Saints Take The Silver Wok - WIZARD CUP 2004
St Kilda 0.4.1 1.7.5 1.10.6 1.14.5 (98)
Geelong 0.2.1 0.7.3 0.10.4 1.10.7 (76)
Nine-pointers: St Kilda: L Montagna P Gram. Geelong: B Graham.
Goals: St Kilda: D Wulf 4 A Hammill 2 F Gehrig 2 N Riewoldt 2 A Jones L Hayes L Ball S Milne. Geelong: K Kingsley 5 M McCarthy 2 B Graham B Haynes G Ablett Jnr.
Best: St Kilda: R Harvey L Hayes P Guerra M Dal Santo B Voss L Ball. Geelong: T Enright K Kingsley D Milburn J Rahilly M Scarlett C Mooney.
Injuries: Nil.
Reports: Nil.
Umpires: M Vozzo S McLaren C Rowe S McInerney.
Official crowd: 50,533 at Telstra Dome.
Best of Ground: Robert Harvey 33 posessions
Saints to march on route '66
While St Kilda has kept a lid on celebration and self-congratulation following its pre-season premiership, club legend Neil Roberts yesterday declared this emerging team to be the best collection of talent since the Saints won their sole premiership in 1966.
The Article - Jake Niall - TheAge - 15Mar04
We're no flag threat - Thomas
St Kilda's Wizard Cup win proves little, with coach Grant Thomas acknowledging his side can not be considered an AFL premiership threat this year. "Respect is won over time and performance and neither of those should be exclusive - we haven't done it for enough time," Thomas said. "We've performed well for a short period of time, so the performance is there, but the time is not. It's going to take another good 12 months or so for us to be respected as a serious threat."
The Article - AAP - TheAge - 14Mar04
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The Articles - HeraldSun - 15Mar04
But is the coach smiling?
Most of all the Saints ran until the very end and held their nerve when Geelong did not and won a match that had been all but taken away from them. Thomas says history shows this is not a traditional trait at Moorabbin. Also significant is Thomas himself. He has been stripped of his powers to run the club and can devote more time to his coaching. In the real stuff he has won just 34 per cent of the games in his charge. He won five games in 2002, 11 in 2003. He has been a man forced to learn on the job.
The Article - Patrick Smith - TheAustralian - 15Mar04
Saints' coffers topped up
St Kilda's pre-season premiership will further reinforce its off-field progress, with the Saints set for consecutive years of profit-making. Following a financial turnaround of almost $4 million in 2003, St Kilda chief executive Brian Waldron yesterday said the Saints would achieve an operating surplus of at least $550,000 this year.
The Article - Greg Denham - FoxSports - 15Mar04
Thompson pays out on soft 50m
Geelong coach Mark Thompson said yesterday the final-quarter umpiring decision on Saturday night which handed St Kilda a nine-point goal and the lead was a terrible tragedy for his club.
The Article - AAP - TheAge - 14Mar04
Saints storm over Cats
Opposed to the outsized Jarad Rooke, Hamill played a key role in the Saints first three goals of the final quarter that turned the game around. After kicking one and being felled off the ball in a controversial decision that resulted in a nine-point super goal, the Saints were back in front. Then Fraser Gehrig, who had been held all night by Matthew Scarlett, kicked two lucky goals - the first when he marked a Hamill mis-kick, and the next when he reacted first to a poster.
The Article - Chris Lines (AAP) - HeraldSun - 13Mar04
Saints are Wizards - Derek Ballantine - HeraldSun - 14Mar04
Did we play well?? - Saintsational Fan Forum
This one's better than last time
St Kilda's 2004 pre-season AFL flag was a more deserved triumph than its previous piece of silverware, according to half-back Aussie Jones. Jones, one of the survivors of the Saints' 1996 summer premiership and one of his side's best in tonight's grand final win over Geelong, rated this year's pre-season win much higher. "Back then the Wizard Cup wasn't such a strong competition but this year a lot of sides have taken in full strengths sides so our 1996 win was probably a bit of a fake. So this is a much better win."
The Article - Adam Cooper (AAP) - HeraldSun - 13Mar04
Kids add true grit to their armoury
St Kilda has added the most dangerous of all ingredients to its talent-laden line-up: the will to win when all seems lost. No one has doubted how good this side can be when its kids turn into seasoned veterans, but last night at Telstra Dome they showed they are growing up mighty fast.
The Article - Jon Ralph - HeraldSun - 14Mar04
Guerra (Little G) - Saintsational Fan Forum
Maguire - Saintsational Fan Forum
We're no flag threat - Thomas
St Kilda's Wizard Cup win proves little, with coach Grant Thomas acknowledging his side can not be considered an AFL premiership threat this year. "Respect is won over time and performance and neither of those should be exclusive - we haven't done it for enough time," Thomas said. "We've performed well for a short period of time, so the performance is there, but the time is not. It's going to take another good 12 months or so for us to be respected as a serious threat."
The Article - AAP - TheAge - 14Mar04
Saints storm over Cats
Opposed to the outsized Jarad Rooke, Hamill played a key role in the Saints first three goals of the final quarter that turned the game around. After kicking one and being felled off the ball in a controversial decision that resulted in a nine-point super goal, the Saints were back in front. Then Fraser Gehrig, who had been held all night by Matthew Scarlett, kicked two lucky goals - the first when he marked a Hamill mis-kick, and the next when he reacted first to a poster.
The Article - Chris Lines (AAP) - HeraldSun - 13Mar04
Saints are Wizards - Derek Ballantine - HeraldSun - 14Mar04
Did we play well?? - Saintsational Fan Forum
This one's better than last time
St Kilda's 2004 pre-season AFL flag was a more deserved triumph than its previous piece of silverware, according to half-back Aussie Jones. Jones, one of the survivors of the Saints' 1996 summer premiership and one of his side's best in tonight's grand final win over Geelong, rated this year's pre-season win much higher. "Back then the Wizard Cup wasn't such a strong competition but this year a lot of sides have taken in full strengths sides so our 1996 win was probably a bit of a fake. So this is a much better win."
The Article - Adam Cooper (AAP) - HeraldSun - 13Mar04
Kids add true grit to their armoury
St Kilda has added the most dangerous of all ingredients to its talent-laden line-up: the will to win when all seems lost. No one has doubted how good this side can be when its kids turn into seasoned veterans, but last night at Telstra Dome they showed they are growing up mighty fast.
The Article - Jon Ralph - HeraldSun - 14Mar04
Magic night for Harvey
. . . it was veteran Robert Harvey, later voted best on ground, who was instrumental in the final term, having started on the bench and only coming on at the 16-minute mark of the first term. The former St Kilda captain finished the game with 16 kicks, 17 handballs and four marks in a vintage display.
The Article - Jackie Epsein - HeraldSun - 14Mar04
Michael Tuck Medal votes - Sportal - saints.com.au - 14Mar04
Michael Tuck voting . . . - Saintsational Fan Forum
Harvey steals the show
In front of a crowd of 50,533, the two teams provided one of the closest and most intense pre-season grand finals in years . . . The Saints rarely have been challenged during the Wizard Cup this year, but last night, they faced their toughest test. Earlier in the week, the Cats tossed down the challenge, suggesting the match would decide who had the best young list in the country . . . Still, while the young guns battled for glory, it was the oldest player on the field, the dual Brownlow medallist Robert Harvey who starred, winning the Michael Tuck Medal as the best player afield.
The Article - Karen Lyon - TheAge - 14Mar04
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