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Sturt v Central District | Wigan Oval | Saturday 2:30pm

STURT

League

F: Hone, Rentsch, Burrows

HF: Slimming, Grivell, Mathews

C: Shute, Wilson, Frederick

HB: Page, McFadyen, Voss

B: Puncher, Edmonds, Coomblas

R: Fahey-Sparks, T. Lewis, Battersby

INT: Doyle, Dakin, Richards, Carey, Breuer, Walter, Thiele

IN: Doyle, Shute, Walter, Breuer

OUT: Parker (concussion protocols)

MILESTONE: Joel Thiele (50 games)

NEW: Ned Walter (Mount Lofty)

Reserves
Fidge, Giacometti, Crane, Holt, Taylor, Kittel, Jefferies, J. Lewis, Reschke, Tabe, Hein, Fryer, Howard, Molan, Allan, Bedford, Dwyer, Carruthers, Sadler, Becker, Anderson, McLeod

CENTRAL

League

F: Grace, Munn, Lange

HF: Schiller, Pearce, Grant

C: Larkins, Hoskin, Shaw

HB: Barreau, Buechner, J. McLennan

B: Little, Kendall, Iles

R: McCormack, Chisholm, Liddy

INT: Carpenter, East, A. Lochowiak, Nietschke, Presbury, Pickering, Whitelum

IN: Carpenter, A. Lochowiak, Presbury, McCormack

OUT: M. Lochowiak (knee)

NEW: Anzac Lochowiak (Sturt)

Reserves
Rhys Cannizzaro, Fletcher Carroll, Lewis Cowham, Adam Deakin, Isaiah Dudley, Luke Habel, Jayden Hall, Blake Launer, Shay Linke, Jacob Lochowiak, Isaac McGrath, Louie McLennan, Christopher Olsson, Finn Reed, Tyson Richard, Wyatt Ryan, Ethan Schwerdt, Will Splann, Beau Thomas, Jordan Tippins, Dylan Weaver.

Both coming off wins. Sturts third home game already.

Centrals much improved (last 2 weeks been very good) but Sturt have been dominant in all 3 games thus far.

Sturt by 4 goals.

Sturt should win, hoping for a competitive effort from the Dogs. Would love to still be in it at 3/4 time.

Sturt by 4 goals.


Marty Mattner at Sturt reminds me of Ross Lyon at St Kilda.

It just works.

I'm expecting a comfortable victory for the home side .....

I am feeling good about the game plan this season, but Unleys dimensions will add an extra variable.

With Pres and Billy back, the lineup is pretty close to the best we can put on the park.

A big test for both sides. Sturt have had big wins, but two have been over cellar-dwellers Norwood and Port. Central have had two wonderful results but can our form carry over for a third week, on an oval that doesn't suit us? With Billy back, we will certainly not be short of tall options up forward (Munn, Lange, Grace, Pearce and possibly Billy in rotations). This makes us a vastly different side from others we have gone to Unley with. Important for Pearce to grab a couple early and kick straight...very much a confidence player. Really pleased to have Elvis play his first game for the year. We are a chance, particularly if we dent Sturt's confidence with a strong start...they haven't been under scoreboard pressure this season yet. That being said, I still think Sturt may be too strong, but if we are in the game at lemons, watch out.

Strut by 27pts.

Sturt are the best side in the comp IMO, should win by 4-5 goals

phantom57 wrote:I'm expecting a comfortable victory for the home side .....

strut must be going well

'Dogs in a close one.

Good 1st half by the Dogs it seems, they are barking in 23

Great start by the Dogs.. and then absorbed what the Blues threw at them in the second qtr. Sturt admittedly have burnt a few goal scoring opps so it should pretty well be even scores in view of that. Expecting Sturt to get out of 2nd gear from here and assert themselves but regardless of the outcome the progress we are making on display.

Dogs a tad unlucky not to pinch that IMO

Gutsy effort by the Dogs but FFS wear your home guernsey against Sturt or get a clash top that actually clashes.
Football Manager not too bright?

Jim05 wrote:Dogs a tad unlucky not to pinch that IMO

Sturt had the lion's share of the play in the final term. I rather think Central would've been lucky if they had pinched it.

Loved the retro dogs guernsey. Was there a reason it was worn today?

Congratulations to Sturt on the win. Great effort by our boys. We still need to learn how to play small grounds though.

Pseudo wrote:

Jim05 wrote:Dogs a tad unlucky not to pinch that IMO

Sturt had the lion's share of the play in the final term. I rather think Central would've been lucky if they had pinched it.

Loved the retro dogs guernsey. Was there a reason it was worn today?

Our away strip all year, Pseudo. We probably shouldn't use it against Sturt though

Amazing series of results today.
Sturt won the league by 3 points.
Central won the Ressies by 2 points.
Sturt won the U18 by 3 points.
Central won the U16 by 42 points after losing to Sturt by 80 points last week.

Great game.
ST 9-9
CD 9-6

I had thought pre game that on the sMALl ground that ST would be too strong and win by a few goals.
Therefore CD effort was very good.
ST effort to give CD few goals start and still win was also very good.

Either team did not deserve to lose with the efforts put in.