Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nDougal Howard and Dan Butler come in for Anthony Caminiti (hamstring) and Hugh Boxshall (omitted), as the hosts tries to avoid falling to 1-3 for the first time since 2018.<\/p>\n
Brisbane has the wood over St Kilda across recent history, having won nine of their last 10 meetings, including seven in a row. The Lions have also made Marvel Stadium a happy hunting ground with 12 victories from their last 14 games at the venue.<\/p>\n
\u2018BEEN ABSOLUTELY KING\u2019: DUEL\u2019S UGLY START SEES SCORING SHORTAGE<\/p>\n
It was hardly the easiest of watches in the first quarter on Saturday afternoon, with a whopping 13 shots on goal between the two sides before either team could kick truly for goal.<\/p>\n
Hilariously, once the first goal did finally come from Saints recruit Liam Ryan, it was by accident! <\/p>\n
The former Eagle attempted to hit fellow small forward Jack Higgins out on his own inside forward 50, but missed the kick by a fair margin to go over his head before luckily rolling into an open goal.<\/p>\n
It perfectly summed up the first quarter and rest of the match, with the opening half particularly unpleasant from a turnover sense.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe expected a fiery clash, and also expected a clash that might\u2019ve had a better skillset than what we\u2019ve seen so far from both sides as well,\u201d three-time premiership Tiger Jack Riewoldt said at half time.<\/p>\n
\u201cTurnover\u2019s been absolutely king, and they\u2019ve been turnovers you\u2019d think you should score from. But unfortunately, one turnover\u2019s turning into two.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth sides are rushing at the moment. You can see from the Lions, they certainly want to take that short, uncontested mark and build it up through foot, but St Kilda have been able to pick it up. <\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately for the Saints, they\u2019ve turned the ball back over straight away again.\u201d<\/p>\n
HERITAGE GUERNSEY SPARKS CONFUSION<\/p>\n
In an unfortunate collision, Brisbane\u2019s unveiling of their iconic maroon guernsey with white FFC monogram on Saturday afternoon ended up being a genuine point of confusion for players, commentators and fans.<\/p>\n
The Lions sported the Fitzroy-inspired guernsey to commemorate 30 years since their merger with Brisbane, but it came with an unfortunate side narrative that made it quite hard to distinguish between the two teams. <\/p>\n
\u201cJust speaking to a Brisbane official after half time, the players are a little confused at times with the jumper clash \u2014 especially with the back of the Saints (guernsey),\u201d Hawthorn sharpshooter Ben Dixon told Fox Footy before the start of the third quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve had to second-guess a couple of times.\u201d<\/p>\n
Four-time Hawthorn premiership player Jordan Lewis added: \u201cI agree Dicko, it\u2019s been a little bit confusing up here in the commentary box.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane have welcomed back a trio of premiership guns for its Round 3 clash with St Kilda, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,133757,64,63,689,55,639,3237,112098,133768,40737,27705,36095,279841,69081,44387,36862,647,677,279842,279843,85,1122,26889,660,3439],"class_list":["post-569226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-anthony-caminiti","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-brisbane-lions","tag-dan-annable","tag-dan-butler","tag-darcy-gardiner","tag-dougal-howard","tag-flag-stars","tag-flag-winners","tag-hugh-boxshall","tag-james-tunstill","tag-logan-morris","tag-melbourne","tag-oceania","tag-off-season-recruiting-spree","tag-reigning-back-to-back-premier","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-st-kilda-saints","tag-victoria","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569226","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=569226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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