- May 8, 2001
- 5,667
- 818
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- Adelaide
- Other Teams
- CDFC (SANFL), Port Melb (VFL)
Hi Footy fans...
We are now through the first third of the season, this past weekend saw a slight spike upward in crowd numbers with not a single game drawing less than 2000. In fact, two games drew over 3000 so there's still hope for more great turnouts over the coming weeks after the coming weekend's interstate clash. Hopefully there will be more SA footy-heads through the turnstiles for at least two clubs that really need it and have lately been playing some attractive and dominating football. The SANFL also went bush once more, the 2000+ turnout prompting calls for the return of matches in regional areas much like what was going on during the late 1990's when country games were a regular occurrence.
Welcome to the Round 7 edition of the SANFL Wrap-Up.
The first match, for a third week running, takes us out to Coopers Stadium in Norwood for some Friday Night Mayhem between the Redlegs and the Panthers. At the time of the match, these were the top two sides in the league, but only one came into this game a winner from the previous week. While the Redlegs took a victory over the Crows, the Panthers had an average outing at Elizabeth as the Bulldogs salvaged a draw from that match. But despite a 13-point loss in Round 14 last season, the Panthers have embarrassed the 'Legs at The Parade on more than one occasion in recent years. They even tore them a new one earlier in 2014 at Noarlunga, a 40-point win in Round 6. The Redlegs were all over the Panthers in the first quarter, the only thing missing was accuracy as they kicked 4.5 to 1.1 to lead by 22 points at the first change. A near-shootout ensued in the second term, both sides taking three goals each. Norwood's continued inaccuracy was all that lengthened the gap by the long break, four behinds to one taking the deficit out to 25 points. Souths started to make some real moves when play resumed, outscoring the 'Legs 3.1 to 2.2 to cut the home side's lead back to 20 points going into the final term. But the inaccuracy bug that knobbled the Redlegs earlier in the evening jumped camps as the Panthers fluffed several opportunities to kick 2.5 to 2.2, allowing Norwood to take a 17-point win. Mat Suckling was named best afield for the Redlegs, while South named Bradley Crabb as their best on ground.
The other four games were held on Sunday afternoon, the Seven TV cameras heading out into the Adelaide Plains for the "mini-Showdown" between the Crows and the Magpies at Balaklava's Ralli Oval. The Magpies took out both games against the Crows last season, with 45 and 51-point victories in Round 5 at Clare and Round 14 at Alberton respectively. Thus far, just like last season the Crows have not been able to take a trick. Last year, by this point they had at least sealed one win, but so far they have taken a draw and that was only because of a lighting failure. Early on in the game, the Crows were actually taking up to the Magpies, taking a nine-point lead at quarter-time after taking advantage of Port's inaccuracy to score 5.1 to 3.4. But the Magpies wouldn't stay down for too long, despite more goal-shooting issues they brought the gap back to two points by the half-time break after scoring 4.4 to 3.3 in the second term. When play resumed, slowly but surely the Magpies showed who was boss as they gradually overtook the younger and more inexperienced Adelaide team. Port took over control late in the third quarter, after being down by 14 points at one stage the 'Pies scored 6.2 to 4.1 to take an 11-point lead at the final change. The Crows just went away rather meekly in the end, the Magpies booting a further 7.4 to 3.4 to ram the point home and take a 35-point win. Sam Gray was named best for Port, while the Crows named Riley Knight as their best.
