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2003 ROUND 13 - Page 3

No bitterness for ex-Demon Powell
Midfielder Stephen Powell has no intention of taking any bitterness into tomorrow's AFL game against Melbourne despite an acrimonious split with the Demons last year. Powell left Melbourne because of a pay dispute at the end of the year and was picked up by the Saints in the pre-season draft after three seasons with the Demons. But rather than sensing the chance to prove a point against his old club, he'd rather share an on-field joke with his former teammates.
» More - Adam Cooper of AAP - HeraldSun - 27Jun03
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» Big guns back for Saints - Matt Burgan - saints.com.au - 26Jun03
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» Demons Stats Page - demons.com.au

Consistency Baker's goal
Steven Baker: "I have a lot of goals and targets that I strive to achieve. Mainly, I want to play consistent football. As well as kick a goal every four weeks. Milney (Stephen Milne) says I need to kick a goal every four games, so that's definitely something I aim for. I also aspire to be as tanned as Schwartta!" (Troy Schwarze).
» More - Megan Burns - saints.com.au - 24Jun03

It's all in front of the Saints
Nathan Burke: "It's okay," Burke assessed of the first half of the season. "We probably deserve to be 6-6. We'd like to be 7-5 or slightly more in front with the win-loss, but we'll take 6-6, it gives us a good launching pad for the last 10 games. If we win eight we're certainly in the finals, if we win six we'll be knocking on the door and if we only win two or three, well then we'll be disappointed."
» More - Barry Levinson - saints.com.au - 24Jun03

Early Openers - Round 13
Melbourne v St.Kilda, MCG, Saturday, 2.10pm.
With a host of guns expected to return, this should be a comfortable win for the Saints, but they will be wary of the most under-performing team in the competition. There is too much talent at Demon-land for their fortunes not to change at some stage and how the David Neitz saga manifests itself on the field will be a talking point in this game. And while it will have none of the publicity that surrounded Shane Woewodin's reunion with his former teammates, Stephen Powell, now of the Saints, also enters this clash with plenty to prove.
» All Teams - Preview - Ashley Browne - afl.com.au - 24Jun03

Moorabbin Stands to be demolished!
Roger: Gotta be realistic, the stands will never be used again and over the next 10, 20, 30 years will rust and rot away and become a real safety hazzard, the whole lot needs to be bulldozed and build modern up-to-date state of the art facilities . . . you will not keep elite sportsman unless you have first class facilities, its no co-incidence that the top 6 clubs are from interstate with the facilities they provide their players . . . what would you rather have a 40yr old rundown grandstand sitting there like a stale bottle of .... not being used or a pleasant envoirement? for the players to turn up to work each day . . . not to mention the waste of money to keep the rot at bay for no reason . . . if you keep things as they are now for the next 20yrs what an eyesore for the rate payers and the players who have to put up with that each day, one day down the track Worksafe or some other Gov dept will walk in and put a sticker on the place after we've wasted money on upkeep . . . bulldoze the lot and start again.
» Forum Thread - sainters.com.au Forum

GT: Knobel Looks OK
Grant Thomas: "We are satisfied with our stocks when you consider Kosi will be bigger and better and Brooksy will be fresh and more powerful with the program. Knobes looks like he will be OK this week which is terrific. Goose Maguire also can pinch-hit which is not the ideal scenario for him although I am sure it has accelerated his career so far. I consider 3 ruckmen enough on your list in the future however I understand that one more to release Kosi would be of benefit."
» Ask Thomo - saints.com.au - 24Jun03

Melbourne v St Kilda - a look at history
The last time the two sides met was in Round 22, 2002. Melbourne had to win to consolidate a finals berth, and did so. Loewe was in his last game for the Saints. Riewoldt was a thorn in the Melbourne side, kicking six goals and outmarking an undermanned defence. However, Melbourne rallied with quick goals, including a freakish effort from Armstrong, and five for the match to Green. Neitz's two goals gave him 75 for the season and confirmed his status as the Coleman Medallist for 2002.
» More - demons.com.au - access via saints.com.au - 24Jun03

Melbourne site Match Review
» Melbourne v St Kilda - Rob Harding - demons.com.au - access via saints.com.au - 24Jun03

Eddie in line to run Nine
Eddie McGuire is in the running to become boss of Channel 9 Melbourne. Nine executives in Sydney have been assessing McGuire's suitability to take on the managing director role while still hosting The Footy Show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and footy commentating. A well-placed Nine source said while the move would be unconventional, network chiefs were looking closely at McGuire.
» More - Robert Fidgeon - HeraldSun - 28Jun03

