RD 4 : Blues Beat Saints To Win The Cake-Tin !!

[kruddler]

So, there you have it. First victory of the year and its in NZ.

Slow start, but got it together and ran over the sainters.

[LordLucifer]

Awful to watch, well most of it anyway.

Nice to come away with a win, we were expected to win this one but for a while, it looked like a disaster looming.

The lesson learnt out of today's game was PLAY THE YOUNG GUYS !!!!

Cripps was a sensation, Bell was a bull in the packs, Buckley was very good till injured and Boekhorst showed he may be a player. There are others to come in like Whiley etc so there is a future, just need get more players like them and in that age bracket into the playing list.

Young players will make some errors purely due to their inexperience but their zest & attack on the game is infectious and cannot be quelled !!

[Mondy]

Awful to watch, well most of it anyway.

Nice to come away with a win, we were expected to win this one but for a while, it looked like a disaster looming.

The lesson learnt out of today's game was PLAY THE YOUNG GUYS !!!!

Cripps was a sensation, Bell was a bull in the packs, Buckley was very good till injured and Boekhorst showed he may be a player. There are others to come in like Whiley etc so there is a future, just need get more players like them and in that age bracket into the playing list.

Young players will make some errors purely due to their inexperience but their zest & attack on the game is infectious and cannot be quelled !!

What this guy said.

[kruddler]

C'mon Kruddler, this win had nothing to do with Malthouse's coaching and more to do with the age and lack of experience of St Kilda.

Never said it did.
Just as i never said our losses where Micks fault.

All i'm saying is people were happy to bag out Mick and his gameplan and 'the house that mick built' ad nauseum throughout the first half. Do those same people who believe he was to blame for the first half think he is responsible for the turnaround in the 2nd?

They are all one-way. Bag him when something goes wrong. Silence when something goes right.

I'm not putting that win down to Mick. I'm putting it down to the players pulling their fingers out and doing what they are supposed to be doing every week. Of course it helped it was against the Saints, but put in the effort against any team and results will come.

[Meddy43]

We can not lose Henderson.  As much as I like Gibbs, if one of the two needs to be traded at season end it would be him. I'd rather keep them both though.

[PaulP]

good signs, and 4 points is 4 points, whether it's against the Dawks or the Saints.

But we are still crap, only the Saints are more so.

[kruddler]

The lesson learnt out of today's game was PLAY THE YOUNG GUYS !!!!

No. Play the young guys when it is condusive to play them.

Injuries forced our hand somewhat, but it was the perfect time to play them.

If we play too many kids against the bigger bodied clubs, all that will happen is that our injury list will grow and some kids confidence will plummet.

Play them when you can. Today you could.

[PassIt2Carrots]

Had a 1pm, who turned it for us?

[Raydan]

Can I question the playing of the game in NZ?

Play that game here at Launceston and you get a 20K crowd which is a sell out, because of the support of Carlton, small trip for Melbourne supporters. Not the embarrassment of a half empty stadium on a day that should be a jewel in the AFLs crown.

[cookie2]

Time to look forward now and the big positive I got was from our young talent led by Cripps, who looks like a star in the making. As Lachie said after the game, we are a work in progress - a week to week proposition. I guess we just have to be patient. I hope that if we are trading out senior players that Lachie is not one of them for starters, but we'll have to wait and see.

Yet again I have to say that Bell is definitely getting better, IMO.

OK, "only playing the Saints" but the other great thing today was that the boys fought it out to the very end and were obviously well motivated, even if their skills were not always the top shelf.