The Scarecrow
24 May 2004, 15:53
From The Mercury
By: David Stockdale
THE clash between Hobart and Glenorchy at the TCA Ground yesterday was billed as the Southern Premier League match of the round.
Instead, the Magpies turned it into a rout by crushing Hobart by 64 points.
They held the home side goalless until early in the second quarter and buried it in the last by piling on 10 goals straight to 3.2 to romp home 18.12 (130) to 10.6 (66).
It was exactly the stinging reply coach John Klug was looking for after his side's final-quarter cave-in against arch rival Clarence at KGV last week.
Never has the tired old term ``all played well'' been so applicable.
The Magpies didn't have a passenger, attacked the ball in numbers, were very direct and rarely failed to find their targets.
``We were really hurting after our fadeout against Clarence and I think that really showed in the way we teamed and hit the packs [yesterday],'' Klug said.
And it was the young hands as much as the older ones who showed the way, such as Jessie Crouch who did a power of hard work in the packs and Will Garvey who shut down big forward Sam Unsworth.
Throw in the way David Kamaric restricted coach Michael McGregor to just one goal and Brad Curran eclipsed Daniel Neilsenbeck and it was no little wonder Hobart found goals so hard to come by after its mini-comeback with five in the second term.
The story was much the same in the ruck, where Brad Lang and Luke Horne teamed up to dominate the bounces and aerial dues.
While Lang didn't play the full game, he showed enough promise for the Devils to give serious consideration to calling him up for next Saturday's VFL clash with Williamstown at York Park.
Up forward, the Magpies had options everywhere.
Dean Millhouse led the way with five goals, supported by Sean Salter, Damien McIver and livewire small Adam Daft, with three each.
Hobart wasn't helped by a forearm injury to McGregor, who spent half the third quarter on the bench.
Standing in for him, assistant coach Steve Woods said: ``We were very soundly beaten [yesterday] and we've got a lot of improvement to make to get up to Glenorchy's level,'' Woods said.
``Our better players didn't come up, our skill level was terrible and we were badly beaten at the stoppages.''
Midfielder Michael Clark was Hobart's only standout, while Matthew Wright and Martin Free were serviceable.
EDIT: I have edited Adam Daft's name, the person that wrote the article put his name down as "Adam Dafter"
By: David Stockdale
THE clash between Hobart and Glenorchy at the TCA Ground yesterday was billed as the Southern Premier League match of the round.
Instead, the Magpies turned it into a rout by crushing Hobart by 64 points.
They held the home side goalless until early in the second quarter and buried it in the last by piling on 10 goals straight to 3.2 to romp home 18.12 (130) to 10.6 (66).
It was exactly the stinging reply coach John Klug was looking for after his side's final-quarter cave-in against arch rival Clarence at KGV last week.
Never has the tired old term ``all played well'' been so applicable.
The Magpies didn't have a passenger, attacked the ball in numbers, were very direct and rarely failed to find their targets.
``We were really hurting after our fadeout against Clarence and I think that really showed in the way we teamed and hit the packs [yesterday],'' Klug said.
And it was the young hands as much as the older ones who showed the way, such as Jessie Crouch who did a power of hard work in the packs and Will Garvey who shut down big forward Sam Unsworth.
Throw in the way David Kamaric restricted coach Michael McGregor to just one goal and Brad Curran eclipsed Daniel Neilsenbeck and it was no little wonder Hobart found goals so hard to come by after its mini-comeback with five in the second term.
The story was much the same in the ruck, where Brad Lang and Luke Horne teamed up to dominate the bounces and aerial dues.
While Lang didn't play the full game, he showed enough promise for the Devils to give serious consideration to calling him up for next Saturday's VFL clash with Williamstown at York Park.
Up forward, the Magpies had options everywhere.
Dean Millhouse led the way with five goals, supported by Sean Salter, Damien McIver and livewire small Adam Daft, with three each.
Hobart wasn't helped by a forearm injury to McGregor, who spent half the third quarter on the bench.
Standing in for him, assistant coach Steve Woods said: ``We were very soundly beaten [yesterday] and we've got a lot of improvement to make to get up to Glenorchy's level,'' Woods said.
``Our better players didn't come up, our skill level was terrible and we were badly beaten at the stoppages.''
Midfielder Michael Clark was Hobart's only standout, while Matthew Wright and Martin Free were serviceable.
EDIT: I have edited Adam Daft's name, the person that wrote the article put his name down as "Adam Dafter"