Become a destination club again and these things look after themselves.

Aisle 28-34.

We only lost by 6 points against very good opposition. Yes, some players had bad games, but they have enough points in the bank from the first 4 rounds to have another go. Changes should be minimal. Out: Caminiti (suspended), Byrnes (omitted) In: Membrey, Steele Membrey will need to play tall. Camp...

If it's in the Herald Sun, you can be absolutely certain it won't happen.

If Ben King leaves the Suns, it'll be to come and play with his twin brother at the club he grew up supporting.

Otherwise, he'll stay put.

In : Membrey, Steele, Highmore

Out : Cordy, Paton, Caminiti, Bytel

ausfatcat wrote: ↑Mon 17 Apr 2023 11:27pm Smothers and forward line delivery were the issues I saw, disposal efficiency effected both sides because of the pressure of both teams.

Membrey and King in that side and add a touch of Steele and Webster I think we win.

This.

Clark, Wood & Wilkie were our only good ball users today. Foot skills were putrid all round.

Gresham would want to have a decent excuse for that performance too.

It didn’t influence the result, but St Kilda went almost an hour of game time without a single free kick.

Scollop wrote: ↑Thu 13 Apr 2023 9:31pm I'm going with the team that's in winning form

We'll start well and get out to a 5 goal lead at stages in the second quarter

Collingwood will come with a late rush but we'll hold them out and win by 9 points

Deja vu.

Our accuracy is currently at 61.8%, the best in the comp.

Last year it was 52.8%.

From 2017-2019 it didn't surpass 48.5%.

Vastly improved. So far.

This game will bite next week. We're the sixth game on the Adelaide Oval, in a period where 20mm+ of rain is expected.

Carlton play the first game on the Adelaide Oval, and have three days more rest than us.

Ridiculous fixturing in more ways than one.

The effort and the depth are the difference to previous years. The injury to Bytel means we are out of that depth. I’m more referring to Steele, King, Membrey, Coffield, Billings, McKenzie, Hayes, Webster, Jones, etc sitting in the stands. Any other recent year would’ve seen us 0-4 with that calibr...

The effort and the depth are the difference to previous years.

Those ratings make zero sense.

And how can you rate the 2022 draft in March 2023?

St Kilda's last six matches vs Essendon when sitting inside the top 8....

2022 R14 - Lost by 35
2020 R12 - Won by 35
2017 R17 - Lost by 61
2010 R18 - Lost by 33
2010 R8 - Lost by 12
2009 R20 - Lost by 2

Hopefully we come to play, because our last two matches vs the Bulldogs have been two of the worst efforts I've ever seen from a St Kilda side.

Both games were over in the 2nd quarter.

2021 Round 10 - Q2 23 mins - STK 13 vs WB 62
2022 Round 18 - Q2 23 mins - STK 8 vs WB 52

Butler is your bread and butter VFL player if that's how you wish to frame the discussion. Makes Kent look OK. Dan just can't score or defend in the big league. Sharman and Highmore bring far more to the table. Both good marks and Sharman excellent kick. Blooding Peris would be a better long term i...

The 50m penalties were both extremely soft, as were the free & mark awarded prior. Fremantle kicked 4.1 directly from free kicks / 50m penalties. We kicked 1 goal directly from a free and another from advantage. Gresham's kick out of bounds was 100% deliberate, there wasn't a St Kilda player any...

Minimal impact, but we simply don't have enough big bodies available at the moment.

Probably plays again this week.

One our top few and easily the best work rate out there. Continued his preseason form. Laughable that many thought he wasn’t worthy of a game.

aussie sainter wrote: ↑Thu 16 Mar 2023 6:31pm For the life of me I can’t work out what Byrnes really brings to the table. Happy to be proved wrong…

Easily among our best 10 in the practice matches, and covered as much ground as anyone. Absolutely deserves to play Round 1.

St Kilda coaches overtraining the players?? That's a joke, surely..... The pre-season seriuous injuries sustained by King and Hayes are hardly the result of an excessive workload, it's not as if St Kilda's players are going down like flies. Every club experiences injuries to players during the pre-...

St Kilda's training loads at this time of year would be no different to any other club. The current injury list would have absolutely nothing to do with Lyon's training methods. In my limited experience, pre-season and training injuries related to muscle usually occur because your fitness and streng...

No one will remember this in two weeks.

B : Wilkie - Howard - Webster
HB : Sinclair - Battle - Wanganeen
C : Hill - Crouch - Wood
HF : Phillipou - Membrey - Gresham
F : Butler - Owens - Byrnes
R : Marshall - Steele - Windhager

I : Clark - Ross - Sharman - Paton
Sub : Higgins

E : Coffield - Stocker - Campbell