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Eagles dig deep as Saints let golden chance slip – The Age
St Kilda only really does tension and heartache in September. Nine years to the day since they played their last final, the Saints fumbled their gilt-edged chance to claim their next, giving up a last-quarter lead to a weakened West Coast.
This should have been the Saints’ crowning moment. They confronted an Eagles team already with Luke Shuey, Elliot Yeo, Mark Hutchings, Jack Redden, Lewis Jetta and Dom Sheed on their long injury list. Then before half-time, they lost key defender and arguably most influential player in Jeremy McGovern to a hamstring.
St Kilda were up by a goal early in the last term and should have been able to roll over the top of an Eagles team that was both playing their fifth game in 19 days and down one on…
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