Signage snag for Subiaco deal
The cash-strapped West Australian Football Commission has told mobile phone retailer Crazy Johns it has approval for a $5.5 million sponsorship deal to rename Subiaco Oval as Crazy Johns Stadium. But it must still overcome the hurdle of an intransigent Subiaco City Council. Crazy Johns chief executive John Ilhan told The Weekend Australian last night: "They want the deal. They are happy with the deal. There will be a full proposal by early next week. But they have to deal with the mayor. Now it's about whether we are happy. We want our street signs." But WAFC chief executive Wayne Bradshaw was more coy.
» More - Michael Sainsbury and David King - TheAustralian - 28Jun03
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From sneered to revered, Samuel no longer the odd one out
In 1983, he was a successful young businessman who was asked by the then St Kilda president Lindsay Fox to look at the habitually troubled Saints. Work out where the club was, how it could move forward. If it could move forward. He compiled a detailed report. The 36-year-old had no interest in the game but as part of the St Kilda brief he also did a review of the Victorian Football League, the state competition that would later broaden to be the national code known as the AFL. He knows now that it was superficial but it was a quick attempt to sum up the competition and its future.
» More - Patrick Smith - TheAustralian - 28Jun03

Grand offer to legends
The AFL has invited greats Bob Rose, Charlie Sutton, Darrel Baldock and Kelvin Templeton to present awards at this year's Grand Final. AFL chief executive Wayne Jackson announced yesterday four-time Collingwood best-and-fairest winner Rose would present the premiership cup to the winning coach and captain. St Kilda's 1966 premiership captain Baldock will present the Norm Smith Medal to the best player on the ground.
» More - Rebecca Williams - HeraldSub - 28Jun03

Scorpions were gallant but Bullants too strong
Best for Springvale was Leigh Montagna who racked up 34 possessions, including a blistering 14 possession first quarter. Nick Dal Santo was very strong all day, getting 21 possessions and two goals. Both boys should be in line for senior selection after the AFL bye. Josh Houlihan was a good forward target, collecting 18 possessions and four goals, around the forward line. Ben Schwarze was strong and fast along his wing, gathering 19 possessions and nearly won the game for Springvale in the last quarter with his blistering pace. Leigh Fisher was strong at full back and did a great job for his team.
» More - Glenn Stevens - saints.com.au - 24Jun03

Poor clubs to cash in on $5m lifeline
It is believed the AFL plans to meet the Western Bulldogs administration in a bid to specify the club's plans to strengthen its list for the 2004 season. The Bulldogs are not only working to re-sign key players, but have indicated they plan to trade more aggressively at the end of the season. While the league has said it will not restrict the Bulldogs' salary cap to 95 per cent next season, it is expected to urge some restraint.
» More - Caroline Wilson - The Age RealFooty - 28Jun03

Footy is booming
In a marketplace in which competition from other sports and forms of entertainment has never been tougher, the key indicators for AFL football remain solid and in some cases buoyant, with increases in crowds, TV and radio audiences, Internet traffic and Auskick registrations. Areas for concern would be reduced figures for AFL membership and crowds for selects clubs, such as Essendon and the Western Bulldogs.
» More - Ashley Browne - afl.com.au - 23Jun03
» Top five TV games - 2003 - afl.com.au - 23Jun03

Not time to pillage Demons
The great David Neitz storm has finally blown over. The Melbourne captain has a poor sense of timing. In the week of the bye the media was looking for any story to fill the void. Enter, perhaps stagger, Neitz. Had it happened in between rounds two and three, the story would have come and gone within 48 hours. Tribunals, wonky knees, financial disasters would have taken its place.
» More - Patrick Smith - afl.com.au - 23Jun03

To the 7th-placed team goes the spoils
"We're just enormously disappointed we haven't been able to get what we regard is a sense of fairness into this consideration given the enormity of the excess games we've played at the MCG in the last 10 years' above the agreed limit," Jackson told a media conference at AFL House.
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» More - Barry Levinson - afl.com.au - 23Jun03

Non-Vic clubs in dismay
The elimination final between sixth and seventh in week one will be played at the MCG, regardless of whether it is between two non-Victorian clubs or whether the sixth-placed club is a non-Victorian club. This raises the possibility that a seventh-placed Victorian club could play every week of the finals at home, each time meeting a non-Victorian club with a nominal right to host the game.
» More - Len Johnson - TheAge RealFooty - 25Jun03

League and MCC joust over finals
The AFL said it poured millions of dollars into the MCG. The MCC said this was not just about money, but values. The AFL said it was the MCC's best partner. It said it had offered the MCC the world. The MCC said it had been offered everything except a solution. And on it went. In truth, this is not a battle about finals, but territory. Between the MCC at the MCG and the AFL at Telstra Dome, there is still no middle ground.
» More - Greg Baum - TheAge RealFooty - 25Jun03

Chase our dreams!
AwayInUSA: I have faith that our leaders will have a real crack at getting R. Clarke and Judd . . . Give me the choice to fight for Judd, Salopek and R. Clarke . . . I would love to see a team with the following young guns in our side: Ball, Baker, Black (on a reduced deal), Brooks, X. Clarke, R. Clarke, Dal Santo, Goddard, Hayes, Judd, Koschitzke, Maguire, Milne, Montagna, Murray, Penny, Riewoldt, Salopek.
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