RWB’s 2012 Year Review Podcast
Nearly two-and-a-half years after Rich and I sat down at Supper Club to attempt a podcast demo (after a right smacking from the Bombers), we sheepishly present to you our debut podcast. And what better...
View ArticleLanded, but with reason to look up
“Members of those doomed Collingwood sides don’t have joyous reunions. McKenna, the Richardsons et al and the brave Tom Hafey teams of 1977-81 don’t have reason to celebrate. But the Riewoldt...
View Article140 Years jumper talk
So I finally got my hands on my 140 Years jumper after it spent a few weeks at my parents’ house southside. And I love it. Firstly, the design itself I think is brilliant. It’s bold, the colours look...
View ArticleSettling into a new home in a new time
The intra-club match is the unofficial introduction to the footy season for St Kilda fans. For a long time the club has opened up its headquarters on a Friday night – and now Saturday morning – for...
View Article(Sort of) Looking forward to looking back
So my “2009 Games of the Year” DVD arrived. I don’t know why I bought it, in the sense that I’m not going to watch it any time soon. I think I bought to make up for the lack of a feature-length 2o09...
View ArticleRound 1 of NAB Cup not quite as exciting as New Clash Jumper
Remember when people cared about the pre-season cup? And 66,888 of us would go to Waverley to see St Kilda play off for a premiership? And then pack out Docklands eight years later for what was the...
View ArticleToo hot for any kind of faffin’
NAB Cup – Round 1, Pool 3 At AAMI Stadium, Sunday, 17th February at 4.40pm Game 1 Adelaide Crows 0.0.4, 0.3.6 (24) St Kilda 0.4.1, 0.8.2 (50) Game 2 Port Adelaide 0.5.2, 1.9.2 (65) St Kilda 0.1.2,...
View ArticleSt Kilda won lol
2013 NAB Cup – Round 2 St Kilda 0.1.2, 0.6.6, 0.8.9, 0.13.12 (90) Sydney Swans 0.3.2, 1.5.6, 1.7.9, 1.8.10 (67) Crowd: “TBA” (not many) at Etihad Stadium, Sunday, March 3rd at 5.10pm St Kilda won,...
View ArticleOk yep cool.
“It’s the first time a St Kilda side will be taking the field in any sort of organised football thing in Blacktown and let’s hope we only have fond, or indifferent – not horrific! – memories from it in...
View ArticleRWB’s 2013 Preview Podcast
Rich and I took out a night of last week to record our second podcast, the 2013 Preview Podcast. I took far too many hours to edit it, so please at least humour us and click on the link so our...
View ArticleBurned at the start
After recording our season preview podcast (*plug*) the other week, Rich and I were having a chat. I said to him that for all the optimism we had about seeing new guys play and hopes for the future,...
View ArticleTake #2
“I didn’t think that this week would be one of those, and I didn’t think that we’d be loathing a game on Friday night at the MCG against a club that for the last several decades was one of the few we...
View ArticleCue GWS theme song
The Saints are 0-2, and have lost their last three games – including the pre-season – to GWS, Gold Coast and Richmond. I’ve been quoting myself a fair bit lately, and I’m going to do it again right...
View ArticleThe day that David Armitage did heaps of good stuff
Has it finally happened? Was Saturday the day? Did David Armitage finally play his first true game of delivering on the hype and expectation? Or does it become this decade’s equivalent Gary Loft’s...
View ArticleJarryn Geary does press conference
Times have changed when Jarryn Geary is doing the press conference in the lead-up to any game. Times have also changed when the Saints will be running out against an Essendon side featuring Brendon...
View ArticleSwings and roundabouts innit
One of the many wonderful things about the 10 days I spent in Hoi An and Siem Reap was that I wasn’t at the Essendon and Sydney games respectively in person. I did watch them, however. In Hoi An we had...
View Article140 years is a long time in football (when you’ve only won one premiership)
So quickly has the focus of a St Kilda supporter changed. Certainly mine, anyway. Since Friday night’s loss, the fact the Saints didn’t walk away with the four points has barely genuinely bothered me....
View ArticleSt Kilda to wear a different, awesome jumper; also a game of footy will be...
This Monday night we go back 140 years, to 1873. A time when the Saints were introducing a raft of new names to the league, in the hopes of over the coming years filling up a barely-touched trophy...
View ArticleSt Kilda wears a different, awesome jumper
…and just hangs on. Match will report will be up at some point today. Until then:
View ArticleHome is where the footy is, sort of
Being in Vietnam for Round 4, I missed the first Saints’ home game at Etihad. So Monday night – in Round 7 – was my first home game at our “home” ground this year. We’ve made the move from Aisle 29 on...
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