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The plan for curbing the twin towers is strong team defense across the entire ground (a hallmark of our season to date), making sure every entry kick is under pressure and/or from poor positions on the ground

It's a no-brainer that St Kilda should host a home game like that every year. Friday or Saturday night, MCG, vs a powerhouse Melbourne club that will attract a big crowd. Meaning anyone bar Melbourne, Dogs, North or Geelong. Hawthorn, Richmond and Collingwood are MCG teams. Which leaves...

That's a huge signing. Was really worried he'd go the Luke Jackson/Jason Horne Francis route. Nas, Owens, Windhager and Poo is the best group of kids St Kilda's had since 2002-2003. All bring unique things and Nas's kicking skills and run from half back will be a helpful cog in the St Kilda...

Spot on. We have a mature list. We need to be planning for 2024-2025 and onwards when King starts to really peak. I would've liked us to move up the draft board this year with another top 10 pick, or even another top 20. But realistically it's difficult doing those trades without offering...

We didn't do much but at least we didn't do anything stupid Let's hope we nail our draft selections. If we end up with another Windhager, another NWM and Owens, and those three keep developing in their 2nd seasons then the team will be heading upwards sharply over the next 2-3 years. That's an...

What I’d like to see this off-season Hit the draft. Don’t trade any of our draft selections. Choose wisely. Re-Sign Paddy Ryder. Trade Brad Hill to North Melbourne. Offer to pay $200k-$250k of his contract and ask for a young player in return. (North has traded their 2nd and 3rd round picks)...

Who? Steele- yes King- getting there, basically there over his past 12 games. Looks a future superstar Marshall- potentially Gresham? Maybe, missing 1.5 years hasn't helped, still only 24 Clark? Has shown flashes of class here and there Coffield? Based on 2020 form possibly Crouch...

A list spot is not nothing There's 36-38 senior list positions, and up to 8 rookies (6 category A and 2 category B). Cap 44 total. Any list position you give to a 30 year old, is basically a position you're putting aside in the knowledge you'll probably have to fill it again in 1-2 years...

Yep except we're trying to win the Melbourne cup (win the flag), not the Cranbourne Cup (make finals). Many of the moves were great. But the key thing for me is age. We picked up Wilkie as a 22 year old, Marshall at about 20. It's the older ones that are questionable. Wood (27), Lienert...

Exactly Abbott, Hunter, Mckernan, Campbell We're just bringing in delisted, old rejects every year. They play a few games, don't look up to it (unsurprisingly), so we bring someone else in. This isn't a successful long term strategy. Edit: And before anyone mentions Paddy Ryder, he was an All...

I wasn't surprised when Melbourne took the next step last year- they had an underlying spread of elite talent. Gawn, Petracca and Oliver didn't become superstars overnight. Every year since 2018 (when they made the prelim) I was expecting them to become premiership contenders. Dogs had a group...

We don't need experts to tell us where we're at. I think we'd mostly agree It seems clear we're a middle rung team. We're pretty one dimensional. We thrive when we pressure and run, but we're also hot and cold. If things go well, we might make finals. We might even win a final like 2020. If...

Hickey displayed obvious talent at 25 playing for St Kilda- had a great year in 2016 Witts has been GCs number 1 ruck since he was 24 Preuss is 26 Not sure why these guys are relevant to the question of St Kilda drafting a 30 year old ruck who never made it, and will be around for 1 or 2 years

Preuss is 26 Unlike Campbell he's a prospect who might have 5 or 6 years of contribution ahead of him.

To simplify this We have a potential generational player- a future elite key forward who we can build a list around. He’s 21. So it makes sense to bring in players who are around King’s age. Players who will peak while King peaks. We’ve had success over the past decade, bringing in young...

Exactly And St Kilda has been on the middle rungs for about 7 years now. Except 2018, we had a shocking year but we had some serious bad luck in 2018-2019- like having 3 players careers ended by concussion including our prized number 1 pick (McCartin, Billy Longer, Koby Stevens), plus 2017 All...

That's the crux of it. List strategy all depends on where you're at. If we were a top 4 team and thinking we're a serious premiership chance this year, it would've made more sense to get 30 year old Tom Campbell or a 27 year old Jarrod Lienert. But let's be honest, it would take a near...

Trading for current players and giving state level guys an opportunity, and prioritising this over the draft has been a deliberate strategy of St Kilda's for a number of years I think you need to differentiate between categories on the list eg - players from other AFL clubs we traded for -...

My thoughts exactly. Port are the most overrated team in the AFL right now. Very good chance of dropping from top 4. Decent chance of dropping out of the 8, although they'd be more likely to stay between 5th-8th. They did add Fantasia and Allir and did play some good footy this year.

Absolutely horrible fixture. Of course, hindsight will tell us exactly how bad it ends up being. If Father time hits the oldies at Richmond, Geelong, West Coast and Port, and they all drop 3 places on the ladder then it won't be so bad. But from all appearances, and fair assumptions at this...

For a kid, I was impressed at how rarely King was beaten in contests. He rarely gave away a free kick or let his opponent take the mark or fist the ball out of bounds. He led St.Kilda in contested marks. Consistently had 1 or 2 per game. Dropped lots too, but when a dropped mark spills to the...

At the beginning of every season there's always a range of possibilities on what might transpire. For the first time in a decade, many think the Saints' 2021 best case scenario is a flag. What needs to happen? What needs to go right? A few things on my wish list: One or two more youngsters...

Carlisle's contact has a games trigger for a 2nd year too. Both guys will be competing hard for a spot.

Great move! Given how few players we have over 28, I'm happy giving him a spot. He's basically replacing Nathan Brown. Like Mckernan is replacing Abbott. 2 old guys in for 2 old guys, like for like. Frawley brings an extra big body in defense. Extra depth. And of course a connection with a...

Geary has been our captain for 4 years, brings toughness and can play a variety of roles, and was one of our better players in St Kilda's first finals win in a decade. I'm still a bit surprised so many have left him out. Sinclair had a quality 2nd half of 2020. Those two seem a bit stiff. That...

There's always the best case scenario, the most likely scenario, and the scenarios you'd prefer not to think about. Our best case scenario in 2021 is a flag. That's the first time we can say that since 2011. 2012 if you're the really optimistic type and you thought we could rebound after...

Wait a second Didn't Geary play the defensive forward role in the first half, forcing Daniel to change positions after half time (when he started having an influence)? In other words Geary played on him for a half, and won the matchup.

Higgins knows an opportunity when he sees one- he wants to spend the next 10 years playing alongside Max King!

B: Paton Howard Wilkie HB: Clark Carlisle Coffield C: Hill Steele Sinclair HF: Butler Membrey Billings F: Marshall King Gresham Foll: Ryder Crouch Jones Bench: Geary Hannebery Ross Battle Emerg: Dunstan Long Roberton McKernan Groupings: Defenders (5) : Howard, Wilkie, Paton, Carlisle...

In the past decade only ten players have averaged 30 disposals, 5 clearances and 5 tackles in a single season. Brad Crouch is one of them. (H/T Saints TV).