Australian Football

Match Report

The last game of the weekend was a stand-alone Sunday afternoon fixture, the Crows taking on the Magpies in their one and only "home" match out at Kadina Oval on the Yorke Peninsula. These sides last clashed in the season opener at Alberton, the Crows' nightmare state league season beginning with a 95-point hammering. From there they have limped from one disaster to the next, their worst effort came against South only three rounds ago. The Magpies haven't done that much better, they sit on four wins but came into this game from a loss to the Eagles. 

There was quite the breeze favouring the Magpies in the first quarter, but they squandered the bulk of their opportunities for a return of 1.7 while the Crows managed to put through 3.2 to lead by seven points at quarter-time. When the Crows got their turn at the windy end, they had some troubles finding the big sticks themselves. But they made more of their opportunities than Port did, scoring 4.7 to one goal to extend their advantage to 32 points by the long break. Awaiting the Magpies during the break was a pretty browned-off coach, who gave his charges a bit of a verbal behind closed doors. The "visitors" responded in the third quarter, restricting Adelaide to just one point and scored 6.5 to take an eight-point lead into the final term. However, anyone thinking that Port were going to romp home with this one were about to get served a piece of humble pie. No one would have seen this coming, the Crows put the Magpies to the sword in the final term, kicking 10.4 to nothing in the final stanza to win by 56 points to end their losing streak and avoid being the first team since Sturt of 1995 to have a winless season. 

Patrick Wilson was named best for the Crows, the Magpies named Jarrod Lienert as their best.