Australian Football

Match Report

Its now time for some Sunday arvo football action and its off to the seaside where we find the Tigers taking on the Bloods at Gliderol Stadium in Glenelg. The Tigers made off with the points back in Round 6 under lights at Richmond, after being down by 17 points at quarter-time they kicked 10 goals to four over the remaining quarters to win by 25 points. Westies finals hopes were on thin ice after a 13-goal smashing at the hands of the Redlegs last week, while the Tigers' win against Port last week put them well out of reach of wooden spoon contention. Even with South's win at Alberton doesn't totally put a fifth spot finish out of the question for either side, but a lot of things would have to go wrong for them.

The Tigers' probably should have been up by more at quarter-time, but the Bloods' goal-kicking wasn't much better. Glenelg were up by seven points at quarter-time after scoring 3.4 to 2.3. The Bloods' second quarter was insipid, kicking three behinds as the Tigers scored 4.4 to lead by 32 points going into the half-time break. Westies' third quarter could have brought them back into the game, but instead of being down by less than a couple of straight kicks, their 4.4 to 3.1 would still have them 23 points adrift at three quarter-time. Part way through the final term the Bloods cut the gap back to 16 points, scoring 2.1 to one goal. But from the 16th minute onwards the visitors kept the Bloods to just two behinds and put the game out of reach with their additional 2.2. 

The Tigers won by 29 points, their first trio of victories for over a year. Chris Curran was named best for Glenelg, the Bloods named Chris Burgess as their best on ground.