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Round: 23 Venue: Adelaide Oval Date: Sun, 31-08-2014 2:50 pm Crowd: 44,969 | |||||
Adelaide | 4.2.26 | 11.5.71 | 15.5.95 | 22.9.141 | C: Brenton Sanderson |
St. Kilda | 2.2.14 | 3.3.21 | 8.7.55 | 9.8.62 | C: Alan Richardson |
ADEL by 12 | ADEL by 50 | ADEL by 40 | ADEL by 79 |
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Brownlow Medal | 3 Rory Sloane (ADEL) | 2 Eddie Betts (ADEL) | 1 Jack Steven (STK) |
The Adelaide Crows came into round 23 with high hopes of sneaking into the finals on the back of a big win against St Kilda on Sunday but by the time this match commenced that hope had evaporated after a thrilling win by Richmond over Sydney the previous day saw the Tigers take the last available place in the top eight. Nevertheless, the Crows did record a big win, defeating the Saints 79 points to finish the season on a high and send off the retiring Ben Rutten in style.
St Kilda opened the match the stronger of the two teams, with two of the first three goals but Adelaide had settled in and taken control of the match by quarter time, at which point it led 4.2 to 2.2. The Crows "sealed the deal" with a big second quarter, adding seven goals to just one from the Saints, and took a 50-point lead into the long break.
The Saints played their best footy of the day in the third quarter, kicking 5.4 to Adelaide's 4.0 and at three-quarter time were within 40 points. But Adelaide powered away in the last term, replicating the second quarter by again kicking seven goals to one and running out winners by more than 13 goals.
Best for the Crows included Rory Sloane (30 disposals, nine marks), Brodie Smith (34 possessions and five marks) and Sam Jacobs (49 hitouts, 14 disposals), while St Kilda was well served by Sam Fisher (28 disposals, eight marks), Jack Steven (30 touches and four marks) and Lenny Hayes who, in his 297th and last AFL match had 21 disposals and laid 13 tackles, taking his career total to 1496, the highest of any player in AFL history.
The Crows finish the season in 10th position, one game out of the eight, while St Kilda's season of just four wins saw it take out its first wooden spoon since 2000.
GOALS
Adelaide: Betts 5; Sloane, Walker 3; Lyons, Kerridge 2; Podsiadly, Mackay, Douglas, M Crouch, Smith, Dangerfield, Rutten
St Kilda: Armitage 2; White, Ray, Schneider, Murdoch, Stanley, Jones, Montagna
BEST - THE AGE
Adelaide:
Smith, Sloane, Jaensch, Reilly, Betts, Jacobs
St Kilda: Steven, Fisher, Hayes, Weller
INJURIES
Adelaide: Nil
St Kilda: Nil
Video sourced from YouTube, courtesy of AFL Media.
Adelaide | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
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# | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
18 | Betts, Eddie | 11 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 27y 278d | 206 | 341 |
16 | Brown, Luke | 9 | 4 | 9 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 21y 343d | 46 | 2 |
2 | Crouch, Brad | 10 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 20y 229d | 25 | 9 |
44 | Crouch, Matt | 4 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 19y 132d | 8 | 3 |
32 | Dangerfield, Patrick | 14 | 2 | 12 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 24y 148d | 131 | 142 |
26 | Douglas, Richard | 7 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 27y 206d | 155 | 107 |
45 | Henderson, Ricky | 13 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 25y 354d | 64 | 39 |
24 | Jacobs, Sam | 6 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 26y 143d | 104 | 24 |
10 | Jaensch, Matthew | 18 | 7 | 8 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 24y 347d | 67 | 25 |
4 | Jenkins, Josh | 9 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25y 204d | 48 | 75 |
17 | Kerridge, Sam | 9 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 21y 127d | 26 | 23 |
31 | Lyons, Jarryd | 7 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 22y 40d | 22 | 13 |
14 | Mackay, David | 11 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 26y 37d | 124 | 41 |
36 | Martin, Brodie | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25y 298d | 35 | 12 |
1 | Podsiadly, James | 7 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 32y 355d | 104 | 195 |
3 | Reilly, Brent | 14 | 7 | 8 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 30y 292d | 203 | 52 |
25 | Rutten, Ben | 7 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 31y 95d | 229 | 9 |
9 | Sloane, Rory | 19 | 9 | 11 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 24y 167d | 100 | 62 |
33 | Smith, Brodie | 18 | 5 | 16 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22y 229d | 76 | 21 |
12 | Talia, Daniel | 10 | 8 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22y 333d | 76 | 4 |
5 | Thompson, Scott | 11 | 3 | 12 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 31y 170d | 264 | 150 |
13 | Walker, Taylor | 9 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24y 128d | 84 | 197 |
Rushed | 3 | |||||||||||||
Totals | 228 | 107 | 165 | 393 | 22 | 9 | 50 | 40 | 22 | 13 | 25y 178d | 2197 | 1546 |
St. Kilda | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
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# | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
20 | Armitage, David | 11 | 4 | 11 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 26y 76d | 107 | 67 |
21 | Delaney, Luke | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 25y 68d | 48 | 1 |
24 | Dempster, Sean | 19 | 10 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 30y 223d | 182 | 20 |
25 | Fisher, Sam | 12 | 8 | 16 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 32y 52d | 198 | 22 |
33 | Gwilt, James | 9 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 28y 20d | 126 | 25 |
7 | Hayes, Lenny | 9 | 2 | 12 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 34y 229d | 297 | 95 |
4 | Jones, Clinton | 11 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 30y 210d | 149 | 40 |
18 | Longer, Billy | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 21y 111d | 25 | 1 |
11 | Montagna, Leigh | 14 | 3 | 9 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 30y 302d | 232 | 138 |
30 | Murdoch, Brodie | 5 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 20y 222d | 17 | 6 |
16 | Newnes, Jack | 14 | 7 | 7 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 21y 188d | 47 | 4 |
22 | Ray, Farren | 11 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 28y 161d | 197 | 58 |
12 | Riewoldt, Nick | 6 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 31y 318d | 281 | 619 |
17 | Roberton, Dylan | 10 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23y 71d | 64 | 7 |
6 | Ross, Sebastian | 10 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 21y 116d | 27 | 4 |
13 | Schneider, Adam | 9 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 30y 111d | 213 | 250 |
39 | Shenton, Cameron | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 23y 338d | 14 | 4 |
28 | Stanley, Rhys | 9 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 23y 273d | 58 | 40 |
3 | Steven, Jack | 11 | 4 | 19 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 24y 156d | 90 | 65 |
44 | Weller, Maverick | 8 | 1 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 22y 199d | 48 | 6 |
23 | White, Spencer | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19y 343d | 2 | 4 |
34 | Wright, Nathan | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 20y 196d | 15 | 0 |
Rushed | 2 | |||||||||||||
Totals | 194 | 104 | 149 | 343 | 9 | 8 | 30 | 63 | 13 | 22 | 25y 364d | 2437 | 1476 |