Sam Fisher will need to train well to play the away game against the Suns on Saturday night. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: Herald Sun
ST KILDA faces a defensive crisis that has turned its Round 1 clash with Gold Coast into a danger game, with Sam Fisher no guarantee to play.
The key defender pulled up sore after the club's last NAB Cup match and, while cleared of a stress fracture, doubts remain.
Fisher, who wore a moon boot as a precaution last week and withdrew from an AFL golf day on Thursday, has battled stress fractures in his career.
He will need to train well to play the away game against the Suns on Saturday night.
St Kilda football manager Greg Hutchison said Fisher had been cleared of serious foot concerns.
"He will train this week and be up for selection during the course of the week, so whatever happens happens," Hutchison said.
"He will train this week and be available for selection."
St Kilda has five of its seven key backs facing injury concerns, troubling for a club that tried and failed to recruit West Coast's Mitch Brown and then attempted to lure Collingwood's Chris Tarrant out of retirement.
All-Australian defender Sean Dempster is out with a hamstring injury, Rhys Stanley is lineball for Round 1 after hyper-extending his knee three weeks ago, and Tom Simpkin is returning after an interrupted pre-season.
Even rookie defensive tall Jackson Ferguson is on the injury list with a knee problem.
The club has few other injuries and will hope to paper over the cracks against the Gold Coast with James Gwilt and Jason Blake before reinforcements return.
Simpkin played in the VFL at the weekend and could be rushed into the side, while Stanley trained on Friday and will have to prove his fitness this week.
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