After just missing the finals in his debut senior year in 2007, Lyon took the Sainters to 4th position last season. A great effort if you consider that many had considered them at the back end of their window. What's more, he did it effectively without the big G-Train. (As we've said many times, key forwards are only as good as the midfield feeding them.)
Their positional strength is as follows:
Their strengths are their core group of taller-medium ruckrovers and taller defenders.
Their weakness is their lack of running players around the ground.
(The Sainters have always liked wet grounds & wet conditions.)
They also have patched up rucks in King & Gardiner, hoping that McEvoy & some other can fast-track it.
For my mind, the Sainters will have a good crack at it this year with between 15-18 wins. But then finals will come and they'll have to run out a full game on a BIG ground in GOOD conditions.
That will be their challenge.
Their positional strength is as follows:
| B | Baker (28,181,154,34) | Hudghton (32,191,227,14) | Blake (28,191,136,33) |
| Geary (20,183,10,0) | Allen (21,193,4,0) | Dempster (25,192,73,11) | |
| Gilbert (22,194,39,11) | |||
| HB | Goddard (23,189,113,40 | S.Fisher (26,192,96,9) | |
| R.Clarke (23,189,41,6) | Maguire (24,190,99,19) | ||
| Begley (22,188,29,7) | Simpkin# (18,192,0,0) | ||
| L.Fisher (24,188,55,5) | |||
| Gwilt (188,88,26,6) | |||
| C | Ray (23,187,75,32) | Hayes (29,186,192,67) | Jones (25,183,26,7) |
| Heyne (18,188,0,0) | Armitage (20,183,16,10) | X.Clarke (25,182,105,49) | |
| Miles# (22,186,0,0) | Connors (19,181,0,0) | ||
| Smith (18,184,0,0) | |||
| Howard# (21,182,2,0) | |||
| HF | Gram (24,186,77,39) | Riewoldt (26,193,158,320) | Schneider (24,179,117,127) |
| Lynch (18,192,0,0) | Gaertner# (19,199,0,0) | Steven (18,180,0,0) | |
| F | Koschitzke (26,197,119,123) | Dawson# (23,195,14,0) | Milne (29,178,165,331) |
| Haretuku# (19,198,0,0) | Cahill (18,193,0,0) | Tungtalum# (18,178,0,0) | |
| R | King (30,201,215,80) | Dal Santo (25,186,144,72) | Montagna (25,178,98,61) |
| Gardiner (29,199,138,88) | Ball (24,184,122,55) | McQualter (22,179,35,7) | |
| McEvoy (19,200,1,0) | Eddy (21,182,13,3) | ||
| Stanley (18,200,0,0) | McGarry# (18,1850,0) | ||
| McGrath# (18,208,0,0) |
Their weakness is their lack of running players around the ground.
(The Sainters have always liked wet grounds & wet conditions.)
They also have patched up rucks in King & Gardiner, hoping that McEvoy & some other can fast-track it.
For my mind, the Sainters will have a good crack at it this year with between 15-18 wins. But then finals will come and they'll have to run out a full game on a BIG ground in GOOD conditions.
That will be their challenge.
