Prediction St.Kilda Best 22

[Savage Kent]

What I would like to see cemented by mid season:
B: Webster, Wilkie, Tauru
HB:Wanganeen-Milera, Caminiti, Travaglia
C: Wood, Phillipou, Wilson
HF: Henry, Sharman, Higgins
F: Owens, King, Butler
R: Marshall, Macrae, Sinclair
Int: Steele, Hill, Clark, Windhager
Sub: Garcia

 

[saintmike65]

Yeah I think JWeb is a lock. He's really our only lockdown defender when it comes to small forwards.

I could see Travaglia being that Hardwick type small defender, taking kickouts and swinging on ball or forward as needed but we need Stocker (or... someone) to really take that role on.

There's a spot up for grabs in the next couple of years if anyone's brave enough to take it.

McLennan can be that lockdown defender or O’Connell if he continues his development trajectory

 

[saintmike65]

Nas

Fair. I’d also love to see it but I’m not convinced he can. Potentially around the ground but not sure at centre bounce. In addition, I think his defending and intercept marking are really improving and while already a gun HBF, I think he his several gears to go up.

Nas more a wing option perhaps

 

[SG34]

So no one picking a young guy who was picked no less than fives last year!!

Admittedly, he was a submarine - AKA ‘sub’ and he’s boots touched grass only four times.

But he kicked a goal.

So what’s up with Angus Hastie?

Not good enough? Already passed?

What this tells me is that draft bias / new recruit bias is doing its thing.

 

[jimmytigs]

my hope is barrat is ready round 1,if so he into the backline,hammer onto the bench and one of mids on the bench to sandy,but mindset is go into round one all out to win,so im going with all established players at this point,

jones byrnes stocker carroll and hall will be sweating on clark dow and garcia,no wriggle room for seven of them(exc garcia)those 7 are fighting for their 2026 lives & will be given every oppurtunity

6 main list draftees to be given plenty of time,but rewarded if form and development demands

trigger finger itchy to bring arie and hastie in quickly of the rest

B jweb howard wilkie
HB naz caminiti sincs
R marshall macrae pou
C hill steele wilson
HF owens sharman wood
F butler ming higgins
IC windy clark henry garcia dow

B mclennan barrat stocker
HB tauru cordy arie
R heath jones boxshall
C byrnes carroll trav
HF hall dodson hastie
F collard keeler said
IC crouch armstrong o'connell

 

[Sol Goodman]

Windy don't start on the bench.

 

[Sol Goodman]

Hope by the time Rnd 1 comes around they'll be fighting for list spots. Best 22 is hard.

 

[Saint Ray]

Hope by the time Rnd 1 comes around they'll be fighting for list spots. Best 22 is hard.

Yes it is extremely difficult.

 

[Saintscomemarchingin]

Round 1, barring injuries.

B. Travaglia Howard Wilkie

H.B. Hastie Barrat NWM

C. Henry Phillipou Wilson

H.F. Butler Tauru Garcia

F. Higgins King Sharman

Foll. Marshall Steele Sinclair

I/C. Hill, Jones, Windhager, Wood,  Macrae-sub- hehe.

Emerg. Caminiti, Clark, Heath, Owens

 

[aussierulesrules]

So no one picking a young guy who was picked no less than fives last year!!

Admittedly, he was a submarine - AKA ‘sub’ and he’s boots touched grass only four times.

But he kicked a goal.

So what’s up with Angus Hastie?

Not good enough? Already passed?

What this tells me is that draft bias / new recruit bias is doing its thing.

He has potential for the future, but he was generally miles off the pace in the senior games he played this year and was far from setting the world on fire in the VFL as well.

I’d say the only reason he got games was because we just had so many injuries to those who play the sort of roles he could play, and we had little other choice but to play him.

Travaglia will probably shoot past him in the pecking order, but time will tell.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

So no one picking a young guy who was picked no less than fives last year!!

Admittedly, he was a submarine - AKA ‘sub’ and he’s boots touched grass only four times.

But he kicked a goal.

So what’s up with Angus Hastie?

Not good enough? Already passed?

What this tells me is that draft bias / new recruit bias is doing its thing.

Jesus, he's a one year player who has already gone ok as depth.
He may develop into a gun, i think he has a lot of good attributes.
Its not like buying a new car, where you get what you drove out of the showroom.

 

[SG34]

He has potential for the future, but he was generally miles off the pace in the senior games he played this year and was far from setting the world on fire in the VFL as well.

I’d say the only reason he got games was because we just had so many injuries to those who play the sort of roles he could play, and we had little other choice but to play him.

Travaglia will probably shoot past him in the pecking order, but time will tell.

Ok then. That opinion is forthright and tells us something about the drafting process and how fans react in general terms.
Basically, Hastie was lucky to be drafted, and fortuitous to be selected. The point I think is not that he was off the pace AFL wise, but that he was ordinary VFL wise.

 

[Ads734]

Webster Howard trav
Sincs Wilkie Naz
Hill Pou wood
Wilson king Owens
Higgins Sherman butler
Ro Steele mccrae

Clark windy Byrnes Garcia sub(jones)

Emergancy
Keeler Ari tarau

 

[CursingFijian]

Webster Howard trav
Sincs Wilkie Naz
Hill Pou wood
Wilson king Owens
Higgins Sherman butler
Ro Steele mccrae

Clark windy Byrnes Garcia sub(jones)

Emergancy
Keeler Ari tarau

Nice. I think Henry makes the cut if fit, and maybe Byrnes pushes Jones off the bench. Get a feeling Clarks position also under threat from Carrol, but happy to start with Hunter.