Thank you St. Kilda

[Strawb]

A good win by the Saints helping Geelong have a one game lead on top of the ladder. A good win on for Robert Harvey also. Now lets hope the cats don't screw it up and keep that lead. The saint were paying $6.50 at some outlets for the win.

[Hondo]

Saints are home ..

[mal]

What a coincidence
Saints have a bye and a week of away from the DOOM and win
Just remarkable what fresh legs can do for this team.
Robert Harvey game 350 deserved the win.

[bayman]

What a coincidence
Saints have a bye and a week of away from the DOOM and win
Just remarkable what fresh legs can do for this team.
Robert Harvey game 350 deserved the win.

what is the real difference between playing 349,350 & 351 games ?? surely if he finished on 349 games it would as big a milestone as if he finished on 351 games

[sydney-dog]

mal

nothing to do with the Saints different style of play?, especially in the first half

[mal]

SD
Only saw the last quarter
Had a long drive home from Noarlunga
Will have to rely on your report on the game.

It was good to see the players rush up and embrace Harvey after the game.
As it was watching Punk Rooster on debut for North Adelaide today....

[GWW]

Was looking forward to watching this game on ch 7 this arvo but they had these damn cars going round and round and round instead

Obviously Foxtel wouldn't allow FTA coverage but still a big disappointment not to have any game at all on a Sunday on tv.

[rod_rooster]

What a coincidence
Saints have a bye and a week of away from the DOOM and win
Just remarkable what fresh legs can do for this team.
Robert Harvey game 350 deserved the win.

what is the real difference between playing 349,350 & 351 games ?? surely if he finished on 349 games it would as big a milestone as if he finished on 351 games

Just another milestone bayman. Same question can be asked of 99 or 100. It's only 1 game difference but the 100 is always a lot nicer.

[Armytank]

Was looking forward to watching this game on ch 7 this arvo but they had these damn cars going round and round and round instead

Obviously Foxtel wouldn't allow FTA coverage but still a big disappointment not to have any game at all on a Sunday on tv.

Mate, as a fan of those cars that go round and round, we have already had one race cut a few laps short in New Zealand for the footy and we missed a whole race weekend to see Fremantle play Melbourne at the MCG where only 11,000 people could be bothered to show up for a crap game of football .

IMO C7 has stuffed up the coverage of both sports, the V8 coverage has suffered due to the football commitments and the footy covereage is pi$$ poor and uninspiring. They sould give it back to 9 and Ten and stick to what they know in World Cup Rugby......................

Rant over


With 30 touches in his 350th game, does anyone want to speculate on the chances of Robert Harvey getting to 400 games? 2 more seasons should do it. Pehaps not if they keep playing at the Telstra Doom Mal?

[saintal]

Would love to see him reach 400, but i dont think it will happen. He would have to play 50 of 54 H+A games (not inc finals) to do it, which I cant see happening given he has had problems with his hammies over the last few years.

[Benchwarmer]

Armytank

Seven could not get a game of darts covered professionally.

I'm puzzled that you say that they do rugby well because people who watched last year's Tri Nations would have known that Fox Sports and Seven matches started live at the same time but Seven fell further and further behind Fox by showing adverts. By the time half-time was over, Seven were a good 2-3 minutes behind live.

Their coverage now ranks lower than any sporting coverage that I have seen since I was a child and the sooner they pass it over to 9 or the ABC the better. Without Dennis Commetti, it would sound as though Seven has got half a dozen people out of the crowd just so they could save money - Bruce is past it and the rest of the crew apart from David Schwarz provide worthless contributions.

Whilst on a rant, it shits all West Aussies that things are promoted as live (the worst being Big Bother) and they pretend that they are live "right around Australia".

Cut the sh1t TV networks, viewers know when things are live or not. Stop pretending.

[Hondo]

This is why Foxtel will increasingly be more appealling as a broadcaster of AFL - a devoted sports channel allows them to prioritise better than free-to-air commercial networks trying to fit their sports in with conflicting demands in their limited air time (ie, one channel or 2 vs 50 or so).

Apparently to save costs the stations use home-state people to cover games in Qld and NSW and those guys normally cover Rugby and aren't that experienced in covering Aussie Rules. Or so someone said on the radio the other day.

My hope is that as more people subscribe to Foxtel the subscription rates will come down so the average punter can afford it better.

[Benchwarmer]

If Foxtel were clever enough, they would offer a Foxtel Sport package with Fox Sports 1,2 and 3, plus ESPN and Fox Sports News for $20/month.

