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The following information is provided by Phillip Monk [moustrap@camtech.net.au], and is updated here after the weekends games. All credit for this information goes to Phillip and is being used with permission.
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| EAGLES | 2.1 | 5.1 | 9.2 | 11.6 72 |
| West | 5.2 | 7.4 | 7.6 | 9.11 65 |
| PORT | 3.3 | 6.7 | 10.9 | 12.10 82 |
| North | 1.1 | 3.5 | 6.8 | 7.8 50 |
| STURT | 3.5 | 7.12 | 8.14 | 13.21 99 |
| Central | 2.2 | 3.3 | 7.7 | 8.10 58 |
| GLENELG | 5.2 | 11.7 | 20.11 | 21.14 140 |
| South | 2.1 | 5.4 | 6.6 | 9.9 63 |
Reports
Friday night produced another
thrilling contest as the Eagles came from behind to toss West
by seven points at Adelaide Oval.
The Bloods started superbly and led by as much as 25 points early
in the second quarter. West ruckman Mark Stewart gave his little
men plenty of touches (ooh!). Tim Symes and Dion Myles were in
control across half-forward and they had a strong target in burly
forward Adam Richardson. However by half time the Eags were back
in the contest due to the brilliant on-ball work of Gavin Colville,
who had 15 touches for the half.
The Woodville-West Torrensers came out fired up after half-time
and improved performances from Biglands in ruck and continued
brilliance from Colville enabled them to give their forwards
every opportunity, and they led by eight points at "lemon
time".
The last quarter was tight and tense as the Bloods mananged to
tie the scores away twice, including in time-on in the last quarter,
but the fitter Eagles finished the stronger to record a meritorious
win. Colville ended up with 38 possessions to clearly win BOG.
Cicolella, Pearce and Whelan all worked hard for the Blue, Green
and Golds. Pavlich, Ugrinic and Holland all kicked two for the
winners. For West, it was a much improved effort over last week,
but again they struggled when their avenues to goal (Symes and
Richardson) were held. Mark Stewart was the best big man on the
night with 25 disposals and ten taps. Matt Bruhn (27 possessions)
and Robert DiRosa (22 possessions) weren't bad. Richardson (three
goals), Symes and Myles (two goals each) again did the bulk of
the Blood scoring. Westies need Greg Mellor back on a flank to
give them a bit more bite around goals.
Port Adelaide surprised no-one
by doing just enough to account for lowly North at Prospect.
However, this was enough to give them top spot over the Redlegs
who had the bye. Port led comfortably all day without looking
likely to tear the game apart.
Aaron Fiora may have collected six Magarey medal votes after
his first two games after another outstanding effort. 24 touches
and two goals from a wing was a handy day's work. Makes you wonder
why he couldn't get a game until two weeks ago. Paul Evans had
another solid performance for the Magpies up forward, slotting
4.3. Poulton (who surely shampoos with Coca-Cola) and Fiegert
were great again down back for Ports and ensured that the Rooster
forward line was an excitement-free zone most of the day. Pech
kicked three for the men in Red and White while coach McDermott
was pleased with the efforts of kids Swann, Byerlee and Nichol.
Port coach Steven Williams was slighty annoyed that "We
had everything to play for compared to them - their season is
going to be over in four weeks while we've got the finals to
look forward to, which you'd think should be enough to get our
guys up." Don't worry Steven, you'll have a whole bunch
of Crows and Power players free to take their places soon.
Sturt killed off Central's finals
challenge with a convincing 41-point win over the Dogs at the
Ponderosa. The Double Blues were far to tough and skillful in
the first half and they skipped out to a 33-point half time lead
that should have been a lot more but for poor kicking.
With their season on the line, the Doggies came out after the
long interval determined to not go down without a yelp. Led by
Captain Danny Hulm and ruck Damien Arnold they threw themselves
at the ball and their opponents and kicked the last three goals
of the third term to get the home crowd roaring and cut the margin
to 13 points. However the superior class of Sturt eventually
told as they kicked away again in the last quarter, thanks in
part to the high number of turnovers committed by the Dogs.
Burton kicked 4.4 and White 2.3 for the Blues, and could have
put the game out of Centrals reach with straighter kicking. Apart
from them, the encouraging thing for coach Carman was Sturt's
even spread of talent all over the ground. Brodie Atkinson, Damian
Squire, Andrew Geddes, Tim Weatherald, Seamus Maloney and Matthew
Powell all got leather poisoning at various stages of the game
with the exception of the third quarter. Arnold was best again
for Centrals, with seven disposals, 18 taps and a goal. The Hicks
boys were also good in defence after half-time. A disappointed
Peter Jonas said of his Central team "Sturt should have
buried us in the second quarter and we picked up our work rate
but when crunch time came we weren't good enough." Roll
on 2000.
Glenelg made a mockery of the
media's billing of their visit to Noarlunga as a "danger
game", winning by 77 points after switching off with 10
minutes to go.
South had no answer for the patented Glenelg Line-Busting (TM)
system. The Panthers' height advantage was cancelled by the Tigers'
greater willingness to run and create space, while the Glenelg
forwards in Cornes (six goals), Scripps (five) and McEntee (four)
appreciated leading into the wide-open spaces of Noarlunga.
Higgins (31 disposals), Carr (30) and Chigwidden (28) were the
stats stars for Glenelg. Ian Perrie was South's best, kicking
two goals and filling in the gaps in their defence whenever he
could. Clint Draper looked the goods, kicking four goals for
the Panthers. Glenelg's injured list continues to grow with Simon
Hele straining his shoulder ligaments while half-back Martin
Mellody re-did his hammy. South coach Ken Applegarth paid his
opponents the ultimate compliment by saying: "They beat
us at the hard-ball gets, they ran harder, they worked harder
off the ball. They did everything like a team I'd love to be
coaching." Not this year Ken.
| Played | Won | Lost | Drawn | For | Against | Percentage | Points | |
| PORT | 16 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1338 | 1099 | 54.90 | 24 |
| NORWOOD | 15 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1342 | 1117 | 54.58 | 22 |
| EAGLES | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 1270 | 1113 | 53.29 | 20 |
| GLENELG | 16 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1263 | 1111 | 53.20 | 20 |
| STURT | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1404 | 1193 | 54.06 | 18 |
| West | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1442 | 1268 | 53.21 | 16 |
| Central | 16 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 1252 | 1356 | 48.01 | 14 |
| South | 16 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 1176 | 1542 | 43.27 | 4 |
| North | 16 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 991 | 1679 | 37.12 | 4 |
| J Burton | Sturt | 58 |
| A Richardson | West | 47 |
| G Mellor | West | 38 |
| D Hams | South | 36 |
| M Pavlich | Eagles | 34 |
| R Neill (not the Bob Neil) | Norwood | 34 |
Next Week - Round 19
Saturday 7 August
Port v South (Alberton Oval)
Eagles v Glenelg (Woodville Oval)
West v Norwood (Richmond Oval)
Sunday 8 August
North v Sturt (Adelaide Oval)
Central - Bye
The official SANFL web site is located at: http://www.sanfl.com.au/
Author: Phillip Monk Email: [moustrap@camtech.net.au]
Curator: Darryl
Harvey
email: {darryl@myinternet.com.au}
Last Updated: 4 August 1999
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