Unofficial Preview Praccy Match 2 Vs Saints - This time it’s serious

[FlyHigh18]

Hate to be the realist in the room but I worry for those who are still riding a high off the praccy match against collingwoods C team.

It was good to see some footy again but there wasn’t much resembling an AFL game, moreso individual efforts and game plan.

Next weekend will be a better indication. For starters, they’ll field a stronger team (and hopefully something resembling a forward line) and unlike Collingwood, will take advantage of our turnovers. I also suspect, at a minimum, st kilda will actually have someone putting pressure at the kick ins which was non existent at times last week.

I know it sounds much but I mean Paul Curtis’ first FK snap at goal didn’t even have someone on the mark
Not even going to mention the umpiring.

Colby picking up contested ground balls in the D50 and then running away to get some room was my highlight, something more often seen in a forward 50 zone. Sorry LMac but you would have butchered those with a blind rush kick instead. Lazaro’s new found confidence was also impressive along with exciting link up plays.

I do stress about Powell and Wifi, I personally think they’re ready and are A graders but will waste away if not in the 22.

Just want to mention confidence again, actually seeing the players start to trust each other, during those fast plays, more of that is what’s gonna make this team the best.

 

[The Nostradamus]

^nah northball to carve up the saints and lid to come off

Think positive

 

[Makeshift Park]

The Beach is a six part doco where Thornton goes to live on a beach up near Dampier with no internet etc and just his son to shoot as cinematographer - basic idea is Thornton's near 50, he's achieved what he wanted to do as a young bloke (tell Aboriginal stories on screen) and now he's reflecting on his life and what else he can do.

Each episode is based around a story from a stage of his life he tells.

He talks about coming down to Melbourne in the 80s when he was still trying to make it because even though Sydney was where all the film was at, Thornton thought Melbourne was cooler coz of the music he liked - Birthday Party, Boys Next Door, Paul Kelly etc.

He'd got a government grant of some sort, and when he got off the bus at Spencer Street he knew he wanted to go to St Kilda to the Espy and have a beer, like the holy grail of cool, but it was too early, so he started walking around to kill time.

He finds an op shop and in it there's the most amazing cowboy jacket, full leather tassels, the whole deal. He's torn coz he's on a budget but he loves the jacket so much he tried it on, fits like a glove, so he buys it it

He then gets the tram down to St Kilda, to The Espy. As he walks in he's painfully aware of how hip and white it is. He almost loses his nerve, almost walks out but fixes his courage to the sticking place, goes up to the bar, orders a pot and sits down.

After a minute a bloke rocks up to the bar, skinny unhealthy bloke, who orders a beer and sits down next to him.

Thornton twigs that its Rowland S Howard - THE Rowland S Howard who wrote Shivers! He tells the camera he really started shitting himself, Christ I'm in St Kilda sitting next to Rowland S Howard, a bloke from Alice Springs like me, I'm such a pretender, I don't belong here.

Then Howard turns to him and says scuse me mate, and Thornton says yeah, and Howard goes - mate, that's the coolest ******* jacket I've ever seen.

Thornton tells the camera back in his doco that at that exact moment he knew if he put in the work, he'd make it, because he'd tristed his instincts to buy the jacket and if ROWLAND S HOWARD thought it was the coolest jacket ever, what greater authority could there be?

Megan Washington sings a lovely version of Shivers as he's telling the yarn.

But imo Maria Hoy's version is better - and the film clip a great reminder of back when St Kilda was undeniably cool as all get out.

Cool story that.

I was thinking about From St Kilda to kings cross the other day.

Two suburbs that are practically unrecognisable today from those Kelly was writing about.

When I moved to Sydney, the Cross was wild. Absolutely heaving at night with the most colourful human traffic. Open drug solicitation all over the place. A few good music venues hidden among all the seedy strip joints. Now there’s a nice cheese shop, and that’s about it.

 

[ferball]

Cool story that.

I was thinking about From St Kilda to kings cross the other day.

Two suburbs that are practically unrecognisable today from those Kelly was writing about.

When I moved to Sydney, the Cross was wild. Absolutely heaving at night with the most colourful human traffic. Open drug solicitation all over the place. A few good music venues hidden among all the seedy strip joints. Now there’s a nice cheese shop, and that’s about it.

I heard him that song live at the St Kilda festival one year. It was a pretty cool moment.

