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“Melbourne all over us, we can’t seem to move the ball at all, delivery into forward 50 very poor.”

“MAXXXYYYYYY.

What a star.” (not referring to our Max)

“Nice kick King. Melbourne should be a few more up, umps got us back into it with a few frees to King. 

Our running game is non existent, gotta figure out how to get it going in the 2nd quarter.”

“We had them on toast and let the pressure off by lairising, turning the ball over ... Brad Hill... are you serious?” 

“Who's playing on fritch ?” (posted three times)

“Clark has been abducted by aliens and replaced with a zombie clone.”

“Lucky Melbourne can't kick straight or we'd be getting belted.”

“Imagine picking McCartin over Petracca?”

“Clearly we were out played not by umpires calls they were just too good on he night & I agree they should have won by a lot more . we need to get better”

 

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    Saints touted as a top four prospect but were lucky to beat the Giants and were dreadful yesterday. This is what their fans were really thinking ~

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    1 hour ago, Demon Head said:

    “Melbourne all over us, we can’t seem to move the ball at all, delivery into forward 50 very poor.”

    “MAXXXYYYYYY.

    What a star.” (not referring to our Max)

    “Nice kick King. Melbourne should be a few more up, umps got us back into it with a few frees to King. 

    Our running game is non existent, gotta figure out how to get it going in the 2nd quarter.”

    “We had them on toast and let the pressure off by lairising, turning the ball over ... Brad Hill... are you serious?” 

    “Who's playing on fritch ?” (posted three times)

    “Clark has been abducted by aliens and replaced with a zombie clone.”

    “Lucky Melbourne can't kick straight or we'd be getting belted.”

    “Imagine picking McCartin over Petracca?”

    “Clearly we were out played not by umpires calls they were just too good on he night & I agree they should have won by a lot more . we need to get better”

     

    These are relatively sedate comments. I expected much more vitriol from the feral saints supporters.

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    22 minutes ago, Better days ahead said:

    These are relatively sedate comments. I expected much more vitriol from the feral saints supporters.

    A large proportion of illiterates among their supporters may be the explanation.

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    I like this one in particular -

    “That was [censored] poor. 

    Melbourne looked like Richmond in their golden era”

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    On 3/27/2021 at 9:46 PM, Demon Head said:

    “Imagine picking McCartin over Petracca?”

    That one never gets old, we have rarely had a pick selection go out way like this so it’s fun to dine out on it!

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    15 hours ago, Pates said:

    That one never gets old, we have rarely had a pick selection go out way like this so it’s fun to dine out on it!

    Imagine not interviewing Dusty!

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    29 minutes ago, old dee said:

    Imagine not interviewing Dusty!

    Imagine every club not wanting him when he was on the market. 

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    13 minutes ago, Baghdad Bob said:

    Imagine every club not wanting him when he was on the market. 

    I don’t think anyone could afford him at the time let alone a broke MFC.

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    Didn’t the Saints make a big play for him? He flew to NZ to discuss the options with his cuddly dad if I recall.

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    14 minutes ago, drysdale demon said:

    No one wanted him.

    It does not alter the fact we did not even interview him when we took Trengove and Scully. That turned out well. 

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    1 minute ago, old dee said:

    It does not alter the fact we did not even interview him when we took Trengove and Scully. That turned out well. 

    That has been discussed to death as has the reasons why.

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    5 minutes ago, drysdale demon said:

    That has been discussed to death as has the reasons why.

    It will never alter the fact we did not interview him. Why is that so hard to accept?

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    Just now, old dee said:

    It will never alter the fact we did not interview him. Why is that so hard to accept?

    They knew who they were going to take, and every club would have done the same. Richmond would have taken Trenners over Dusty if we had not taken him. That's it.

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    1 minute ago, drysdale demon said:

    They knew who they were going to take, and every club would have done the same. Richmond would have taken Trenners over Dusty if we had not taken him. That's it.

    You don’t know that, it is what you want to believe. Fact it is at that time our FD was poor. 

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    1 minute ago, old dee said:

    You don’t know that, it is what you want to believe. Fact it is at that time our FD was poor. 

    I do know that and that is all. You can keep on talking to yourself if you wish.

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    2 minutes ago, drysdale demon said:

    I do know that and that is all. You can keep on talking to yourself if you wish.

    Why bother your mind is set in concrete. 

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    so, down at linton st they are all talking about why melbourne didn't take dusty martin in the draft

    good thread......?

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    Just now, daisycutter said:

    so, down at linton st they are all talking about why melbourne didn't take dusty martin in the draft

    good thread......?

    That is right, it doesn't appear they have much else to say.

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    On 3/28/2021 at 8:46 AM, Demon Head said:

    “Clearly we were out played not by umpires calls they were just too good on he night & I agree they should have won by a lot more . we need to get better”

     

    This was definitely not the St Kilda fl*g who was sitting behind me at the game. Blaming the umpires (and us) for everything going wrong. Although to be fair I probably sounded like this in 2013.

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    There was a dramatic shift in the vibe of the room pre-game to post game that's for sure.

    Going from "how are we going to fit Crouch and Hannebery into this awesome side" to "how are we going to replace the 10 players that need to be dropped after that performance"

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    I thought Ratten was pretty honest saying the Saints made a lot of forced and unforced errors on 360. Those unforced errors put team mates in terrible positions and lead to huge swings. We know that as much as anyone. 
     

    The question we don’t know is whether our pressure caused the forced errors and the unforced errors by creating a perceived pressure on every kicker.

    The other thing Ratten said was Pickett changed the momentum of the game and then pretty much said the second half was a holding pattern. I hope we don’t have to rely on it but it’s nice to have both game changing talent and also a structure that makes it hard for teams to find easy answers.

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