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Round: 3   Venue: Adelaide Oval   Date: Sat, 05-04-2014 1:40 pm   Crowd: 47,426  
Adelaide 2.2.145.7.379.10.649.17.71 C:  Brenton Sanderson
Sydney 6.2.389.2.5614.5.8921.8.134 C:  John Longmire
  SYD by 24SYD by 19SYD by 25SYD by 63  
Weather
min temp  10.3°C      max temp  22.0°C
rainfall  0mm    humidity  39%    air pressure  1022.9mb
wind speed 11km/h      wind direction  SSW
Brownlow Medal 3 Lance 'Buddy' Franklin (SYD)2 Luke Parker (SYD)1 Josh Kennedy (SYD)

Match Report

Sydney has answered its critics with a thumping win over Adelaide at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday afternoon. The Swans had lost their opening two matches of the season to GWS and Collingwood, and some indifferent form from high-priced and high profile recruit Lance Franklin had the vultures circling around coach John Longmire and his club.

But the Swans opened the match brightly with a six goal to two first quarter and then withstood several challenges from the Crows before blowing Adelaide out of the water with 12 of the last 13 goals of the match. Just as pleasing as the manner of the win was the performance of Franklin, who had 20 possessions and kicked 4.2 to be amongst his team's best players.

While the win puts Sydney's season back on track to an extent, Brenton Sanderson's Crows are perched on the edge of a precipice, with three losses from three matches. A disturbing trend has emerged for Adelaide across those three games, with the Crows being well in the hunt into the second half before tailing off badly to record big losses. Against Geelong on round one, the Crows led briefly early in the last term before losing by 38 points and a week later Port by two points half way through the third term before losing by 54. It was a similar story on Saturday. A goal to Matthew Jaensch took Adelaide to within two points of the Swans but from that moment, the Crows barely gave a yelp, with the final margin being their biggest yet, 63 points.

The magnitude of those losses sees Adelaide sitting in 17th place on the ladder, above only Melbourne and the pressure on the team will be huge. In relative terms, the next month is not a difficult one for the Crows, with matches against St Kilda, GWS, the Western Bulldogs and Melbourne to come. If Adelaide do not win three of those four the vultures that have circled Syndey in recent weeks will quickly turn their attention for the Crows.

While Saturday's win would have been a relieve for Sydney, the Swans are not yet out of the woods. They sit 11th on the ladder with a 1-2 record, and will take on North Melbourne and Fremantle in the next fortnight.

GOALS
Adelaide: Grigg 2; Mackay, Podsiadly, Dangerfield, Betts, Jaensch, Douglas, Sloane
Sydney: Franklin, Parker 4; Cunningham 3; Hannebery, Jack 2; Rohan, Mitchell, McGlynn, Laidler, McVeigh, Roberts-Thomson

BEST - AFL.COM.AU
Adelaide: Podsiadly, Dangerfield, Douglas, Jaensch, Jacobs, Smith
Sydney: Franklin, Parker, Kennedy, Jack, McGlynn, Malceski

BEST - THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Adelaide: Dangerfield, Douglas, Jacobs, Laird, Wright, Mackay
Sydney: Parker, Kennedy, Malceski, McVeigh, Franklin, Jack

INJURIES
Adelaide: Scott Thompson (corked thigh)
Sydney: Nil

SUBSTITUTES
Adelaide: Scott Thompson replaced by Matt Crouch in the second quarter.
Sydney: Tom Mitchell replaced by Gary Rohan at three quarter-time.

REPORTS
Adelaide: Nil
Sydney: Jarrad McVeigh for rough conduct on Adelaide's Matthew Jaensch in the first quarter.

