Australian Football

Match Report

We now come back city-side and into the inner south of town, where the Double Blues took on the Tigers at the Peter Motley Oval in Unley. The Tigers took advantage of the Blues' early-2017 funk, winning by 61 points in Round 2. But come the tail end of the season, the Blues were a far different outfit and helped bring the Tigers' year unstuck with their 49-point win at Unley. Both teams came in on the backs of victories in Round 7, the Blues winning at Elizabeth and the Tigers dousing the Crows at home. 

Early on it looked as if the Tigers caught the Blues off-guard on their patch, keeping them to just two behinds whilst kicking 3.2 for themselves to lead by three goals at quarter-time. But the Blues awoke from their trance in the second quarter and reversed the roles, keeping the Tigers to just one behind and bagging 7.4 to lead by 27 points at the half-time break. When play resumed the Blues kept up the miserly defence and extended their advantage, kicking 3.1 to four behinds to take their lead to seven goals by three quarter-time. The final term ended up being a shootout with both sides kicking five goals each, only the additional behinds altering the margin in the end. Sturt's four to Glenelg's two saw the home side off to a 44-point victory. 

The Blues named James Battersby as their best, the Tigers voting in captain Chris Curran as their best afield.