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North Adelaide vs Central District

Scoreboard | Match report

Round: 14   Venue: Prospect Oval   Date: Sat, 10-07-2021 2:10 pm   Crowd: 2,012  
North Adelaide 9.1.5515.1.9115.4.9421.5.131  
Central District 3.1.195.2.328.4.5213.5.83  
  NORTH by 36NORTH by 59NORTH by 42NORTH by 48  

Match Report

The second game on the schedule takes us to the inner northern suburbs and into the Prospect Oval for the Northern Derby between the Roosters and the Bulldogs. Surprisingly it has been over half the season since these sides last met, the Dogs outlasting the Roosters by nine points at Elizabeth. It was the standout performances of Centrals' season, but a standard that didn't last. From there they wouldn't win again until their visit to Unley in Round 7 and then in Round 11 against West. The Roosters on the other hand, have been holding onto their mid-table position just barely. A massive win against Port two weeks ago put the fire back into their season, followed by last week's win against West while the Dogs went down at home to the Magpies by nine points. 

The Roosters would be 13 points up after five minutes after scoring 2.1, then there was a goal-for-goal period over the next eight minutes as the Dogs scored three goals to two in that time. But in time-on, the Roosters kicked five goals to one behind to go up six goals by quarter-time. Things got even more dire for the Bulldogs as the Roosters took their lead out to almost 10 goals by the long break, scoring six majors to 2.1. At half-time, North were out to a 59-point advantage. The inside-50's and the clearances showed a massive gap between the sides, as well as the fact they put 15 goals on the board in one half of football. Astonishingly, the Roosters didn't keep up the punishment when play resumed. They hit a wall in the third term, but some missed opportunities on goal by the Dogs themselves would allow the Roosters to keep the bulk of their half-time lead intact. Centrals scored 3.2 to North's three behinds, the home side still up by seven goals. The normal programming resumed in the final term, in the end North ran out eight goal winners after a shootout final term where they scored 6.1 to 5.1. The final tally for the game was 34 goals, not bad for fifth vs ninth, eh? 

It was just his fifth game but Lachie Wilson bagged eight goals. He just missed out on best afield honours though, that went to Harrison Wigg thanks to his 42 disposals and nine clearances. For the Dogs, it was Travis Schiller with 23 disposals and six tackles.

Source

Match Report by RA Boyle

Footnotes

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