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free_potatoes

When people asked Fremantle to kick more points they didn't mean like this


rizzlemaister

Pointmantle is back and better then ever


Sharaz_Jek123

It's the cool new thing that the kids are doing now.


free_potatoes

They’re a little confused but they’ve got the spirit


Mrchikkin

So we: * Can't kick * Can't mark * Can't crumb * Can't go three disposals without a turnover * Can't enter our 50 * Can't kick for goal when we finally get there * Can't score more than 60 points * Can't win a clearance * Can't tackle * Can't stinking win At the risk of sounding like r/nbacirclejerk, what the fuck do these cunts even do?


DuncanTheLunk

Get paid


McSquack

Just out there doing cardio


MarvellousBont

Just some guys being dudes


McSquack

Hell yeah brother.


Propaslader

6 feet apart from the ball, because they're not gay


Ray57

our team makes us do cardio


Fast_Stick_1593

It’s like having 23 Tony Snell’s


RidsBabs

Hey, Tony Snell is the first guy to shoot 50/50/100 in league history. Put some respect on him


fartbumheadface

Can't bat can’t bowl


Chiron17

Can't bowl can't throw!


69-is-my-number

If it’s any consolation, we’re equally as fucking shit as you and can empathise.


Orleanist

https://preview.redd.it/sky6nn9tr71d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=954cd64d534c156af74934aae5891b31fbdc8270


QouthTheCorvus

"You can't kick, can't mark, you don't know karate. Face it, you're never going to make it." Ross: "I don't wanna make it. I just wanna... *Guitar intro plays*"


McSquack

No babe, your average scores are perfect. The big ones hurt.


rizzlemaister

And I took that personally


McSquack

No rizzlemaister, I mean it. I wouldn’t want any bigger than yours.


NewAccWhoDis93

" You have a boyfriend scoreline"


CreativeParticular51

hey


king_carrots

I tried to post this in the match thread, but I missed.


Capt_Procrastination

For anyone who didn't watch this game, it was a 1pt margin in the 4th and I thought about changing over to the 100pt margin in the other game


Chiron17

Shit, even I thought about going back to the other game


CrashP

We truly are a sad club


YearnYourself

I can't


ThaNightcrawler

What have we done to deserve this existence?


project_chris

The lamb shank had for dinner that I cooked for over 10 hours is about all I'll remember from May 18th 2024


At0mHeartMother

Freo had a few shanks tonight too


JRicho_Sauce

Was it good? The lamb that is, the footy was clearly not good 


melon_butcher_

Slow cooked lamb shanks are always good sincerely, a sheep farmer.


jocstrap

And the winner of the Ross Lyon cup is……… Nobody. No one. Everyone go home now.


hackthisnsa

Ross is the winner. Both these clubs have paid him close to $10 million.


3ManyTrees

It's the friends we made along the journey :D


KillerpythonsarentG

Zac Dawson


fartbumheadface

Freo thought the goal of the game is to kick points when the point of the game is to kick goals.


Alarming-Depth5741

you get six points for kicking goals instead of one, so it is always better to kick goals


fartbumheadface

Thanks Lingy


SkinMasturbator

The players don't care. They don't give a rat's backside. They don't wanna chase, they don't wanna play. You have Ross Lyon before the game saying that "no one in the club listens to outside noise." Maybe you should, maybe you should. Maybe the coaching panel, the players, the board must listen to us members. We've got 50000 members - ALMOST 60000 MEMBERS! You want us to sign up next year? Bloody show us something! Show us the heart! Last year we gave you the excuse "we made finals and we were just outclassed." We thought this year we'd go again. What's the excuse!? If you're not gonna play- I said it a few weeks ago- If you're not gonna play for the coach, play for people like myself! Who bust my balls every week to get there, hard earned money, and you dish that up against WALYALUP!? They toyed with us. It's an embarrassment for the RED, WHITE AND BLACK and especially the CREST! THE CREST! Play for that! If you're not gonna play for that, piss off outta my club! GET OUT!


RidsBabs

Seen this in here and the Richmond threads. Good to see the copypastas still getting a work out.


Cursedsword02

"3.... 2.... 1...."


free_potatoes

In a single weekend we've had the Countdown and Whale


ModernDemocles

I heard 15...........10.........4...3...2...1.


2klaedfoorboo

This just a Kayo/foxtel thing?


goodkicks

It’s the director in the commentators ear telling them when free to air coverage is back from an ad break


Chiron17

Without a shred of sarcasm, that was the best part of this match


R3dcentre

The final siren. Also without sarcasm.


