Max Hall

That midfield's exciting to me.

If you get Naz and Max Hall and Garcia, if they all continue to rise together, there's a chance that that can help propel them into that top six, top eight conversation.

But they're very much around the middle of the table for me.

So I'm not sure what's fair and what's not, but I do see them finishing in the middle.

I might bring that one back up just to jump off the screen.

But, like, Max Hall 46%, Hugh Boxall 40%, Sam Flanders under the 36.4%.

Like, there's room in the midfield for him.

That's the thing.

And if he's actually been identified as a midfielder and, you know, they want to move Naz back to halfback and they want to play Max Hall as, like, a midforward more...

There's a pathway here.

I can see it happening.

They brought in Tom Deconing on big money.

So they've got Max Hall's contract as well, who's looming as a Tassie option in 2027.

So they've got a bit of money that they need to make sure that their better players are getting.

And obviously, Jack Sinclair may be the victim of a bit of a squeeze if Naz does re-sign.

In fact, I really like it.

They've got Nas they've got to keep, Max Hall likewise.

But so much of their success hinges on being inside 50 and Max King.

Now, if he isn't there early doors, for whatever reason, Jake Stringer gives you another avenue where it takes pressure off the Owens and the shamans of the world, say, for example.

Yeah, he got a lot of the ball, but give me a break.

Okay.

Max Hall, terrific season.

Young player going places, but no. Jarman Impey, terrific season with the Hawks.

So Sam Marshall, another midfielder being added to what is a pretty youthful midfield there at St. Kilda, which was led pretty well this year.

Nesiah Wanganeen-Miller, uh, Max Hall, Hugo Garcia, Marcus Windhager, and now they've added, uh, Sam Marshall, who played...

Well, he played the first half of the grand final last year before he was subbed out for Lachie Neale.

So plenty going on in the trade space.

Hugo Garcia took a step forward last year.

Max Hall's been a, a great pickup and pretty much a free pickup for the most part for the Saints.

Toby Trevilyan is a, a player who we haven't seen the best of yet.

He's had surgery on both feet in the off-season as well, so yet to see exactly what he can offer.

Let's, let's take a step back for here.

There's a few things we need to be able to, to build in our game style and equip our group with, but there's also, um, a demographic that we need to be able to send through our midfield if we're going to get to where we need to." And you highlighted some of those younger players, um, in other parts of the ground that will make a difference, and clearly Max King will make a massive difference to that football team.

But if we just put a laser focus in on St. Kilda's midfield for just a second, when you think about, um, Wanganeen Malira, Wingard, Wilson, Garcia, Hall, Philippou, as you mentioned, um, TDK being able to play through that group, effectively when you measure that up against the grand final teams like Fremantle and also Brisbane, they're effectively a year and a half, two years behind in age and also, um, experience.

So you think, gee, there's a lot of internal growth there, um, for a group to be able to go from where they are to where they need to be able to go next just by purely playing games together.

Um, you know, Ross would've been there for five years.

Max Hall's close.

Or he's signed-

Max Hall's out of contract.

Yeah.

But everyone has been brought in.

It didn't work, and now this year's the big year for everyone to come together.

Nat's out of contract.

I think Draper's a good ath- for teams.

Max Gawn's one of the best runners that probably the game's ever seen for a Ruckman.

Mm.

So I think that's where he's got to get to, to have the career he hopes to have.

It's a great point you raise about Gawn-

Yeah

... because the irony there twofold is that first, Max wasn't a great endurance athlete, and the story about him having a cigarette-

Yeah