Preview Round 16, 2021: Collingwood v St.Kilda - MCG, Sunday 4th July, 3:20PM AEST

[Baldur]

You all know that we are going to be piped in the final round. So that make that pain happen. We win this week.

 

[PostmanBish]

You all know that we are going to be piped in the final round. So that make that pain happen. We win this week.

Surely we're the team most overdue to come into the final round "with a mathematical chance" and not do a Bunsters when their match rolls around?

 

[borderbarry]

It is always good to have a win against the maggies!

 

[busso_mick]

Collingwood might not be a walkover. They did beat Melbourne a few rounds back, admittedly it was Bucks last game and they were pumped up.

If we play like last week we will win, the question is will we?

 

[Remboy]

Collingwood might not be a walkover. They did beat Melbourne a few rounds back, admittedly it was Bucks last game and they were pumped up.

If we play like last week we will win, the question is will we?

We’ve got at least as much chance of playing like we did than the Pies have. They’re no good. Saints by plenty.

 

[BrutThough]

Ticketing Information: Collingwood v St Kilda

St Kilda's Round 16 match against Collingwood on Sunday 4 July will serve as a replacement home game for St Kilda members with game-day entitlements.

www.saints.com.au

 

[pebblesofsand]

I can only see us losing one more game for the home and away season - and it won't be this one.

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

I feel the pies match up well on us, but do what we did against the tigers and we can win.

Will be scrappy but saints by 30

 

[Bill Mohr]

I expected us to be favourites. We are above them on the ladder, just beat Richmond and they lost to Freo. Reckon that market will change a bit.

Have not checked stats but from memory we have not had any regular success against the Pies. They can get up to win when least expected. A golden opportunity though. Money should be about even. We may go in with an unchanged line-up.

 

[MercedesPlsSlowDown]

Have not checked stats but from memory we have not had any regular success against the Pies. They can get up to win when least expected. A golden opportunity though. Money should be about even. We may go in with an unchanged line-up.

Coffields Hamstring would need to be dissected after his death if he can get up for this game. Should be just Billings for Coffield though.

 

[Bill Mohr]

Coffields Hamstring would need to be dissected after his death if he can get up for this game. Should be just Billings for Coffield though.

So Billings only out for 1 week then?

 

[MercedesPlsSlowDown]

So Billings only out for 1 week then?

He's listed as test on our injury list so i'd say it's likely. If he doesn't get up big boy Leo will stick around and get the 40 touches and 30 marks he deserves

 

[Greshs Eye]

Sorry Harves, but I hope you get absolutely torched in your second game at the helm of the Pies. Nothing personal sir

 

[Bill Mohr]

Poor bugger, he gets his chance and might not even get a win this year.

 

[Minga]

What am I missing here, why are they favourites?

 

[True Believer]

What am I missing here, why are they favourites?

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Because we are bi-polar and they have a massive following! The skunks are often under the odds they should be because their mass of intellectually deficient followers are happy to part with their hard-earned (or stolen) cash backing their inept team blindly......

 

[George]

What am I missing here, why are they favourites?

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Nick Coffield's omission of course.

 

[PoppedCorn]

Billings.

Agreed
If its plantar fasciitis give him another one off

We should really be able to knock the pies off
Stop GoGo from kicking a bag and watch Elliott
But, ya know...saints might saint it up and fart in the bath

Saints by 35 ( yup, thats right...sorry harves)

 

[KingsRansom]

Agreed
If its plantar fasciitis give him another one off

We should really be able to knock the pies off
Stop GoGo from kicking a bag and watch Elliott
But, ya know...saints might saint it up and fart in the bath

Saints by 35 ( yup, thats right...sorry harves)

Interesting in the article on saints website that Connolly was told by ratts that he was 50/50 morning of, then billings went out with a knee "minutes" before the game. Sounds to me that it may have been a bigger issue

 

[Bill Mohr]

Everyone's been talking about plantar fasciitis, so now it is a knee!!!

 

[KingsRansom]

Everyone's been talking about plantar fasciitis, so now it is a knee!!!

Yeah, from the article by Chris Nice

"Earlier that morning, the young Saint from Gippsland received a phone call from Brett Ratten telling him he’d be a “50-50” chance to make his AFL debut as the medical sub.

Fifteen or so minutes out from the opening bounce, it appears that he won’t. A slight twist in Jack Billings’ already uncertain knee during the warm-up soon changes that."

I for one had no idea about said knee, so there you go

 

[George]

Already uncertain? Has the club kept it from everyone or was Chris just thinking about someone else?

 

[Diehard Saint]

Interesting in the article on saints website that Connolly was told by ratts that he was 50/50 morning of, then billings went out with a knee "minutes" before the game. Sounds to me that it may have been a bigger issue

Ratts said that Billings had felt the knee at training on Wednesday. Probably why Leo was 50/50.
And when it wasn’t right pre-game he came in ( as sub anyway)

 

[Diehard Saint]

Everyone's been talking about plantar fasciitis, so now it is a knee!!!

No, at the game when he withdrew I heard something about a knee.
Was the commentators just surmising about the pf because that’s what he had before. I’m sure I heard Ratts say that’s absolutely fine.

 

[Big 0]

It's now obvious that the clearance stat is the most important thing in us winning games of footy. Only have lost once this year when losing it (v Cats, and then we probably should have won that game anyway) and in our wins it's clearly been our way, often big (+19 v Tiges, +16 v Eagles, +10 v Suns and Hawks, +9 v GWS). Needless to say that in the games we've been smashed, we've also been smashed at clearance.

Going forward, this is the way we will best beat teams imo. The biggest thing for us is winning the territory battle (like Brisbane focus on doing) which allows our defence to set up better and brings our pressure forwards into the game. This is probably why Marshall and Ryder have such a positive effect on our W/L ratio. It also echoes recent Leppitsch comments about the 'blue collar' DNA of the team. It's always started in the middle for us this year, maybe moreso than most other teams.

I'd be pretty confident that we can beat Collingwood around stoppages, although with Grundy tapping to De Goey and Adams in there it's certainly not an easy job for our boys. Hopefully Dunstan has another 11 and Marshall/Ryder have a few of their own