Saints have 2 extra days on us

[Cheer Cheer]

Charlie - Gehrig will blow the socks off Schuable - you'll find that Kennelly is the best match up for him - and Saddo will play on Nick.R

[penga]

Originally posted by Charlie
Crouch will take Harvey.

i actually thought that crouch would take milne, with the hopeful inclusion of mathews maybe he would take him... however i havent watched the saints in the last couple of weeks so i would take your word for it that milne hasnt been up to standard...

barry to take hamill

[Charlie]

Originally posted by penga
i actually thought that crouch would take milne, with the hopeful inclusion of mathews maybe he would take him... however i havent watched the saints in the last couple of weeks so i would take your word for it that milne hasnt been up to standard...

barry to take hamill

Milne hasn't kicked a goal for 2 weeks. When goal sense is the ONLY football knowledge he has... he's been shocking.

[penga]

Originally posted by Charlie
Milne hasn't kicked a goal for 2 weeks. When goal sense is the ONLY football knowledge he has... he's been shocking.

milne is pretty one dimensional but one thing i admire about his game is his ability to find a target when not watching the ball to his foot, he has his head usually while kicking... it is VERY hard to kick accurately like this...

[Roscoe]

Here are my match up thoughts

Saddo on Riewolt

Barry on Hamill

Crouch on Harvey

Kirk on Hayes

Schauble on Gerhig

Goodes/Ball on Kosi


I hope thats all we need.

Williams was vvery defence orientated on Judd last week. He played a great game, but i reckon he missed that open goal in the 1st quarter because he was looking over his shoulder

The Stkilda backline is very average IMHO

Hayes and Harvey need to be shut down

Ball and Goodes to fire and give us first use.

Throw LRT forward a bit earlier

[SXP]

I watched the game against Essendon on Friday night at the Telstra Dome and I must admit taht I expected a much closer game. The Saints were really disappointing and were properly trashed by the Bombers. There could be only 2 reasons for this; either have the Saints dropped in their intensity, which could be good for us, or have the Bombers increased theirs to catch up with the eight. Take your pick, but I wouldn't take the Saints too lightly.

[midaro]

I'd like to see LRT play a full game on Rew or Koz, just for the experience.

[ugg]

Saints lack height and quality in defence, our forward line should tear them apart. Throw Ball or LRT early in there and they won't be able to hold us out. Micky to kick another bag, and Ball/Goodes will thrash Knobel/Koschitzke in the ruck. Kirk will claim another scalp in Hayes while J.Bolton and Harvey will square off.

[Destructive]

Re: Saints have 2 extra days on us

Originally posted by omnipotent
anyone concerned?

Nup. The Sainters could'nt win a chook raffle at the moment.

[liz]

Shutting down - or at least containing - Harvey and Hayes is the key and shutting down the top couple of opposition midfielders is something we've done well all year. Against teams like Port there are always others to stand up but there's not much depth in the Saints midfield when you take away these two superb players. And if the midfield can't get much of the ball, the Saints quality talls (Riewoldt, Kosi, Gehrig and Hamill) will be limited in the damage they can inflict.

Biggest risk IMO (always assuming our guys are ready to play and aren't taking it for granted) is that the Saints are so down on confidence after their shellacking last weekend that they revert to the tactics that brought us undone at Colonial last year. Hopefully, even if that happens we will show more intelligence than we did last year and work out how to counter it.