{"id":522497,"date":"2026-03-06T12:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522497\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:49:10","slug":"saints-unleash-recruits-pies-load-up-on-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/522497\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints unleash recruits, Pies load up on stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The teams for Sunday&#8217;s game between St Kilda and Collingwood have been named\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                Sam Flanders and Steele Sidebottom. Pictures: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>ST KILDA will unveil its quartet of off-season recruits in Sunday night&#8217;s MCG blockbuster against a strong Collingwood side missing two of its premiership defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Former Carlton duo Tom De Koning and Jack Silvagni will join ex-West Coast flyer Liam Ryan and midfielder Sam Flanders, who has crossed from Gold Coast, in making their debuts in red, white and black.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; KEEP SCROLLING TO SEE THE FULL TEAMS OR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/matches\/team-lineups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As flagged mid-week, the Magpies will go into the clash without key defenders Jeremy Howe and captain Darcy Moore, leaving Billy Frampton as the only recognised tall back in the squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the Magpies have brought back a host of stars who sat out the AAMI Community Series, including Steele Sidebottom, Jordan De Goey, Jack Crisp and Scott Pendlebury.<\/p>\n<p>Key forward Max King is one of the few notable omissions from the Saints, who will be hoping to break their all-time home crowd record of 72,669, and possibly their all-time home and away attendance record of 81,386.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Draftee Charlie Banfield, the son of West Coast premiership great Drew, is among St Kilda&#8217;s emergencies. Former Sydney tall Jack Buller will play his first game for Collingwood, while 2024 draftee Joel Cochran is an emergency.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SUNDAY, MARCH 8<\/p>\n<p>St Kilda v Collingwood at the MCG, 7.20pm AEDT<\/p>\n<p>ST KILDA<\/p>\n<p>B: J.Silvagni 3 C.Wilkie 44 A.Caminiti 47<br \/>HB: A.Tauru 26 B.Hill 8 N.Wanganeen-Milera 7<br \/>C: M.Windhager 2 M.Hall 40 D.Wilson 22<br \/>HF: M.Phillipou 25 H.Boxshall 38 M.Owens 10<br \/>F: R.Marshall 19 C.Sharman 43 J.Higgins 1<br \/>Foll: T.De Koning 21 S.Flanders 9 J.Sinclair &#8211; C 35<br \/>I\/C: J.Macrae 6 J.Carroll 18 L.Ryan 31 M.Wood 32 H.Garcia 34\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emerg: L.Stocker 14 I.Keeler 17\u00a0C.Banfield 36\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Notable absentees:\u00a0Dan Butler, Dougal Howard, Hunter Clark, Paddy Dow, Max King, Ryan Byrnes, Liam Henry<\/p>\n<p>COLLINGWOOD<\/p>\n<p>B: B.Frampton 17 I.Quaynor 3 B.Maynard 4<br \/>HB: D.Houston 9 J.Daicos 7 H.Perryman 12<br \/>C: W.Parker 15 N.Daicos &#8211; C 35 R.Steele 45<br \/>HF: L.Schultz 8 S.Sidebottom 22 B.McCreery 31<br \/>F: T.Membrey 28 J.Elliott 5 D.McStay 11<br \/>Foll: D.Cameron 14 J.Crisp 25 J.De Goey 2<br \/>I\/C: P.Lipinski 1 S.Pendlebury 10 E.Allan 16 J.Buller 34 N.Long 44\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emerg: O.Steene 21 J.Cochran 27 L.Sullivan 33\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Notable absentees: Jeremy Howe, Darcy Moore, Bobby Hill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teams for Sunday&#8217;s game between St Kilda and Collingwood have been named Sam Flanders and Steele Sidebottom.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-522497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}