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Port Adelaide vs Adelaide

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Round: 2   Venue: Adelaide Oval   Date: Sat, 29-03-2014 4:10 pm   Crowd: 50,397  
Port Adelaide 5.4.347.8.5012.11.8319.13.127 C:  Ken Hinkley
Adelaide 1.0.65.2.328.5.5311.7.73 C:  Brenton Sanderson
  PORT by 28PORT by 18PORT by 30PORT by 54  
Weather
min temp  17.0°C      max temp  27.6°C
rainfall  0mm    humidity  55%    air pressure  1015.8mb
wind speed 15km/h      wind direction  WSW
Brownlow Medal 3 Kane Cornes (PORT)2 Chad Wingard (PORT)1 Brad Ebert (PORT)

Match Report

The South Australian bragging rights remain with Port Adelaide after the first-ever Showdown at the Adelaide Oval resulted in a convincing win for the Power on a warm Saturday afternoon. In front of more than 50,000 fans, a game which never quite reached the heights of the two brilliant Showdowns played in 2013, saw Port Adelaide make the early running, withstand a strong comeback from the Crows in the second and third terms, and then run away with the match over the final quarter and a half.

Port drew the first Adelaide Oval blood with a Matthew Lobbe tackle on Sam Jacobs rewarded with a free kick which he converted in the second minute of the match. Neither side managed a major in the next 10 minutes as each team tried to settle into a pattern of play but Robbie Gray broke the deadlock with a wonderful running goal at the 12-minute mark to give the Power a 13-point lead. Gray also had a hand in the next goal when he grabbed a loose ball and passed it off to Brad Ebert who kicked Port's third. It was not until the 18th minute of the match that the Crows hot the scoreboard for the first time ever at the Adelaide Oval, with Lewis Johnston kicking a goal after Adelaide took the ball "coast to coast" after an Angus Monfries behind. But the rest of the quarter was dominated by the Power and goals to Justin Westhoff and Chad Wingard saw them take a commanding 28-point lead into then first break.

Adelaide needed to respond early in the second term and the Crows did just that, with a goal in the first minute to Eddie Betts. He followed up with another after a mark three minutes later and for the first time in the match, it felt as though the Crows were in it. Oliver Wines restored a four-goal lead to Port after a shocking Adelaide turnover but Mitch Grigg grabbed one back for the Crows after receiving a controversial free kick for a head-high tackle to cut the margin back to three goals. Travis Boak and Betts traded goals to close out the second quarter and the Power's lead at half time was a not insurmountable 18 points.

Surmount that lead is exactly what Adelaide did in the first half of the third quarter. The Crows dominated, and goals to Richard Douglas, Betts, Rory Sloane and Brodie Smith saw the Crows suddenly and unexpectedly two points ahead at the 13-minute mark. Mitch Grigg had the chance to take the margin beyond a goal a minute later but his snapshot hit the post.

And then, as suddenly as the Crows had turned the game around, they disappeared, for virtually the remainder of the match. The stung Port Adelaide kicked five goals in the second half of the third quarter, via John Butcher, Chad Wingard (twice), Gray and Jay Schulz, knocking the wind out of Adelaide's bag and allowing the Power to take a 28-point lead into the final term.

The Crows did kick the first goal of the last quarter through James Podsiadly but Hamish Hartlett responded for the Power a minute later and this time there would be no coming back for Adelaide. Every further Crow goal was answered with one from the Power and Port Adelaide in fact kicked the last four of the match to win running away by 54 points. Hamish Hartlett capped off a wonderful 29-possession game by winning the Showdown Medal.

The win gives Port a perfect 2-0 start to the season and there appear to be no signs of the second-season letdown forecast by some for Ken Hinkley's reign as Power coach. His team will travel to Docklands next Sunday to tale on North Melbourne. The Crows are at the other end of the scale, with a 0-2 record and a tough match against Sydney to come at the Adelaide Oval next Saturday.

GOALS
Port Adelaide: Wingard 4; Schulz 3; Gray, Wines, White 2; Lobbe, Ebert, Westhoff, Boak, Butcher, Hartlett
Adelaide: Betts 4; Grigg 2; Johnston, Douglas, Smith, Kerridge, Podsiadly

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Port Adelaide: Hartlett, Ebert, Cornes, Wingard, Schulz, Polec
Adelaide: Sloane, Douglas, Betts, Thompson, Smith,Grigg

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Port Adelaide: Hartlett, Ebert, Schulz, Cornes, Wingard, Wines, Monfries
Adelaide: Smith, Sloane, Douglas, Betts, Jaensch

INJURIES
Port Adelaide: Polec (cut head)
Adelaide: Nil

SUBSTITUTES
Port Adelaide: Alipate Carlile replaced by Matt White at three quarter-time.
Adelaide: Lewis Johnston replaced by Jason Porplyzia in the third quarter.

UMPIRES: Fleer, Schmitt, Pannell

TELEVISION BROADCAST: Fox Footy

COMMENTATORS: Dwayne Russell, Gerard Healy, Mark Ricciuto, David King

Source

Match report by Andrew Gigacz

Footnotes

Video sourced from YouTube, courtesy of AFL Media.

