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St Kilda
14.9.93
Geelong
13.12.90
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St Kilda
Geelong
Q1
4.2.26
1.4.10

    St Kilda Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, P.McCartin
  • 6 mins - Goal, N.Wright
  • 16 mins - Goal, N.Wright
  • 19 mins - Behind, S.Ross
  • 23 mins - Goal, J.Newnes
  • 25 mins - Behind, D.Minchington

    St Kilda and Geelong Events

  • 7 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 11 mins - Goal, T.Hawkins
  • 14 mins - Behind, L.McCarthy
  • 15 mins - Behind, Z.Smith
  • 21 mins - Behind, S.Kersten
Q2
8.6.54
4.6.30

    St Kilda Events

  • 3 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 6 mins - Goal, D.Minchington
  • 8 mins - Goal, J.Bruce
  • 10 mins - Behind, P.McCartin
  • 12 mins - Behind, S.Savage
  • 14 mins - Goal, D.Minchington
  • 24 mins - Goal, D.Minchington
  • 29 mins - Rushed Behind

    St Kilda and Geelong Events

  • 4 mins - Goal, S.Kersten
  • 19 mins - Behind, D.Menzel
  • 22 mins - Goal, T.Lonergan
  • 26 mins - Behind, J.Murdoch
  • 27 mins - Goal, P.Dangerfield
Q3
12.8.80
10.9.69

    St Kilda Events

  • 10 mins - Goal, T.Membrey
  • 11 mins - Goal, J.Newnes
  • 21 mins - Goal, M.Weller
  • 22 mins - Behind, S.Savage
  • 24 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 29 mins - Goal, M.Weller

    St Kilda and Geelong Events

  • 3 mins - Behind, D.Menzel
  • 4 mins - Goal, L.McCarthy
  • 6 mins - Goal, T.Hawkins
  • 7 mins - Goal, L.McCarthy
  • 13 mins - Behind, C.Gregson
  • 13 mins - Goal, D.Menzel
  • 14 mins - Goal, L.McCarthy
  • 17 mins - Goal, J.Murdoch
  • 27 mins - Rushed Behind
Q4
14.9.93
13.12.90

    St Kilda Events

  • 17 mins - Behind, T.Membrey
  • 19 mins - Goal, J.Gresham
  • 23 mins - Goal, J.Steven

    St Kilda and Geelong Events

  • 1 mins - Behind, A.Mackie
  • 2 mins - Behind, S.Motlop
  • 5 mins - Goal, T.Hawkins
  • 10 mins - Goal, M.Blicavs
  • 13 mins - Behind, T.Ruggles
  • 18 mins - Goal, S.Motlop

Scorers

St Kilda
Geelong
Goal Scorers St Kilda Geelong
Goals and Behinds Minchington (3.1), Newnes (2.0), Weller (2.0), Wright (2.0), McCartin (1.1), Membrey (1.1), Bruce (1.0), Gresham (1.0), Steven (1.0), Savage (0.2), Ross (0.1) McCarthy (3.1), Hawkins (3.0), Menzel (1.2), Kersten (1.1), Motlop (1.1), Murdoch (1.1), Blicavs (1.0), Dangerfield (1.0), Lonergan (1.0), Gregson (0.1), Mackie (0.1), Ruggles (0.1), Smith (0.1)

