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2003 ROUND 12 - Page 1

Round 12 - Saints vs Port Power

Debut Game: Matthew Ferguson Heyfield-Gippsland U18
» Preliminary Match-Ups - Official Line-Up - This site
» Round 12 - All Teams - saints.com.au - 13Jun03

Grant Thomas: "It was very good to win last week, but it sets a higher bar and it would be an indictment on everybody, the players, coaching staff and the club to produce less than that," Thomas said it did not necessarily mean the Saints had to win, but that anything less than the 100 per cent effort and the intensity shown last weekend would be unacceptable.
» Thomas after repeat performance - The Age - 14Jun03

Grant Thomas: "We're pleased to have two really tough games coming into the bye,'' Saints coach Grant Thomas said before a brief training run yesterday. "We've beaten a few sides that have been below us but haven't had a lot of success with teams above us. "Tomorrow (today) will give us a really good indication as to how we're able to withstand that pressure. We did it last week and there's no reason why we can't do it again this week."
» Saints' chance to boost credibility - Advocate - 14Jun03

"Grant Thomas on Travel: I think it gives us another opportunity to prove to ourselves that it's (travel) above the shoulders. It will give the young playing group more first-hand training of jumping on a plane and winning a game, hopefully. We'll get to the levels, hopefully, that West Coast and Fremantle and even Port Adelaide and Adelaide and Brisbane and Sydney (are at)."
» Travel challenge inspires Thomas - saints.com.au - 11Jun03

Knobel will be unavailable for the next 12 weeks, all but ruling him out for the remainder of the home and away season. The ruckman was badly concussed after landing heavily during last Saturday night's match against the Brisbane Lions at Telstra Dome, and had to be stretchered from the ground.
» Knobel out for rest of year - TheAge - 12Jun03
» Knobel out for season - saints.com.au - 11Jun03
» Saints' Knobel out for season - 7Sports - 11Jun03

"He'll be out (Aaron Hamill), he won't play," St Kilda coach Grant Thomas told afl.com.au soon after the forced omission was made on Tuesday. "It gives us the opportunity to get him right for the game after the bye. But there's no guarantee of that. Hopefully he'll be right by then."
» Saints tall timber crashes down - HeraldSun - 12Jun03
» Hamill sidelined by tiny tear - saints.com.au - 10Jun03
» Hamill, Knobel in doubt for Saints - TheAge - 10Jun03

Rodney Eade: St Kilda's great win last week will give the players a great deal of confidence entering Saturday's clash with Port Adelaide at York Park. The only downer for the Saints was the number of injuries they received.
» Saints good, Power better - saints.com.au - 12Jun03

Nick Stevens: Stressing the importance of second-placed Port moving to a 9-3 win-loss record this season by beating much-improved St Kilda at Launceston's York Park on Saturday, Stevens said: "If we lose this week, all our good work is undone, so we're going to go out very positive and make sure we come away with the four points."
» Gav the great: Stevens - saints.com.au - 12Jun03

Port Adelaide spent a frustrating 6 and 1/2 hours yesterday trying to get to Launceston for today's clash with St Kilda - despite receiving an AFL guarantee it would have direct flights. The Port players, coaches and officials boarded their Qantas flight at 10.30am but did not arrive in Launceston until 5pm - more than an hour longer than the West Coast Eagles' transit from Perth to Brisbane.
» A long haul to Tassie - HeraldSun - 14Jun03
» St Kilda in the black - HeraldSun - 12Jun03
» Port wants a 'Saintly' 150th - saints.com.au - 09Jun03
» Power the best - Connolly - TheAge - 09Jun03

Heath Black: "We are now playing to our ability and have the self belief to be able to compete against any top side. We enjoy coming down to York Park where the surface is great for football and our support levels are high - we are coming down to win."
» Saints 'coming to win' - The Advocate - 13Jun03
» Brooks plans to pursue football dream - The Advocate - 13Jun03