This would make Foxtel far more attractive and make a few dollars for them. Consider it as 1.2 times the cost of watching your AFL side play away in a month (especially good for non-Victorian clubs). Then add all the other sports as well... it's worth the money looking at it that way!

Better whisper it in the ear of a Foxtel worker!

[Rik E Boy]

Would love to see him reach 400, but i dont think it will happen. He would have to play 50 of 54 H+A games (not inc finals) to do it, which I cant see happening given he has had problems with his hammies over the last few years.

He might play on for another year but 400? BTW, you barrack for South and the Saints? Cripes I thought I had it bad being a Legs and Cat man! I dips me lid.

regards,

REB

[Psyber]

This is why Foxtel will increasingly be more appealling as a broadcaster of AFL - a devoted sports channel allows them to prioritise better than free-to-air commercial networks trying to fit their sports in with conflicting demands in their limited air time (ie, one channel or 2 vs 50 or so).

Apparently to save costs the stations use home-state people to cover games in Qld and NSW and those guys normally cover Rugby and aren't that experienced in covering Aussie Rules. Or so someone said on the radio the other day.

My hope is that as more people subscribe to Foxtel the subscription rates will come down so the average punter can afford it better.

Nope - when they get the monopoly they'll go up! Telstra is rapacious, not charitable.

[Hondo]

My hope is that as more people subscribe to Foxtel the subscription rates will come down so the average punter can afford it better.

Nope - when they get the monopoly they'll go up! Telstra is rapacious, not charitable.

True, a monopoly is not a great way to get competitive prices. But once enough people take it up, Foxtel might start making enough profits to offer discounting to get the next wave of subscribers on board. Then maybe one day, pay-TV in Australia can become lucrative enough for another provider to enter the market.

An analogy is what has happened to mobile phone costs in the last 10 years once the majority started to sign up and then other carriers entered the market. As an aside, I read an article saying that mobile phone companies are making a huge windfall because we have all accepted that 20c for SMS is OK in Australia, when really it's very over-priced compared to other countries.

Why do I feel I have gone off-track on an AFL forum

[magpie in the 80's]

My hope is that as more people subscribe to Foxtel the subscription rates will come down so the average punter can afford it better.

Nope - when they get the monopoly they'll go up! Telstra is rapacious, not charitable.

True, a monopoly is not a great way to get competitive prices. But once enough people take it up, Foxtel might start making enough profits to offer discounting to get the next wave of subscribers on board. Then maybe one day, pay-TV in Australia can become lucrative enough for another provider to enter the market.

An analogy is what has happened to mobile phone costs in the last 10 years once the majority started to sign up and then other carriers entered the market. As an aside, I read an article saying that mobile phone companies are making a huge windfall because we have all accepted that 20c for SMS is OK in Australia, when really it's very over-priced compared to other countries.

Why do I feel I have gone off-track on an AFL forum

probably because you have hondo

[Psyber]

An analogy is what has happened to mobile phone costs in the last 10 years once the majority started to sign up and then other carriers entered the market. As an aside, I read an article saying that mobile phone companies are making a huge windfall because we have all accepted that 20c for SMS is OK in Australia, when really it's very over-priced compared to other countries.

Why do I feel I have gone off-track on an AFL forum

However, Telstra have put their NexG rates up recently.

probably because you have hondo

However, to keep drifting rather than bother to start a new thread, Telstra have put their NexG rates up since the system was first introduced.

[sydney-dog]

More Saints news

ST Kilda player Michael Gardiner's season is over before it started, with the ruckman to have surgery on his inflamed right foot on Saturday.

The former West Coast big man has already had 14 surgeries for a multitude of problems since making his AFL debut in 1997.

Gardiner was due to resume in the Victorian Football League this weekend alongside teammates Matt Maguire and Aaron Hamill, but he broke down at training after stepping up his intensity over the past fortnight.

Traded to St Kilda by the Eagles last year on a one-year deal, Gardiner is understood to be devastated by yet another injury blow. His debut for Saints has twice been put on hold this year, because of hernia surgery followed by a foot injury.

He has not played at senior level since incurring a club suspension with West Coast after round 15 last season.

Gardiner is in his 11th season at the elite level, yet he has played just 129 games after missing more than 110 matches - five full seasons - because of a number of injuries.

And veteran ruckman Matthew Clarke, who has missed the past month with a hamstring problem, is again in doubt to play Richmond on Saturday night.

[Benchwarmer]

Great pick up, Gardiner!

I heard he is going to take up a new line of work as a lollypop man at a roundabout!