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Adelaide vs West Coast

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Round: 19   Venue: Adelaide Oval   Date: Sat, 02-08-2014 1:10 pm   Crowd: 49,470  
Adelaide 6.0.369.2.5615.7.9716.9.105 C:  Brenton Sanderson
West Coast 5.5.3510.8.6814.11.9520.16.136 C:  Adam Simpson
  ADEL by 1WCE by 12ADEL by 2WCE by 31  
Weather
min temp  2.3°C      max temp  14.0°C
rainfall  2.4mm    humidity  46%    air pressure  1031.6mb
wind speed 7km/h      wind direction  NNW
Brownlow Medal 3 Andrew Gaff (WCE)2 Josh Kennedy (WCE)1 Matt Priddis (WCE)

Match Report


Adelaide had everything to play for in its match against West Coast at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday but that did not appear to be motivation enough as the Crows succumbed by 31 points to the Eagles to slip out of the top eight only a week after entering it for the first time in more than a year. Playing against the 11-placed West Coast, the Crows started the match at a blistering pace and had four goals on the board before the Eagles even looked like scoring. But that early dominance disappeared within the blink of an eye as West Coast then took complete control to have the next nine scoring shots, kicking 4.5 to take a five-point lead. The Crows kicked two of the next three goals to lead by a point at quarter time but did not really dominate any further stages of the match.

The match remained a free-flowing affair over the new two quarters, West Coast kicking five goals to three in the second term to lead by 10 points at the long break, and the Crows hitting back with six goals to four in the third quarter to take a two-point advantage into the last change of ends.

With a place in the top eight on the line, the expectation was that the Crows would seize control in the final quarter but it was the opposite which occurred. Adelaide managed only a single goal for the term, at the 22-minute mark when the game had been sewn up by West Coast. The Eagles ran out that match impressively. kicking six goals of their own to run out 31-point winners, knock Adelaide back out of the eight, and keep their own very slim finals chances alive.

Best on ground was the Eagles' Andrew Gaff, who had 31 touches and kicked three goals, while Sam Jacobs in his 100th AFL match had 42 hitouts and 17 possessions to be the best for Adelaide.

The Eagles need to keep winning to stay alive and will take on Collingwood at home next Sunday afternoon. The Crows, now a game outside of the eight, will travel to the Gabba to take on Brisbane on the same day.

GOALS
Adelaide: Walker 4; Jenkins, Betts 3; Crouch 2; Sloane, Dangerfield, Martin, Wright
West Coast: Kennedy 5; Gaff, Darling 3; Cripps, Ellis 2; Mackenzie, Hutchings, Hurn, Lycett, LeCras

BEST - THE SUNDAY AGE
West Coast: Gaff, Kennedy, Shuey, Priddis, Naitanui, Hurn
Adelaide: Jacobs, B. Crouch, Jaensch, Sloane, Thompson, Douglas.

BEST - AFL.COM.AU
Adelaide: Jacobs, Crouch, Walker, Jaensch, Sloane, Thompson
West Coast: Gaff, Priddis, Hurn, Mackenzie, Kennedy, McGovern

INJURIES
Adelaide: Talia (concussion)
West Coast: Nil

SUBSTITUTES
Adelaide: Daniel Talia replaced by Mitch Grigg at half time
West Coast: Xavier Ellis replaced by Dominic Sheed at three-quarter time

UMPIRES: Mitchell, Fleer, McInerney

TELEVISION BROADCAST: Fox Footy

Source

Match Report by Andrew Gigacz

Footnotes

Video sourced from YouTube, courtesy of AFL Media.

