Australian Football

Match Report

At the Commander Centre Oval in Unley, the Double Blues fronted up against the Bloods. The last six games between these two clubs have seen alternating fortunes, with three wins each in a tit-for-tat scenario. The Bloods took the points in the last stoush between the two, a 31-point win at Richmond in the final round of 2011.

The Blues started off best in the first term, taking a five-point lead at quarter-time after kicking 2.3 to 1.4 in the opening stanza. But the inaccuracy bug changed camps for the second quarter, the Blues kicked 1.6 to the Bloods' 3.3 as the lead changed hands at the half-time break, West by four points. A ploy by Westies coach Andy Collins to play more talls made little difference in the third quarter as the Blues continued to keep in touch, the deficit would still be no more than a straight kick away as the gap came back to three points after Sturt scored 3.2 to 3.1. But the Double Blues fell away in the final term, succumbing to the inaccuracy bug as the Bloods left Unley with a 21-point win after kicking 3.4 to four behinds.

Daniel Caire was named best for the Bloods, while Ben Kane was named best for Sturt.