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Port Adelaide Magpies vs Glenelg

Scoreboard | Match report

Round: 14   Venue: Alberton Oval   Date: Sun, 21-07-2019 2:10 pm   Crowd: 2,496  
Port Adelaide Magpies 0.1.10.4.42.6.188.9.57  
Glenelg 3.2.205.5.359.6.6012.9.81  
  GLEN by 19GLEN by 31GLEN by 42GLEN by 24  

Match Report

Again it wasn't going to be a long trip for the next match, we head a bit further up Port Road and over to the Alberton Oval where the Magpies took on the Tigers. Their last outing saw the Tigers hand the Magpies a 49-point hiding back in Round 8 at Glenelg, the Bays having to overcome a horribly inaccurate opening term where they kicked 2.11 but then proceeded to rip the 'Pies a new one, even keeping them to one point in the third term. They both emerged victorious last week, the Magpies bringing the Crows' streak to a halt out at Port Pirie and the Tigers brushing the Redlegs aside at home. This was to be a finals series preview and a measure as to how the Tigers would stack up against the AFL reserves sides with a match against Adelaide next week. 

What we got was the Tigers exposing every little flaw, starting with them keeping the Magpies to single point whilst scoring 3.2 in the first term to lead by 19 points at quarter-time. Port continued to miss opportunities in the second term, kicking three behinds to Glenelg's 2.3. At half-time it was a 31-point gap to the Bays. All the foot speed in the world wasn't going to bail Port out of this one, despite finally scoring a major their 2.2 to the Tigers' 4.1 saw the visitors out to a seven-goal lead by the final change. The Magpies' final term was an effort coming far too late, eventually going down by four goals after scoring 8.3 to 3.3. 

Luke Partington made up a third of the Tigers' goal tally and was named best on ground for the Bays, the Magpies named Paddy Ryder as their best.

Source

Match Report by RA Boyle

Footnotes

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