 

[Tas]

Hate to be the realist in the room but I worry for those who are still riding a high off the praccy match against collingwoods C team.

Thanks Debbie downer.

It was good to see some footy again but there wasn’t much resembling an AFL game, moreso individual efforts and game plan.

Next weekend will be a better indication. For starters, they’ll field a stronger team (and hopefully something resembling a forward line) and unlike Collingwood, will take advantage of our turnovers. I also suspect, at a minimum, st kilda will actually have someone putting pressure at the kick ins which was non existent at times last week.

In the long-term winning is important, but for this year it is about getting the system right. We did turn it over a bit, and that is going to happen, but the important thing is to pressure and be in a position to defend when you turnover.

We were still a bit sloppy in terms of picking the right option or executing some basics, but it was a big improvement on last year.

I know it sounds much but I mean Paul Curtis’ first FK snap at goal didn’t even have someone on the mark
Not even going to mention the umpiring.

Colby picking up contested ground balls in the D50 and then running away to get some room was my highlight, something more often seen in a forward 50 zone. Sorry LMac but you would have butchered those with a blind rush kick instead. Lazaro’s new found confidence was also impressive along with exciting link up plays.

I do stress about Powell and Wifi, I personally think they’re ready and are A graders but will waste away if not in the 22.

Just want to mention confidence again, actually seeing the players start to trust each other, during those fast plays, more of that is what’s gonna make this team the best.

I think you are nitpicking a bit. Pies fans would have had more to be worried about than us from that game, not because they lost but their second tier that were meant to be pushing for a spot in the best side didn't look like it or weren't allowed to look like it.

We did have more availability of our better players, but our "better players" is a pretty blood short list. We basically have Simpkin on 134 games, Stephenson on 110 and Fisher on 107 games as the only players over 100 games that were available. I am not including Shiels because I don't expect him to play much this year unless we get a lot of injuries.

We still had Larkey, Zurhaar and LDU from the sub 100 game group. The pleasing thing for me was the load being taken by the tier below and the young group.

Powell, Stephens, Curtis, Xerri, Phillips, Lazzaro, Sheezel, Bergman, Goater, Wardlaw, etc played to a level we have no right to expect them to given their general inexperience. You can look at the faults but I think the standard of the footy was good for this time of the year, the system looked better, the movement looked a lot better. The structures seem a lot better despite the players we have lost.

Enjoy the ride. Win, lose or draw against the Saints, it is just valuable experience for our group.

 

[zoomba23]

Hate to be the realist in the room but I worry for those who are still riding a high off the praccy match against collingwoods C team.

It was good to see some footy again but there wasn’t much resembling an AFL game, moreso individual efforts and game plan.

Next weekend will be a better indication. For starters, they’ll field a stronger team (and hopefully something resembling a forward line) and unlike Collingwood, will take advantage of our turnovers. I also suspect, at a minimum, st kilda will actually have someone putting pressure at the kick ins which was non existent at times last week.

I know it sounds much but I mean Paul Curtis’ first FK snap at goal didn’t even have someone on the mark
Not even going to mention the umpiring.

Colby picking up contested ground balls in the D50 and then running away to get some room was my highlight, something more often seen in a forward 50 zone. Sorry LMac but you would have butchered those with a blind rush kick instead. Lazaro’s new found confidence was also impressive along with exciting link up plays.

I do stress about Powell and Wifi, I personally think they’re ready and are A graders but will waste away if not in the 22.

Just want to mention confidence again, actually seeing the players start to trust each other, during those fast plays, more of that is what’s gonna make this team the best.

Agree.

This place is such a concentrated pool of obsessing over details and tiny scraps of information, and I acknowledge I'm guilty of that too at times. Honestly, the way people post on here sometimes makes you wonder how half of the user base has ever met someone who decided that they enjoyed hanging around us, let alone someone more intimate.

A whole toast thread. After a scratch match against the Collingwood thirds. I enjoyed George's interview too, but Christ.

Insights into the way the team wants to play surface during pre-season, but it's not like our opponents are desperately trying to stop us from scoring in pre-season. It's like running a set play in training, seeing it work, and then claiming impending success for the team.

Confidence is nice. Allegedly improved fitness is nice. But this Northball stuff won't have been put to any sort of actual test until the final siren in R1 or 0 or 3.14 or 7 squared or whatever it is

 

[Del191229]

Cool story that.

