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SANFL Finals Week
2
1st Semi Final
Port 7.2 14.2 17.10 22.13 145
Norwood 4.2 7.4 9.7 10.9 69
2nd Semi Final
Sturt 5.1 6.3 13.6 15.8 98
West 1.3 6.7 7.8 11.13 79
Comments
From the opening bounce Port
pushed aside a disappointing Norwood outfit. In the opening
quarter the Magpies looked ready to kick away, the score at one
stage was 7 goals to one before Norwood steadied and managed
to kick the last 3 majors for the term. The next 3 quarters
though were all Port who ended up winning by 76 points.
Best for Port was Beinke with 7 goals. Over the last month Port
have beaten Centrals by 61 points, North 64 points and Norwood
by 60 and 76 points and things are looking ominous for the other
2 remaniing teams West and Sturt. After the match a disappointed
Norwood coach reflecting on the 1998 season stated "We
had too many guys treading water and a few going backwards and
a few not there, so in the end we were a much inferior team to
last year".
In the other Semi Final, Sturt
came out of the block firing and at quarter time led West 5.1
to 1.3. The Bloods picked up a gear in the second term
hitting the body and the ball hard forcing Sturt off their game
plan. At the half time break it was the Bloods in front
by 4 points. The third term saw Sturts Jarrod Twitt (5 goals)
kick 3 goals in five minute to help Sturt break away from West
and take a strangle hold on the game. "Apart from the
second quarter we didn't fluently play the ball or use the footy
(well)" stated West's coach Michael Taylor. Michael
also stated that their won't be too many changes to the lineup
for next weeks Preliminary final against Port.
Next Week
Football Park - Sunday
Preliminary Final
West v Port
Football Park 4th Oct
Grand Final
Sturt v ?
1998
SANFL Magarey Medal
16 Andrew Osborn South Adelaide
13 B Atkinson
Sturt
S Feast Sturt
J Cunningham Norwood
12 S Crayshay
South Adelaide
A Richardson West Adelaide
11 G Wiggins
Woodville-West Torrens
L Herbet North Adelaide
D Obst
Norwood
A Obst
Port Adelaide
This years Magarey Medal has
been won by the captain of South Adelaide, Andrew Osborn.
Andrew didn't poll best afield in any game but managed to score
the victory with 7 second preference votes and 2 third preference
votes.
The victory is a just reward
for Andrew sheer persistance. He missed all of last years
season and had to drop out of the Port Power squad due to a lower
back injury.
After the presentation Andrew
stated:
"In football there's
all sorts of highs and lows and this is definitely a high"
"The 2 times I had
at the AFL were definitely lows
.... but being captain of South Adelaide and winning
the Magarey Medal kind of makes up for that"
"and this is as much
for the team; without those blokes (at South) it would be very
hard to be here"
The SANFL also last night decided
to award players, who missed out on winning the Magarey on countback,
a retrospective medal. The players to be awarded the medals are:
1915 Samson "Shine"
Hoskins (Port)
and Charles Perry (Norwood)
1920 Victor York Richardson (Sturt)
1921 John Karney (West Torrens) Charles Adams (Port)
and Walter Scott (Norwood)
1925 Peter Bampton (Port)
1939 Ray McArthur (West Adelaide)
1949 Alan Crabb (Glenelg)
1957 Jim Deane (South)
1967 Don Lindner (North).
Medal winners from the other
grades are:
Reserves Magarey Medal
- Reserves
Jason King North
Adelaide 27 votes
Michael Barker Sturt
22
Robbie Lee West
Adelaide 16
Tompkins Medal - Under
19s
Matthew Krieg Central District
20
Tate Kaesler Sturt
18
Daniel Thomas Eagles
14
McCallum Medal - Under
17's
Dane Rolfe Norwood
26
Chris Hall South
Adelaide 23
Peter Fiacchi Eagles
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