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Central District vs Glenelg

Scoreboard | Match report

Round: 7   Venue: Elizabeth Oval   Date: Sat, 08-08-2020 2:10 pm   Crowd: 991  
Central District 1.1.74.3.275.5.3511.5.71  
Glenelg 3.4.225.6.3610.10.7015.14.104  
  GLEN by 15GLEN by 9GLEN by 35GLEN by 33  

Match Report

The next match takes us up to the outer northern suburbs, the Bulldogs taking on the Tigers at the X-Convenience Oval in Elizabeth. The Bulldogs coughed up a combined losing tally of almost 20 goals across their two games last year. The nightmare began with a 49-point belting at Elizabeth in Round 7, then five weeks later in Round 11 the Tigers improved on that with a 69-point demolition at Brighton Road. An overall loss of 118 points... absolutely harrowing viewing for Centrals supporters. Its been no less harrowing lately for Dogs fans thus far with no wins to their name, their latest outing resulting in a five-goal loss to the Eagles while the Tigers downed Sturt at home last week. Although breaking through against the Blues, the Tigers seemed to be more vulnerable now than this time last year. 

Despite some early inaccuracy, the Tigers' opening term of 3.4 to the Dogs' 1.1 allowed them to take a 15-point lead at quarter-time. The Dogs have been known to get a bit plucky at times and in the second term, outscored the Bays 3.2 to 2.2 to draw the gap back to nine points going into the changerooms at the half-time break. Consistency has not been their friend at the Ponderosa though and soon enough the Tigers found their goal-kicking boots when play resumed. Although inaccuracy continued to rear its head in the third quarter, it was the Tigers' backs that kept the Bulldogs from making impact. Centrals were restricted to 1.2 while the Tigers scored a further 5.4 to lead by 35 points going into the final change. The Dogs didn't completely throw in the towel despite the wide gap, but victory was still going to be unattainable. The Dogs kicked six goals without a miss, the Tigers scored 5.4 to take out a 33-point win. 

Matt Snook was named Glenelg's best with 29 disposals and six tackles, the Dogs named Travis Schiller as their best with 39 disposals and five tackles.

Source

Match Report by RA Boyle

Footnotes

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