- Fri 20/5, 7.50CAR
SYD102
87 - Sat 21/5, 1.45GEE
PTA82
47 - Sat 21/5, 1.45WBD
GC106
87 - Sat 21/5, 4.35NM
MEL53
100 - Sat 21/5, 7.30ADE
STK69
90 - Sat 21/5, 7.30RIC
ESS80
48 - Sun 22/5, 2.10GWS
WCE138
86 - Sun 22/5, 3.20HAW
BRI117
112 - Sun 22/5, 5.20FRE
COL44
80 - Fri 27/5, 7.50SYD
RIC
- Sat 28/5, 1.45BRI
GWS
- Sat 28/5, 1.45GEE
ADE
- Sat 28/5, 4.35MEL
FRE
- Sat 28/5, 7.30WCE
WBD
- Sat 28/5, 7.40GC
HAW
- Sun 29/5, 1.10STK
NM
- Sun 29/5, 3.20COL
CAR
- Sun 29/5, 4.40PTA
ESS
Hunger of a Lyon: Saints pre-draft
- Updated: November 25, 2009
As part of a club-by-club series, we look at Ross Lyon’s steady-as-she-goes approach to snaring that elusive flag.
ST KILDA
Live selections: 32, 60, 64, 77
Rookie promotion selections: 87, 93 (Zac Dawson, Luke Miles)
As you would expect from a side that got within a kick or two of a flag this year, the Saints are focused squarely on topping up, so there isn’t much fantasy interest in whoever they pick up in the draft, just as there wasn’t with Geelong’s last year when they drafted wall-to-wall project players.
There are obvious questions about how trade-ins Andrew Lovett and Brett Peake will fit into the Saints structure. I don’t think it would be too far away from the truth to predict that Lovett will replace the departed Luke Ball in the Saints’ best 22 while Peake is a depth player at best. While Lovett isn’t the same player as Ball, Ball’s role had almost been completely consumed anyway by a combination of younger players in David Armitage, Robert Eddy and Clinton Jones. Lovett instead may be used as a small forward in rotation with Andrew McQualter and James Gwilt.
However that plays out, I can’t see this batch of draftees getting much of a look in, barring a Hawthorn-of-2009 disaster scene in the Saints’ injury room.
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