Where and When: Metricon Stadium, Thursday 6 August at 8:10pm AEST
Last time they met: Rd 13, 2019: St Kilda 11.14 (80) def Gold Coast 11.10 (76) in Townsville
What it means for Gold Coast: The improvement of the Suns appears to be real and they are truly in contention for their first finals berth. Defeating the in-form Saints will go a long way to locking them in for September (or October) action.
What it means for St Kilda: In the “bad days” of St Kilda football club (ie. until last year) the Saints couldn’t string games together and would drop games like these. If Ratts’ soldiers are destined for glory in 2020 they will ice this game and continue the streak.
Supercoach Watch: The #ManofSteel is enjoying his break-out year the year after I predicted it. Typical! Is there anyone else in this game that is truly SC relevant?
Thommo’s Watch: I don’t have a single player in this match but it should be a cracker of a match. Fancy that, calling a Suns vs Saints match a cracker!
Thommo’s Tip: Saints by 12 points.
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Saints have a late change – Jarryn Geary out – Ed Phillips In.
Suns – No Changes.
Inspired by FT, I’ve got Ryder as a cheeky POD here. Hoping he and RoMo do a number on Witts!
Well, this has aged poorly…
Sooooo Sorry GD..
I have him as R2 / F4 this week.
He may not make my 18 at this rate !
Ahaha. Np, FT. Win some and lose some.
Plays Cats, Dons and Lions after this. Should hopefully ton against those undermanned ruck stocks and perhaps not give away 4 free kicks in a half lol.
Just thought of you mentioning bringing in Ryder last week and I wanted to check on this chat whether you did in the end, hope it’s just a one off! I would say Witt’s is one of the ‘harder’ rucks to score well against so I’d hold onto him as a sneaky POD
Umpires will obviously win this game
EMBARRASSING
Don’t they love putting on a show
Half Time – Suns by 3 points
SUNS
Samuel Collins 74
Hugh Greenwood 69
Sam Day 54
Brandon Ellis 53
Jack Lukosius 53
Touk Miller 52
Jarrod Witts 52
Ben Ainsworth 49
Lachlan Weller 46
David Swallow 40
Izak Rankine 35
Wil Powell* 33
Sean Lemmens 29
Ben King 29
Nick Holman 29
Alex Sexton 27
Jarrod Harbrow 24
Noah Anderson 23
Charlie Ballard 21
Connor Budarick 21
Jeremy Sharp 21
Jack Bowes 12
SAINTS
Rowan Marshall 69
Ben Paton 57
Bradley Hill 53
Jade Gresham 52
Jack Billings 51
Jack Steele 50
Dean Kent 48
Ed Phillips 46
Hunter Clark 46
Nicholas Coffield 43
Nick Hind 42
Jake Carlisle 39
Jack Sinclair 38
Tim Membrey 34
Daniel Butler 33
Max King 33
Dougal Howard 30
Callum Wilkie 24
Zak Jones 14
Patrick Ryder 14
Ben Long 11
Josh Battle 8
Greenwood has disappeared this 3rd quarter. Has gone backwards in his score 🙁
Greenwood did little that quarter but Rankine covered for him and has done well. Will be getting another nice cash rise from Rankine for the next couple weeks after today’s score
And of course Rankine disappears the final quarter and goes backwards in score due to the close game………
And as I typed that he kicks a goal with 2 minutes to play hahaha
Bringing in Touk Miller a month ago was a huge mistake. Thought he was going to be a great POD but he’s back into that tagging role it looks like.
108…
He was lucky to get that. Miller was ghosting Gresham and another Saints mid a lot in the first half and only seemed to run free once those 2 were moved into the fwd 50 (presumably to break the Touk tag). Also the 2 goals helped a lot and if he didn’t kick those he would have been looking at a sub 90 score for the second week in a row.
I’m feeling happy that I traded out Weller for Williams, as he just doesn’t have the scoring. 17 disposals and only on 55sc with 8 mins to go. Is getting many CBA’s but just doesn’t score from it. Barely scored this 2nd half.
He hasn’t scored 80-90 this season it is either <70 or 100.
Here comes another <70 score
Surely the Suns have someone on their list better than Ballard.Useless!!
Well Butler came back with a good score… to bad i traded out out haha
Full Time – Saints home by 4 points, 12.6.78 to 11.8.74
SUNS
Brandon Ellis 111
Touk Miller 108
Jarrod Witts 106
Jack Lukosius 96
Wil Powell* 93
Samuel Collins 93
Hugh Greenwood 92
Ben Ainsworth 89
Jarrod Harbrow 79
Izak Rankine 78
David Swallow 74
Sam Day 73
Noah Anderson 59
Lachlan Weller 57
Nick Holman 57
Ben King 56
Connor Budarick 52
Alex Sexton 51
Jack Bowes 51
Sean Lemmens 47
Jeremy Sharp 34
Charlie Ballard 28
SAINTS
Rowan Marshall 143
Jack Steele 124
Daniel Butler 114
Jack Billings 103
Hunter Clark 103
Callum Wilkie 95
Nick Hind 93
Nicholas Coffield 85
Jake Carlisle 83
Bradley Hill 72
Josh Battle 71
Dean Kent 69
Dougal Howard 69
Patrick Ryder 67
Ed Phillips 59
Jade Gresham 59
Jack Sinclair 59
Zak Jones 58
Ben Paton 55
Max King 55
Tim Membrey 53
Ben Long 12
Should I get Rowan Marshall next week? Great Pod?
Oris it a trap?! As Ryder will take much of his scores
Not sure if I’m a good judge but was Marshall that good??
i told you all, in trade talk round 10 i got 17 dislikes when i said keep rankine because he’ll beat his breakeven, and what do you know, pay day for me fellas
I also hung onto him just because he’s so fun to watch. Gave King the flick instead. Coin toss really but it’s just fun having Izak on my team.
im still happy with trading him to duncan
Yep you were spot on, thankful I kept him for another week just to make a bit more cash, good call
Locked and will be f7 cover come finals.