Josh: I look forward to the years in the future when I can tell my kids about all the heartache of the past as they watch this current crop of stars playing to the best of their abilities week in and week out. I await with anticipation the day my son sits beside me and cheers as loudly and passionately as I do now. I have seen the highs and lows of the club, I have felt pride in every victory, and heartache in every loss, but I have never been prouder of the Saints than I am this year.
» Bring it on - saints.com.au - 13Jun03
St Kilda will be without three key players due to injury for their first ever home game at Launceston's York Park. The Saints will take on high-flying Port Adelaide in Tasmania without skipper Aaron Hamill (foot), number one ruckman Trent Knobel (neck) and defender Luke Penny (knee). Their replacements are first gamer Matthew Ferguson and young duo Jason Blake and Chris Oliver. Oliver will take over the rucking duties in the absence of Knobel, who will miss the rest of the season with the serious neck injury he sustained during the win over Brisbane.
» Ferguson for Tassie debut - saints.com.au - 12Jun03
» Early Openers - Round 12 - saints.com.au - 11Jun03

Tasmanian Connections: The common threads between the two entities appear endless and, once knitted together through this latest - and biggest - connection, the Saints have every reason to be confident they are on the right track to establishing a secondary fortress on the other side of Bass Strait.
» A Saintly connection - saints.com.au - 13Jun03

Lenny Hayes: "We have a big supporter base down there, it'll be just like playing a home game at Telstra Dome," said Hayes. "The Tasmanian people are great, really welcoming. York Park has a great surface, and the ground and facilities are good".
» Saints first Tassie home game - saints.com.au - 12Jun03


Special Feature Articles


Imagine how Raphael felt yesterday when, wearing Nathan Burke's No. 3 guernsey, he joined his older and now celebrated brother as a guest of the Saints at their morning training session at Moorabbin. St Kilda has a superstar in the making in Xavier after the club's recruiting guru John Beveridge picked him at No. 5 in the 2001 national draft. Raphael, 17, is also expected be a top five or six pick, which, given the Saints' success so far this year, makes him only an outside chance of winding up at St Kilda with his brother
» Brother longs to join Saints - HeraldSun - 12Jun03

Grant Thomas is the stranger in town. Everyone knows who he is - but who is he? Down at the AFL Arms, the regulars are staring and whispering among themselves. Some are suspicious, some curious, some openly hostile. But over at the table, he is beginning to win games. What sort of hustle is this? - by By Greg Baum
» Thomas, an outsider within

Wayne Jackson who announced his retirement, much to the pleasure of the Victorian football clubs has said his departure is imminent and linked to that of John Howard who will leave shortly after his 64th birthday, about 96 months after his 64th birthday to be precise.
» footy news wrap - September 30 2008 - Saintsational Forum

A breakdown of each AFL club's matches this season showing how many games each club has with genuine home state advantage, how many neutral games they have where is no home ground advantage and how many they have where they are the out of state visiting team.
» Hard to take Port's Darwin bid seriously - saints.com.au - 12Jun03


Physically, Both Goddard and Salopek are very consistent, and natural on-field "leaders by example". Physically, if you saw Goddard and Salopek walking side by side without knowing who they were, you'd pick Salopek as a footballer (great built, posture, cool-dude "man's man" look, air of assurance). By comparison, Goddard would look like his non-sporting side-kick - hunched shoulders, dorky darkish/reddish hair style, walks like he carries the world on his shoulders and his posture projects a somewhat introverted persona. Despite appearances, I'd like to have Goddard standing next to me in the trenches. He has a nice combination of self-confidence, courage and never-say-die. And he's too smart and slippery to ever get shot.
» Goddard vs Salopek - Colin Wisby Files - This site

Melissa Rudling - Milne patner interview: "We went to school together in Year 8 and 9 and we went out together. I left half way through Year 10 and I didn't see him for three or four years, then I saw him again at a party and we got back together. And we've been together four years this year."
» The Other Half - Interview - HeraldSun - 14Jun03