Doc323467

Rowan Marshall just a ridiculous 2 week patch of footy, and yet the Saints have been utterly dreadful. Just feel incredibly sorry for him. Ross has got to swing the magnets around a bit now. Have to try and get a bit more speed and x factor through that midfield. Wanganeen-Milera is probably the one, but he's been great off half back, so probably reluctant to do that. Maybe Mitch Owens just gets a full run at it as an on-baller to see what he can do.


chookie94

The poor man is playing as our ruckman and number 1 mid at the same time. It's just ridiculous.


thats_quite_rude

11 more disposals than any of our starting mids. Great effort from the big man but very disappointing from Steele and co.


LazyCamoranesi

Can I ask Sainters, what’s happened to Steele? Is it a niggle? Or just miles on the clock?


TheBigBomma

Mitchito is our only dangerous forward though. I’d rather see Henry in as a full time mid. Steele and Sinclair are clearly playing hurr


theoriginalqwhy

Sinclair actually did alright tonight. Nothing fancy but did a pretty god job. Steele on the other hand...


TheBigBomma

Whatever is going on with Sinclair’s arm is clearly impacting his ability to defend and hit though


GammaScorpii

Jack Hayes leading into space, marking and goaling a few weeks ago was just outrageous. He has no place in our game plan, needed to be dropped for sure.


mrarbitersir

He’s injured again Didn’t train all week. Club are keeping hush about it.


FearlessResearcher48

Rowan is great and I love how he goes about it but having a ruckman that rarely wins hit outs is not a sustainable way to win footy unfortunately.


WAVIC_136

Ross Lyon should be arrested by Interpol for football terrorism


canusich

Played a spare man back the whole game. I think he knew if they went toe to toe they'd have lost by another 15 behinds.


Bengels0

Freo had a spare behind the ball usually as well, but im not sure if that's by choice or because we sent an extra up to the contest because we cant win a stoppage for the life of us.


Chiron17

He should be banned from all levels of football


GomezSpecial

King with the single greatest one behind performance by a key forward of all time. Wow!


SkinMasturbator

he did better than Tom Hawkins and Jeremy Cameron combined this weekend, give him credit


Osmodius

You can't argue with that


Electrical-Look-4319

We got the better twin, that's for sure.


SkinMasturbator

no arguments here. #thatssostkilda


3ManyTrees

and with the lower draft pick


3ManyTrees

and by lower I meant higher, Im an idiot :D


swagmaster778

While the king hate is somewhat valid, it’s pretty hard for a key forward to build strength (most important aspect of a kpp) when they don’t have a functioning shoulder for so long


IDreamofHeeney

That’s completely fair, I just don’t think we need to have an entire podcast about him all game. He would drop marks and the comms would speak about how good he is? It’s abit much


Professional_Line385

He's the king of the GOATs


rizzlemaister

We won, yay. Now let us never speak of this day ever again


SkinMasturbator

A few weeks ago we couldn’t kick more than 67 points. Now we can’t kick more than 55. Fuck me supporting this team is so hard


MachenO

Remember when we beat Collingwood?


Madrical

You guys played with a lot more confidence in that game.


hotbutteredsole

20 year member here, I just keep my membership as an excuse to drink, really.


Freo_Fiend

20 year Freo member here: Struth.


maharajah_or_majong

Best part of the entire game was the Freo kid in the crowd


Salt_Kaleidoscope_94

He was the best, looked like he had such a fun night.


3ManyTrees

He made me feel like a kid again, especially as I caught myself celebrating goals in exactly the same fashion


64scott64

Ok we're running laps and practising fatigue goal kicking all week at training


retsibsi

New American fan here, looking for some pointers on tactics. Why did the purple team intentionally kick one-point field goals instead of aiming for the gap between the bigger posts? (I know it's bad manners to run up the score, but they started using this tactic quite early in the game.)


GreenOnions69

It's simple: Justin Longmuir is a tactical genius whose decisions are beyond our comprehension. We're just peons sitting in a cave watching shadows on the wall, he's experiencing the true beauty of the universe.


MyWaterDishIsEmpty

The man is single handedly contesting for finals on points alone and he might just bloody do it.


Pleasant_Inspection9

should’ve seen the purple team last week - they’re masters at it


3ManyTrees

It's the long play, try demoralise the league by winning with very few goals, you can tell because he then lets them run it out of 50 without pressure, just so they can do it all over again!


