RD 17 - Sturt v North Post Match Review

[magpie in the 80's]

Final Score
Sturt 12.14.86
North 8.6.54

Goals
North: Dempsey 4, Stewart 3, Wright 1
Sturt: Cubillo, Rischbieth ea 2, Gum, Plant, Johncock, Vassel, Nelson, Kurtze, Bode, Giles ea 1

Best
North: Armstrong, Ivens, Stewart, Alleway, Thompson.
Sturt: McGone, Hinge, Hassan, Giles, Gum, Rischbieth

QxQ
Sturt...1.4...4.9...6.10..12.14 (86)
North..3.4...5.5....8.5....8.6 (54)

Reports - Sturt: Bode (striking).

Reserves
Sturt 14.10.94
North 9.12.66

U/18's
Sturt 21.12-138
North 10.8-68

Crowd - 2964

[locky801]

The silence is deafening

[bayman]

bye bye daniel healy


so who'll coach north next year ? (forget about contracts)

[purch]

How is Ryswyk faring?

Great attack on the ball and bump from Hinge

[CUTTERMAN]

We hit them physically really hard today and softened them up for the Bays next week. Hopefully we came out of the game with no injuries. We could've easily lost this game through bad kicking (like the WWT game a few weeks ago) but turned it on in the last and got our s--t together. Well done Blues, live another week and still dare to dream.

[The Apostle]

bye bye North Adelaide Football Club

Another South Adelaide...

[FlyingHigh]

:-h bye bye daniel healy


so who'll coach north next year ? (forget about contracts)

Believe Daniel Healy has just received a good promotion with Neutrog (maybe into a national sales role), so he might be "moving on" anyway.

[Barto]

Have Jars back?

[Tassie Blues]

:-h bye bye daniel healy


so who'll coach north next year ? (forget about contracts)

Believe Daniel Healy has just received a good promotion with Neutrog (maybe into a national sales role), so he might be "moving on" anyway.

So work with sh** in his day job and is sh** at his weekend job

[bayman]

the sturt machine has been starting to roll over the last few weeks & i think they'll replace westies & move into the top 5 by the end of the year & 4 other teams will be having a slight look over the shoulder come finals time

[RM]

bye bye North Adelaide Football Club

Another South Adelaide...[/quote]
A Central >edited< would only type this. >edited<

[G]

I can wear the "bye, bye" as we've had about 8 weeks or so to get used to it

BUT

another South Adelaide - give us a spell

[smithy]

I can wear the "bye, bye" as we've had about 8 weeks or so to get used to it

BUT

another South Adelaide - give us a spell

Yep, pretty ordinary comparison.

No team has a history as poor as Souths.

[johntheclaret]

From a radio's perspective:

North missed a couple of easy shorts from turnovers in the 1st qtr.
Lost Ryswyck in the 1st qtr when he was giving plenty of run for North and we didn't recover
Sturt scored 2 goals from our turnovers in the 2nd qtr. North's kicking in is woeful and we gift the opposition at least two goals a week. Difference, Sturt took advantage of their gifts, we didn't.
Poor discipline in the 3rd gave Sturt 2x25 metre penalties resulting in goals, at a time when North had the ascendancy. From that point, the game was lost.
Two more poor turnovers from kicking in and another undisciplined act resulted in 3 more goals to Sturt in the last qtr.
North have been very poor in the 4th qtr, and once Sturt got in front, you could hear the North heads dropping from the UK. North totally lacking confidence. Any sustained pressure and we just seem to give up and stop fighting.

I thought McIntyre and Ivens sounded very good, despite the last qtr rout. Alleway was ok and Dempsey up front who tried all day. North were missing too many talls today with Gill an absentee and Cunningham who has been good a back this year.

Congratulations to Sturt, they keep their season alive whilst North's is over, but I can't help think that North lost that game as much as Sturt won it.

[CUTTERMAN]

Sturts kicking for goal was worse John. At half time we shouldve been infront if we had've kicked straighter

[Ian]

Have Jars back?

No!!

But in saying that, at least when North were getting beaten under Jars it was still usually attractive footy to watch.

[southee]

I can wear the "bye, bye" as we've had about 8 weeks or so to get used to it

BUT

another South Adelaide - give us a spell

Yep, pretty ordinary comparison.

No team has a history as poor as Souths.

With the side North have got compared to South at the moment they have underachieved with it....North have the cattle but cant get it together.

