Australian Football

Match Report

We head over to The Parade and into Coopers Stadium for some Friday Night Lights as the Redlegs played host to the Tigers in front of over 5,700 people. With the Double Blues having the bye this week, this was a prime opportunity for the Tigers to bag top spot on the league ladder... and did they want it bad as they would go on to inflict a massive beating. 

The Tigers began the pounding by not just scoring 3.4 but also keeping the fifth-placed Redlegs scoreless for the whole first quarter. Norwood finally got on the board in the second term, but their lowly 1.1 didn't reduce the gap because the Tigers would extend it to 30 points by the long break after kicking 2.3. It seemed as if the Tigers were just toying with the home side early on, when play resumed they proceeded to kick 6.4 to Norwood's lousy two behinds to blow the gap out to 68 points by three-quarter time. Those two points the Redlegs got in that quarter put them up to nine points all up... and that's where they would stop. The Tigers just took it easy from here, again keeping the 'Legs scoreless in the final term and add another 2.4 to win by 84 points, Norwood's final score of nine points going on record as the worst in almost a century. 

Thomas Holmes was named best for Glenelg, while Bryce Campbell was pretty much the only standout for the Redlegs.