best in the comp as they dont have any confidence winning without their one man show in Ruey.

Im expecting an all out attack on us come Friday. Lets hope we get one back on those pri'cks. If there's one team outside the Blues who i would love to beat its these sloimy little pri'cks led by Milne

[1965]

Going to be very interesting whether the boys can lift 6 days after a slog in the wet and 142 tackles against a side that tries to choke the game into a physical armwrestle.

the saints are a pathetic team who only try to choke the game against the best in the comp as they dont have any confidence winning without their one man show in Ruey.

Im expecting an all out attack on us come Friday. Lets hope we get one back on those pri'cks. If there's one team outside the Blues who i would love to beat its these sloimy little pri'cks led by Milne

Hey Mods

Can we ban JD for stupidity.

He is trying to avoid the the swear filter for a word that isn't in the swear filter

 

[Ox]

Same here  
If we can bring Post into defence then our team will be more complete looking to the future. I think we're a decent chance this Friday. The Saints are more like a top 8 team without Reiwoldt and with their game plan worked out. We have improved ever since we brought in Astbury and also with the return of Foley. We were always going to find it tough with only 1 tall forward and being short on midfielders in the first 3 games. But Astbury and Foley have been reasons for improvement and now with Griffiths and Webberley entering we are ready to win games now. Not to mention Nason and Martin improving every week. Our 2nd half of the year should be very good now that we have all 3 tall young forwards available with some games under their belts. With Cousins fit again and Foley and Jacko to return to the midfield and Connors and Thursfield to return to defence we'll start seeing exciting footy as the players continue to learn the game plan. Morton and Taylor will get back in soon too

Madtiger         Jayden

4 EVER!!!

XXXXXX

[smasha]

Same here  
If we can bring Post into defence then our team will be more complete looking to the future. I think we're a decent chance this Friday. The Saints are more like a top 8 team without Reiwoldt and with their game plan worked out. We have improved ever since we brought in Astbury and also with the return of Foley. We were always going to find it tough with only 1 tall forward and being short on midfielders in the first 3 games. But Astbury and Foley have been reasons for improvement and now with Griffiths and Webberley entering we are ready to win games now. Not to mention Nason and Martin improving every week. Our 2nd half of the year should be very good now that we have all 3 tall young forwards available with some games under their belts. With Cousins fit again and Foley and Jacko to return to the midfield and Connors and Thursfield to return to defence we'll start seeing exciting footy as the players continue to learn the game plan. Morton and Taylor will get back in soon too

No worries Francis(the mule not the legend)

[Stripes]

I feel we have a great chance this week given the confidence of the young group and the perceived vulnerability of the Saints at the moment. Kozi would be dropped in a hearbeat given his pathetic form at the moment but because they are playing us the Saints may keep him in to run him into a bit of form against average opposition This is the sort of attitude that I want to exploit and turn around on teams that under-estimate us.

Similarly the Saints kicked the majority of their score off the boot of their midfielder with Montanya kicking 5 alone. If we can give their midfield something to think about and stop their spread we could not only shut down their forward supply but also their goal kickers. The ruck is where the game will be won or lost this week IMHO and perhaps bringing in an in-form Browne as our second ruck could be a viable option...

As an aside, we have an interesting scenerio at the moment with the amount of players all playing well who specialise in specific positions on the ground. Both Morton and Post had excellent games for Coburg yet it is not easy, for mine at least, to slot them straight back in. Our forwardline at the moment we have - Riewoldt, Astbury, Griffith, Nahas and Nason. I would say Morton's position has been taken by Nason at the moment but given Nason's superior defensive game Morton is struggling to return. Morton is the better goal option IMHO but Hardwick values forwards defensive efforts, such as what Jack has been able to provide while still being extremely offensively dangerous, higher than pure scoring potential.

Post find himself in a similiar situation. He has been played as a power forward and had success on the weekend in that role yet we as a team are attempting to groom Griffiths and Astbury in that role to support Riewoldt as KPF. If Post was to come in he would need to take the place of one of these two young forwards which is a possibility but only if the coaches move Astbury down into the backline.

Another challenge is with Connors. If Lids' move to the backline is to be a long term positional change like he suggested in a recent interview then who will move out of the backline to accomidate Connors imminent return?

Stripes