Collingwood coach Craig McRae hopes St Kilda will tag star midfielder Nick Daicos when they play each other on Saturday night at Marvel Stadium.
The Pies are coming off the bye while the Saints will be hoping to rectify their 72-point loss against the Dogs.
Nick Daicos was tagged during the Pies' last game against Melbourne, having a quiet game by his standards as he collected 19 disposals and a goal, below his average of 29 disposals a game.
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Saints tagger Marcus Windhager tagged Western Bulldogs skipper Marcus Bontempelli last week, keeping the Dogs captain to 14 disposals, which is well below his average of 23.5 this year.
Craig McRae has explained that the Saints tagged last week in their big loss against the Dogs and hopes they tag again this week.
“You tag someone that comes at a cost to you, and so we hope they tag him this week, which I’m sure they will,” McRae said.
“Windhager tagged Bontempelli, and they (Saints) lose by 73 points. What value do you put on it?”
McRae hopes the umpires will look out for any free kicks for Daicos because of the tag.
“Nick in itself is a challenge every week because you want Nick to be as best he possibly can be, and then the opposition wants him to be the opposite of that.”
“There’s holding you off the ball and there’s holding with the ball, hopefully he gets a couple of those this week.”
Collingwood is currently sitting first on the ladder, while the Saints are in 14th place, three games out of the eight.
The Saints won the last time these two sides met, winning by 15 points, while the last 4 games have been decided by 3 goals or less.