Australian Football

Match Report

We head up north for some Saturday night action, the Playford Alive Oval lighting up for the clash between the Bulldogs and the Tigers. The Dogs have taken 10 wins from the last 11 matches against the Bays, interrupted only by a draw in late 2009. The last encounter was one to forget for the Tigers, who kicked six goals from 20 shots as the Dogs ran rampant at Elizabeth to lose by 93 points. The Dogs up to this point havent been entirely convincing, but that was about to change... drastically.

Centrals kept the Bays scoreless in the first term, only inaccuracy on goal preventing a bigger gap. They kicked 5.5 to lead by 35 points at quarter-time. Their shooting was far better in the second. The Tigers finally got on the board with 2.3, but a further seven goals without a miss saw the gap stretch to 62 points by the long break. The third term saw the Tigers show a bit more fight, the Dogs seemingly taking it easy as the visitors scored five goals to three to bring the deficit back to 50 points by the final change. But Centrals sealed the deal with authority in the final term, keeping the Tigers to just 1.1 whilst adding 5.2 to their score to take a 75-point win.

James Boyd pushed his state selection case hard with his best afield honours for the Dogs, while Brad Agnew was named as Glenelg's standout.