Australian Football

Match Report

We now head back towards the city, diverting into the inner northern suburbs and into the Prospect Oval for the first dead rubber game between the Roosters and the Eagles. Its a long time for a chance at revenge in this game, they last locked feathers back in the season opener where the Eagles got their own back for the Preliminary Final controversy with their 25-point win at Woodville. The Eagles were pretty much done and dusted for the year after their trio of losses, so it was a welcome thing last week with their eight-point win over Adelaide. The Roosters on the other hand got hammered by South and they had one hand on the spoon. However with the Bloods' loss on Friday, there was a chance to dodge such a humiliation. 

The Eagles kicked two of the first three goals, but a further 2.1 to the Roosters saw the home side hold a seven-point lead at quarter-time. The Eagles should have taken full control in the second term going by their amount of shots on goal, but North would stay within two straight kicks on the lead going into the long break. The Eagles kicked 3.6 to 1.2 to lead by nine points at half-time. That inaccuracy came back to bite them when play restarted for the second half, although the Roosters had their own goal-scoring issues themselves. North scored 4.5 to the Eagles' single major to re-take the lead, a 14-point gap at three quarter-time. The Roosters would eventually avoid the wooden spoon, holding the Eagles at bay in the final term to win by 13 points with a 2.2 to 2.3 scoreline to finish the afternoon. 

Jarrad Allmond was named best for the Roosters, Jack Hayes took best afield votes for the Eagles.