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The Saints are missing King and Caminiti from their forward line, although the latter played in defence in his last games.  They will be relying on Membrey to score their goals and we should have him well covered.  I can't really see a match up for Lewis Young unless he takes Sharman, and Marshall if he goes forward.

The Saints defence will have a little height advantage over our forwards and Cripps spending time forward will negate that.  I suspect that they will struggle with our unconventional forward set up and new found pinpoint passing inside 50.  A lot will depend on Kemp straight lining the ball and plucking a few pack marks.

Forget about the Saints win over the Cats; that was an aberration.  Their shellackings by Brisbane and Adelaide are more reliable indicators of where they're at as a footy team.

Memberey has historically been a bad match up for Weitering.

Memberey has historically been a bad match up for Weitering.

I'd look at putting Cincotta on him. Basically the same height. We know Cincotta can wear players like a glove.

Allow Weitering and Young to play loose(r) on their sub-par opponents and zone off and help out cincotta

I'd have Cincotta on Sinclair and reduce the supply. Membrey is a good contested  mark, that's not Cincotta's strong area IMHO. Saints runners in Hill, Wanganeen Milera, Wilson, and Sinclair are players I would be spending time on.
Young playing loose would worry me, Saints don't have a player for him to match up on. Owens, Sharman, Higgins and Butler know where the goals are too and would all be too mobile for Young Imho.

I'd have Cincotta on Sinclair and reduce the supply. Membrey is a good contested  mark, that's not Cincotta's strong area IMHO. Saints runners in Hill, Wanganeen Milera, Wilson, and Sinclair are players I would be spending time on.
Young playing loose would worry me, Saints don't have a player for him to match up on. Owens, Sharman, Higgins and Butler know where the goals are too and would all be too mobile for Young Imho.

Rather than contested marks, Membrey has the knack of losing his defender and marking unopposed.  Stopping that is a team defence concern.

If we can get our team defence right, Young focuses on intercept marks and/or killing the ball in contested marking situations.  Weitering then gets to concentrate on organising the defence and setting up our transition.

Our forward line, sans Charlie and Harry, is still far more potent than St Kilda’s.

Hill is a spent force but we do need to curtail Wanganeen-Milera’s run out of defence.  The best way to do that is to make sure he’s got a genuine forward threat to worry about and Elijah Hollands can do that in spades.  And that should be the key to the game; despite missing Charlie, Harry, Tom, Fog, et al, our 23 is better than their 23 … provided that we play to our potential.

Apparently Gov out

We were sitting in 2nd spot for major chunk  of the season and injuries or not we still should be able to take care of business and book our spot in the finals against a team that were out of contention weeks ago. King usually troubles Weiters so happy he is out.

Win and we deserve our spot - lose to this mob even with a few important blokes missing means we are still not ready to be serious challenger.

I don’t want to make finals by losing and port winning.