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Glenelg vs Central District

Scoreboard | Match report

Round: 13   Venue: Glenelg Oval   Date: Sat, 19-09-2020 4:10 pm   Crowd: 1,362  
Glenelg 1.2.85.6.368.11.5911.11.77  
Central District 3.4.224.8.326.11.4710.16.76  
  CENT by 14GLEN by 4GLEN by 12GLEN by 1  

Match Report

In the final match for the day, we head out to the seaside for some twilight football at the ACH Group Stadium in Glenelg when the Tigers took on the Bulldogs. The Tigers second half at Elizabeth back in Round 7 set up their 33-point victory. After a first half challenge from Centrals that saw them up by just nine points at half-time, the Tigers scored 10 goals to seven to secure the points. The Tigers' run to finals has been on the up and down, after their loss to South a few weeks ago, successive victories against West and North helped steady the ship. Last week though, they were handed a 13-goal shellacking by the Eagles. The Bulldogs loss to North was only due to one quarter's lapse in intensity and with Glenelg's recent habits looked ripe for the picking, even by the seventh placed Centrals and despite the Redlegs' eventual loss at Noarlunga, a loss would keep them in danger of tumbling out in the final round. 

The Bulldogs accuracy in the opening term wouldn't stop them from taking the lead into quarter-time, they scored 3.4 to the Tigers' 1.2 to be up by 14 points at the first change. The Tigers hit back in the second term, scoring 4.4 to the Dogs' 1.4. One of those goals came from a double 25m penalty, much to the anger of the travelling Dogs fans. At the half-time break, the reigning premiers held a four-point lead. Centrals would have been thanking their lucky stars by the end of the third term as some old habits came back to the fore, but the Tigers attack didn't yield maximum rewards as they stretched their lead to a couple of kicks by three quarter-time. The home side scored 3.5 to 2.3, a two-goal gap going into the final stanza. The Dogs kept pushing and pushing but the night would end in heartbreak as a succession of behinds scuttled their chances of an upset. The Tigers won by a point, having kicked three goals to the Doggies' 4.5 and not only sewing up a finals spot but also ending Norwood's season in the process. 

Matthew Snook was named Glenelg's best with 28 disposals, five marks and two goals. James Boyd keeps racking up the disposals, he got 34 this week to be named Centrals' best.

Source

Match Report by RA Boyle

Footnotes

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