Around The Grounds - Round 14

[hells bells 2,023]

2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

St Kilda have officially overtaken us as a club.

Although it's arguable they were never behind us considering they keep beating us and we've only been 1 spot above them on the ladder the last 2 years.

Great win by the Saints by finally taking a massive scalp.

Don't underestimate the impact of Riewoldt and Montagna still. In their top 4 ball winners again.  They are champions.  Stevens very good too.  

As we know better than most, they play well at Etihad...

 

[SaberFang 7,141]

And yeah, I echo the sentiment that questions need to be asked about how far we are moving forward as a club. Barring GWS, we are yet to defeat any team above us on the ladder and we're still yet to defeat any team we didn't already defeat last year.

In Roos' tenure we've never defeated West Coast, Port Adelaide, Fremantle, Hawthorn, Sydney, St Kilda or North Melbourne. It's time for these shitstain records to die, especially when many of these teams are thoroughly mediocre.

Edited June 25, 2016 by SaberFang

[titan_uranus 22,765]

4 minutes ago, praha said:

Saints have snagged some great wins the past two seasons. Meanwhile, we keep beating Collingwood, Richmond and the two QLD sides, struggle against everyone else and can't even beat teams around us on the ladder.

Adelaide, Freo, Eagles, Saints.

We need to take it up to these four. 

Yeah I agree, I really wish we could beat Geelong, maybe even go one better and beat them in Geelo...

Wait.

[Watts the matter 1,235]

7 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

St Kilda have officially overtaken us as a club.

Although it's arguable they were never behind us considering they keep beating us and we've only been 1 spot above them on the ladder the last 2 years.

Great win by the Saints by finally taking a massive scalp.

Kneejerk. They play Etihad well but struggle anywhere else. Percentage tells the true story. 

Edited June 25, 2016 by Watts the matter

[dazzledavey36 49,341]

7 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

St Kilda have officially overtaken us as a club.

Although it's arguable they were never behind us considering they keep beating us and we've only been 1 spot above them on the ladder the last 2 years.

Great win by the Saints by finally taking a massive scalp.

Agree. 

They continue to have a great mix of youth and experience while we continue to leave most of our experience guys rot at Casey and gift games to kids who aren't ready.

I swear we have lost games because of this.

[dazzledavey36 49,341]

1 minute ago, Watts the matter said:

Kneejerk. The play Etihad well but struggle anywhere else. Percentage tells he true story. 

We play fine at the MCG but struggle at Etihad Darwin WA and Sydney.

Some supporters and their rosy coloured glasses..

[hells bells 2,023]

2 minutes ago, praha said:

They'll once again rip us a new one at Etihad.

I think you are wrong about this. 

[Wiseblood 24,636]

Just now, Watts the matter said:

Kneejerk. They play Etihad well but struggle anywhere else. Percentage tells the true story. 

Exactly.  Saints win one over good opposition, they've gone ahead of us.  That is until they lose next week and that perception changes.

[TeamPlayedFine39 8,187]

8 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

St Kilda have officially overtaken us as a club.

Although it's arguable they were never behind us considering they keep beating us and we've only been 1 spot above them on the ladder the last 2 years.

Great win by the Saints by finally taking a massive scalp.

Don't agree.

They're below us on the ladder, west coast beat them by over 100 and Adelaide by 90 odd.

They, like us, are young and inconsistent; some weeks they're world beaters, some weeks they don't come to play.

Great win by the saints, but I'd take where our list, coaches and admin are over theirs.

[titan_uranus 22,765]

7 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

St Kilda have officially overtaken us as a club.

Although it's arguable they were never behind us considering they keep beating us and we've only been 1 spot above them on the ladder the last 2 years.

Great win by the Saints by finally taking a massive scalp.

What do you mean "officially"?

Officially, they are 20% behind us on the ladder. 

Officially, we finished above them on the ladder last year, and the year before.

[Watts the matter 1,235]

3 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

We play fine at the MCG but struggle at Etihad Darwin WA and Sydney.

Some supporters and their rosy coloured glasses..

So how does that make them better than us? 

Edited June 25, 2016 by Watts the matter

[Wiseblood 24,636]

Just now, dazzledavey36 said:

Agree. 

They continue to have a great mix of youth and experience while we continue to leave most of our experience guys rot at Casey and gift games to kids who aren't ready.

