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Foxtel Cup Round 2 Preview: West Adelaide v Williamstown
Date: Saturday 4th June
Time: 4:45pm local time (CST), 5:15pm AEST
Venue: AAMI Stadium, Adelaide
Note: This is a standalone match and NOT a curtainraiser
Weather: Shower or two, max 16.
Broadcast: *LIVE* 6pm - 7:30pm
AFL Match Centre: Here
Foxtel Cup Record:
West Adelaide 15.10 (100) def. Ainslie 3.5 (23)
Williamstown 8.7 (55) def. Swan Districts 2.6 (18)
Local SANFL/VFL Record:
West Adelaide 5-3 (8 played) SANFL 4th
Williamstown 7-1 (8 played) VFL 2nd
Last match:
Norwood defeated West Adelaide by 54 points.
Williamstown defeated Casey by 40 points.
Brief Analysis
This weekend brings us what will be an epic clash between the two top ranked SANFL and VFL teams in the Foxtel Cup competition at the time of writing. Oddly perhaps, this game is a standalone twilight fixture at Aami Stadium on Saturday. This will be the first real test of a modern VFL club/AFL reserves team against a SANFL side, and the result will be interesting to those claiming the rights to "second best league" status. Its these second round matches that will enable us to see whether the lower ranked SANFL sides can match it with the top of the WAFL and VFL sides.
West Adelaide will field 3 AFL listed players (from Port), while Williamstown will field 9 (from the Western Bulldogs). Of the Port players, only Davenport has any real experience at AFL level, while for Williamstown Gilbee and Hudson have played quite a few games (Hudson being a former Adelaide recruit). In an interesting coincidence there will be no less than 3 players called Caruso named to the field.
Both teams enjoyed good wins in the first round of the competition, but Williamstown would appear on raw stats to be the better of the two teams at this point when local league results are factored in. West Adelaide are coming off a 54 point hiding at the hands of Norwood (SANFL 3rd), while Williamstown are coming off a 40 point win over the Casey Scorpions (VFL 5th). Im tipping another close game here due to the Victorians traveling over, but expect Williamstown to run out victors.
West Adelaide Team:
FB: Morris, Bricknell, Blesing
HB: Caire, Hartlett, Thompson
C: Anderson, Macreadie, Davenport
HF: Beech, Borholm, Piasente
FF: Agars, Webb, F.Caruso
Fol: Lobbe, N.Caruso, J.Ezard
I: M.Motlop, Gallard, S.Ezard, Kirk
E: Ribbons, Ahmat-Watkins, Hankin
Port Adelaide AFL Listed Players:
Jason Davenport, Matthew Lobbe, Marlon Motlop, Daniel Webb
Williamstown Team:
FB: S.Caruso, Markovic, Gilbee
HB: Schofield, Barlow, Stack
C: Tutt, Jolley, Davies
HF: Skinner, Panos, Veszpremi
FF: Hooper, Roughhead, Hahn
Fol: Hudson, Johnson, Dahlhous
I: Cordy, Johanissen, Rampe, Woods
E: Carr, McHarg, Cravino
Western Bulddogs AFL Listed Players:
Cordy, Gilbee, Hooper, Hudson, markovic, Roughhead, Skinner, Stack, Tutt, Veszpremi, Schofield
Barlow, Panos, Hahn, Johannisen, Dahlhous