South dont have the cattle.....

[purch]

From a radio's perspective:

North missed a couple of easy shorts from turnovers in the 1st qtr.
Lost Ryswyck in the 1st qtr when he was giving plenty of run for North and we didn't recover
Sturt scored 2 goals from our turnovers in the 2nd qtr. North's kicking in is woeful and we gift the opposition at least two goals a week. Difference, Sturt took advantage of their gifts, we didn't.
Poor discipline in the 3rd gave Sturt 2x25 metre penalties resulting in goals, at a time when North had the ascendancy. From that point, the game was lost.
Two more poor turnovers from kicking in and another undisciplined act resulted in 3 more goals to Sturt in the last qtr.
North have been very poor in the 4th qtr, and once Sturt got in front, you could hear the North heads dropping from the UK. North totally lacking confidence. Any sustained pressure and we just seem to give up and stop fighting.

I thought McIntyre and Ivens sounded very good, despite the last qtr rout. Alleway was ok and Dempsey up front who tried all day. North were missing too many talls today with Gill an absentee and Cunningham who has been good a back this year.

Congratulations to Sturt, they keep their season alive whilst North's is over, but I can't help think that North lost that game as much as Sturt won it.

OK so that's what you gather from the radio. I think most at the game however would say that it was quite free flowing in the first quarter, and pretty evenly matched, with the lead to North probably equivalent (maybe a little less) to what the breeze was worth at quarter time. For some reason North decided to flood from the beginning of the second quarter onwards. Sturt dominated clearances and possession but couldn't kick straight - a crowded forward line didn't help, but the Blues should have led comfortably at half time given their dominance. Instead, North broke the game open on the counter attack on a couple of occasions and led narrowly at half time. Same story in the third, North with the breeze this time, a massive flood, once again scored on the counter attack after long periods of the ball being in Sturt's forward line for little result. Last quarter was a whitewash.

Sturt clearly had most of the ball on the day - and by quite a margin - however a lot of those stats were down to chipping the ball around trying to find a path through the flood, so it wasn't very efficient footy. Patience and persistence paid off in the end...North were out of gas by the time the final qtr started. However, Sturt definitely won it, rather than "North losing it", though I do see your point re discipline and unforced errors. There were also other forced errors from North that resulted in Sturt goals. In retrospect it is hard to see how North could ever win that game with that game plan - it kind of worked for 2 quarters but you always had the sense that something was going to give, and it did.

[Jimmy]

hiring daniel healy was a mistake...he must of fooled them in the interview by just wearing his dogs jumper

[therisingblues]

Yes Purch, The Claret has made a bit of a discussion point there.
As a radio listener rooting for the other side I fully understand the sentiment "North lost it". From my perspective, listening in, the game seemed to have "another one of those days" stamped all over it. The commentators were often confused over the umpiring, both ways, but very often it screwed us at crucial times, our discipline robbed us of a more than a couple of opportunities and then the timing of the injury to MacIntyre was commented to have deprived us of a forward target after yet another forward foray went astray. It sounded as though if we weren't screwing ourselves with our bad kicking and wrong options when going forward then other forces were going to screw it when we got it sort of half right.
In short it was looking like yet another follow up to an impressive win where nothing was going to go right. Goals were scarce, and although North failed to capitalize on most of their good work in the first quarter, it was shaping up like we were going to convert even fewer goals from perhaps more wasted oportunities.
Then suddenly we get gifted two goals because of bad discipline in short time.
We continued to waste chances and North scored another goal to break up the momentum after that, but it surely must have been a heavy thump in the wrong side of the Rooster sails. Entering the final quarter I had this thing called hope real close by, usually the three quarter time script of a losing game has that hope concept jammed up some fat lady's clacker as she starts warming the vocal chords. The perception for me listening on the radio was that we stood a very good chance, but how far those two acts of ill discipline contributed to that situation is debatable.It could have been that we would have converted at least one of those goals regardless, because we were certainly making enough opportunities.
The final quarter romp was pure bliss. But how much of that could be contributed to a lift in spirit and would it have occurred had the Roosters not commited the acts of ill discipline?
It is not often I'll give much of an opinion on a game being a mere "radio listener" and therefore relying on other people's interpretations from the outset, but I ahve just drunk a bottle of "Cotes de Provence" Rose, and it went down like lolly water and gives a good buzz. Very happy to have won two in a row for the first time this year.