Australian Football

Match Report

Saturday afternoon at the Bay was a hotspot for footy, the ABC cameras headed to Challenge Recruitment Oval for the Tigers' first home match of the season against a seemingly vulnerable Bloods outfit. 

Glenelg got the jump on West in the first term, taking a five point lead at quarter time. But Westies kicked it up a bit, banging home six goals to Glenelg's two and set up an 18 point lead going into the long break. A sour note on the Bloods part was a bit of apparently poor officiating by the umpires, West coach Wayne Weidemann bewildered at the 19-7 free kick count in favour of the home side. When play resumed, West forwards Ryan Willits and Damian Cupido would continue to give the Tigers some grief. The Tigers' own forwards weren't making things any better here as they sprayed eight of 13 scoring shots. But the lead was cut down to four points where the Tigers probably should have been up by a lot more than that. In the final term, both sides booted 2.5, the visitors keeping Glenelg at bay (no pun intended) long enough to take out a four point victory. 

Marc Dragicevic was named best for the Bloods while Luke Panozzo was given B.O.G honours for the Tigers.