St Kilda coach Brett Ratten has raised concerns over the quality of the Optus Stadium surface after Sunday evening's match against the West Coast Eagles.

The Saints ended the game 28-point victors on the muddy turf, which had hosted back-to-back soccer matches on Friday and Saturday night with heavy rain doing further damage.

Ground staff at the stadium had less than 24 hours to repair the surface prior to the twilight clash, with parts of the ground remaining soggy and unstable, causing players to lose their footing throughout the clash.

Speaking post-game, Ratten said the stadium needed to be more cautious about scheduling too many events on the one ground, raising the possibility of legal action should players get injured.

The Saints coach mentioned former Blue Luke O'Sullivan, who sued Carlton and the AFL after suffering a serious knee injury at Waverley Park in 1993, as an example of what the league and stadiums need to consider when scheduling games.

"I wouldn't like a player to get a long-term injury that [meant they] never play the game again, or something like that," Ratten said.

"That is the worrying concern. If something did happen, would a player sue the ground? It has happened before. It happened in my time as a player [with] Luke O'Sullivan.

"That is something they may need to consider when scheduling.

"We all went out before the game to have a look at it.

"It felt shifting under foot.

"It was more of a mindset as a player and how you go about things. How you run flat out at the ball, can you twist and turn?

"The game wasn't going to be called off; we were going to play, so we had to just adapt to it."

Eagles coach Adam Simpson conceded that there were some issues with the surface, but said ground staff did a "great job" given the circumstances.

"I thought they did a great job getting the game away with the way it was heading last night and the rain that's been here all week," Simpson said.

"The problem we had was one side of the ground was quite dry and the other was quite boggy. That's OK. Both teams had to deal with it.

"There were a few goals that probably weren't there. Even the last one with Tom Barrass slipping over in the goalkeeper's box from last night."

Optus Stadium will host Fremantle and Melbourne on Friday night to open Round 20.