Preview Round 1, 2022: St.Kilda v Collingwood - Marvel Stadium, Friday 18th March, 7:50PM AEDT

[Gosaints12]

Pretty sure it’s sold out. Can’t get a ticket

Yeah they said it was gonna be big.


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[Gosaints12]

“Experts”. Hahaha they are fcuked

Would’ve thought we’d be favourable. We play better as the underdog anyways.


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[stavro#4]

So why don't we start drafting mids? We have an issue with recruiting them. In the era of the midfielders we are a dinosaur doing our own thing based on model that won WCE a premiership by an unlikely point. We must be obsessed with history repeating. Fans have wanted to draft mids since Lenny Hayes was still playing, we seem to find HBFs that we hope might play mids year after year.

Did we not just draft 3 of them?
NWM Owens and Windhager

 

[ScrappyDo]

Did we not just draft 3 of them?
NWM Owens and Windhager

No no no. Not those midfielders. Not Bytel or Byrnes either. He means the other kind of midfielders, the ones that we're NOT drafting!! Sheesh..

 

[Punter88]

Is Collingwood's midfield that good? Adams obviously, De Goey if he plays in there maybe, Sidebum and Pendles are seriously getting on..am I missing something? I would expect our midfield to match up on theirs nicely even without Jones.

agreed should still cover them its literally adams crisp (whose a half back flanker turned mid) dd goey grundy
and young players

 

[BigHK]

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[tubthumper]

Has anyone had any luck buying multiple member upgrade tickets? Think I've seen others having issues with this, so if anyone's figured something out I'd really appreciate hearing about it

When I went directly to the Ticketmaster website, no matter which ticketing option I chose, after entering the member numbers it said something along the lines of "no allocations available".

When I instead followed the link in the Saints members email, it worked perfectly (bought 2 tickets)

 

[Premium]

agreed should still cover them its literally adams crisp (whose a half back flanker turned mid) dd goey grundy
and young players

I really looking to see how Gresham goes , he actually looks to be in the best shape he has been in and with Marshall , Steele and Crouch there is no reason our midfield can't get the job done.

 

[George]

Haven't really got up for this one until today. Cannot wait for the season to start again.

 

[Steele2King]

Hi, was just wondering if members have received their barcode/ticket in the st kilda app yet?

 

[70s sainter]

I think the Jones loss will hurt us because he has that genuine speed and can break a line and would have been too quick for the pies mids. I reckon Pendles will take on a half back role now.

I agree Jones is a massive out for us in the center clearances. As well as Dunstan we might struggle in the center . I hope not

 

[FQFjt]

Jones is a moderate loss on the clearance front, but the biggest loss (and the same goes for Clark) is the creativity and unpredictability of our ball movement which he (and Clark) creates. We really need need Gresham, Hill and Sinclair to fill the void in this regard.

 

[Saintbloke]

A game we're tipped to win..that means danger for the Saints.

 

[Mowman]

AFL on twitter saying Friday is a sell out

We better not sh1t the bed full house on a Friday night

 

[BrutThough]

Hi, was just wondering if members have received their barcode/ticket in the st kilda app yet?

Mine was there last night.

 

[stavro#4]

FFS we are freaking out about matching the side that finished second last on the ladder last year. I was kind of hoping that we might be aiming a bit higher than that. It's going to be a long season if we are trying to nullify North Melbourne, Hawks and Collingwood in team selection.

I’ve just seen this. So I’m responding now.

Jones, Clark, Billings, most likely Ryder, potentially Bytel.

If you want to include Hanners - he is another.

That’s a lot of midfield and midfield depth missing for this game.

Clearly the club have concerns we could lose the game here. Which I think is perfectly understandable. These questions are asked any selection night. The try to plan for these scenarios. They want to be prepared.

Should we win? Yes.

But if we lose, it will be purely on their midfield getting on top. If Grundy is at his best, that’s a big concern. If Sidebottom gets on top. That’s a concern - he kills us.

Last thing we need is the pies bandwagon to get behind them because the 2 Daicos boys are making us look silly.

However, if we can breakeven in the centre - seeing as we are undermanned here. I back us to win the match ups at either end.

Both to kick a score and to defend one.

From what I saw, I don’t think Ryder will play. But they are pushing and testing him. Hayes will partner Marshall if he doesn’t and he will have to compete + hit the scoreboard directly or indirectly via creating opportunities for the smalls.

 

[stavro#4]

A game we're tipped to win..that means danger for the Saints.

Round 1 always throws up surprises. Let’s hope we are focused and ready.

 

[jwikked]

AFL on twitter saying Friday is a sell out

We better not sh1t the bed full house on a Friday night

I'm happy to be wrong. What a great way to start off the year.

 

[Mowman]

Just watched our comeback game against WC last year

Billings- Clark - Coff and Jones all went ok LOL

 

[Saints TV]

PUMPED

 

[tim_saints]

 

[gringo2011]

Surely Ryder training with the first team is a good thing.

Of course it is but rushing him back for a bottom 4 side could derail us when we really need him later on.

 

[gringo2011]

7 AFL "experts" tipped Collingwood to win vs 5 to us

Actually prefer that, we get ahead of ourselves and lose the easy ones every now and again. Favourites just gives us an excuse to trip over at the starting line again.

 

[bird_man]

When would have our last sold out game at Marvel been?

 

[gringo2011]

Did we not just draft 3 of them?
NWM Owens and Windhager

WangMill looks like a Hill style wingman, Owens looks potentially a mid and Windy a forward mid. I'm talking a pure Olly Wines/ Clayton Oliver ball pig style midfielder. We can't win clearance without Ryder who is minutes from retirement but don't seem to address a lack of clearance specialists.