Giants key defender Jack Buckley will miss his side's rendezvous with rivals Collingwood on Friday night, after he was concussed in the Giants' loss to the Saints on Saturday evening.
The side are already without fellow key back Sam Taylor, with the Pies now licking their lips at the opportunity to play their sputtering forward line into form.
The Giants are in the frame to receive some reinforcements for the clash, with head coach Adam Kingsley alluding to the incoming cavalry in his post-match press conference.
Important contributors Aaron Cadman, Toby Bedford and Brent Daniels will make the trip to Melbourne, should the trio make it through the requisite sessions this week.
The fourth-year coach was understandably furious with his charges after a disastrous start against the Saints.
Lightning in the area delayed the start of play by 50 minutes, and once the game was underway, Giants faithful could be forgiven for thinking their side had stayed in the rooms.
Adam Kingsley's men were 25 points behind at the first change, and fell behind by as much as 39 points halfway through the second quarter.
The Saints bullied the Giants around the ball, doubling them in clearances in the first quarter. Centre clearances were a particular issue for the Giants, losing that metric 6-1 in the first stanza. Uncharacteristically for a Kingsley-coached side, the Giants were also pantsed in contested possessions in the game's opening exchanges, trailing by 17 in that metric after just a quarter of football.
This smashing in contest and clearance led Kingsley to lose his composure in the coaching box, with pictures emerging of the imposing figure standing and shouting at the performance of his side.
Kingsley's men would eventually turn the tide, and the match was a tale of two halves because of this. The Giants' territory dominance was evident after the main break, registering 41 inside 50s to 19 in the second half, but an impotence going forward quelled their chances of winning.
The Giants may take solace from the fact that they stormed home to lose by just four points, but Kingsley remained matter of fact when triaging his side's shortcomings in the aftermath of their second consecutive loss.
"We need to go to work on our centre bounce work," Kingsley said.
"We need to certainly play a better brand, offensively; much more like the second half than what we did in the first half, and I think we'll be a pretty good team if we manage to fix those areas."
Kingsley went out of his way to praise the influence of young utility Phoenix Gothard, while admitting there is work to do on his side's scoring method.
"I thought Phoenix particularly was really lively. Every time he was near the ball, you could see his effort, see his speed, his intent, and then he finished more often than not. I thought he was noticeably strong ahead of the ball, but we have work to do in that phase. Two weeks in a row we've kicked not a great score."
"(It is a) big game Friday night against the Pies, great opportunity for us to try and put (up) a good score against them."
The result brings with it a reprieve for St Kilda and its big money recruits, after the side held off the fast-finishing Giants side to notch their first win of the season.
Ross Lyon was typically abrasive in his post-match press conference, but took the time to praise the performance of Hugo Garcia, who played a cooling role on Giants star, Finn Callaghan. Callaghan would break those shackles in the last, to register 13 of his 32 disposals in that term alone, as well as two of his five inside 50s and score involvements for the match.
"We won't get ahead of ourselves, but it was nice to get off the mark and pop that balloon," Lyon said.
