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Article and Saints R8 Squad - Sportal - saints.com.au - 13May03
All Round eight teams - Sportal - saints.com.au - 13May03
Daniher digging in
Terry Daniher has been disarming or winning people with that slow, hayseed Ungarie drawl from the moment he arrived in the big smoke in 1976 as a hopeful South Melbourne player. As a footballer, his greatness is etched in history. A 313-game player, twice an Essendon premiership captain, captain of Victoria and also an Australian representative on one of the early forays to Ireland . . . This time last year Daniher was being lauded as the forward coach at Collingwood who had found the key to well-known party animal Chris Tarrant . . . Why Mick Malthouse opted to let Daniher go remains something of a mystery, but right now it is obvious "TD" is living and working in a happier, healthier environment . . . Daniher bears no grudge. To him that's footy. "It was just one of those things. You've got to keep the door ajar. I made some good friends in my 12 months at Collingwood," he said . . . "I've moved on and what a club I've come to."
The Article - Michael Horan - HeraldSun - 15May03
Malthouse concedes Saints are in different class
Mick Malthouse admits there is a significant talent gap between his Collingwood side and the top-of-the-ladder St Kilda team it meets tonight. Malthouse said yesterday that he faced one of the great coaching challenges to prevent the rampaging Saints from registering an eighth straight win. Referring to the "distinct talent-level difference", Malthouse said: "One of the great challenges you have as a coach (is) to see if you can get your players to play to their optimum and reduce the opposition's talent level to something that you can knock over. It doesn't happen a hell of a lot in modern sport because talent with the right attitude is very difficult to beat."
The Article - Len Johnson - TheAge - 15May03
Pies looking for leaders
Collingwood has challenged a group of senior players to inspire the inexperienced team against St Kilda at Telstra Dome tonight. Coach Michael Malthouse nominated Anthony Rocca, James Clement, Shane Wakelin, Shane Woewodin, Paul Licuria and Shane O'Bree as those primarily responsible to set an example in a bid to bring down the undefeated AFL leader.
The Article - Bruce Matthews - HeraldSun - 15May03
Coach looks to St Kilda to put sting back in Scorpions
Springvale coach Graham Wright hopes the success of unbeaten AFL affiliate St Kilda will inspire the winless Scorpions to arrest their early season slide. The Scorpions have the worst record in the VFL after six rounds, sitting at the foot of the ladder with a meagre percentage. Springvale will pursue its first victory in tomorrow's bottom-of-the-ladder clash against the Box Hill Hawks - the only other team yet to win a match this season - at Shepley Oval. Wright said his St Kilda-listed players, in particular, should draw on the Saints' brilliant form to help lift their own performances - and that of the team.
The Article - Rebecca Williams - HeraldSun - 15May03
Saints go alternative
Despite their 'home team' status, the Saints have taken what club chief executive Brian Waldron describes as a 'charitable approach' by agreeing to wear their alternative red, black and white vertical stripe guernsey with white shorts against Collingwood at Telstra Dome on Saturday night. "The AFL requested the Club do this in the interests of spectators and the television audience," Waldron said. "The club has reluctantly agreed to this given it is our home game and our belief that Collingwood should have an alternative strip that does not clash."
The Article - Sportal - saints.com.au - 14May03
Round 8 preview
TAB Sportsbet: St Kilda $1.14 Collingwood $4.85
Centrebet: St Kilda $1.14 Collingwood $5.60
The top side against the bottom side - and that should be reflected in the scoreline, unless St Kilda decides to take it easy. There seems to be no doubt the Saints will continue on their extraordinary charge. With the pre-season Wizard Cup grand final in their pockets and the only team in the competition without a loss after seven rounds, they are showing no signs of the cracks which have been predicted. Not even off-field problems - now put to rest - were able to distract the players. St Kilda will be weakened though by the loss of Brett Voss through injury and skipper Lenny Hayes and Heath Black through suspension, however that won't be enough to give the Magpies much hope.
The Article - HeraldSun - 13May03
Blake straight back for Saints
Jason Blake has made a quicker-than-expected return to the Saints senior line-up after being named on the wing for Saturday night's game against Collingwood at Telstra Dome. Blake suffered a serious lower back injury in a clash with Richmond's Greg Stafford in round three and had been expected to miss up to 12-weeks. But he's one of three inclusions this week along with Justin Koschtizke and Steven Baker, both of whom are avaiable after suspension.