Match stats

Port Adelaide Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
1 Boak, Travis 9 1 10 19 1 0 0 2 3 0 25y 240d 133 75
5 Broadbent, Matthew 15 4 3 18 0 0 0 2 0 1 23y 240d 81 37
11 Butcher, John 6 3 5 11 1 0 0 0 2 1 22y 269d 22 33
27 Carlile, Alipate 2 1 1 3 0 0 0 4 0 0 26y 333d 134 5
25 Cassisi, Dom 3 0 17 20 0 0 0 2 0 1 31y 188d 217 73
18 Cornes, Kane 22 10 11 33 0 0 0 5 1 1 31y 83d 270 91
7 Ebert, Brad 17 10 4 21 1 1 0 9 1 2 23y 361d 124 65
9 Gray, Robbie 6 2 7 13 2 2 0 2 1 0 25y 364d 92 125
8 Hartlett, Hamish 16 6 13 29 1 1 0 1 0 2 23y 227d 70 38
36 Hombsch, Jack 9 1 8 17 0 0 0 2 0 2 21y 22d 17 0
24 Impey, Jarman 11 1 2 13 0 0 0 2 2 2 18y 263d 2 0
42 Jonas, Tom 7 6 3 10 0 0 0 3 0 1 23y 79d 36 0
23 Lobbe, Matthew 4 1 9 13 1 0 29 4 2 1 25y 45d 45 11
6 Monfries, Angus 15 7 4 19 0 1 0 5 2 1 27y 69d 176 204
29 Pittard, Jasper 13 4 3 16 0 0 0 4 1 1 22y 362d 33 5
21 Polec, Jared 12 4 8 20 0 1 0 3 0 1 21y 168d 18 10
28 Schulz, Jay 14 10 5 19 3 1 0 2 1 2 28y 345d 144 218
12 Trengove, Jackson 4 2 10 14 0 0 3 3 1 2 23y 147d 80 7
39 Westhoff, Justin 11 6 1 12 1 0 0 4 0 0 27y 179d 136 181
19 White, Matthew 7 3 2 9 2 1 0 1 0 0 26y 348d 107 56
16 Wines, Ollie 13 2 10 23 2 1 0 6 0 1 19y 173d 26 12
20 Wingard, Chad 14 6 3 17 4 2 0 4 0 2 20y 243d 45 56
  Rushed   2  
  Totals 230 90 139 369 19 13 32 70 17 24 24y 232d 2008 1302
Adelaide Match Stats Career
# Player K M H D G B HO T FF FA Age Games G
18 Betts, Eddie 8 4 1 9 4 1 0 5 2 1 27y 123d 186 296
16 Brown, Luke 8 2 5 13 0 0 0 3 2 0 21y 188d 26 1
2 Crouch, Brad 16 5 7 23 0 2 0 5 0 1 20y 74d 16 4
32 Dangerfield, Patrick 8 3 9 17 0 0 1 7 0 0 23y 358d 111 127
26 Douglas, Richard 19 2 10 29 1 0 0 3 4 1 27y 51d 137 97
38 Grigg, Mitchell 7 3 5 12 2 1 0 3 3 1 21y 86d 7 9
24 Jacobs, Sam 5 3 6 11 0 0 26 2 0 1 25y 353d 84 18
10 Jaensch, Matthew 18 14 9 27 0 0 0 2 0 1 24y 192d 47 19
8 Johnston, Lewis 7 1 2 9 1 0 0 5 2 0 23y 26d 10 16
17 Kerridge, Sam 5 4 11 16 1 0 0 2 0 3 20y 337d 14 14
14 Mackay, David 11 4 7 18 0 0 0 1 0 0 25y 247d 107 30
35 McKernan, Shaun 3 0 5 8 0 0 8 2 0 1 23y 209d 34 21
1 Podsiadly, James 4 4 5 9 1 0 1 1 0 1 32y 200d 85 170
40 Porplyzia, Jason 3 2 4 7 0 0 0 0 1 0 29y 122d 128 180
3 Reilly, Brent 13 8 5 18 0 0 0 1 0 2 30y 137d 194 52
25 Rutten, Ben 5 4 8 13 0 0 0 4 1 1 30y 305d 217 8
34 Shaw, Sam 9 6 4 13 0 0 0 3 2 1 22y 358d 18 0
9 Sloane, Rory 15 6 12 27 0 1 2 6 2 1 24y 12d 80 49
33 Smith, Brodie 18 7 10 28 1 0 0 5 2 0 22y 74d 56 12
12 Talia, Daniel 5 5 9 14 0 0 0 2 0 0 22y 178d 56 4
5 Thompson, Scott 11 4 16 27 0 0 0 4 1 1 31y 15d 247 147
11 Wright, Matthew 9 3 5 14 0 0 0 1 2 0 24y 105d 60 44
  Rushed   2  
  Totals 207 94 155 362 11 7 38 67 24 17 25y 87d 1920 1318

Match highlights

50,397 attended Port Adelaide vs. Adelaide at Adelaide Oval (AFL, Premiership Season, R2)

Footnotes

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