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St Kilda's promising performance - The Curiosity | The Means Test with Adam Simpson! (09.06.26)
09 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What insights does Adam Simpson share about St Kilda's season performance?
Our curiosity today is St Kilda. That was one of the games of the season. Just a splendid watch on Sunday. And that only happens because St Kilda turn up in that way. So they have done a lot of travel, which we know. They lost to the Crows by a point. They were within eight points of Gold Coast in Darwin. They led Fremantle in the last quarter in Perth and got overwhelmed.
And they were right there to beat Sydney until the final play of the match, essentially. And now they've got their stretch at home. They're a long way back at five and eight. Can they make a run? Yeah, yeah. And that's why they're a curiosity. Can they make a run?
Well, they've got the Giants, Dogs, Essendon and Port. In the next four weeks. So it looks like a four-week block. And, you know, if they play like they did on the weekend, you know, they've got some players back too, Gerard. That forward line's been decimated. So to get ā and we haven't seen ā Ross is still in his cave, isn't he, with his press conferences?
He's still in the ā whatever you want to call it. I'll make you pay for poking me. So that's disappointing. But ā I think supporters are happy from my read on some of them, some of them closer than others in the room next to us, that they're going, we can see how competitive we've been this year.
And we've been right in this, other than maybe the Hawthorne game, we've been competitive and we sort of see where we're going. So that's, that's a positive for the Saints fans, but the wins aren't there, Gerard. So yeah, I don't know. Where do you see, what's the pass mark for, at the start of the year, we all thought, okay, you've, you've, you've. Stuck your chest out.
So we're going to judge her on that. But reality is, where did we see them?
No, you can't divorce the two. So you're entitled to judge them on what they were putting forth, which made par 8, 9, 10. I think without any of it, you might've said nine, 10, 11, 12, but I think on their own actions, eight, nine, 10. No, I'm just hot.
Their own actions. I was thinking if there was no, um, I was thinking top eight. Yeah. Yeah. You know, we have arrived and you know, we're not getting bullied anymore and here we go.
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Chapter 2: Can St Kilda make a successful run in the upcoming matches?
And the draft of the trades they did and. Getting that first game, well done to all of it, but you better deliver. So I would have thought top eight was the, for me, is where they expect it to be. And now top 10 is probably the goal is where they're at. And the fixture is interesting for them. To be so difficult in the first half, I really put you on the back foot.
Give me the harder fixture on the way home any day of the week. Yep. So I think they've been hard done by a little bit where... I think seven out of the next eight games, is it? Or at Marvel? They've got to travel to the G. So get some players back.
Chapter 3: How have injuries affected St Kilda's forward line this season?
Get Liam Ryan going. I've never seen him. I haven't seen him jump like that for five years. He tore both tendons off both hamstrings in the last two or three years. And I thought he was never going to get to those heights again. So he looked good on the weekend. Reminded us all how important he's going to be for the Saints. especially with that King being around. Yes.
He's back in a couple of weeks too. Well, notionally, yeah. I wouldn't be pinning all my hopes there. No, but. Saints are close. Five goal leads against Suns, Lions, Swans, and Dockers. It's all about to click.
Chapter 4: How do recent games reflect St Kilda's competitiveness this season?
So they are the curiosity. Are they going to click? It's all about to click. So they've got to go to Geelong, the MCG once, and the rest at Marvel. So this gives them the chance to make a run. Let's see.