Sunday

St Kilda v Kangaroos 2.10pm Telstra Dome

St Kilda
B: Blake Hudghton Gwilt
HB: Attard S Fisher Baker
C: Gilbert Ball Gram
HF: Montagna Riewoldt Fiora
F: Milne Gehrig R Clarke
FOLL: Koschitzke Hayes Rover: Dal Santo
INTER: From: X Clarke Howard Jones Rix Thompson Voss Watts
IN: X Clarke Howard Jones Thompson Voss Watts
OUT: Armitage Birss L Fisher (hamstring)

Kangaroos
B: Archer Firrito Green
HB: Smith Petrie Brown
C: Pratt Harris Sinclair
HF: Thomas Jones Grant
F: Simpson Edwards Harvey
FOLL: McIntosh Swallow Rover: Rawlings
INTER: From: Campbell Grima Hale Lower Moran Sansbury Watt
IN: Hale Lower Moran Sansbury Watt
OUT: Gibson (head) McMahon

LAST TIME R9, 2006, StKilda 10.14 (74) d Kangaroos 8.9 (57), Telstra Dome.

AT THIS GROUND StKilda 5, Kangaroos 4

IN THE 2000s StKilda 5, Kangaroos 6

COACHES Lyon 0, Laidley 0

UMPIRES 6Margetts, 10Allen, 12Sully

BETTING StKilda $1.67, Kangaroos $2.12

TV Channel7, 3pm RADIO 3AW, TripleM

Summary Rod Butterss is right. Something is undermining St Kilda, but whether it is ex-coach Grant Thomas is unclear. The Saints are still yet to fire under new coach Ross Lyon, and three straight losses has them in danger of slipping from finals contention. President Butterss' spat with Thomas is just another headache the Saints could do without. How they bounce back against the Kangaroos is another. The Roos won six games straight but were brought back to earth via a thrashing from West Coast last weekend. But the Kangaroos have played some of their best football at Telstra Dome, where their game plan of moving it quickly has worked impressively well.
Key If the Kangaroos can recapture the work rate and attack they showed showed early in the season, then they might just prove too good for a St Kilda side badly lacking in both areas.