We now return to the metropolitan area and head to the bay, to Gliderol Stadium in Glenelg where the Tigers faced the Bloods. Westies smashed the Tigers from pillar to post back in Round 8 last season, sending the Bays back to Tiger-land with their tails practically chopped off after a 98-point hammering at Richmond. But amazingly, later in the season in Round 15 the Tigers managed to salvage a little pride in the closing stages of the season after taking an eight-point win at Glenelg. Quite the crowd turned up for this game, a little over 2600 people coming in on a fine afternoon. But after today, some would probably be scurrying back into their hidey-holes. The Bloods were on a mission and it showed early as they rammed through 6.3 to the Tigers' 2.4, West taking a 23-point lead at quarter-time. The Bloods would multi-task in the second term, keeping the Tigers to a miserly two behinds whilst bagging a further 7.2 for themselves to break the game apart. At half-time, the Bloods were away to a 65-point lead. The Tigers were being made to look like absolute amateurs and that the axe was hanging above some heads, something that coach Matt Lokan alluded to later post-match. The rampage continued when play re-commenced, the Bloods smashing through 8.1 to the Tigers' 3.2 to stretch the already insurmountable gap to 94 points. The crowd by this point probably dropped several hundreds and it was probably understandable in the end, the Tigers were getting humbled in the worst way. Their only saving grace is probably that they managed to score more than 10 goals in the end. But the gap would still be enlarged by game's end, West kicked 9.3 to 6.3 in the final quarter to record a 112-point demolition job. Jason Porplyzia scored four goals and took best afield honours for West, while the Tigers named Sam Lonergan as their standout on a dark afternoon.
The next match takes us to the inner northern suburbs, as the Roosters hosted the Eagles at Prospect Oval. The Roosters didn't have anything to do with finals football, but they made sure they had the last laugh against the Eagles during the minor round last year. After being brushed aside at Woodville in Round 7 by 77 points, the Roosters managed some payback with a 38-point win in the return bout at Prospect in Round 17. But this Eagles outfit is a far different proposition than last season, at least that's what they're showing us so far in 2015. The Eagles did give up some ground early on in this contest, the Roosters surprising the visitors with a 5.1 to 4.3 first quarter. At the first change, North were up by four points. But the Roosters were brought to a screeching halt after this, kept to mere behinds for over half a game. The Eagles would keep the Roosters to just three behinds in the second quarter, scoring 4.1 for themselves to take a three-goal lead by the half-time break. The Eagles ran into some difficulties of their own when play resumed, inaccuracy on goal a problem in the third quarter despite them continuing to keep the Roosters goal-less and perhaps keeping the door ajar. They kicked 2.5 to North's three behinds to extend their advantage to 32 points. However, the Eagles shook that dirty quarter of football off in the final term and slammed the door shut on any Roosters comeback. They kicked five goals without a miss in the final term, North finally managing to find the big sticks but 2.5 was hardly going to ruffle any Eagles feathers as they left Menzies Crescent with a 44-point win. The Eagles named Sam Martyn as their best on ground, the Roosters named Nick Amato as their best.
The final match for the weekend takes us to the other side of town, the Peter Motley Oval playing host to the clash between the Double Blues and the Bulldogs. These teams engaged in a little tit-for-tat in season 2014, their story is not too dissimilar from the Eagles/North spiel above. The Blues went to the Ponderosa in Round 8 to hand the Dogs a 52-point defeat, only to slip on a banana peel later in the year as the Dogs nicked a five-point win at Unley in Round 15. They also traded blows on the big stage, with Grand Final encounters in 2002 and 2009, we all know what happened on those days. The Dogs seemed to make a promising start to the game, kicking the first goal. But some poor decision making from that moment onwards would allow the Blues to kick out to a 19-point lead after they scored 4.4 to Central's wasteful 1.3. The Dogs would, to their credit, outscore the Blues in the second term. They kicked five goals to 3.1 to bring the deficit back to eight points, much to the Blues' annoyance when the half-time siren sounded, a little push-and-shove ensuing near the players race. The Dogs again had no-one but themselves to blame for the Blues re-establishing control when play resumed. More poor ball use by Centrals allowed the Blues to have an answer for whatever was thrown at them. Sturt's inaccuracy during the third term did keep the door open, 5.5 to 3.2 setting the deficit at 23 points at three quarter-time. But the Blues weren't letting this one slip away though, they managed to keep the Dogs from getting too close to escape with a 14-point victory after scoring 4.1 to 5.4 in the final stanza. Sturt named Thomas Harms as their best afield, the Bulldogs voted in Travis Schiller as their best.