Team Statistics

St Kilda
Geelong

Statistics

St Kilda Geelong
Goals 14 13
Behinds 9 12
Scoring shots 26 26
Goals/scoring shots 54 50
Disposals 355 386
St KildaGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
B.Acres 21 15 3 6 7 2 0 0 0 3
D.Armitage 15 6 3 9 6 5 0 1 0 2
J.Bruce 10 4 3 6 8 2 1 1 1 1
L.Delaney 8 5 4 3 3 4 3 1 0 0
L.Dunstan 20 11 3 9 7 5 2 0 0 2
J.Geary 14 8 4 6 6 5 0 1 0 0
S.Gilbert 11 8 3 3 3 2 1 0 0 0
J.Gresham 16 11 3 5 6 2 1 0 0 2
T.Hickey 12 4 0 8 10 2 1 5 25 7
P.McCartin 9 6 6 3 3 0 1 1 0 0
T.Membrey 13 7 4 6 5 1 0 0 0 0
D.Minchington 13 7 4 6 3 6 0 0 0 0
L.Montagna 24 17 7 7 11 3 3 1 0 1
J.Newnes 18 9 4 9 7 1 0 1 0 3
N.Riewoldt 26 18 10 8 7 4 0 1 3 3
D.Roberton 15 9 6 6 5 2 1 0 0 0
S.Ross 33 16 6 17 12 3 0 1 1 5
S.Savage 15 9 3 6 2 2 0 0 0 0
J.Steven 25 15 3 10 9 3 1 0 0 4
J.Webster 9 5 3 4 2 0 0 0 0 0
M.Weller 19 9 7 10 6 6 0 0 0 2
N.Wright 9 5 3 4 2 3 1 1 0 0
GeelongGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
J.Bartel 12 6 3 6 5 3 0 2 0 0
M.Blicavs 19 11 8 8 8 2 2 1 5 1
P.Dangerfield 29 12 3 17 15 2 2 0 0 9
M.Duncan 22 13 8 9 4 5 0 1 0 0
C.Enright 25 14 6 11 6 1 0 2 0 1
C.Gregson 13 7 4 6 4 2 1 0 0 0
C.Guthrie 25 6 3 19 9 1 0 1 0 4
T.Hawkins 8 5 2 3 6 0 0 2 0 0
L.Henderson 20 14 10 6 9 1 0 1 0 0
S.Kersten 8 5 4 3 2 1 0 0 0 0
J.Kolodjashnij 16 7 8 9 5 3 0 1 0 0
T.Lonergan 13 10 5 3 5 0 1 1 0 0
A.Mackie 16 11 4 5 5 4 0 0 0 0
L.McCarthy 18 10 5 8 5 2 0 1 0 0
D.Menzel 15 7 3 8 8 3 1 0 0 0
S.Motlop 15 12 5 3 2 2 0 2 0 0
J.Murdoch 13 9 6 4 5 3 2 0 0 0
T.Ruggles 21 14 9 7 6 3 0 0 0 1
J.Selwood 29 15 4 14 12 7 3 1 0 6
Z.Smith 15 9 5 6 5 2 1 0 16 2
R.Stanley 19 10 7 9 7 2 2 0 13 2
H.Taylor 15 9 5 6 5 3 0 0 0 1

Match Details

St Kilda
Geelong
START TIME
7:25PM
WEATHER
Partly cloudy
VENUE
Etihad Stadium
Umpires
Brent Wallace, Craig Fleer, Robert Findlay, Luke Farmer

St Kilda's win over Geelong Cats is one to remember

ST KILDA  4.2      8.6      12.8      14.9     (93)
GEELONG 1.4      4.6      10.9      13.12     (90)
GOALS - St Kilda: Minchington 3,  Newnes 2,  Weller 2, Wright 2,  Bruce, Gresham,  Steven, McCartin,  Membrey.  Geelong: McCarthy 3,  Hawkins 3,  Menzel, Murdoch,  Blicavs,  Dangerfield,  Kersten, Motlop, Lonergan.
BEST - St Kilda: Ross, Steven, Riewoldt, Montagna, Weller, Hickey, Newnes. Geelong: Henderson, Selwood, Dangerfield, Enright, Guthrie, McCarthy.
UMPIRES Findlay, Farmer, Mitchell, Fleer.
CROWD 28,745 at Etihad Stadium.

