The media……the game of football Two seperate entities Enjoy watching and getting involved with the passion of our great game Or Involve yourself with the media circus at your own peril .. the older I get the less I invest in the media I’m enjoying my footy a lot more SPOT ON! Frieman! I NEVER read ...

Any other cool stats anyone knows about our 2023 campaign? We only lost one game by 40+ points, our best effort since 2009. We won four games where we trailed at 3/4 time. Our most ever. Equal with 1975 & 1934. We won 47 quarters, our most since 2012. We averaged 71.6 points against per game, o...

Both Elimination Finals going on sale to members at the same time is standard Ticketek s..thousery.

If Membrey, Hayes & King all play, don't underestimate how much easier that makes the roles of Dan Butler and Jack Higgins.

When those five play in the same side, Butler and Higgins average 6.0 scoring shots per game. Their career average at the Saints is 2.1.

Surely Marshall gets the ruck spot. The only other rucks in the squad are Luke Jackson and Tim English, who are both incredibly lucky to be named at all.

Definitely one of our most important players, but he'd be disappointed with his performance against Brisbane.

Hopefully he's ready to tear up the MCG wings once again next Saturday.

St Kilda have never won an Elimination Final at the MCG.

GWS have never played an Elimination Final at the MCG.

St Kilda are 8-5 at the Gabba over the last 15 years.

We are 3-3 interstate this season.

Ross Lyon has now made five consecutive finals series as St Kilda coach.

But St Kilda have never played in five consecutive finals series.

We were very poor in my opinion. We conceded 13 goals, our worst effort of 2023, in conditions where scoring should have been difficult. Richmond also had 10 more scoring shots - our equal worst differential since Round 15 last year. Our excellent accuracy (73.3% - best since 2021) further masked a ...

nostalgicsaint wrote: ↑Sun 18 Jun 2023 2:58pm I have us losing the next 4 but still making finals.

If we lose to West Coast, we are not making finals.

Ross Lyon coached St Kilda teams are undefeated in seven matches vs Richmond.

The bookies have a 50% strike rate with St Kilda this season.

R1 Freo favourite - St Kilda won
R2 Dogs favourite - St Kilda won
R6 Blues favourite - St Kilda won
R7 St Kilda favourite - Port won
R11 St Kilda favourite - Hawks won
R13 Sydney favourite - St Kilda won

King will be close by the end of the season.

Averages half a goal more than any other player in the comp to have played 3+ matches this season.

His score involvement numbers are very close to elite as well.

I can't watch St Kilda games with commentary on. It's music for me.

A bunch of records gets me through in a far more serene manner. I recommend it.

The umpiring was poor all game, way over the top. We probably got the better of it overall, but were on the end of some glaring mistakes. Campbell throwing the ball to himself and being paid holding the man while it was in flight in the first quarter was something. The dangerous tackles against Ross...

His evasion and bullet pass on the boundary in the second quarter gave me Gilbert McAdam flashbacks.

saintbob wrote: ↑Wed 07 Jun 2023 12:42pm Saints by 17
King 5 Goals
Steele 32 possessions and 9 tackles (BOG)

Of the 12 AFL grounds Max King has played on, the SCG is the only one where he averages less than a goal a game.

He's due.

St Kilda have won their last 8 matches vs Gold Coast, including Round 4 this year by 53 points.

longtimesaint wrote: ↑Thu 01 Jun 2023 5:04pm Post by beno88 not correct as we won round 9 2020 - 15.11 (101) to 6.12 (48) at SCG

That match was at the Gabba.

We are 2-15 vs Sydney at the SCG over the last 25 years. And those two wins were by 2pts and 1pt.

That said, I think next week is the best chance we've had to beat them up there in a long time.

The difference is our senior midfield leaders have badly dropped away - stats tell you that we couldn’t win a clearance against Hawks Clearances Saints 33 - 31 Hawks Centre Clearances Saints 12-8 Hawks Stoppage Clearances Saints 21-23 Hawks The key here is the quality of the ball and where it went....

The clear difference in our performances from Rounds 1-8 to Rounds 9-11 is all in the middle. Our inability to win the ball cleanly from centre bounces and stoppages, combined with our lack of immediate spread is making it very easy for our opposition to control the play. Rounds 1-8 we were moderate...

2022 - started 5-1, losing only to Collingwood 2023 - started 5-1, losing only to Collingwood 2022 - lost narrowly to Port after leading comfortably early 2023 - lost narrowly to Port after leading comfortably early 2022 - Scrappy wins over over NM at Docklands & GWS away 2023 - Scrappy wins ove...

Paton goes back to replace Sinclair, who will play through the middle.

That'll also allow NWM to keep playing with a bit of freedom.

Structure of two key forwards plus a bunch of smalls seems to have been working better than 3 keys.

That's how it looks to me anyway.