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Norwood has kept themselves within an arm's length of Centrals....

League is fully updated. Still awaiting info for two reserves game and this morning's U/18 game but will have that by the evening.

according to last weeks u18s roundup on the abc yesterday, south are winless, who is right?

stampy wrote:according to last weeks u18s roundup on the abc yesterday, south are winless, who is right?

South Adel U18s won their first match yesterday, beating North Adelaide @ Noarlunga.
SAFC ... 9.13 67
NAFC ... 8.14 62

Scores from the Reserves at Norwood today:

Nwd 10-12 72
CD 8-8 56

today's u18s

Port 10.10.70
Eagles 9.8.62

considering that Port had 6 overage players and Eagles had 5 players who are not 16, to go down by 8 points to the top team who hasn't lose is a good effort. The coach was happy with the effort and not as happy with the result.

All 3 Eagles sides are 6 and 4.

Some interesting things in the ladder again this week:

Bottom four almost playing four of top 5 (Eagles have the bye). South v Port, Sturt v Norwood, West v Central and North v Glenelg. If Port, Sturt, West and North win, the ladder will look ridiculous. The even-ness of the comp is also dramatically illustrated in the qtotal uarters won/lost column with most teams almost at 50/50!

Centrals have been in front for a total of 86% of game time. I think that was the case today with Norwood kicking the first goal of the day and then the last goal of the day at the start of time on.

Central have still only won 4 third quarters and 3 last quarters all year. Before today it was 3-3, and today they only won the 3rd quarter by a point. Are they (typically) comprehensively dominating the first half of games and then hanging on/struggling through the second half of games? I know they have a lengthy injury list - have they suffered these at periods of the game where they have had to run out the second half of games with a reduced bench?

Lastly, Port has the LOWEST losing margin in the comp at an average of 20.8 points, yet sit bottom of the ladder.

Keep up the good work Scott!

Ta

Have updated the other grades now.

Is this Norwood's first streak of six wins since 2002?

regards,

REB

Dogs are losing third and fourth quarters mostly because the games are already shot to pieces and they just end up going through the motions.