RD 4 Glenelg v West Review

[magpie in the 80's]

Glenelg 12.15
West 12.11

Glenelg
Goal Kickers: M. DULDIG 4, J. WILLOUGHBY, L. BLOCK, M. RUWOLDT, R. O''GRADY, J. SELLAR, T. HOLMES, R. KIRKBY, B. KANE

West Adelaide
Goal Kickers: R. FERGUSON (c) 3, J. DAVENPORT 2, F. CARUSO 2, R. WILLITS, B. FISHER, J. EZARD, D. Cupido, J. BEECH

[Dog_ger]

mmmmm

How good West...?

[Dog_ger]

Cant buy 2 premiership points at the moment....

Any price..?

[MatteeG]

mmmmm

How good West...?

To push the bays to 4 points at home, cant be too bad...

Westies had a golden period during the second quarter by the sounds of it- 8 goals in a row or something? Looking forward to reports from the boys who attended.

With a couple of outs for both teams, how did the new players perform?

[FlyingHigh]

West must be looking forward to playing the Maggies

[Mic]

Disappointing from the Bloods, had a good chance to win this one.

[Mark_Beswick]

Had enough - No more away games for me and my family.
Will now remove my kids name from AUSKICK and enroll in soccer.
The SANFL obviously wants our umpiring standard to match the AFL - Only home games for me and the five kids I take from now on.
This is three WAFC games (SA, EA and Today) where we have been murdered with frees against in our backlines 30m from goal. I dont watch AFL anymore and if the SANFL thinks our umpires dont stop people going to watch games, then the attendances will be 5 less per away game from our family.

Well done to Glenelg - a spirited come-back non-the-less

[Adelaide Hawk]

Had enough - No more away games for me and my family.
Will now remove my kids name from AUSKICK and enroll in soccer.
The SANFL obviously wants our umpiring standard to match the AFL - Only home games for me and the five kids I take from now on.
This is three WAFC games (SA, EA and Today) where we have been murdered with frees against in our backlines 30m from goal. I dont watch AFL anymore and if the SANFL thinks our umpires dont stop people going to watch games, then the attendances will be 5 less per away game from our family.

Well done to Glenelg - a spirited come-back non-the-less

Yep, I've been that way for a couple of seasons now. I rarely go to an away match, and also rarely watch AFL . God only knows what AFL is, but it isn't football, that's for sure. Bad luck for Westies today, maybe you can break your duck against us next week ... it's a distinct possibility.

[LBT]

[Mark_Beswick]

Where can I get one of those cards

[Adelaide Hawk]

Where can I get one of those cards

The card may be free, but you have to spend about $50 on the game to get one

[stampy]

bloody lbt u stole my thunder, was gonna say that i actually played monopoly last night and had one of those cards left at the end, and am sure my club used it today. Definitely stole the points today rubbers and co cant be happy with what we dished up after the 20 minute mark of the first quarter until well into the third, andy collins must be devastated with the result. it was nice to meet thiele and first blood after the match, great to meet you guys

[Pseudo]

Got Out Of Gaol (sic) indeed.

I'd love to applaud Westies but really they were ordinary. The best one could say about their game today would be that their effort was top-notch, and it was only bad luck which saw them unrewarded with the points.

Glenelg, from 5 minutes before the end of the first term to ten minutes before the end of the third, played about as badly as a league level SANFL team can play. I hope that Rubbers treats that game as a loss and puts 'em through the wringer this week. Judging solely by this weekend's performances, the GF rematch next week will be a fizzer. Pull your collective fingers out Bays and prove me wrong.

[Dog_ger]

Bottom Line.

M_B

Be First To The Ball

[am Bays]

Bottom Line.

M_B

Be First To The Ball

And the winning goal (free kick to Kirkby) was paid becasue he was first to the footy, didn't contol it fully and the Westies bloke was still hanging on as Ruory tried to regain it...

Open and shut case definate free.

[redandblack]

The footy gods don't like bottom teams.

West lost because they don't quite know how to win and because they can't kick a goal from 25 metres out, straight in front.

Glenelg had Ty Allen, Ben Kane and Panozzo to thank for staying in the game and can thank Duldig's second half. After dominating with the breeze for the first 20 minutes, the Bays were out of the game until the third quarter. West clicked and used the ball impressively to kick 7 goals in the second quarter, with some great play from Caruso and Davenport in paerticular.

The other problem with being a bottom team is that you get no credit for good footy. Opposition supporters, such as my friend Pseudo, immediately put it down to poor play from their own team, with never any credit to the Bloods good play. In the second quarter, they ran and carried impressively for their best quarter for some time.

Easy misses in the third quarter kept the Bays in the game and their superior experience and knowing how to win got them the points. Good teams don't lose from the position that West were in, but at this stage, West aren't a good team. Yet.

The footy gods don't like bottom teams and the umpires certainly don't. As the RPH call underlined, 5 of Glenelg's 12 goals came from free kicks, most by the same umpire who seemed to camp in Glenelg's forward line all day. Needless to say, the winning goal came from a free kick. At the other end, 'open and shut cases' were generally called 'play on', as West scored 0 goals from free kicks. Put one win down to the Snouts.