FINAL SCORES IN ROUND 7 OF THE SANFL...
Friday May 15
Norwood 11.13 (79)
South Adelaide 9.8 (62)
3,017 @ Coopers Stadium, Norwood
Sunday May 17
Port Adelaide 20.14 (134)
Adelaide 15.9 (99)
2,034 @ Ralli Oval, Balaklava
West Adelaide 30.9 (189)
Glenelg 11.11 (77)
2,665 @ Gliderol Stadium, Glenelg
Woodville-West Torrens 15.9 (99)
North Adelaide 7.13 (55)
2,162 @ Prospect Oval
Sturt 16.11 (107)
Central District 14.9 (93)
3,177 @ Peter Motley Oval, Unley
INJURIES
Norwood -- Dawe (shoulder)
South -- Liddle (concussion)
Sturt -- Stephens (shoulder)
REPORTS
None known at time of post
LEAGUE LADDER
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Norwood -- 12pts (6-1-0), 54.6%
W-WT -- 10pts (5-1-0), 61%
West -- 10pts (5-1-0), 60.6%
South -- 9pts (4-2-1), 50%
Port -- 8pts (4-2-0), 56%
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Sturt -- 8pts (4-3-0), 53.4%
Central -- 3pts (1-4-1), 44.6%
North -- 2pts (1-5-0), 38.5%
Adelaide -- 1pt (0-5-1), 43.8%
Glenelg -- 1pt (0-6-1), 39.2%
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This weekend features the clash for State League supremacy. Over the previous two seasons, both leagues have defeated the Vics. Now the Croweaters and the Sandgropers will face off once more... can the SANFL, currently the owners of the Haydn Bunton Junior Cup, truly make up for their 2009 defeat by winning in the West?
Saturday May 23
STATE LEAGUE REPRESENTATIVE MATCH
Western Australia vs. South Australia; Lathlain Park
Unfortunately, there will be no television coverage aside from a live-stream on the WAFL website. As a consequence, next week's wrap-up may not be as lengthy as I would have liked. As always, I will endeavour to put something together.
So until next weekend, see you at the Footy!
We are now through the first third of the season, this past weekend saw a slight spike upward in crowd numbers with not a single game drawing less than 2000. In fact, two games drew over 3000 so there's still hope for more great turnouts over the coming weeks after the coming weekend's interstate clash. Hopefully there will be more SA footy-heads through the turnstiles for at least two clubs that really need it and have lately been playing some attractive and dominating football. The SANFL also went bush once more, the 2000+ turnout prompting calls for the return of matches in regional areas much like what was going on during the late 1990's when country games were a regular occurrence.
Welcome to the Round 7 edition of the SANFL Wrap-Up.
The first match, for a third week running, takes us out to Coopers Stadium in Norwood for some Friday Night Mayhem between the Redlegs and the Panthers. At the time of the match, these were the top two sides in the league, but only one came into this game a winner from the previous week. While the Redlegs took a victory over the Crows, the Panthers had an average outing at Elizabeth as the Bulldogs salvaged a draw from that match. But despite a 13-point loss in Round 14 last season, the Panthers have embarrassed the 'Legs at The Parade on more than one occasion in recent years. They even tore them a new one earlier in 2014 at Noarlunga, a 40-point win in Round 6. The Redlegs were all over the Panthers in the first quarter, the only thing missing was accuracy as they kicked 4.5 to 1.1 to lead by 22 points at the first change. A near-shootout ensued in the second term, both sides taking three goals each. Norwood's continued inaccuracy was all that lengthened the gap by the long break, four behinds to one taking the deficit out to 25 points. Souths started to make some real moves when play resumed, outscoring the 'Legs 3.1 to 2.2 to cut the home side's lead back to 20 points going into the final term. But the inaccuracy bug that knobbled the Redlegs earlier in the evening jumped camps as the Panthers fluffed several opportunities to kick 2.5 to 2.2, allowing Norwood to take a 17-point win. Mat Suckling was named best afield for the Redlegs, while South named Bradley Crabb as their best on ground.