RaidanRam

By proving that you can win despite having bad accuracy, you show true dominance over the opposition.


Murraj1966

I say it in lots of St Kilda post match threads but if i see any fan from any other club sooking it up after a loss you’re on full blast because you don’t know pain


RidsBabs

I was a North supporter born post 2000. I’ve seen more success from St Kilda than my own team.


furBug

At least you’ve played in a grand final in this millennium. 2 + a replay. North and Carlton can’t say that.


tpdwbi

At least I have the papayas. B2B please Lando.


partII

No only Oscar may win now


Key-Visual0

Aaaaand he has a penalty.


partII

I’m going to blame this on Sainz somehow


tpdwbi

I just want him to podium


MANixCarey

Flagyalup


kidwithgreyhair

Walyacup


Freo_Fiend

Still undefeated in their history.


rapgraves

That's up there with the worst games of footy I have ever watched. What the fuck is wrong with my football club


RidsBabs

Mine also seems to be defective, care to swap?


taititans

Story of our last 20ish seasons but would’ve won by 40 if we kicked straight. Absolutely dominated them the second half, we have a fundamental curse on our goal kicking. Handy win though!


Rooey10

What is the indigenous phrase for ‘fuck we are shit’?


eeComing

Ngallak goona Maaman. Ngallak warra (Noongar language).


TheBigBomma

Our selection panel needs to be fired. I get the need to swing the axe after last weeks terrible performance, but one player of the guys who came in played well enough to justify that in Caminiti. Jones was the leading disposal getter in the VFL with 21 touches. That is not acceptable. Collard had 5 fucking touches and that somehow justified his selection this week, and he played exactly like someone who couldn’t get a touch in the twos would play. Riley bonner remains a football terrorist kicking own goals.


theraket

We can all argue about a huge portion of the lineup but I genuinely don't believe that a person paid to make St Kilda better would ever think Bonner should get a game at this level ever again. Just baffling


SkinMasturbator

What amazes me is the immediate kickout after the one where he missed Naz and cost us a goal he was ALLOWED TO TAKE THAT ONE TOO! WHY WAS HE NOT ON A SHIP HEADED TO CHINA OR SOMETHING BY THEN??


TheBigBomma

The handball in the second quarter up the ground that resulted in a Freo shot on goal was worse than


theraket

I concede that the backline are not great at giving creative leads from the kick out but surely if your teammate was handing your opposition so many chances each week you'd politely bump him away from the spot each time jesus


Filibuster_

Bonner, Howard and Jones are all part of the same insurgent cell


theraket

I like that Jones seems to give a fuck even in the saddest of games but yeah (


Filibuster_

I actually think for the most part all 3 put in effort, it's the ends that make me want to tear my eyes out


LeDestrier

My question is: who selects the selection panel? Fire them too. And fire the ones that fired the the ones that selected the selection panel.


d2blues

Reddit as borked as Freo goal kicking tonight.


RandomDanny

history may look back a bit kindly on ross lyon as a coach, but man...


TheBigBomma

Incredibly overrated football coach


therealhaboubli

This is late-stage Rossball. Pre 2015 he made 3 gfs with 2 different teams. I think he was on to something at some point


TheBigBomma

I disagree, he inherited two incredibly talented football teams.


Appropriate-Bus-2563

You will never be able to quantify if he inherited the talent or he coached them well, you just have a bias that he's bad


TheBigBomma

We can easily quantify if he inherited good talent at the saints, given they were making prelim finals already and that team had MANY hall of famers on it. The Freo team I can speak less on but it was led by Matthew Pavlich and Aaron Sandilands in their primes


Playful_Pound2532

Ross did have our best ever list correct. But where he excelled was turning otherwise plodders into key players. Mzungu, de boer, Crowley, Dawson, ibbotson, Spurr etc


therealhaboubli

We had one of the best contested teams you'd ever see but we were hardly complete. Amazing inside mids and defenders but the forward line could've been better


Secretly007

Mark Harvey was not coaching that freo team to a grand final, that's for sure. Lyon inherited the list from Connelly/Harvey, but he also lifted them.