Regardless of that, the Bloods had only themselves to blame for the loss. Poor kicking and decision-making at vital times were crucial and Glenelg were kept in with a sniff when West should have closed it out. They were good enough to lift and deserved the win.

As for West, plenty of good signs. Ferguson up forward kicked 3 goals and gave a contest all day, Caruso was brilliant at times and was B.O.G at the club, Moran was terrific in the ruck and around the ground and Davenport showed why he was drafted by Port. Ben Fisher was also strong at half-back.

Oh well, the lot of a Blood's supporter continues, but apart from the Sturt game, the improvement has been immense.

In some good news for the Bloods, Sal Hassan made a successful comeback in the winning Reserves side and Daniel Webb was also excellent in his first match back from injury.

[MAY-Z]

The footy gods don't like bottom teams.

West lost because they don't quite know how to win and because they can't kick a goal from 25 metres out, straight in front.

Glenelg had Ty Allen, Ben Kane and Panozzo to thank for staying in the game and can thank Duldig's second half. After dominating with the breeze for the first 20 minutes, the Bays were out of the game until the third quarter. West clicked and used the ball impressively to kick 7 goals in the second quarter, with some great play from Caruso and Davenport in paerticular.

The other problem with being a bottom team is that you get no credit for good footy. Opposition supporters, such as my friend Pseudo, immediately put it down to poor play from their own team, with never any credit to the Bloods good play. In the second quarter, they ran and carried impressively for their best quarter for some time.

Easy misses in the third quarter kept the Bays in the game and their superior experience and knowing how to win got them the points. Good teams don't lose from the position that West were in, but at this stage, West aren't a good team. Yet.

The footy gods don't like bottom teams and the umpires certainly don't. As the RPH call underlined, 5 of Glenelg's 12 goals came from free kicks, most by the same umpire who seemed to camp in Glenelg's forward line all day. Needless to say, the winning goal came from a free kick. At the other end, 'open and shut cases' were generally called 'play on', as West scored 0 goals from free kicks. Put one win down to the Snouts.

Regardless of that, the Bloods had only themselves to blame for the loss. Poor kicking and decision-making at vital times were crucial and Glenelg were kept in with a sniff when West should have closed it out. They were good enough to lift and deserved the win.

As for West, plenty of good signs. Ferguson up forward kicked 3 goals and gave a contest all day, Caruso was brilliant at times and was B.O.G at the club, Moran was terrific in the ruck and around the ground and Davenport showed why he was drafted by Port. Ben Fisher was also strong at half-back.

Oh well, the lot of a Blood's supporter continues, but apart from the Sturt game, the improvement has been immense.

In some good news for the Bloods, Sal Hassan made a successful comeback in the winning Reserves side and Daniel Webb was also excellent in his first match back from injury.

there are so many holes in this post i dont know where to start

1- west werent the only team who missed easy goals - glenelg also missed their fair share with c.kane, mcconnell, o'grady and duldig also missing easy enough shots

2- should throw meyer into the good glenelg players for four quarters

3- the breeze was going to the southern end most of the day and when it wasnt it was going accross the ground

4- of wests so called impressive play for 7 goals at least 4 of them came direct from a glenelg player kicking straight to a west player in the defensive 50 - that isnt good play by west it is rubbish by glenelg

5- i dont hav ethe stats for how many goals were from frees but i cant think of any that were unwarranted, and obviously the mauling that kirkby was receiving all day without reward from the umpires has escaped your notice.

6- free kicks were 25-22 which is very even

7- west were very inefficient in their play with their 324 possesions only yielding 35 inside 50s, excessive handball for most of the day, glenelg had 332 possessions for 54 inside 50s

8- agree that caruso and moran were very good - a lot of davenports possessions were part of west junk play early in the game and he only had 1 kick in the 2nd half

[am Bays]

Yes you played well R&B but don't have a dig at Psuedo for when he quite correctly said we played poorly. We gifted West the corridor in the second quarter our chasing and harrassing was non existant in our forward fifty and our zone had bigger gaps than Sydney Heads.

After getting four goals up we made the cardinal sin of letting you blokes get back into it. It was like half our side went over to Byron Murphys sponsor - The Holdy - at the 20 min mark of the 1st quarter to put on a few bets and have a few beers then the decided to come back again at the 20 min mark of teh 3rd quarter to finish off the job...

We take our foot off the gas like that next week we will get creamed.

however back to Westies, i thought you were pretty good and I can see definate improvement compared to flooding style I saw last year.

[am Bays]

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4- of wests so called impressive play for 7 goals at least 4 of them came direct from a glenelg player kicking straight to a west player in the defensive 50 - that isnt good play by west it is rubbish by glenelg

especially when on at least three of those four occasions Glenelg players either refused to honour the first give to a running option and turned back into the corridor - dumb f***ing footy.

[Pseudo]

The other problem with being a bottom team is that you get no credit for good footy. Opposition supporters, such as my friend Pseudo, immediately put it down to poor play from their own team, with never any credit to the Bloods good play. In the second quarter, they ran and carried impressively for their best quarter for some time.

No, your friend Pseudo didn't give the Bloods credit for good footy because they were ordinary, pure and simple. Their intensity and workrate was top notch but they still don't quite have the skills. Nevertheless continue to view the match with one eye closed; I would expect no less.