Article and Saints R8 Squad - Sportal - saints.com.au - 13May03
Us Vs Da Eddies - Saintsational Fan Forum
Round 8: Saints vs Collingwood
Traditionally, sides coming back from the west have struggled the following week, but even that is clutching at straws for this St Kilda line-up. But the news couldn't be much worse for Collingwood. Buckley will again be sidelined after re-injuring his hamstring, while the Pies have lost six games for the season - including the last five in row. It's a massive fall from grace for the back-to-back grand finalists of 2002-03.
Match Details - saints.com.au
Match Details - afl.com.au
Saints rough and ready
When assessing St Kilda's likely improvement before the season, I thought the club may still be a year off blossoming into full maturity. Well, I was wrong. And it was obvious from the first week of the Wizard Cup series back in February. The Saints showed in that first hitout against Adelaide at AAMI Stadium that not only had their bodies matured but they had been schooled exceptionally well by coach Grant Thomas. Classroom lessons obviously explained that to have success they needed to play with the physical edge shown by the Brisbane Lions' premiership teams.
The Article - Terry Wallace - HeraldSun - 12May03
Chase for the AFL ton is back on
The race to 100 goals was thought to be a thing of the AFL's past, a relic from the era of fluoro bike-shorts and the final five. But 2004 is shaping as a throwback to those halcyon days of the full-forward shoot-out, with several players currently eyeing off the elusive `ton'. Not since 1996 has more than one player kicked 100 goals in a season, ending an era when Tony Lockett, Jason Dunstall, Gary Ablett, Tony Modra and Peter Sumich consistently chased three figures.
The Article - AAP - 7Sports - 12May03
Blues-Saints venue switch - Sportal - saints.com.au - 11May03
Blues move Saints clash to Dome - Len Johnson - TheAge - 13May03
Magpies to appeal Holland ban - AAP - 7Sports - 12May03
Pies and Hawthorn look for luck - AAP - 7Sports - 12May03
Magpies pay for appeal - Michael Horan - HeraldSun - 14May04
'Heater' on the boil in rocky coaching debut
At Warrnambool, players and supporters were strong in their support of Grant Thomas during the troubled early period of his coaching reign at St Kilda. Their memories of Thomas coaching their own club to four consecutive Hampden league premierships, from 1986-89, cemented their belief that he would succeed at Moorabbin . . . A report this week in The Standard, Warrnambool's daily newspaper, described last Saturday's incident in which Heatley called umpire Daryl Davey a "f---ing idiot" and a "f---ing disgrace" early in the last quarter of the match against Koroit. Heatley told the tribunal he had approached Davey at three-quarter-time to question several inconsistencies. His outbursts were made following a free kick in the Koroit forward line soon afterwards. After receiving a 50-metre penalty for his initial remark, Heatley was penalised another 50 metres for the second remark. Davey told the tribunal that when he challenged Heatley about calling him a f---ing disgrace, Heatley said to him: "You are. I can't get a 50 for telling the truth."
The Article - Paul Daffey - TheAge - 15May03
Hot team, hot gear
According to St Kilda's general manager for membership, merchandise and fundraising David Friend, the club now takes in around $25,000 per game from sales, more than six times what was the case in two years ago. "It's a bit of a crystal-ball situation. We have to guess how much people will buy and every time we place an order, we double it the next time and triple it the next time. The stock comes in and - it's sold-out straight away," he said on Wednesday. The projections are also impressive, with revenue from merchandise expected to top an unprecedented $1 million in 2004, up from $700,000 last year and $300,000 in 2002.
The Article - Jordon Chong/Sportal - saints.com.au - 13May03
AFL fights $3m land tax bill
The AFL has launched legal action over what it claims is an unfair $3 million land tax bill for Waverley Park. In two separate land tax bills, the State Revenue Office claims the AFL owes $1.39 million in land tax for 2000 and $1.67 million for 2001. But lawyers for the AFL say legislation exempted Waverley Park from land tax because it was used for sporting activities. They claim that even after Waverley Park hosted its last AFL game in 1999, the Mulgrave site was still used by the Hawthorn Football Club, cycling clubs and amateur football clubs. The AFL, which is worth $43 million, will fight the costs in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
The Article - Kate Jones - HeraldSun - 15May03
Dome in $3m bid for Blues
Telstra Dome is on the verge of making the Carlton Football Club an offer it cannot refuse - $3 million up-front - to move its home games to the boutique stadium in a deal understood to last seven years . . . While St Kilda, the Western Bulldogs and the Kangaroos play the majority of their home games at Telstra Dome, none has anchor tenant privileges . . . The AFL has also indicated it would contribute several million dollars to Princes Park on the proviso another Victorian club - the two frontrunners are Melbourne and the Kangaroos - share the facility with Carlton.
The Article - Caroline Wilson - TheAge - 14May03
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