{"id":860779,"date":"2026-08-19T12:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860779\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T12:04:13","slug":"teams-saints-drop-young-gun-injured-stars-out-for-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860779\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAMS: Saints drop young gun, injured stars out for Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The teams are in for Thursday night’s clash between St Kilda and Gold Coast at Marvel Stadium\n <\/p>\n

Alix Tauru and Christian Petracca. Pictures: AFL Photos<\/p>\n

ST KILDA has dropped young gun\u00a0Alix Tauru for its clash against Gold Coast, while three Suns guns will miss at Marvel Stadium.<\/p>\n

Tauru has been omitted as one of two changes for the Saints, who will celebrate Brad Hill’s 300th game on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

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Jack Higgins\u00a0is out injured, with\u00a0Liam Ryan\u00a0and\u00a0Dougal Howard\u00a0coming into the side.<\/p>\n

Howard will play his farewell game \u2013 his 100th for St Kilda \u2013 after announcing on Wednesday he would retire at season’s end.<\/p>\n

Tauru, the No.10 pick in the 2024 draft, has played nine AFL games this season after managing 10 in his debut campaign.<\/p>\n

The Suns will be without three of their best players with\u00a0Christian Petracca\u00a0(foot),\u00a0Wil Powell (shoulder) and\u00a0Sam Collins (ribs) missing.<\/p>\n

Nick Holman\u00a0is into the side for his final AFL game, having also announced his retirement this week, while\u00a0Jarrod Witts\u00a0and\u00a0Ben Jepson have earned recalls.<\/p>\n

The Saints are 10-12 and their finals chances are over, while the Suns are 8-14 and cannot finish higher than 13th.<\/p>\n

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20<\/p>\n

St Kilda v Gold Coast at Marvel Stadium, 7.30pm AEST<\/p>\n

ST KILDA<\/p>\n

In: D.Howard, L.Ryan
Out: J.Higgins (Injured), A.Tauru (omitted)<\/p>\n

GOLD COAST<\/p>\n

In: N.Holman, J.Witts, B.Jepson
Out: S.Collins (ribs), W.Powell (shoulder), C.Petracca (foot)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teams are in for Thursday night’s clash between St Kilda and Gold Coast at Marvel Stadium Alix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-860779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860779","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=860779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}