Saint Nick Riewoldt marshals St Kilda during their hard-fought win over Geelong.
Saint Nick Riewoldt marshals St Kilda during their hard-fought win over Geelong. Photo: Getty Images

As a team building steadily towards a brighter future, St Kilda will hopefully have bigger moments over the next few years than Saturday night. 

But when that success does arrive, the Saints' three-point win over Geelong on a cold mid-winter's evening in late June 2016 should nonetheless be remembered as one of the more significant milestones along the way. 

Dangerwood: Joel Selwood and Patrick Dangerfield's efforts were not enough to get the Cats over the line.
Dangerwood: Joel Selwood and Patrick Dangerfield's efforts were not enough to get the Cats over the line. Photo: Michael Dodge

St Kilda have had other impressive wins in the past three seasons under Alan Richardson, but this was one which underlined not only talent and toughness, but greater maturity and resilience, not to mention their first win over the Cats since the 2010 qualifying final. 

The Saints didn't just get the jump on a surprised opponent, but withstood everything their more-fancied rival had to return fire with, not just once but three times in the second half, the last two goals of the game pegging back a nine-point deficit with under six minutes left. 

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The first of those was a tremendous individual effort from the impressive Jade Gresham, who stepped around Tom Lonergan on the boundary line and threaded one from the tightest of angles. 

Then, with just under four minutes left on the clock, Jack Steven threw his boot on the spills of a ball-up on the point of the goalsquare to put the Saints back in front. 

Jack Steven of the Saints celebrates a goal.
Jack Steven of the Saints celebrates a goal. Photo: Getty Images

Even then, St Kilda still had to hang on for another agonising few minutes of desperate Geelong attack. Yet still they hung tough, the symbolism powerful as the Cats zipped the ball from end to end with a chain of handballs yet always under fierce heat, Zac Smith's hurried kick inside 50 eventually landing safely in the arms of Saints' skipper Nick Riewoldt. 

In a way, while they were outscored nine goals to six in the second half, the climax was just as, if not more, impressive stuff from the Saints than a first half that  had seen them build  a 31-point lead. 

That was a lead founded on the tremendous efforts of on-baller Seb Ross, playing his 50th game, his veteran teammates Leigh Montagna and Riewoldt, and hard-working ruckman Tom Hickey. 

That St Kilda was switched on for this game was apparent pretty early, not only on the scoreboard, but in the intent with which the Saints hunted the Cats' key playmakers every time they looked like getting a touch. 

"Dangerwood" weren't curbed for quantity, mind you, the pair with 18 disposals between them at quarter-time, but both Paddy Dangerfield and Joel Selwood found it more difficult finding any room in which to work once they got their hands on the pill. 

 And then there was a real surprise packet in Darren Minchington. The small forward was playing only his seventh game of the season and 17th overall, but his second term was as big an impact as he's yet had –  three goals helping extend the Saints lead to more than five goals. 

The first was due to the largesse of Cat defender Tom Ruggles, the second thanks to a  Hickey handball, and the third after getting on the end of a beautiful pass from Maverick Weller. But the young Saint got himself in the right place at the right time, and deserved the rewards. 

Geelong was suitably stung. But the regroup was pretty impressive, twice the Cats slamming on bursts of three goals in three minutes to take the lead for the first time  midway through a terrific third quarter. 

There was certainly no brakes on "Dangerwood" now as the pair not only got the touches, but now the impact their numbers suggested they'd had, particularly at the centre bounces, from which they scored a couple of their third-term goals directly, two more coming from costly St Kilda turnovers. 

Lincoln McCarthy did a Minchington with three third-term goals. Lachie Henderson was giving Saints' key forward Josh Bruce a torrid time, Cam Guthrie busy midfield and Corey Enright was just Corey Enright. 

But the Saints steadied.  Weller, important all night, bobbed up with two late goals shortly before the siren for three-quarter time. And again once the Cats hit the front by a goal-and-a-bit with only a few minutes left. As a learning tool for Richardson's side, this was invaluable. And the four match points were  good, too.Â