What an odd Monday being halfway through a round. It’s hard to keep track of where things end and where they start and it’s as tempting to look forward as it is to glance back.
Tonight is St Kilda’s biggest home and away match since when?
Could it be since that fabled encounter with Geelong in Round 14, 2009?
Post that legendary afternoon the defining matches in the remainder of the Ross Lyon era were finals.
Tonight could be the stake in the ground for Brett Ratten’s St Kilda.
A chance to reclaim second place on the ladder and move to the cusp of their first finals berth since 2011.
And rather perfectly it’s against the Cats again.
It’s St Kilda’s biggest date in a decade. It thrilling, it might also be slightly terrifying.