Other Related Articles

Campbell Rose - Doggies CEO: "I think all of our members would welcome that but nothing has been decided and we will keep everyone informed." The Bulldogs' interest in Darwin comes on top of Port Adelaide's desire to play two of its away matches (against Melbourne-based clubs with traditionally lower attendances) in Darwin next year.
» Dogs confirm Darwin interest - saints.com.au - 13Jun03

Terry Wallace believes his decision while coach of the Western Bulldogs to trade Leon Cameron, Brett Montgomery and Stephen Powell at the end of the 1999 season was "a massive mistake" that "hurt the fabric" of the club.
» Trading trio a mistake: Wallace - TheAge - 12Jun03
» Clubs going broke as salaries go up - FatPryk Smith - Australian - 13jun03

Following complaints by Brisbane and Richmond, several sections of grass at Telstra Dome were replaced in the past 48 hours and the AFL will make an assessment today before tomorrow night's clash between Essendon and the Kangaroos.
» Dome faces test - FoxSports - 12Jun03
» AFL gives Telstra Dome thumbs up - 7Sports - 12Jun03
» Dome surface has Lions roaring - TheAge - 09Jun03
» Dome chief has US turf in sights - TheAge - 11Jun03
» Curator quits, stays

Grant Thomas on Dome: "There's no doubt the players have a joint soreness which is more significant than any other ground they play on," he said yesterday (Monday). "Having said that, we absolutely love playing there. We think it's a terrific ground and relish the opportunity to be there."
» Hard questions posed on Dome - HeraldSun - 10Jun03

Brian Waldron: "If you fall on your head from nine feet up, it doesn't matter what ground it is."
» Saints have no problems with Dome - HeraldSun - 10Jun03
» Dome a danger: Tigers - TheAge - 10Jun03
» Power to the Darwin people - saints.com.au - 11Jun03

Kevin Sheedy: "It's simple. Have a best-of-three grand final series! They do it in basketball so why not football? Some traditionalists might scream but they would have to accept the argument it would help us go a lot further towards firmly establishing our game as the national code."
» Make grand finals best-of-three - Australian - 10Jun03
» Bracks attacks premiers' AFL letter - 7Sports - 10Jun03
» Bracks plays the man on MCG - TheAge - 10Jun03

The usually heavily pro-Victorian club president, McGuire, said that for the "sake of the competition" it would be good if a compromise could be reached, but he felt the finances of the agreement between the AFL and the MCC were more important than the beefs of the interstate sides.
» Vic clubs back MCG over final - TheAge - 11Jun03
» Wake up, Victoria: Carr - 10Sports - 11Jun03

Forum Threads
» My team this week . . . - Saintsational Forum
» Oliver, Blake, Ferguson IN - Saintsational Forum

sainter58: Aaron Hamill will not play again until after the bye. Channel 7 announced on talking footy that Hamill will not play this week. He must rest his foot or he will miss a lot of matches like Gerhig did last season.
» Hamill to miss next game - Saintsational Forum

rogerwa: " . . . Aussie also stated that he had decided to go to Essendon 2 years ago but received a phone call at the last minute from GT letting him know that he was still wanted at the club, Jones also added that until he got that phone call he didnt think he was a required player."
» Aussie Jones: On the couch - Saintsational Forum

BornSaint: This weeks great win had me reminiscing about past great games. A few that come to mind. Nth Melbourne at Arden St. late 70's when Rob Elliott had a kick after the siren. There must have been around 200 people on the ground when he kicked it. I have no idea how the goal ump could tell if the ball was touched on the way through.
» Memorable victories - Saintsational Forum
» Famous Supporters . . . - Saintsational Forum

StoneCold: I reckon that it is about time that someone measured Goose's height again. He just has looked bigger than 190cm standing next to the likes of Charman, Thompson etc the last couple of weeks!
» Has the Goose Grown????? - Saintsational Forum
» Trade Rumour - Saintsational Forum