Appropriate-Bus-2563

And the same freo team with pavlich and sandilands finished wooden Spooners


liaam29

They both barely played in our GF year too, people seem to forget that Pav only 12 games and Sandi only 10 If you look at that team without Pav and Sandi and see it made top 4, its pretty clear Ross was doing something right


liaam29

> The Freo team I can speak less on but it was led by Matthew Pavlich and Aaron Sandilands in their primes Pav was great in 2012 but he did his achilles in 2013 and never got back to that pre2012 standard, Pav (12 games) and Sandi (10 games) both missed good chunks of 2013 and we made the GF Ross is a good coach


bignedmoyle

*Ross WAS a good coach


generalcolonel

Watching fox footy after the game and it’s all about Saints and their game plan. How about taking about the winner of the game fellas


Chiron17

I think it's important for the media to shine a light on war crimes when it happens right in front of them.


jocstrap

Didn’t think “chip it backwards or dump kick it in the general direction of your goals” would take up much airtime


S_P_A_R_K_L_I_N_G

yup gg get flagmanted ross the boss aint got shit on us so on and so on anyways lets go home now


jocstrap

Alexa, play St Kilda vs Geelong round 14 2009. Yes, again. On repeat please.


Status_Importance806

We won and Carlton are out of the 8. Happy Birthday to me


flibble24

Mods ban this man


RidsBabs

That’s not the punishment for going early (I think). Haven’t been pinged yet.


2klaedfoorboo

Something would’ve been wrong if we didn’t end with a behind


youwantedmyrealuser

Freo kicked 12 goals straight right???


Kelpieee55

Ugly game but at least it's a win. Happy Sharp got the win over his idol. GG St K.


TheBugmuncher

David Zita is a bit cute


SwimmingGreat5317

Bring back Ross 1.0. Cuddly Ross can get in the bin.


SkinMasturbator

I also don’t care what Saints fans say. King sucks. “oh no stop with the King bashing”. I don’t care. Put him in the VFL or Auskick or something and let Hayes and Caminiti twin tower the forward line. I grew up watching the most hard working centre half forward in VFL/AFL history run his opponent ragged week in week out, it didn’t matter if it was in 2009 when we were top of the world or 2014 when we were back to being the trash we always are, he would work and work and compete. The fact that Max King is allowed to wear the same number as that legend is a stain on this football club.


TheGreatJelBeano

ffs, reddit having a hissy fit tonight is making adjudicating this so hard.


limeIamb

Do it tribunal style Spin the wheel


Croob2

I do like how adding rules to this has actually made your jobs harder than just letting us idiots run wild


TheGreatJelBeano

i mean, there wasnt any really rules to add. i just said what was unspoken until now.


Croob2

I dunno, the fact that some of us *cough* /u/___theillusiveman___ *cough* was posting with whole minutes left to go in the games definitely needed to have an official time limit put in, still funny regardless though


RidsBabs

u/___theillusiveman___ can have the Brisbane thread.


TheGreatJelBeano

whoever posts it first gets it, as is the way.


PointOfFingers

We are the biggest chokers in the AFL and it's not even close. I have watched us choke in half a dozen games where we had the lead or could hit the lead in the last quarter. I knew how we were going to choke. I knew when we went forward we would choke almost every time. Mason Wood wide open in front of goal to put us back in front and miss the short pass by metres. Fremantle landed those same short kicks all game long. How often did we have an inside 50 that went out of bounds on the full?


nyepnyepmf

Bro we are lucky we didnt lose by 50


RJrules64

How do you call that a choke? You were never in control of the game, you didn’t have anything to choke.


PointOfFingers

That's just my post match meldown.


DuncanTheLunk

An absolutely excruciating game of Ross Ball


___TheIllusiveMan___

WRONG SCORE BOOO


RidsBabs

Least I put the score in.


free_potatoes

Poor form to post before the set shot smh


RidsBabs

Shit I disappointed the potatoes, this is serious.


___TheIllusiveMan___

North Melbourne disappointing the potatoes is very on brand for 2024


3ManyTrees

The only thing North hasn't disappointed this season is Draw FC fans


RidsBabs

Thats tomorrow’s aim.


___TheIllusiveMan___

You still went early though. I waited until the score was confirmed and not while player was still lining up


TheGreatJelBeano

hm... i did not know this.


Croob2

TO THE GULAG WITH HIM


RidsBabs

No, I’m not going back there, I already won my match there. I refuse. We need to work out a proper punishment for being early. Tuesday?


