SA Footy

Stratarama Stadium | Saturday 2nd May | 2:10pm.

Soth on the improve like Westies but wont be good enough to beat the Bays

Glenelg by 11 points

Three certainties:

Inclement weather, no stout in the clubrooms, and a Bays win.

I'll go 15 points.

Remi Brown's one match ban upheld on appeal, will miss the South match.

Panthers by 9 pts.
A small forward line might do the trick if the weather forecast is correct.

dedja wrote:Remi Brown's one match ban upheld on appeal, will miss the South match.

Unf#ckingbelievable

GLENELG

League

F Lachlan Hosie, Karl Finlay, Liam McBean

HF Hugh Stagg, Darcy Scott, Matthew Allen

C Hunter Window, Joel Thiele, Archie Lovelock

HB Jonty Scharenberg, William Patton, Patrick Parnell

B Beau Symonds, Rex Jones, Alex Martini

R Cameron McGree, Luke Partington, Corey Lyons

INT Darcy Bailey, Cooper Beecken, Isaac Hyatt, Ned McCarthy, Connor McLeod, Jake Walker, Travis Wilson

IN Cooper Beecken, Isaac Hyatt, Ned McCarthy, Connor McLeod

OUT Remi Brown (Suspended)

NEW Ned McCarthy (Bordertown)

SOUTH

League

F Corey Grocock, Ben Shillabeer, Jack Delean

HF Eamon Wilkinson, Emmanuel Ajang, Riley Baldi

C Isaac Birt, Phoenix Hargrave, Finn Emile-Brennan

HB Max Clifton, Harley Sparks, Will McCarthy

B Arie Schoenmaker, Kyle Marshall, Lachlan Scott

R Olivier Northam, Oliver Davis, Arlo Draper

INT Luke Bogle, Angus Bradley, Charlie Duncan, Sam Foley, Tom Gillett, Phillip Moimoi, Bailey Pilmore

IN Luke Bogle, Angus Bradley, Sam Foley, Phillip Moimoi

OUT Seamus Mitchell (Concussion)

NEW Philip Moimoi (Richmond VFL/Robinvale)

Bays by 22pts.

Have thought about this long and hard.

South by a point.

Kath and Kim, apparently, heading to the bay to have a look at Moimoi in his first game for South.

It was a time of transition and, rightly, new coach Matthew Clarke wasn’t making any grand promises when he previewed the season with Andrew Capel.

“I’d be lying if I said I had a clear picture of how quickly we can be competitive but clearly my aim is to get the team playing a really competitive, hopefully exciting, brand of footy as quickly as possible. Then we’ll see where we stack up in the comp,” he said in The Advertiser Season Preview of a club that had made the previous three premiership deciders, winning two.

“It might take a little while … but we will be trying to be competitive very quickly.”

Wow, very quickly is exactly right. And the Bays have been more than competitive, their 4-0 record emphasising that. And playing an exciting brand of footy.

And they’re stacking up really well, thank you very much. They were ultra impressive in their win against last year’s conqueror Sturt in the Anzac Day grand final rematch and looked better than the 17-point winning margin indicated.

Without Jarryd Lyons, Cole Gerloff, James Bell, Will Chandler, Riley Holder, Luke Reynolds and Brad McCarthy – while Connor McLeod, Nick Stevens and Cooper Beecken were in the reserves – from last year’s grand final side, the new combination, boosted by the return from an injury-hit 2025 season by dashing defender Patrick Parnell, applied huge pressure across the ground.

The Tigers also moved the ball with dash and precision, often ending up with Lachie Hosie who, as usual, stepped up in a pressure game, booting six goals to win back-to-back Bob Quinn Medals. Clarke will know it’s still only a start. But what a start!

We weren’t sure about the Panthers’ start to the season – until the second quarter down at Noarlunga on Sunday.

After trailing by 20 points during a patchy first term, they made a statement they are in the battle for a finals spot with some impressive pace and run and clean ball movement as they banged on seven of the next eight goals to lead by 13 at half-time.

And when the Dogs bounced back to regain the lead in the third quarter the pacy Panthers rammed on four goals in eight minutes to end the quarter, then booted the first two of the last to ensure a crucial win that leaves them with a 2-2 record, the same as third-placed Sturt.

Ollie Davis is a gun in the midfield, where Arlo Draper also impressed, while Harley Sparks, recruited from West Coast WAFL, led the way from the back.

And South had 14 more inside-50s, 12 goalscorers and booted a deadly 19.5. Having won the Mayors’ Cup against the Dogs, South will now be targeting the Carey-Darley Cup the Bays have won for the past five years in succession.

But the Panthers have claimed the Cup 18 times in all to Glenelg’s 15, with one draw.

By Peter Cornwall.

Some really good signs for South last week, they have always troubled the Bays no matter where they have been on the table.

Despite the Bays being in good form, South by 13.

Pathers by 10 points at the half

Geez Bays with 4.9 may rue those points, Panthers alot more accurate with 7.1

South too good today, well deserved 22 point win.

Pseudo wrote:Three certainties:

Inclement weather, no stout in the clubrooms, and a Bays win.

I'll go 15 points.

Well I got 1 out of 3.

there were cans of Guiness in the clubrooms!

dedja wrote:South too good today, well deserved 22 point win.

Indeed. South handled the conditions far better. Well deserved.

I reckon the last time Glenelg lost to a dinkum team other than Sturt, was Central, in the later rounds of 2024.

Never seen so many holding the ball calls as today. The umps were consistent in their application of the rule which was good to see.

Great win for the true believers...
some interesting stats from the game.... South 110 tackles, Free kicks bays 25 , South 15.

I agree the umpiring was very ordinary. The umpires seemed to be completely unaware that some players, duck their heads when they sense they are about to be tackled.

Pseudo wrote:

dedja wrote:South too good today, well deserved 22 point win.

Indeed. South handled the conditions far better. Well deserved.

I reckon the last time Glenelg lost to a dinkum team other than Sturt, was Central, in the later rounds of 2024.

Never seen so many holding the ball calls as today. The umps were consistent in their application of the rule which was good to see.

Agreed


South played much better and deserved the win. Their ability to get deep entries to 20 m out and score was very good. Didnt over finesse the ball.

A good loss provided we learn from this mistakes we made all game.

The club gave. Finn Emile-brennan, Kyle Marshall, Eamon Wilkinson, Harley Sparks, Olivier Northam as our best.

Baldi unlucky.

Gee no love lost between Partington and Lyons. Any history there?

One of the more satisfying trips to the footy in recent years.

Won the territory battle (think it was 48-30 inside 50's at three quarter time) but was still rather anxious heading into the final term given the fade outs of recent seasons and the Bays' ability to score in a hurry. This South team seems to have some hardness (110 tackles) and ticker though.

Thought a few of the 'lesser lights' had important moments, such as Clifton and Birt.

After a patchy 2024, Draper is starting to show the credentials which had him drafted.

Marshall's battle with McBean was great viewing.