UMPIRES: Margetts, Nicholls, Hosking

TELEVISION BROADCAST: Fox Footy

COMMENTATORS: Dwayne Russell, Jason Dunstall, Mark Ricciuto, Cameron Mooney

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 8 3 3 11 1 1 0 1 0 1 27y 130d 187 297
16 Brown, Luke 10 5 8 18 0 1 0 0 0 0 21y 195d 27 1
44 Crouch, Matt 10 2 8 18 0 1 0 4 0 0 18y 349d 1 0
32 Dangerfield, Patrick 12 3 11 23 1 1 2 2 2 1 24y 0d 112 128
26 Douglas, Richard 20 2 5 25 1 1 0 4 1 1 27y 58d 138 98
38 Grigg, Mitchell 9 5 2 11 2 1 0 1 1 2 21y 93d 8 11
41 Hartigan, Kyle 7 6 6 13 0 0 0 1 0 1 22y 149d 4 0
24 Jacobs, Sam 6 7 11 17 0 0 35 4 0 1 25y 360d 85 18
10 Jaensch, Matthew 11 8 12 23 1 0 0 2 1 0 24y 199d 48 20
4 Jenkins, Josh 12 7 5 17 0 4 3 3 0 0 25y 56d 29 35
17 Kerridge, Sam 3 2 7 10 0 0 0 2 0 1 20y 344d 15 14
29 Laird, Rory 15 6 6 21 0 0 0 1 1 1 20y 97d 19 1
14 Mackay, David 7 2 13 20 1 0 0 1 1 1 25y 254d 108 31
23 Petrenko, Jared 4 1 6 10 0 2 0 9 0 1 24y 104d 72 45
1 Podsiadly, James 15 9 8 23 1 1 0 2 2 0 32y 207d 86 171
3 Reilly, Brent 12 2 9 21 0 0 0 4 0 2 30y 144d 195 52
25 Rutten, Ben 6 3 8 14 0 0 0 2 0 1 30y 312d 218 8
9 Sloane, Rory 13 7 5 18 1 0 1 7 0 0 24y 19d 81 50
33 Smith, Brodie 10 2 10 20 0 1 0 2 2 0 22y 81d 57 12
12 Talia, Daniel 6 6 6 12 0 0 0 3 0 1 22y 185d 57 4
5 Thompson, Scott 3 3 5 8 0 0 0 1 1 0 31y 22d 248 147
11 Wright, Matthew 13 5 8 21 0 0 0 5 1 0 24y 112d 61 44
  Rushed   3  
  Totals 212 96 162 374 9 17 41 61 13 15 24y 323d 1856 1187
Sydney Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
7 Cunningham, Harry 6 3 3 9 3 0 0 1 0 0 20y 120d 9 9
19 Derickx, Tom 2 0 5 7 0 0 18 0 0 1 26y 119d 4 0
23 Franklin, Lance 'Buddy' 15 6 5 20 4 2 0 3 2 0 27y 65d 185 587
39 Grundy, Heath 9 7 8 17 0 0 0 3 0 0 27y 307d 142 22
4 Hannebery, Dan 12 2 6 18 2 0 0 3 2 0 23y 40d 104 46
15 Jack, Kieren 8 2 11 19 2 0 0 9 1 0 26y 281d 141 104
32 Jetta, Lewis 14 3 4 18 0 0 0 3 1 1 24y 336d 81 73
12 Kennedy, Josh 8 1 20 28 0 0 1 5 1 2 25y 289d 114 67
11 Laidler, Jeremy 7 3 6 13 1 0 0 3 0 0 24y 243d 28 3
9 Malceski, Nick 20 5 5 25 0 0 0 2 0 1 29y 233d 154 60
21 McGlynn, Ben 8 5 8 16 1 0 0 10 1 1 28y 242d 128 145
3 McVeigh, Jarrad 8 7 13 21 1 1 0 2 0 1 28y 363d 222 158
6 Mitchell, Tom 4 3 5 9 1 0 0 1 0 0 20y 309d 17 13
39 O'Keefe, Ryan 6 2 8 14 0 0 0 5 1 1 33y 71d 285 260
26 Parker, Luke 14 6 12 26 4 0 0 3 1 0 21y 162d 60 39
38 Pyke, Mike 8 2 6 14 0 0 26 2 1 0 30y 12d 74 42
24 Rampe, Dane 10 5 4 14 0 0 0 2 1 1 23y 307d 26 2
25 Richards, Ted 6 5 8 14 0 0 0 3 1 2 31y 84d 209 32
30 Roberts-Thomson, Lewis 4 2 1 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 30y 209d 176 53
16 Rohan, Gary 5 3 0 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 22y 302d 30 25
2 Shaw, Rhyce 8 1 10 18 0 1 0 1 0 2 32y 171d 196 42
40 Smith, Nick 10 4 7 17 0 0 0 2 1 0 25y 297d 101 9
  Rushed   3  
  Totals 192 77 155 347 21 8 45 63 15 13 26y 241d 2486 1791

Footnotes

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