{"id":54735,"date":"2025-08-09T06:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54735\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T06:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:03:06","slug":"saints-hold-off-tigers-in-saturday-scrap-at-the-mcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/54735\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints hold off Tigers in Saturday scrap at the MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n St Kilda wins its third game in a row in a hard-fought affair at the MCG\n <\/p>\n

Jack Sinclair celebrates a goal for St Kilda against Richmond in R22, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n

ST KILDA has made it three wins in a row thanks to a hard-fought four-point win over Richmond at the MCG on Saturday.<\/p>\n

In a low-scoring and scrappy game that never reached great heights, the Saints led early before the Tigers responded with five goals to two across the second and third quarters to lead by eight points at the final change.<\/p>\n

TIGERS v SAINTS Full match coverage and stats<\/a><\/p>\n

But the Saints kicked three goals to one in the last to secure the victory, 8.8 (56) to 7.10 (52).<\/p>\n

It was a day of celebration for the Saints, with skipper Jack Steele (200 games) and forward Jack Higgins (100th game for the club) marking their milestones with a win.<\/p>\n

More to come<\/p>\n

RICHMOND \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1.0 \u00a0 \u00a04.5 \u00a0 \u00a06.8 \u00a0 7.10 (52)
ST KILDA \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 3.2 \u00a0 \u00a05.3 \u00a0 \u00a05.6 \u00a0 8.8 (56)<\/p>\n

GOALS\u00a0
Richmond: Mansell 2, Balta, Armstrong, McIntosh, Taranto, Lynch
St Kilda: Higgins 2, Sharman 2, Garcia, Wanganeen-Milera, Hall, Sinclair<\/p>\n

BEST\u00a0
Richmond: Vlastuin, Young, Miller, Mansell, Short
St Kilda: Windhager, Wanganeen-Milera, Macrae, Wilkie, Sinclair<\/p>\n

INJURIES\u00a0
Richmond: Nil
St Kilda: Nil<\/p>\n

SUBSTITUTES\u00a0
Richmond: Steely Green (unused)
St Kilda: Liam Henry (replaced Max Heath at half time)<\/p>\n

Crowd: 41,395 at the MCG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Kilda wins its third game in a row in a hard-fought affair at the MCG Jack Sinclair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-54735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54735","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=54735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}