Preview Round 20, 2022: St.Kilda v Hawthorn - Marvel Stadium, Saturday 30th July, 4:35PM AEST

[George]

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[sauce_head]

Season defining danger match.

 

[Klaatu]

Will be a tight contest should just get over the line,play Windhager on Newcombe as the tagger then move onto Geelong who is due for a loss you can't keep winning no matter how good you are so hopefully they just get over the bulldogs.

 

[XhazzafootyX]

Hanners in

 

[EddieMurphy]

They really think they owe us based on their board posts, so since we are treading water this year beating them is one of the few enjoyable moments we have as supporters.

 

[lewdogs]

The equation is simple enough. We just need to keep winning.

They're in good form and coming back off a slog it will be tough.

Hanners certain to come in you'd think. Wonder if Windy goes to Newcombe.

 

[Sully111]

Hope we get selection right.

My gut feeling is they'll towel us up and put our win against a side with a percentage of 57 into perspective.

But who knows with us. We could get our mojo going and play well. We're too inconsistent and unreliable to tell what will happen.

 

[Tyrian Lonestar]

Hanners & Owens IN please

 

[Klaatu]

Hope we get selection right.

My gut feeling is they'll towel us up and put our win against a side with a percentage of 57 into perspective.

But who knows with us. We could get our mojo going and play well. We're too inconsistent and unreliable to tell what will happen.

On what bases they beat WC at the "G" by 25 points you would think west coast away is a 4 goal head start as it is.

 

[Veer Right]

Owens for Billings, my only change.

 

[The Foolback]

If Hanners is fit he plays. There's no way he doesn't.

 

[Barrels]

Any updates on Billings and Gresh?

Hanners and Michito in if the two above are no good, surely? No idea what we do about the sub.

 

[BrutThough]

Hanners for Billings seems the obvious change.

Maybe Owens in if Gresh is injured. Or Long comes into the 22.

Any word on how far away Howard is?

 

[The Punter]

If Dougal is fit, he replaces someone to play on Mitch Lewis.

The Billings injury is an odd one because he may be fine. I like NWM as an option, I like Hannebury as an option, I like Owens as an option, I like Bytel as an option. If Gresh is out too that increases options. Long is still outside the 22 despite the last two weeks, so perhaps he comes into the 22.

There is also an option to bring in Campbell as Marshall has an unnerving knack of playing to the level of his opponent. Reeves is not Simon Madden, so perhaps we play Campbell and have Marshall revert to the forward ruck role.

 

[lewdogs]

If Dougal is fit, he replaces someone to play on Mitch Lewis.

The Billings injury is an odd one because he may be fine. I like NWM as an option, I like Hannebury as an option, I like Owens as an option, I like Bytle as an option. If Gresh is out too that increases options. Long is still outside the 22 despite the last two weeks, so perhaps he comes into the 22.

There is also an option to bring in Campbell as Marshall has an unnerving knack of playing to the level of his opponent. Reeves is not Simon Madden, so perhaps we play Campbell and have Marshall revert to the forward ruck role.

Dougs probably comes in for Sharman.

 

[Sully111]

On what bases they beat WC at the "G" by 25 points you would think west coast away is a 4 goal head start as it is.

On the basis that they've had 2 wins and have a percentage of 57. They've been dreadful this year.

I hope as much as anyone that we've turned a corner. I'd love to see Owens and Hanners come in and impact.

There were some positives in the game, but I have little faith in this team right now.

 

[Sainter1873]

Tricky game but we’ve got them covered if we play to our ability. Hannebery in for Billings. Not sure there are many other changes.

 

[lewdogs]

If we can get our noses into the eight it puts pressure on other teams to keep winning.

We've seen already that things don't go as predicted. Get in there and then cheer on the Cats Saturday night.

 

[Plugger35]

Hannebery would be a handy inclusion, with how little he has played he would be like a new recruit for us and give us some much needed midfield class.

With the Hawks having two ruckmen with Reeves and McEvoy then Campbell would have to be a chance to come in and it would give us the option of us playing Marshall up forward more and help to give King a chop out. Yesterday King was our only tall forward target and he got swamped by defenders.

Dougs probably comes in for Sharman.

Would be harsh dropping Sharman when he was one of our better players yesterday playing that loose man role in defence.

I'd rather we dropped Lienert for Howard if he's available.

 

[The Punter]

I'd rather we dropped Lienert for Howard if he's available.

That's a reasonable suggestion but Lienert was second ruck yesterday. Who comes up for Campbell if Lienert is coming out for Howard?

 

[Ephemeral Hope]

Season defining danger match.

Percentage Booster Opportunity

 

[Diehard Saint]

Season defining danger match.

You're not wrong
Gotta win them all from now on.
(One week at a time.)

 

[Diehard Saint]

Hanners for Billings seems the obvious change.

Maybe Owens in if Gresh is injured. Or Long comes into the 22.

Any word on how far away Howard is?

And DMac?

 

[lewdogs]

And DMac?

DMac won't be back until September

 

[Plugger35]

That's a reasonable suggestion but Lienert was second ruck yesterday. Who comes up for Campbell if Lienert is coming out for Howard?

Not sure, that's for the selection committee to work out, some tough decisions will need to be made, even Lienert doesn't really deserve to be dropped.