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The St Kilda Saints have snatched a memorable victory from Gold Coast, kicking five unanswered final-quarter goals to win by two points.
Final score
Gold Coast Suns 11.12.78
St Kilda Saints 11.14.80
The Gold Coast Suns will host the St Kilda Saints at Metricon Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Join The Roar for live scores and a blog of the match from 4:35pm AEST.
Gold Coast are coming off a 108-point hiding against the GWS Giants, where they managed a miserable four goals and two behinds for the match.
Jarrod Witts in the ruck was the only positive for the Suns out of this clash and he’ll have an interesting match-up against re-called Saints ruckman Billy Longer this weekend.
Meanwhile, St Kilda were smashed by the Sydney Swans in the Pride Match on Saturday night.
Their 71-point loss to the Swans was very disappointing, given they’d had a positive month against quality top-8 opposition.
Both teams have made several changes for this clash.
Gold Coast have omitted young trio Will Brodie, Jacob Heron and Brad Scheer, to bring in Sean Lemmens, Jarryd Lyons and Josh Schoenfeld.
The Saints have omitted four players in selection this week: Nick Coffield, Tom Hickey, Jack Lonie and Ed Phillips will all miss.
They’ve bought in experience with David Armitage, Jack Billings, Jake Carlisle and Billy Longer taking their places in the team.
Jake Carlisle returns from his two-week suspension, while the others earnt senior recall after solid games in the VFL, including a 53 touch and three-goal effort from Jack Billings.
The last time these two teams played was in round 14 last year, almost twelve months ago.
The Saints came away with a five-goal victory at Etihad Stadium, but up at Metricon Stadium will it be a different story in 2018?
Prediction
These teams are at rock bottom; St Kilda haven’t won since round one, Gold Coast round five.
Sitting eighteenth and sixteenth in average goals scored, expect this to be low scoring and somewhat painful to watch!
On paper St Kilda have a better team list and they’ll find a way to win this one.
St Kilda by 13.
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