Preview Saints v Port @ AO, Sunday 3:20pm

[SG34]

We lost centre clearance by 2
We won stoppage clearances by 7

This is the comment that blew me away.

“After only scoring 82 points from intercept in their first two games, St Kilda were unstoppable from the source today kicking 15.5 (95) and outscoring Richmond by 68 points from the source, their greatest differential from the source in the past 10 seasons.”

Source: Summary on MatchFeed, AFL official site, 34:27 mark of the last


We smashed them almost everywhere, but to clear it up.

we lost,
Hit Outs: 28 v 42

Centre Clearances 11 v 13

And seeming I didn’t celebrate Hammer enough, and got roundly jeered, I can mention that he is ranked 25th for intercepts this year! 16. Wilkie is miles behind.

2025 AFL League Total Intercepts Leaders

2025 AFL League Total Intercepts Leaders.

www.footywire.com

I stand cautious but ready and on watch
#bruis#bruised

 

[stfan]

This is the comment that blew me away.

“After only scoring 82 points from intercept in their first two games, St Kilda were unstoppable from the source today kicking 15.5 (95) and outscoring Richmond by 68 points from the source, their greatest differential from the source in the past 10 seasons.”

Source: Summary on MatchFeed, AFL official site, 34:27 mark of the last


We smashed them almost everywhere, but to clear it up.

we lost,
Hit Outs: 28 v 42

Centre Clearances 11 v 13

And seeming I didn’t celebrate Hammer enough, and got roundly jeered, I can mention that he is ranked 25th for intercepts this year! 16. Wilkie is miles behind.

2025 AFL League Total Intercepts Leaders

2025 AFL League Total Intercepts Leaders.

www.footywire.com

I stand cautious but ready and on watch
#bruis#bruised

Caminiti would be higher on intercepts if he had of played in defense exclusively. Against the Crows he started as a forward.

Wilkie will be down on intercepts as Howard is out injured, so Wilkie often has to play man on man. One of the main assets of Howard playing at FB is that Wilkie is free to play as Wilkie.

 

[Saintscomemarchingin]

Where would Barrat play if he replaced Keeler?

We are one tall short in the backline. Howard will come back in at some stage.
Have a look at Barrat in there, in the meantime.
And with Sharman back in last week, Keeler is surplus now.

 

[Saintscomemarchingin]

Round 4 team

B. Wilkie  Caminiti Webster or  Stocker

H.B. NWM Barrat Sinclair

C. Travaglia Macrae Jones

H.F. Wood Owens Hall

F. Collard Sharman Higgins

Foll. Marshall Steele Windhager

l/C. Byrnes, Garcia, Hill, Wilson, Butler-sub

Ins. Barrat, Butler, Steele

Outs. Hastie, Keeler, O'Connell.

 

[Jade Buddha]

Round 4 team

B. Wilkie  Caminiti Webster or  Stocker

H.B. NWM Barrat Sinclair

C. Travaglia Macrae Jones

H.F. Wood Owens Hall

F. Collard Sharman Higgins

Foll. Marshall Steele Windhager

l/C. Byrnes, Garcia, Hill, Wilson, Butler-sub

Ins. Barrat, Butler, Steele

Outs. Hastie, Keeler, O'Connell.

& Stocker

 

[Saintscomemarchingin]

& Stocker

Maybe, & play on Powell-Pepper

 

[Train12]

Did anyone attend training today ?

360 just showed a little bit of vision of saints training today!

If any went, was King increasing his running?

 

[Train12]

Gerrard has us as his ‘D day’ for this weekend. Said we are young, but exciting with weapons, but if we win this weekend, we flip the season on its head!

 

[Saintscomemarchingin]

Gerrard has us as his ‘D day’ for this weekend. Said we are young, but exciting with weapons, but if we win this weekend, we flip the season on its head!

I reckon Port are vulnerable atm & we are spending the week there, up to gather round.
so we should be confident that we can upset them & GWS.

 

[bird_man]

Round 4 team

B. Wilkie  Caminiti Webster or  Stocker

H.B. NWM Barrat Sinclair

C. Travaglia Macrae Jones

H.F. Wood Owens Hall

F. Collard Sharman Higgins

Foll. Marshall Steele Windhager

l/C. Byrnes, Garcia, Hill, Wilson, Butler-sub

Ins. Barrat, Butler, Steele

Outs. Hastie, Keeler, O'Connell.

I think a ruck forward is more important to our setup than bringing in another key defender.

