Preview Round 15 St Kilda vs Essendon

[Kildonan]

Anyway, good luck for tonight guys. Hopefully no injuries.

Reiterated, lets hope for a match where no-one even notices that there were umpires out there, that there are no injuries and an exciting match

 

[saber_32au]

Farren as sub?

Not too sure about that...Didn't he play as a sub earlier this year, played pretty poorly, and was subsequently dropped the week after?

 

[Persevering Saint]

Game day thread?

 

[saber_32au]

Goal to Gilbert!

The saints wanna pick up the kicking in the D50...a few poor kicks have resulted in Essendons first goal...

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Reiterated, lets hope for a match where no-one even notices that there were umpires out there, that there are no injuries and an exciting match

Just logged on and this was the thing at the top of the page.
No hope Kildonian, they just called play on before awarding a penalty for intercepting a handball.

 

[CrashTestDummy]

These umps are "cunning stunts". The 50 against Armo was complete bullshit!

 

[Jimmy 35]

fantastic first half by the saints, very even spread amongst all players. Backline holding up and the eveness across our forwardline is working great, in specific Rooey, Kosi and Wilkes all getting on the end of a few. Must mantain through second half as the bombers are fast finish's

 

[Persevering Saint]

fantastic first half by the saints, very even spread amongst all players. Backline holding up and the eveness across our forwardline is working great, in specific Rooey, Kosi and Wilkes all getting on the end of a few. Must mantain through second half as the bombers are fast finish's

Join the party in the game day thread, Jim!

 

[Noidenous]

Ultimately, I'm worried that Essendon will be timing runs past packs on the wing in the same manner Adelaide were. We've also seen how well they can clog up movement around said packs. When we don't have movement,our possession becomes rather impotent.

Essendon are better at disposing the ball and given the lack of continuity in our backline (especially for this game) I don't see us being able to cover the quick entries effectively.

We have to be prepared to play-on anytime the ball gets towards centre/half-forward. Wilkes is the wild card and how we deliver to him will make all the difference. Should Reiwoldt and Koschitzke be forced to play up the ground (as I believe to be the case) and Wilkes isn't relatively free in space, we'll need to be bombing from 50 all night. I don't see Milne having a blinder and for other shorties to have an effect, the ball needs to be moving fast in an unpredictable manner.

Call this a negative stance if that way inclined, I really don't care. Have seen enough sport played in my lifetime, particularly the past drubbings, to not keep the red glasses on any longer than necessary. Any notion that I'm not a '100% supporter' can politely be crammed up the thought-owner's slammer.

I want us to win this game, however when I view it objectively it seems a highly unlikely outcome.

Excuse me while I pour some sauce on my hat and chow down.

 

[Persevering Saint]

Excuse me while I pour some sauce on my hat and chow down.

Me too, Noidenous. I love it when I'm wrong.

Come join us at the GAME DAY thread.

 

[Noidenous]

Me too, Noidenous. I love it when I'm wrong.

Come join us at the GAME DAY thread.

Unfortunately I'm stuck with radio, so can't really comment with any accuracy. Will certainly have a look tomorrow when the video's available.

 

[Fatessendonman]

wow great win. congrats.

 

[mysainters]

Great effort by the boys, also a great coaching effort it has to be said.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Great effort by the boys, also a great coaching effort it has to be said.

Anyone miss BJ, let him come back through the VFL I say.

Thought that CJ did a good job of handballing off most of his posessions.

 

[CHBench]

Thought that CJ did a good job of handballing off most of his posessions.

Even managed to stab one on to Siposs' chest!

Kosi was much much better tonight. Adds weight to the 'he was sick' argument. I'll lay off.

 

[mysainters]

I liked Ben in the defensive 50, covers a deficiency, good move.

 

[Strahany]

Anyone miss BJ, let him come back through the VFL I say.

Thought that CJ did a good job of handballing off most of his posessions.

Yes, and yes.

There's no (apparent) urgency to bring BJ straight back in. A stint in the VFL might just get his head straight. He would be a lot more likely to hold his frustration if he knows that a run in the two's could come as a result of an outburst.

I'm pretty sure that Jonesy only ever kicked the ball when in defence if he was under immense pressure or if there was an easy target. Otherwise he sought to hand it off or went for a run, which was good. He was more keen to kick the ball when forward of centre, which we should be happy with as a turnover is far less costly.

 

[hayes]

I can't believe that not only we won, we absolutely smashed them. Looking forward to watching the replay when I get home.

We're back!

 

[Axcellence]

Even managed to stab one on to Siposs' chest!

Kosi was much much better tonight. Adds weight to the 'he was sick' argument. I'll lay off.

Hold your breath on Kosi. He's been reported for hit on Dempsey in 3rd quarter. Hope it's no longer than 1 week.

 

[KingJim]

I think Watters has a longer term game play than some credit. He is looking at the club overall and we now have 3 development coaches from 1, we have a good elite sports coach, Laidley is a good addition. He is rotating 'some' younger players but not conceding the year and going 'all youth'. I think it is a good long term balance.

I think this game may be closer than many people think. I'm tipping Saints by 7 on 07.07. It's all in the numbers

I hate quote myself but....
I predicted on the 07.07 that St Kilda would win by 7 (the perfect number 777). Well the won by 70(1). So I was off by one digit. I wish I had put $70 on it!

 

[sammm]

Even managed to stab one on to Siposs' chest!

Kosi was much much better tonight. Adds weight to the 'he was sick' argument. I'll lay off.

he had gastro last week. He lost 4 kg in weight. Selection committee was not good last week. He should not have been picked. Sippos would have been better.

 

[sammm]

Hold your breath on Kosi. He's been reported for hit on Dempsey in 3rd quarter. Hope it's no longer than 1 week.

So typical. he plays a reasonable game, for a change and then gets reported! how many times this year?

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Yes, and yes.

There's no (apparent) urgency to bring BJ straight back in. A stint in the VFL might just get his head straight. He would be a lot more likely to hold his frustration if he knows that a run in the two's could come as a result of an outburst.

I'm pretty sure that Jonesy only ever kicked the ball when in defence if he was under immense pressure or if there was an easy target. Otherwise he sought to hand it off or went for a run, which was good. He was more keen to kick the ball when forward of centre, which we should be happy with as a turnover is far less costly.

I was almost laughing at one bit of play. Jones gets ball, obviously handballs it off rather than kicking it, too much pressure for recipient , back to Jones, handballs to someone else, back to Jones, I think he ended up having to kick it.

 

[hayes]

Can somebody please tell Brian Taylor that it's Jack Steven. There's no 's' at the end of it.

 

[goodie23]

Can somebody please tell Brian Taylor that it's Jack Steven. There's no 's' at the end of it.

And while they're at it, gaffer tape his mouth shut. Woeful commentator, had enough