The run home.

[saynta]

9. ST KILDA

Record: 8-8, 86.9%

R18: Port Adelaide (Marvel)

R19: West Coast (Optus)

R20: Carlton (Marvel)

R21: Sydney (Marvel)

R22: Geelong (GMHBA)

R23: Fremantle (Marvel)

WE SAY
The Saints have come from the clouds to win their past three matches and now sit as a very real chance of playing finals football again this year. It’s incredible to think that this is a side that lost to the Western Bulldogs by 111 points just seven weeks ago, but is now in form and growing in confidence by the week. Given their lowly percentage, the Saints look like needing a minimum of four wins to make it. While they still have five current top-eight opponents to play, you’d have to say that is entirely possible on current form.

TAB ODDS
Premiership: $67, Top-4: N/A, Top-8: $3.25

[happy feet]

We would all love to see us make the 8. If we don’t there will be some clubs in the 8 who are very nervous about playing us.

[The_Dud]

I see all bar the Geelong game as very winnable if we turn up with our A game

[bangaulegend]

I see all bar the Geelong game as very winnable if we turn up with our A game

Yeah mate I agree just have to play with the intensity & poise we displayed against Brisbane & we are capable of beating anyone .

[MC Gusto]

Will be lucky to finish within 10 goals against those sides.

[bangaulegend]

Will be lucky to finish within 10 goals against those sides.

Maybe earlier in the season but hey mate we are on a roll ATM & I'm really enjoying the ride

[Devilhead]

Will be lucky to finish within 10 goals against those sides.

Its ok .... I see what you are trying to do!

[Toy Saint]

I see all bar the Geelong game as very winnable if we turn up with our A game

We should've beat the Cats earlier in the season and Saints are fielding a better team and playing a better brand now.

[Toy Saint]

I see all bar the Geelong game as very winnable if we turn up with our A game

We should've beat the Cats earlier in the season and Saints are fielding a better team and playing a better brand now.

[saynta]

From the age.com.au

ST KILDA

9th: 8 wins, 8 losses
32 points, 86.9%
Run home: Port Adelaide (Marvel), West Coast (Optus), Carlton (Marvel), Sydney (Marvel), Geelong (GMHBA), Fremantle (Marvel).

The Saints headed into their mid-season bye with their season appearing all but over on the back of a capitulation to Adelaide in Cairns. But remarkably, Brett Ratten’s side has found a pulse – and then some – winning three matches in a row on the back of defensive steel and the welcome return of several key players. The tandem work of Paddy Ryder and Rowan Marshall – the best combination to hit St Kilda since fish and chips – has been crucial to the resurgence. St Kilda are still hamstrung by their poor percentage, a vestige of several shellackings in the first half of the season, but their destiny is in their own hands. Perhaps counterintuitively, the Saints’ worst football this year has come at Marvel Stadium, where a lack of outside run and class has been badly exposed, particularly by Essendon and the Western Bulldogs. So strangely enough, the true test of whether the Saints are back may come on Saturday night against Port Adelaide, a side that has generally beaten the also-rans this year.

Daniel Cherny

[The_Dud]

I see all bar the Geelong game as very winnable if we turn up with our A game

We should've beat the Cats earlier in the season and Saints are fielding a better team and playing a better brand now.

Yeah but going down to Geelong, when was the last time we played well there?? (or at all?)

[The Fireman]

I see 3 possible wins there

[asiu]

i can see 4 definites IF we are any good
and 2 possibles coz we are coming in HOT

[Otiman]

IF we make the 8, we will hit finals with enough momentum to make a dent.

There is no inbetween, boom or bust, prelim final or 10th

[Goose is king]

I feel dirty barracking for Geelong

[saynta]

I feel dirty barracking for Geelong

Yeah.Know how you feel. 1st for me. I will have a hot shower when the game ends.

[Toy Saint]

I feel dirty barracking for Geelong

Yeah, I'm feeling a bit grubby, but it's a kinda novelty to barrack for a team who gets the 'rub of the green' from the umpires.

[Impatient Sainter]

Fremantle are a very ordinary side - they wont be playing finals.

Watching Acres constantly falling over and not hitting targets makes me wonder what we ever saw in that kid. Darcy Tucker is another who is losing his footing constantly and getting run down from behind. I thought he was meant to be a gun but he has looked ordinary tonight.

[Teflon]

Free look shyte
Acres gone backwards

[B.M]

Acres was and is a tease

As Dennis Pagan would say
“A girl with a curl”

[Toy Saint]

Acres was and is a tease

As Dennis Pagan would say
“A girl with a curl”

He fooled me, I was convinced he'd become an outstanding midfielder......just as I thought Dunstan would be a future leader....

[Devilhead]

Freo's % currently taking a fair hit

Could drop from 97 to 92

A 6 goal win for us v Port would take us to around 90%

[Devilhead]

IF we make the 8, we will hit finals with enough momentum to make a dent.

There is no inbetween, boom or bust, prelim final or 10th

If we make the Finals with a bit of momentum and a fairly healthy list their wouldn't be too many sides wanting to face us

[shanegrambeau]

IF we make the 8, we will hit finals with enough momentum to make a dent.

There is no inbetween, boom or bust, prelim final or 10th

If we make the Finals with a bit of momentum and a fairly healthy list their wouldn't be too many sides wanting to face us

You realize we have to beat Port by 173 points and restrict them to three goals on Saturday just to get a 100.00 percentage!

[saynta]

IF we make the 8, we will hit finals with enough momentum to make a dent.

There is no inbetween, boom or bust, prelim final or 10th

If we make the Finals with a bit of momentum and a fairly healthy list their wouldn't be too many sides wanting to face us

You realize we have to beat Port by 173 points and restrict them to three goals on Saturday just to get a 100.00 percentage!

Do you realise that if we beat port by a point we will be in 8th position.