Port have one key forward at the moment. They will probably replace Soldo with Finlayson which gives them one and a half.

 

[Saintscomemarchingin]

I think a ruck forward is more important to our setup than bringing in another key defender.

Port have one key forward at the moment. They will probably replace Soldo with Finlayson which gives them one and a half.

Might play both, seeing that they are missing Lukosius & Todd Marshall.

 

[gringo2011]

Gerrard has us as his ‘D day’ for this weekend. Said we are young, but exciting with weapons, but if we win this weekend, we flip the season on its head!

He's a real Nostradamus that one. Seriously though, If we can get ourselves up this will be an incredible club wide boost. Great for memberships, attendance and will help a whole group of players build genuine belief and career momentum. Let alone attracting players from outside. If we want to be a serious club, we need to elevate and find a way to win. .

 

[SaintSteele9]

That god awful 45 minutes or so in that preseason game against Port still lingers a bit, so I’m interested to see how much or how little credence we really can give preseason stuff. They’re flat track home deck bullies of the highest order but 3-1 sounds damn good!

 

[Teflon]

Too many unforced errors. People are quick to point to his disposal efficiency being better than Cripps/Bont etc but inside mids will always have lower efficiency because so many disposals are under intense pressure. Byrnes gets the ball wide open in space and flubs it. He occasionally nails a low pass but more often he'll kick the ball straight to an opposition player under no pressure. He's also a defensive liability - his opponent almost won the game for Geelong in the last quarter a couple of weeks ago.

For so long we've held onto flawed players because "they're solid citizens" but we need to aim higher than that if we want to get out of the 6th-14th ranked team purgatory that we've been stuck in for years. You don't see small outside players with poor skills and mediocre production in top teams.

100%

 

[Sheepey]

Is it just me or do we always seem to get Port after they've been belted the week before

 

[Gavinmitchell11]

If we get an early lead their fans will blow a top, not even our sharp foot skills will cut the tension.

 

[puntking]

We all getting g bit ahead of ourselves, port always beat us especially in Adelaide, I’m hoping for a win too but I’m expecting standard yearly loss to port here, they still too strong in the middle for us

 

[Geezington]

The most we’ve lost to against port in the last 5 games is 13 points, I think we can win here they don’t have any tall forwards other then georgiadis who is shit house and their mids are all downhill skiing crabs, maccheeseburger to have 40 and 15 clearances and 6 goals

 

[sasaint]

We all getting g bit ahead of ourselves, port always beat us especially in Adelaide, I’m hoping for a win too but I’m expecting standard yearly loss to port here, they still too strong in the middle for us

Love all the optimism here but I think we are about to have a hard reality check. Port at home is a very hard game to win

 

[nobhead]

Did anyone attend training today ?

360 just showed a little bit of vision of saints training today!

If any went, was King increasing his running?

Did they train today i thought training was thursdays?

 

[bird_man]

Might play both, seeing that they are missing Lukosius & Todd Marshall.

I doubt it. Soldo was awful.

 

[SG34]

Caminiti would be higher on intercepts if he had of played in defense exclusively. Against the Crows he started as a forward.

Wilkie will be down on intercepts as Howard is out injured, so Wilkie often has to play man on man. One of the main assets of Howard playing at FB is that Wilkie is free to play as Wilkie.

Well it’s kind of odd, because I thought Hammer was kind of playing the Howard role v Richmond at least. (And v Lynch) And not the ‘Battle’ role. And Caminiti is 196cm and long arms v Wilkie (although he plays taller) is just 191cm.

 

[tomjoad]

Love all the optimism here but I think we are about to have a hard reality check. Port at home is a very hard game to win

Definitely a game that could swing either way. Port will be breathing fire after a rough couple of weeks, and will fancy themselves against us...and for good reason. We need to be absolutely switched on if we're to get over the line. The same goes for the week after. Two very big weeks coming up for us. If we can snag a win on the road and split 50/50 I'll be happy.

 

[gringo2011]

The most we’ve lost to against port in the last 5 games is 13 points, I think we can win here they don’t have any tall forwards other then georgiadis who is shit house and their mids are all downhill skiing crabs, maccheeseburger to have 40 and 15 clearances and 6 goals

Get your 50 year old mate down to Alberton and tell him the Gatorade vat is a toilet cistern.

 

[Diehard Saint]

Love all the optimism here but I think we are about to have a hard reality check. Port at home is a very hard game to win

Our last few games against them have been very small losses.
We’re due a win.
Maybe we learnt something from the pre-season loss.
Windy on JHF?