The other four games were held on Sunday afternoon, the Seven TV cameras heading out into the Adelaide Plains for the "mini-Showdown" between the Crows and the Magpies at Balaklava's Ralli Oval. The Magpies took out both games against the Crows last season, with 45 and 51-point victories in Round 5 at Clare and Round 14 at Alberton respectively. Thus far, just like last season the Crows have not been able to take a trick. Last year, by this point they had at least sealed one win, but so far they have taken a draw and that was only because of a lighting failure. Early on in the game, the Crows were actually taking up to the Magpies, taking a nine-point lead at quarter-time after taking advantage of Port's inaccuracy to score 5.1 to 3.4. But the Magpies wouldn't stay down for too long, despite more goal-shooting issues they brought the gap back to two points by the half-time break after scoring 4.4 to 3.3 in the second term. When play resumed, slowly but surely the Magpies showed who was boss as they gradually overtook the younger and more inexperienced Adelaide team. Port took over control late in the third quarter, after being down by 14 points at one stage the 'Pies scored 6.2 to 4.1 to take an 11-point lead at the final change. The Crows just went away rather meekly in the end, the Magpies booting a further 7.4 to 3.4 to ram the point home and take a 35-point win. Sam Gray was named best for Port, while the Crows named Riley Knight as their best.
We now return to the metropolitan area and head to the bay, to Gliderol Stadium in Glenelg where the Tigers faced the Bloods. Westies smashed the Tigers from pillar to post back in Round 8 last season, sending the Bays back to Tiger-land with their tails practically chopped off after a 98-point hammering at Richmond. But amazingly, later in the season in Round 15 the Tigers managed to salvage a little pride in the closing stages of the season after taking an eight-point win at Glenelg. Quite the crowd turned up for this game, a little over 2600 people coming in on a fine afternoon. But after today, some would probably be scurrying back into their hidey-holes. The Bloods were on a mission and it showed early as they rammed through 6.3 to the Tigers' 2.4, West taking a 23-point lead at quarter-time. The Bloods would multi-task in the second term, keeping the Tigers to a miserly two behinds whilst bagging a further 7.2 for themselves to break the game apart. At half-time, the Bloods were away to a 65-point lead. The Tigers were being made to look like absolute amateurs and that the axe was hanging above some heads, something that coach Matt Lokan alluded to later post-match. The rampage continued when play re-commenced, the Bloods smashing through 8.1 to the Tigers' 3.2 to stretch the already insurmountable gap to 94 points. The crowd by this point probably dropped several hundreds and it was probably understandable in the end, the Tigers were getting humbled in the worst way. Their only saving grace is probably that they managed to score more than 10 goals in the end. But the gap would still be enlarged by game's end, West kicked 9.3 to 6.3 in the final quarter to record a 112-point demolition job. Jason Porplyzia scored four goals and took best afield honours for West, while the Tigers named Sam Lonergan as their standout on a dark afternoon.
The next match takes us to the inner northern suburbs, as the Roosters hosted the Eagles at Prospect Oval. The Roosters didn't have anything to do with finals football, but they made sure they had the last laugh against the Eagles during the minor round last year. After being brushed aside at Woodville in Round 7 by 77 points, the Roosters managed some payback with a 38-point win in the return bout at Prospect in Round 17. But this Eagles outfit is a far different proposition than last season, at least that's what they're showing us so far in 2015. The Eagles did give up some ground early on in this contest, the Roosters surprising the visitors with a 5.1 to 4.3 first quarter. At the first change, North were up by four points. But the Roosters were brought to a screeching halt after this, kept to mere behinds for over half a game. The Eagles would keep the Roosters to just three behinds in the second quarter, scoring 4.1 for themselves to take a three-goal lead by the half-time break. The Eagles ran into some difficulties of their own when play resumed, inaccuracy on goal a problem in the third quarter despite them continuing to keep the Roosters goal-less and perhaps keeping the door ajar. They kicked 2.5 to North's three behinds to extend their advantage to 32 points. However, the Eagles shook that dirty quarter of football off in the final term and slammed the door shut on any Roosters comeback. They kicked five goals without a miss in the final term, North finally managing to find the big sticks but 2.5 was hardly going to ruffle any Eagles feathers as they left Menzies Crescent with a 44-point win. The Eagles named Sam Martyn as their best on ground, the Roosters named Nick Amato as their best.