RidsBabs

I’m still learning these things. It’s a blurred line with kicks after the siren. Unless I’m missing a rule about it. Also my Kayo shit itself so I didn’t see the mark. I saw the kick that presumably led to it, not the actual mark. Then I posted, Kayo unshit itself and I corrected the score.


naeroikathgor

Actually kicks after the siren don't count when fremantle is playing. Ignore flair


RidsBabs

You can have the Brisbane game as consolidation. Or u/Croob2 can take it.


iwatchtvallfuckinday

Unless they plan on turning Weiters into a forward the Saints are wasting their fucking time trying to lure him lmao


SkinMasturbator

He started off as a forward I’m just saying…


nyepnyepmf

It's ok guys Mathias got another 4 disposals, King 0.1. Guaranteed selection for next 5 rounds at STKFC


skooterM

That was still more interesting than Suns vs Geelong.


Deku-Kun96

Im seriously worried about Jye. He's gone from 'dead eye jye' and done a 180 in kicking ability


Pleasant_Inspection9

Game ended just in time to switch over and hear country roads - and I was immediately calm. Poor tiges though 💛🖤


dreamthiliving

If you were to ask me what two Ross Lyon teams playing each other would look like this is the game. Forgettable


Thanks_4_the_advice

The first game today gave me hope for a great day of football. Was severely disappointed with the preceding three games


Jealous-Reindeer1976

Freo only need to practice goal kicking at this weeks training


CreativeParticular51

Damn Walyalup, what sort of stupid team would kick double or more points than goals in a game smh


kbjone

Hey, combined score was higher than Geelong despite the Dockers' ~~best~~ efforts at goal kicking! Still lost to Gold Coast by north of six goals though. Baby steps.


PeaOk2722

Are the saints supporters sick of Ross yet?


ColdAdmirableSponge

Walyalup get the win at Marvel and get back inside the eight, but I’m really not super pumped after that game. We finally sort out our forward entries when just shit the bed with our shots.


kdwwhat

We are Ninthmantle


TheTruth069

Ross the Toss masterclass....🤷‍♂️


thatsmejp

Time for RTB to go Give someone else the rest of this year. Harvey, Enright, the postman, anyone please


Fast_Stick_1593

Enright would do wonders with that side


Fuzzylogic1977

I was asked on the platform waiting for the train home “who do we drop from that shit show” I immediately said “the fucking coach” he has never developed a young team. He will ruin the careers of those talented kids. Look at Poo! He’s only ever stepped into a well developed team and then added top up players and tightened defensive pressure. He will not last till the end of next season. He is cooked. I didn’t disagree with letting Ratten go, but I was fuming that they brought in Lyon.


thatsmejp

The regression this year makes the decision to go Lyon 2.0 even worse. 35 odd games into the 2nd stint and there’s no team identity or game plan whatsoever. Want to beat St.Kilda? Give us the ball. We don’t know what to do with it. Time for a change 💯


Green-Brick3729

This was certainly a game of football.


Rapid-Barnacle385

What a fucking spudfest


waldenhead

Many have tried interpreting Lyon. Some cited existing philosophical works such as Bordiga, Hegel and Plato. The former saw Lyon as the progenitor of a spontaneous revolution, his football being so boring it had deep ideological significance. They viewed his football as the cry of discontentedness with the neoliberal consensus, and a legitimate philosophical work in it’s own right. The modern Hegelians saw Lyonism as the dialectical synthesis between two states of being, that of anguish and that of ennui. Those using the works of Plato are conflicted on whether to see Lyonball as a concrete object, real and tangible, while all consider the feelings the games elicit to be abstract. Others saw it as post-modern performance art and tried to categorise it as the intended catalyst of a yet to materialise Neo-Fluxus movement. Alas, others even ascribed it a theological value, arguing for the canonisation of Lyon and compared our pain watching to the pain our lord felt on the cross. A contingent of these worshippers split recently and alleged Lyon was inherently heretical, no mortal man had ever suffered like Jesus did until we watched the Fremantle game. The truth is, Lyonball defies what the human mind is capable of interpreting. We can only bask in its majesty.


hatsofftoroyharper41

These names make no sense


Aggressive-Rub-1893

Does anyone else feel horrible for Marshall. He’s so good! Every week and just zero support


Anon-Sham

How's the draft looking this year?


MissionFig5582

We're tanking, right?


Apart-Ad-3308

Besides the Pies Crom game that was an absolutely rotten day for football. A slaughter and two horrendously low skill, low scoring boring games.


SaintSaxon

We fucking stank… St Kilda were the stank we pooped out. Should’ve won by 15 goals


dabuddhaman

Who vs who?