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Round 11 St Kilda vs Brisbane
Saturday June 7th - Dome

ST KILDA: 5.1 9.5 13.6 13.12 (90)
BRISBANE LIONS: 5.3 5.4 9.6 13.7 (85)
GOALS: St Kilda: Riewoldt 4, Milne 2, Murray 2, Burke, Gehrig, Hamill, Knobel, Powell
BEST: St Kilda: Riewoldt, Hayes, Harvey, Voss, Goddard, Clarke.

Grant Thomas: "We're fortunate that we've held on. You do, for a fleeting moment, think about the repercussions, if it had of gone the other way," Thomas said. "I really wanted (to win) it, but that doesn't matter a lot. The players need to want it and they showed by their actions that they really did want the game." . . . "Whether or not it's a defining moment, remains to be seen, because sides have also come out and had terrific wins like that and then rested on their laurels and as I pointed out to the players after the game, it becomes an indictment, if you're performance slips below that."
» My best win: Thomas - saints.com.au - 08Jun03
St Kilda was due to receive the results of scans on Penny and Brooks last night. Penny, who was kept in hospital overnight and most of yesterday for tests to rule out neck or spinal injury, will be assessed for physical recovery and cognitive recovery this week. "He actually improved very quickly once we got him into the rooms," said Ian Stone, one of St Kilda's medical officers," "but a lot will depend on when he is free of symptoms, whether he's able to train, and his reaction tests."
» Saints, Lions pay a high price - TheAge - 09Jun03
Brett Voss: "Michael is a great player and I'm not really up to his level and I'm just about going out there every week and doing my best for the St Kilda footy club," Voss said. "I'm a little bit biased, but I would think he's the best in the comp. I've seen a lot of him play and I see how good he is and what he can do with the football and what a good leader he is."
» Voss the younger stands tall - saints.com.au - 09Jun03
» Voss steps out from under an imposing shadow - saints.com.au - 09Jun03
The bad guys were menacing enough, and Lappin, the Scott boys, Akermanis, Black and Pike played it tough. But the Saints won the midfield battle and provided enough physical presence to make sure this epic had its fairytale ending.
» Saints write a new script - HeraldSun - 09Jun03
Not since the 1997 qualifying final at Waverly has St. Kilda beaten the team from Queensland, a run of eight matches without victory. The Saints, through a combination of committed backmen and the twin targets of Hamill and Riewoldt up forward, continually denied an increasingly frustrated Lions side. By contrast, the home side linked up with cohesion and found team mates - particularly its forwards - with precise delivery.
» Saints in massive boilover - saints.com.au - 07Jun03
» Split-second Saints celebrate - HeraldSun - 08Jun03
» Split-second Saints beat Lions at their own game - The Age - 08Jun03
St Kilda's sweetest hour of the season soured last night, with captain Aaron Hamill among three leading players to be injured during the boilover win against Brisbane. Ruckman Trent Knobel knocked himself out, Hamill's ankle problems flared again and Luke Penny will have scans to determine the extent of a sprained knee.
» Injury List - This site
» Saints pay a high price - HeraldSun - 08Jun03
» Lions: Weekend of pain - HeraldSun - 09Jun03

St Kilda's ruck stocks have taken a further battering against the Brisbane Lions on Saturday night, with Trent Knobel leaving the field with concussion. Knobel flew in a centre-bounce ruck contest, before slipping and landing heavily. He was then stretched from the field.
» Saints ruck depth battered - saints.com.au - 07Jun03
St Kilda and the final siren beat the Brisbane Lions at Telstra Dome tonight in a drama-packed match. The siren sounded as Jason Akermanis' pass was in the air to Luke Power, who marked. Power, who was inside 50m, was not allowed to have a shot at goal and the Saints won by five points.
» Saints and siren beat Brisbane - HeraldSun - 07Jun03
St Kilda was hungrier and looked more skilled in the second term, kicking five goals and keeping Brisbane to a behind for a 25-point lead at the main break. The game became heated in the second term, with Lions hardman Chris Scott benched just before halftime after a series of clashes.
» Siren drama as Lions beaten - FoxSports - 07Jun03
Rod Butterss: The St. Kilda Football Club is back in the black, according to its president Rod Butterss. Speaking at a dinner ahead of Saturday night's clash with the Brisbane Lions at Telstra Dome, Butterss indicated the club will post a profit this financial year. But with Sydney in the news in recent days because of its levels of debt and the Western Bulldogs and Kangaroos football clubs on AFL financial assistance packages, Butterss was careful not to get too carried away. "This industry can bite hard and it is often when you least expect it. One of the major reasons for our turnaround has been our administration's ability to conceptualise ideas into products and to deliver value to you, our corporate partners," he said.
» Saints in the black - saints.com.au - 07Jun03
St Kilda's ruck stocks have taken a battering on Saturday, with Trent Knobel knocked out against the Brisbane Lions, while emerging ruckman Barry Brooks suffered a knee injury for Springvale in the VFL and is likely to miss the rest of the season.
» Saints ruck depth battered - saints.com.au - 07Jun03

Jimmy Wandin: "They were pretty scarce then, you know, Aboriginals. There weren't many at all . . . You'd feel at home now," he said. The former Saint this week met the latest indigenous inclusion to Moorabbin, Allan Murray - one of 42 players of Aboriginal descent in the AFL living out the same dream as himself. Greeting him with a warm handshake and a congratulatory backslap for last week's sensational four-goal debut, Wandin invited Murray into some of his most treasured memories, highlighting the good times - a young Ron Barassi was dropped after his woeful debut on the then St Kilda half-forward flanker - but also recalling the dark ones.
» Memories shared good and bad - The Age - 07Jun03

Forum Threads
» Injuries - Saintsational Forum
mischa: Just put it down to some of the media being unable to cope . . . you have to laugh.
» The Pike/Black decision - Saintsational Forum
dan warna: The first quarter saw brisbane kick away to a small lead of 2 goals and bit before we clawed it back. Although they went into the first quarter with a 2 point lead, it wasn't the massacre that every one expected and the team got a round of applause from the stadium. This quarter the umpiring was bloody disgrace, inconsistent, clownish and basically moronic.
» Dan's match review the good, the bad and the ugly - Saintsational Forum

Eastern Saint: I can't believe that I left R Harvey out, but I could have snuck him or any one of a handful of other players in. That is how even our TEAM is at the moment !!
» Tonight's Votes !! - Saintsational Forum
Templar: Luke Penny's efforts tonight on Lynch was sensational. Only after Penny injured his foot? did Lynch come into the game. Kudo's to Thomo for switching Gehrig onto him which put Lynch back out of it. The thing I noticed about Penny tonight is that he is very much a ball player and rarely gives away a free kick.
» Penny worth more than a pound sainters.com Forum
saintsa: 14 marks for V2, where the hell did he come from? BJ with his long 50m+ kicks. Was listening on the radio. 3 votes for the time keeper. Whoever's in charge on playing the song at the end must have been a saints supporter as well. Didn't take em long to start the song, even before the final decision was made on the mark.
» Who wanted to drop V2 and BJ? - Saintsational Forum
BIG RED: Dirty rotten filthy scum. They are the lowest, filthiest scumbags playing today. They both should go under video due to some pretty ordinary actions, but I just know that the AFL will turn a blind eye to them.
» Saints win despite the snott brothers - Saintsational Forum
» Big Footy fans bag Saints - BigFooty Forum

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