The final match for the weekend takes us to the other side of town, the Peter Motley Oval playing host to the clash between the Double Blues and the Bulldogs. These teams engaged in a little tit-for-tat in season 2014, their story is not too dissimilar from the Eagles/North spiel above. The Blues went to the Ponderosa in Round 8 to hand the Dogs a 52-point defeat, only to slip on a banana peel later in the year as the Dogs nicked a five-point win at Unley in Round 15. They also traded blows on the big stage, with Grand Final encounters in 2002 and 2009, we all know what happened on those days. The Dogs seemed to make a promising start to the game, kicking the first goal. But some poor decision making from that moment onwards would allow the Blues to kick out to a 19-point lead after they scored 4.4 to Central's wasteful 1.3. The Dogs would, to their credit, outscore the Blues in the second term. They kicked five goals to 3.1 to bring the deficit back to eight points, much to the Blues' annoyance when the half-time siren sounded, a little push-and-shove ensuing near the players race. The Dogs again had no-one but themselves to blame for the Blues re-establishing control when play resumed. More poor ball use by Centrals allowed the Blues to have an answer for whatever was thrown at them. Sturt's inaccuracy during the third term did keep the door open, 5.5 to 3.2 setting the deficit at 23 points at three quarter-time. But the Blues weren't letting this one slip away though, they managed to keep the Dogs from getting too close to escape with a 14-point victory after scoring 4.1 to 5.4 in the final stanza. Sturt named Thomas Harms as their best afield, the Bulldogs voted in Travis Schiller as their best.
FINAL SCORES IN ROUND 7 OF THE SANFL...
Friday May 15
Norwood 11.13 (79)
South Adelaide 9.8 (62)
3,017 @ Coopers Stadium, Norwood
Sunday May 17
Port Adelaide 20.14 (134)
Adelaide 15.9 (99)
2,034 @ Ralli Oval, Balaklava
West Adelaide 30.9 (189)
Glenelg 11.11 (77)
2,665 @ Gliderol Stadium, Glenelg
Woodville-West Torrens 15.9 (99)
North Adelaide 7.13 (55)
2,162 @ Prospect Oval
Sturt 16.11 (107)
Central District 14.9 (93)
3,177 @ Peter Motley Oval, Unley
INJURIES
Norwood -- Dawe (shoulder)
South -- Liddle (concussion)
Sturt -- Stephens (shoulder)
REPORTS
None known at time of post
LEAGUE LADDER
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Norwood -- 12pts (6-1-0), 54.6%
W-WT -- 10pts (5-1-0), 61%
West -- 10pts (5-1-0), 60.6%
South -- 9pts (4-2-1), 50%
Port -- 8pts (4-2-0), 56%
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Sturt -- 8pts (4-3-0), 53.4%
Central -- 3pts (1-4-1), 44.6%
North -- 2pts (1-5-0), 38.5%
Adelaide -- 1pt (0-5-1), 43.8%
Glenelg -- 1pt (0-6-1), 39.2%
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This weekend features the clash for State League supremacy. Over the previous two seasons, both leagues have defeated the Vics. Now the Croweaters and the Sandgropers will face off once more... can the SANFL, currently the owners of the Haydn Bunton Junior Cup, truly make up for their 2009 defeat by winning in the West?
Saturday May 23
STATE LEAGUE REPRESENTATIVE MATCH
Western Australia vs. South Australia; Lathlain Park
Unfortunately, there will be no television coverage aside from a live-stream on the WAFL website. As a consequence, next week's wrap-up may not be as lengthy as I would have liked. As always, I will endeavour to put something together.
So until next weekend, see you at the Footy!
