Preview 2025 AFL Season - Round 7: St Kilda v Brisbane (Saturday April 26, 1.20pm - Marvel Stadium)

[beside the seaside]

I like a backline of Hammer, Dougal and Wilkie. Hammer can be aggressive and intercept and set up as can Dougal. Lots more flexibility.

 

[RBW_007]

I'm not so sure. Both are pure stoppers, who can be a liability with ball in hand. Neither is going to be an intercepting/3rd-man-in type.

Dougs back in frees up Wilkie to be the main intercepting defender. He hasn't been able to do that as much as he would like, due to having to defend more with our lack of height and experience in defense.
Hopefully he can become more proactive in winning the ball and set up some good rebound from the back half.

 

[cooperrules]

Wilson is young
He has been played imo for too long a stretch now he needs a VFL run but we saw something so have pumped games into him
I would do a Pou and send him back to VFL for a block and tell you’ll play pure mid there we want you back with the same intensity Pou showed
He’s a pro Wilson he’ll learn to lower eyes over time also

I hope so or hes hes another typical stkilda ball butcher. Hes avgs 1 touch a km and 40 percent of them are turovers. Lot of useless running which also tells me he doesnt read the game very well. Low footy IQ from what i see. Which has been our mantra the last 16 years.

 

[TheJackal]

Happy to see Doug back, watch Wilkie come alive! Our biggest issue will be how to deal with their small forwards getting quality delivery from their mids. Both their smalls and mids are significantly stronger and more experienced than ours, with respect to Macrae.

 

[SainterinSydney]

I like a backline of Hammer, Dougal and Wilkie. Hammer can be aggressive and intercept and set up as can Dougal. Lots more flexibility.

I agree. I think the three of them potentially could end up better than Wilkie, doogs and battle. My concern is we need height in the fwd line and Hammer may need to spend time up forward until Max comes back.

 

[dudeintheswamp]

A number of parallels if ya wanna make 'em!

Rewind to 2003: A second is a long time in football

St Kilda's heart-stopping win against Brisbane in 2003 went right down to the final second.

www.saints.com.au

 

[cooperrules]

Ben long

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Ben Long

Age

28

Ht

186cm

Wt

81kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.9

3star

K

6.2

2star

HB

4.7

3star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.7

4star

G

0.7

4star

D

12.8

3star

K

6.7

3star

HB

6.2

4star

M

3.3

3star

T

2.3

3star

G

0.0

1star

D

13.4

4star

K

6.8

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

3.2

4star

T

3.2

5star

G

0.6

3star

is the no 1 rated forward in he afl. Incredible

 

[PoppedCorn]

and?
no one cares about the hindsight

 

[longtimesaint]

Ben long is the no 1 rated forward in he afl. Incredible

He left because he wanted to play half-back

 

[Sully111]

Ben long is the no 1 rated forward in he afl. Incredible

Does he play for Brisbane?

 

[Remboy]

He left because he wanted to play half-back

Not to mention the $500k for four years.

 

[Simon Templar]

Ben long is the no 1 rated forward in he afl. Incredible

How's Olli Hotton travelling?

 

[beside the seaside]

Not to mention the $500k for four years.

The previous group massively underrated Long. I know people like to justify the trade but it was an error, exacerbated by the poor drafting that followed to burn the good pick we got for him. I know that Enright was really upset to lose him, it's a shame we couldn't see what Ross would have gotten out of him. But the people that made the call are long gone so what can you do? I still love watching him but wish he was still a Saint.

 

[cooperrules]

The previous group massively underrated Long. I know people like to justify the trade but it was an error, exacerbated by the poor drafting that followed to burn the good pick we got for him. I know that Enright was really upset to lose him, it's a shame we couldn't see what Ross would have gotten out of him. But the people that made the call are long gone so what can you do? I still love watching him but wish he was still a Saint.

HE was a sitting duck forward one week back the next. Its a ahame as he was a beautiful kick and he had mongrel. I was a huge fan. Im glad hes going well until he plays us.

 

[cooperrules]

How's Olli Hotton travelling?

Who?

 

[cooperrules]

Not to mention the $500k for four years.

NO 1 forward in the comp for a packet of chips.

 

[bakes10]

I hope so or hes hes another typical stkilda ball butcher. Hes avgs 1 touch a km and 40 percent of them are turovers. Lot of useless running which also tells me he doesnt read the game very well. Low footy IQ from what i see. Which has been our mantra the last 16 years.

I think you’re being harsh on Darcy. He did well playing on a HFF last year and kicked 2 or 3 goals against Geelong. He’s still learning, obviously got a long way to go. I can see him turning into a Kelly from GWS in about 4 years time.

 

[sauce_head]

Howard and Keeler in for Shoie and Henry (both omitted).

Going tall…

 

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I think everyone needs to calm down about Boxshall. Until our midfield actually shows that it’s incompetent, and until Boxshall can show he can get 30+ touches and 10+ clearances in a vfl game then it’s not worth considering him. If that does, in our wildest dreams, happen then its a no brainer to debut him.

 

[bird_man]

Arie the scapegoat again. I'd like to see him given a decent block of games, he was far from our worst last week.

He's managed to be dropped 4 times in just 7 games. The third time he's been brought in for one game and dropped again.

I understand he's got plenty of work to do, but our midfield had their pants absolutely pulled down on the weekend. It can't have been easy for anyone in the back half.

 

[TheJackal]

Howard and Keels for Arie and Henry.

Phwoar... message sent....

 

[bird_man]

I think everyone needs to calm down about Boxshall. Until our midfield actually shows that it’s incompetent, and until Boxshall can show he can get 30+ touches and 10+ clearances in a vfl game then it’s not worth considering him. If that does, in our wildest dreams, happen then its a no brainer to debut him.

I see what you did there

 

[bird_man]

The previous group massively underrated Long. I know people like to justify the trade but it was an error, exacerbated by the poor drafting that followed to burn the good pick we got for him. I know that Enright was really upset to lose him, it's a shame we couldn't see what Ross would have gotten out of him. But the people that made the call are long gone so what can you do? I still love watching him but wish he was still a Saint.

He was given every opportunity in both the back half and front half of the ground. He just could never get going for us.

That's footy.

 

[D2D3]

Yeap that’s some Ross Lyon team selection if ever I’ve seen it

 

[Plugger35]

Well at least we have brought in more height with Howard and Keeler but it's still disappointing not to see Boxshall given a crack.

RTB backing in our midfielders to respond after their woeful performance last week, hopefully they can but I'm not that confident.