I swear we have lost games because of this.

What kids are those?  

[titan_uranus 22,765]

4 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Agree. 

They continue to have a great mix of youth and experience while we continue to leave most of our experience guys rot at Casey and gift games to kids who aren't ready.

I swear we have lost games because of this.

You're comparing Riewoldt and Montagna to Dunn and Garland?

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

What about Scott appealing for the deliberate out of bounds, when the StKilda player was tackled and was clearly trying to dispose of the ball inboard to another Saints player....what a [censored] bag...

[SaberFang 7,141]

It's always nice seeing the Scott brothers lose, that's for sure.

[trout 385]

Looking at next weeks games St Kilda, Carlton and Richmond will probably be above us on the ladder.

[Ricky P 757]

27 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

St Kilda have officially overtaken us as a club.

Although it's arguable they were never behind us considering they keep beating us and we've only been 1 spot above them on the ladder the last 2 years.

Great win by the Saints by finally taking a massive scalp.

Yeah, we would never beat Geelong.

Oh...

[Ricky P 757]

22 minutes ago, SaberFang said:

And yeah, I echo the sentiment that questions need to be asked about how far we are moving forward as a club. Barring GWS, we are yet to defeat any team above us on the ladder and we're still yet to defeat any team we didn't already defeat last year.

In Roos' tenure we've never defeated West Coast, Port Adelaide, Fremantle, Hawthorn, Sydney, St Kilda or North Melbourne. It's time for these shitstain records to die, especially when many of these teams are thoroughly mediocre.

Don't know why people keep discounting this result. GWS are awesome and we've beaten them the last two times we've played them. 

Apart from all the times we beat top sides, we never beat top sides...

[Fork 'em 6,572]

Thankfully GWS couldn't kick straight in rd1 and were missing Cameron and Mummy.

 

Edited June 25, 2016 by Fork 'em

[praha 10,360]

51 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Yeah I agree, I really wish we could beat Geelong, maybe even go one better and beat them in Geelo...

Wait.

Yeah, in 2015, their worst season for a decade.

[Sir Why You Little 34,927]

I hope most of our players watched tonights game...

[Demon Dynasty 15,963]

3 hours ago, hells bells said:

Don't underestimate the impact of Riewoldt and Montagna still. In their top 4 ball winners again.  They are champions.  Stevens very good too.  

As we know better than most, they play well at Etihad...

 

Should we move there also and try and create a genuine home ground fortress like Norf and to a lessor extent the Saints/Doggies have done on a fantastic contract with the AFL, making sure we retain more home games there? Take the ALice & NT games back to Etihad. Lock in a few Friday night games while we're at it.

We don't train on the G and most Vic clubs play regularly there now so it offers no advantage to us nor any challenge to our opponents.

Hard to park and get to the G now with the Car parks often closed and no local parking spots available now. More pubs/eating/meeting places close by Etihad also to meet/greet pre/post match with friends/family.

Just putting it out there

Edited June 25, 2016 by Rusty Nails

[Chook 14,614]

46 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

Should we move there also and try and create a genuine home ground fortress like Norf and to a lessor extent the Saints/Doggies have done on a fantastic contract with the AFL, making sure we retain more home games there? Take the ALice & NT games back to Etihad. Lock in a few Friday night games while we're at it.

We don't train on the G and most Vic clubs play regularly there now so it offers no advantage to us nor any challenge to our opponents.

Hard to park and get to the G now with the Car parks often closed and no local parking spots available now. More pubs/eating/meeting places close by Etihad also to meet/greet pre/post match with friends/family.

Just putting it out there

Yeah. Great idea. While we're at it, we can become the Etihad Football Club as well. Our mascot could be an overpriced hot dog and some light beer.

[Demon Dynasty 15,963]

27 minutes ago, Chook said:

Yeah. Great idea. While we're at it, we can become the Etihad Football Club as well. Our mascot could be an overpriced hot dog and some light beer.

Common Chook look on the bright side. You could feed some of that hot dog bun to the seagulls on Level 3 and lose a few pounds while you're at it! (if required!)

[What 18,810]

Good win by the Saints, but Geelong aren't a great team. It is a very even season.

Our win down at the Cattery last year was more impressive, even though the Cats have improved this year.  

Edited June 25, 2016 by Petraccattack