Where and when: Metricon Stadium, 2:10pm (AEST)
Last time they met: R10, 2020: Gold Coast 11.8 (74) DEF BY St Kilda 12.6 (78) at Carrara.
After Ben King kicked his third goal early in the final term, the Suns led by nine points, but it wasn’t enough as Dan Butler produced two pieces of magic to re-take the lead for the final time. Jack Billings (27 disposals) and Jack Steele (21 and two goals) were exceptional in the midfield, while Hunter Clark (19) continued a fine season. Hugh Greenwood (22 disposals) led a strong midfield, while Sam Collins continued to push his case for an All Australian squad berth with another fantastic performance from full-back.
Match Preview: Stewie Dew’s men have hit a purple patch knocking off Sydney and Collingwood over the last 2 weeks. They’ll need to be on their games against St Kilda who dominated the Hawks in Tassie last week. I reckon the Saints are a better team but playing their 3rd away game in 3 weeks will give The Suns the advantage.
Motts Watch:
Gold Coast
Greenwood and Rankine
St Kilda
Marshall and Billings
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LATE CHANGES
Gold Coast: Nil
St Kilda: Seb Ross replaced in selected side by Mason Wood
MEDICAL SUBSTITUTE
Gold Coast: Alex Sexton
St Kilda: Jack Lonie
SEB Ross is a late out for St Kilda’s clash against Gold Coast on Saturday after his wife gave birth to twins on Friday … on his 28th birthday.
Got excited and thought maybe Highmore would come in, but of course not…
……before I read who the subs were after that GD, you, me and a gazillion others went into overdrive……but of course Ross is not a defender……
Could Marshall be a cheeky v choice against the no rucks GCS ??
Named him as the second smoky in the captaincy article this week, Wighty.
You clearly didn’t read it lol, so here it is again:
MARSHALL v Suns
L3 v Suns: 143, 122 (133 av.)
L3 @ MS: 105, 143, 76 (108 av.)
Suns announced they’re going to stick with their ruck set up of Burgess and Graham this week, who managed 13 HOs to Grundy and Cameron’s 50 the other day. Irrespective of how the game goes, Ryder and RoMo will just have a field day in the ruck contests. Marshall’s got a juicy albeit limited record v Suns, looked really limber and in sync with Ryder last week and will have those lucrative F50 HOs to feast on. Will go 120 at a minimum, with a chance to go large depending on the outcome of the game.
GD…I do recall that now….so much to read…..can’t retain it all. Ryder my only concern,
Gold Coast v St Kilda, Metricon Stadium Changed start time 1.45pm AEST.
Go Suns
Hunter Clark – 11 touches 5 marks 1 tackle and sits on 16 points at HT. Is he butchering it or?! Wow
Wondering why Lukosius scoring has plummeted since about the second round.
To me he doesn’t seem to really get involved and just wanders around picking up the occasional possession.
I would have been better fielding Koschitzke at this rate.
pretty sure he has had a role change Shaggi and its obvious he’s not comfortable in the role
Yep…two tons in first three rds playing back, then on the wing since….not happy Jan !!
Steele just butchers the ball doesn’t he?? 22 possies thus far, with 15 kicks 5 tackles and 9 CP’s … but only 54DE is killing his scoring …
AND just typical Marshall scoring well when we needed him to be shy of his BE to drop a little more and allow him to be grabbed for the FWDS in a week or two … bad bye as well …
Saints get away with it late …
St Kilda Saints: 8.15.63
Jack Billings 120
Rowan Marshall 103
Callum Wilkie 95
Jack Steele 93
Hunter Clark 87
Dougal Howard 87
Zak Jones 86
Brad Crouch 79
Jack Higgins 76
Bradley Hill 74
Jimmy Webster 72
Max King 70
Josh Battle 67
Jack Sinclair 65
Daniel Butler 57
Ryan Byrnes 54
Patrick Ryder 52
Nicholas Coffield 47
Darragh Joyce 46
Jack Bytel 31
Tim Membrey 27
Mason Wood 21
Jack Lonie
Gold Coast Suns: 7.12.54
Wil Powell 116
Touk Miller 101
David Swallow 91
Lachlan Weller 90
Hugh Greenwood 84
Oleg Markov 77
Jack Bowes 76
Nick Holman 76
Brandon Ellis 75
Jack Lukosius 64
Samuel Collins 64
Noah Anderson 56
Ben King* 56
Sean Lemmens 52
Jy Farrar 48
Izak Rankine 47
Caleb Graham 43
Sam Flanders 42
Charlie Ballard 41
Josh Corbett 37
Chris Burgess 30
Ben Ainsworth 28
Alex Sexton
Still almost 400 points to be allocated … WOW … what are the scorers doing??? Going to be some big changes here …
and as expected, significant changes to lots of players … compare them here:
The most SC relevant are:
Steele – 93 to 110
B Crouch – 79 – 107!!??
Bowes – 76 to 93
St Kilda Saints: 8.15.63
Jack Billings 130
Jack Steele 110
Brad Crouch 108
Rowan Marshall 107
Callum Wilkie 104
Zak Jones 98
Hunter Clark 95
Dougal Howard 95
Patrick Ryder 95
Jack Higgins 84
Jimmy Webster 79
Bradley Hill 75
Jack Sinclair 70
Josh Battle 68
Max King 65
Ryan Byrnes 62
Daniel Butler 60
Nicholas Coffield 51
Darragh Joyce 51
Tim Membrey 43
Jack Bytel 40
Mason Wood 22
Jack Lonie
Gold Coast Suns: 7.12.54
Wil Powell 122
Touk Miller 115
Oleg Markov 113
David Swallow 107
Nick Holman 96
Lachlan Weller 94
Jack Bowes 93
Hugh Greenwood 92
Brandon Ellis 80
Samuel Collins 72
Jy Farrar 66
Jack Lukosius 64
Sean Lemmens 63
Noah Anderson 62
Ben King* 62
Izak Rankine 50
Caleb Graham 45
Sam Flanders 42
Josh Corbett 41
Ben Ainsworth 37
Charlie Ballard 37
Chris Burgess 33
Alex Sexton
Good system, don’t pay blokes when they earn them then give them to whoever you want at the end.