I was thinking about From St Kilda to kings cross the other day.

Two suburbs that are practically unrecognisable today from those Kelly was writing about.

When I moved to Sydney, the Cross was wild. Absolutely heaving at night with the most colourful human traffic. Open drug solicitation all over the place. A few good music venues hidden among all the seedy strip joints. Now there’s a nice cheese shop, and that’s about it.

Sydney is all about cocaine now, it doesn't have that smack scene that creates street culture like that.

 

[Gasometer]

I once parked on the Street in St Kilda near the beach in broad day light. Returned to the car to discover the drivers door lock jemmied open with a screw driver to only take a pair of $40 sunglasses. $500 worth of damage.

And who cares about this game or anything thereafter regarding judging “where we are at”…we will know well and truly by Round 10 where we are at.

 

[Passmore]

We were good against Collingwood. I know there's the self preservation aspect of down playing our performance. And that's OK.

The first half we matched a Collingwood C team with some pretty handy doppelgangers and much touted youth coming thorough.

Anyway on to St Kilda who will no doubt be a sterner test given they have more to prove and will field close to their best 22.

Sit back, crack a cold one and enjoy.

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[Samsquanch]

Hey, regards to the members ticket offer email , is that just to upgrade to sit in the grandstand or is it something else?

I was anticipating to just walk in using my ticket...

 

[Orange Peanut]

When I moved to Sydney, the Cross was wild. Absolutely heaving at night with the most colourful human traffic. Open drug solicitation all over the place. A few good music venues hidden among all the seedy strip joints. Now there’s a nice cheese shop, and that’s about it.

it doesn't even hurt to see your darling down Darlinghurst any more.

 

[Del191229]

Carey downfall from our club

FFS, must have been full on, what's the go.

 

[Del191229]

it doesn't even hurt to see your darling down Darlinghurst any more.

But have ever you seen it when the rain is falling soft - if you've cut across from Oxford Street that is.

 

[ferball]

 

[Makeshift Park]

it doesn't even hurt to see your darling down Darlinghurst any more.

I reckon you’d be lucky to even get an itch scratched under the Glebe pt bridge these days.

 

[Ligma]

cOlLiNGWoOd c tEaM

 

[shintemaster]

Confidence is nice. Allegedly improved fitness is nice. But this Northball stuff won't have been put to any sort of actual test until the final siren in R1 or 0 or 3.14 or 7 squared or whatever it is

Fitness was the huge takeaway for me, although to be honest I'm not sure how much of it is harder work over the preseason and how much of it is just the simple fact of having an extra 3-4 players in the team that can actually just run and the flow on impacts instead of so many older blokes who just didn't have the run anymore.

 

[Roosurgence]

comben on king
Corr on membrey
Biggie third tall helping out and rebounding northball style

If Comben plays you don’t need Biggie, also who stays out of Dawson and Pink for Corr?

Goater can play the rebounding tall role, that was his role in match sim.

 

[Big_H]

Spoke to Comben yesterday, he confirmed he’s playing but he wasn’t sure about Corr.

 

[speedy]

Chom/Dawson/Pink/Corr/Goater... I might have my head in the clouds, but I'm excited about this group. We might form a decent backline yet.

 

[The Nostradamus]

If Comben plays you don’t need Biggie, also who stays out of Dawson and Pink for Corr?

Goater can play the rebounding tall role, that was his role in match sim.

As mentioned earlier my ideal set up is Corr and Comben

Then for third tall it’s between a smaller Goater or Biggie or Dawson

Eventually Logue will replace that person

 

[Val Keating]

St Kilda the team suck. St Kilda the place is great and used to have the best pubs, bands and cake shops. So its appropriate that they play miles away. They'd bring the place down otherwise.

StKilda is full of junkies and rich w***ers imo.

Oh and backpackers.

 

[Val Keating]

I wonder if they’ll switch Powell & Phillips again or play them both. Some think it’s one or the other long term.

 

[Ligma]

StKilda is full of junkies and rich w***ers imo.

Oh and backpackers.

lol all the poms down there

 

[leighlee13]

Last time I was at a pre-season game at Moorabin Carey kicked a bag playing full forward then the players had a BBQ at Arch's joint.

I was there too! I have photos from the day. I was so pumped for the season and it all came crashing down