Match stats

Adelaide Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
18 Betts, Eddie 10 1 4 14 3 0 0 6 1 0 27y 249d 202 329
16 Brown, Luke 4 1 6 10 0 0 0 1 1 0 21y 314d 42 2
2 Crouch, Brad 10 1 20 30 2 0 0 5 1 0 20y 200d 21 8
32 Dangerfield, Patrick 10 2 16 26 1 0 1 2 1 0 24y 119d 127 140
26 Douglas, Richard 13 3 8 21 0 1 0 6 1 0 27y 177d 151 106
38 Grigg, Mitchell 5 0 4 9 0 0 0 1 0 0 21y 212d 12 11
45 Henderson, Ricky 14 6 3 17 0 1 0 1 1 1 25y 325d 60 39
24 Jacobs, Sam 10 4 7 17 0 0 42 3 1 1 26y 114d 100 22
10 Jaensch, Matthew 15 6 12 27 0 0 0 2 0 0 24y 318d 63 24
4 Jenkins, Josh 5 2 3 8 3 0 1 4 1 1 25y 175d 44 72
29 Laird, Rory 5 3 9 14 0 1 0 0 0 0 20y 216d 33 3
14 Mackay, David 3 1 13 16 0 0 0 5 0 2 26y 8d 121 39
36 Martin, Brodie 14 6 4 18 1 2 0 4 1 1 25y 269d 31 9
22 Otten, Andy 6 3 7 13 0 0 0 1 0 1 25y 79d 78 18
1 Podsiadly, James 4 4 8 12 0 0 0 0 0 2 32y 326d 101 192
9 Sloane, Rory 11 2 15 26 1 1 1 7 3 0 24y 138d 96 57
33 Smith, Brodie 9 4 14 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 22y 200d 72 20
12 Talia, Daniel 1 1 3 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 22y 304d 72 4
6 Thompson, Luke 3 3 5 8 0 0 0 2 0 1 23y 175d 17 2
5 Thompson, Scott 16 3 15 31 0 0 0 4 1 3 31y 141d 262 150
13 Walker, Taylor 10 3 4 14 4 1 0 4 0 4 24y 99d 80 184
11 Wright, Matthew 9 5 7 16 1 1 0 8 0 0 24y 231d 75 55
  Rushed   1  
  Totals 187 64 187 374 16 9 45 67 13 17 25y 0d 1860 1486
West Coast Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
44 Bennell, Jamie 7 2 7 14 0 0 0 1 0 1 24y 56d 72 24
1 Brown, Mitchell 4 4 8 12 0 0 0 2 0 2 25y 228d 86 12
26 Butler, Sam 14 6 7 21 0 0 0 2 0 1 28y 200d 116 13
15 Cripps, Jamie 10 4 5 15 2 1 0 3 0 0 22y 101d 46 49
27 Darling, Jack 10 5 1 11 3 1 0 2 2 0 22y 50d 86 148
18 Ellis, Xavier 8 0 5 13 2 1 0 3 0 1 26y 155d 102 35
3 Gaff, Andrew 21 5 10 31 3 0 0 2 0 0 22y 47d 81 30
33 Hill, Josh 9 2 2 11 0 1 0 4 1 0 25y 195d 113 142
25 Hurn, Shannon 15 5 6 21 1 0 0 2 0 0 26y 332d 148 43
34 Hutchings, Mark 6 3 11 17 1 0 0 10 1 0 23y 69d 22 9
17 Kennedy, Josh 12 11 5 17 5 4 0 3 1 0 26y 342d 136 270
2 LeCras, Mark 9 4 5 14 1 0 0 3 0 0 27y 337d 128 286
29 Lycett, Scott 4 1 6 10 1 0 17 6 2 1 21y 310d 18 11
16 Mackenzie, Eric 10 9 4 14 1 0 0 3 3 0 26y 75d 117 6
7 Masten, Chris 9 2 14 23 0 1 0 5 1 2 25y 92d 114 51
35 McGinnity, Patrick 5 1 9 14 0 0 0 5 0 2 25y 165d 77 18
42 McGovern, Jeremy 14 6 10 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 22y 109d 9 13
9 Naitanui, Nic 5 2 11 16 0 2 27 5 3 1 24y 90d 105 66
11 Priddis, Matt 9 0 22 31 0 0 0 7 1 0 29y 134d 169 55
31 Schofield, Will 5 0 4 9 0 0 0 4 1 1 25y 190d 107 19
4 Sheed, Dom 4 1 4 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 19y 114d 7 1
13 Shuey, Luke 11 3 20 31 0 1 0 1 1 1 24y 61d 82 71
  Rushed   2  
  Totals 201 76 176 377 20 16 44 73 17 13 24y 289d 1941 1372

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.