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@JackingtonBull @StKFootball @AFL @barrettdamian @joelbpeterson Go see how many pundits tipped St Kilda to make the 8. The current predicament should be entirely within expectations

@StKFootball @AFL @barrettdamian @joelbpeterson He isn’t wrong, we absolutely have to win this and preferably next week against the crows. 3-3 is a respectable form line given our draw in the first 6 rounds, 2-4 or dare I say it 1-5 is an unmitigated disaster.

The pressure is on the Saints to deliver against the Power, according to @barrettdamian and @joelbpeterson 👀 Listen to AFL Daily now: afl.com.au/news/1494325

@10NewsMelb Is that irony?

Saints forward Jack Higgins will play game 150 this weekend. Ironically the milestone will come in the city of churches, which Higgins last year said he wasn't a fan of.

@AJENews @AJEnglish Was this guy in the White Lotus ?

FM Araghchi says ‘if attacks against Iran are halted,’ then the country agrees to the terms of the two‑week ceasefire with the US, as announced by President Trump. Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall explains Tehran’s response and how the Strait of Hormuz would be opened under the deal.

@ESPNcricinfo Why would he be starstruck to meet jos Buttler

Jos Buttler is a big fan of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi 🤩

@Michael_60 @Stavr04 Eddie is like a broken record always advocating for leg ups to ‘big’ clubs. So annoying

@Stavr04 Eddie hinting that Carl/Ess need special treatment cos theyre "big clubs". Ugh

Bang. Seems fair. You want an elite talent robbing a club who needs them. Then pay a fair price.

@DaveMilbo They’ve changed - they now seem to focus on trying to win over voters on the left from other leftist parties. Instead of fighting the right

Question: Why do you think the Australian Greens can't seem to bust out of the 10-14% range of the vote? Hostile media? Too beuigose? Their candidates? Their messaging? Their Their name? Is Australia just innately pro-war, pro-racism, pro-fossil fuels? The party seems stuck.

@BoXHeaD874119 @al_supercoach Bork

@al_supercoach Borked and brought in Jackson instead... inclusion of CCJ was a trigger.

So are we all trading Xerri out again this week? #supercoach

@NicNegrepontis @MichaelLynchy The afl will have to deal with the PR issue of a later gf resulting in lots more drunk people in the stands

If a twilight GF is happening, I look forward to seeing how the AFL PR machine spins it. Every fan poll is 90-10 in favour of a day GF. Will they try to do their usual hollow PR schtick or will they admit it’s for the financial benefits?

@SC__Bandit Glad I avoided

Interesting data here from Freako. Houston has only averaged more than 6 marks in a season once across his career to date. Is this level sustainable with Moore and Howe to come back? #SuperCoach

@codefootballau 2005? They’ve struggled for 21 years straight ? 😮

Tony Popovic has been around far too long to hit the panic button over a sequence of poor displays but the Socceroos’ coach should be worried about where his team is at right now. ANALYSIS ▶️ bit.ly/4sB1KAR

@VFL Wow !

@FootyMailbag Given Sharp has been named, should we keep him or trade to Watkins ?

@SC__Bandit Probably not 😮

@Michael_60 @SaintsNationAU But interesting that they stuck with it after caminiti went down ?

@SaintsNationAU He admitted post match he hadnt played one minute of preseason /match sim in the forward line so its clearly not an option we'll use a lot.

Where would you rather see Alix Tauru for the rest of the year?

@docksandships @FOXFOOTY Irrelevant for you, no chance he’d go to the dockers 😂

@FOXFOOTY This is what happens when you pay a bunch of scrubs an exorbitant amount of $$

'CLUBS ARE COMING' 🧐 One of St Kilda's 2023 first-round picks reportedly has no plans to make a call on his future anytime soon, despite being on the last year of his deal. It's left rival clubs ready to pounce. DETAILS >> bit.ly/4dESFCl

@AflGlicko You’re a 🤡

$1.7 million dollars and puts up the second worst game since 2012.

@LMcKirdy7 If this was close all game and saints came out on top , it’d be called a great gutsy win interstate. But because they led by 6 goals and the giants came back, most media are calling it lucky and not convincing. Strange

St Kilda probably deserved the win as the better team for the majority of the match. But at the same time, the Giants had enough chances in the second half and probably should have finished on top. A weird game, but the Saints got it done. Just. #AFLGiantsSaints

@lethalfooty Wilson’s ball use is not up to standard. The fact we played a completely different way in the second half is a concern for our fitness

- We really missed a bigger body like Macrae around the ball as the game wore on - Wilson, Hall, NWM need to have their hands on the ball as much as possible - 2 weeks in a row of conceding big inside 50 numbers (57 vs Dees, 62 vs gws)

#AFLGiantsSaints final thoughts: - Pou, Ryan, Sharman, Marshall, Wood really need to find form - Yet to have an A grade performance from NWM this year - Not sure why we spend 2nd half slowing the play down + kicking the ball up the line when our “big” forwards are so small 🧵

@dumblion44 @StKFootball If my grandma had wheels she’d be a bike

@StKFootball If the giants weren’t so sloppy defensively in the first quarter we would’ve lost

Too close for comfort. In the end, a miracle Mason Wood goal saves us from a choke that would have haunted us. Otherwise, a super gutsy three-and-a-half quarters - until we wobbled. Huge team effort. Finally, we’re off the mark in 2026. Thank goodness. Your thoughts below 👇

@onepercentas @forever_shanks Yeh ok thanks. So in terms of maximising their rating are they better off not getting the ball compared to getting it and scoring a behind ?

@LeoSpaceman4 @forever_shanks When a player takes a shot on goal, the possession is in an extremely high-equity state. The expected value of a shot on goal is almost always > 1 point. So when a player kicks a behind, they fail to realise most of that accumulated value, and also turn the ball over.

Tom De Koning's game yesterday was the lowest-rated since Joel Amartey kicked 0.6 against Port in Round 15 last season.