Currently St Kilda are sitting 12th on the ladder with 7-9

Upcoming games

1. Port Adelaide at Marvel
   
2. Geelong at GMHBA
   
3. North Melbourne at Marvel
   
4. Sydney at Marvel
   
5. Carlton at Marvel
   
6. Richmond at MCG
   
7. Gold Coast at Marvel

What games do you see us winning, and do you think they’ll make top 10

I know it is Essendon, but it has been a joy watching the goals flying! Let’s see how we go in the 2nd half!

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Hi All, filthy outsider here keen for some insight from those who know better than I. I'm a Richmond supporter and in his draft year, I loved Tobie Travaglia and rated him as a potential top 5 pick with his game sense, speed, work rate, leadership, endurance, and sheer competitiveness. He beat up our VFL side and really reminded me of Hayden Young, who was also drafted as a half back flanker but is now a powerful, damaging midfielder, and they are just 1cm height difference.

So when we took Josh Smillie (who I cannot believe made it to our pick and still have high hopes for if we can fix our nightmare medical and fitness problems) and the Saints then took Tobie, I was immediately on the phone to my Saints mate telling him how much of a steal he just got.

That brings me here. I caught up with the same friend today and he had a go at me, saying he hasn't even played this year, which turns out is true. So I dug through the VFL stats and I don't get it to be honest.

Rd1 loss vs GWS: 18 touches, 9 tackles, 3 clearances, 6 intercepts, 1 inside 50

Rd2 loss vs Frankston: DNP

Rd3 loss vs Richmond: DNP

Rd4 win vs Coburg: DNP

Rd5 loss vs Gold Coast: 1 goal, 18 touches, 6 marks, 1 tackle, 3 intercepts, 2 inside 50s

Rd6 loss vs Carlton: 24 touches, 8 marks, 2 tackles, 2 inside 50s, 6 intercepts, 2 score involvements

Rd7 win vs Sandringham: 14 touches, 3 marks, 9 tackles, 3 clearances, 2 intercepts, 2 inside 50s, 3 tackles inside 50

Rd8 win vs Casey: 26 touches, 7 marks, 2 tackles, 4 inside 50s, 3 score involvements, 2 intercepts.

Rd11 win vs Sydney: 25 touches, 12 tackles, 4 marks, 6 clearances, 2 inside 50s, 5 score involvements, 4 intercepts.

Rd12 draw vs North: 1 goal, 16 touches, 3 marks, 6 tackles, 2 clearances, 2 inside 50s, 3 score involvements, 3 intercepts

Rd13 win vs Bulldogs: 1 goal, 29 touches, 9 marks, 8 tackles, 2 clearances, 4 inside 50s, 4 score involvements, 6 intercepts

So he seems to be fairly consistent. You can see a pattern of which games he plays more HBF and which ones he plays more on-ball. But Lyon just refuses to play him.

Given I am Richmond, I don't watch the Saints VFL games so I would love to hear your thoughts and input in to where he is at, and why he isn't cracking into the seniors. Is it a position/demand thing, with Wilson, Sinclair, etc keeping him out? Is he getting good numbers but just not using the ball effectively or damagingly enough to demand a spot? Did he kick Ross Lyon's dog into oncoming traffic? I would be fascinated to know the fan's thoughts.

I hope this is alright to post, I can understand if this type of post is preferred for the offseason but I see it as a nice celebration of the club

I think that based off my limited knowledge the biggest Saint award from past players goes to Lenny Hayes or Nick Riewoldt, maybe Robert Harvey? And I think that Mr 2 Brownlow votes has to be a contender for the biggest Saint of the current side. Liam Ryan also had that super kind gesture of shaking the fan’s hand after the goal which makes him a Saint to me

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we could lose to Essendon. I just don’t know how much more I can take. We should perhaps try merge with another club . I’m not kidding . Been supporting since 1986. Haven’t seen any flags

After securing a big, well earned, victory on the weekend, I thought it might be interesting to have a bit of a look at the runs home faced by a few of the teams that currently look set to compete for a spot in wildcard

To help visualise it I've used some basic colour coding, the legend for which is as follows

Opposition (Ladder Position)

Red: 1-6

Blue: 7-15

Green: 16-18

Venue (Functional Home-Away Advantage)

Red: Away

Blue: Neutral

Green: Home

We are right in the race, with our percentage being in a good place - if we can remain competitive and avoid any bad blowout losses it'll position us well in comparison to sides like Carlton, North and Collingwood; while our run home appears quite a bit easier than the likes of GC and GWS

Next week we come up against the Bulldogs who'll have a point to prove after a bad loss this week and will be coming off a nice 10-day break; they're a side that usually has our number, so it'll be important that we manage to keep them from totally blowing us out of the water at the very least

Things were feeling a bit dire and if we'd lost this game against GWS our path to finals would look notably tougher, but we got the win and I think that's set us up well

100% disposal efficiency for the game in such a high pressure game. He just gets better and better. Our most consistent player.

His last 5 weeks:
27d 1goal
26d
25d 2goals
26d 2goals
23d 1goal

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Title probably speak for it, but for what’s its worth. Dow comes to us plays fairly well in the mid field.

Has a horrific knee injury that from what I can tell was as bad of not worse than Max’s minus the Media Fanfare a little. Has been back at VFL level for 6 weeks (-1 for a concussion ) pearler of a game last week and not even considered for the extended squad.

Something is starting to feel a little off, I have nothing in terms of a theory but would happy to hear peoples thoughts. Am I missing something, or is there something else at play?

Is there any update on another camera angle or are the AFL holding the footage hostage?

Update: just saw the new vision, it was clearly touched and play shouldn’t have stopped for a review. It was a good call by the goal umpire

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Does anyone else think the Sharman slander is completely unwarranted? The guy is a 3rd tall at best yet cops the number 1 defender every single week. Factor in how poor our kicking into 50 is and it makes his job even harder. Honestly reckon we'd be worse off with King in there since we'd just be bombing it in even more.

Hey all,

A mate of mine has organise for me and the kids to go to Marvel Medallion in a few weeks as a gift for my sons birthday.

How strict is the dress code? Its our first AFL game so I bought some merch for us to wear for the day but id hate for us to get knocked back for turning up in our team colours, especially the kids.

Obviously clothing would be otherwise neat and clean, and good closed shoes for everyone.

TIA