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Round: 12 Venue: Adelaide Oval Date: Sat, 07-06-2014 4:10 pm Crowd: 43,374 | |||||
Port Adelaide | 4.3.27 | 7.6.48 | 13.10.88 | 19.15.129 | C: Ken Hinkley |
St. Kilda | 2.2.14 | 4.5.29 | 5.5.35 | 9.5.59 | C: Alan Richardson |
PORT by 13 | PORT by 19 | PORT by 53 | PORT by 70 |
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Brownlow Medal | 3 Hamish Hartlett (PORT) | 2 Robbie Gray (PORT) | 1 Chad Wingard (PORT) |
As was expected by all but the most die-hard of Saints fans, Port Adelaide made relatively short work of St Kilda in Saturday's twilight game at Adelaide Oval on Saturday.
With the sun shining brightly on the ground, the Power very much "on" defensively in the early stages of the match, allowing the Saints to register just two behinds for the first 27 minutes of the match, while kicking four of their own via Chad Wingard, Robbie Gray, Jared Polec and Jackson Trengove to take a 24-point lead. But Saint skipper sparked his team with two goals just before the quarter-time siren and St Kilda trailed by just 13 points at the first change.
Both defences stood firm for the first half of the second term, both sides managing only behinds until the 17-minute mark, at which point Josh Saunders gratefully marked a poor kick out of defence by Hamish Hartlett and converted to leave the Saints only six points adrift of the top team on the ladder. Five minutes later young Terry Milera goaled again for St Kilda to level the scores and a major upset suddenly loomed large.
However, Port suddenly clicked into gear in the last five minutes of the term and kicked three quick goals to settle the nerves of Power fans and go into half time with a 19-point lead. Sadly that was where St Kilda's resistance ended. The Power came out flying in the third quarter, kicking six unanswered goals, including one from Wingard following what most consider to be the mark of the year so far, and charging to a 59-point lead. A late goal from Lenny Hayes prevented the quarter from being a whitewash but Port was nine goals to the good at the last change.
It was more of the same from the Power in the last term as the booted six goals to four to extend the final margin to 70 points and maintain a two-game buffer at the head of the ladder. One highlight for the Saints in the final quarter was Nick Riewoldt's third goal, which was the 600th of his career, putting him 30th on the all-time list of goalkickers.
Best for the Power included Robbie Gray (four goals and 25 disposals) and Hartlett (36 possessions, eight marks), while for the Saints veterans Riewoldt (four goals and 11 marks) and Lenny Hayes (26 disposals and seven tackles) had fine games.
The Power will travel to the SCG on Saturday for a blockbuster match against third-placed Sydney, while St Kilda, which has slipped to 17th on the ladder have another tough assignment against Geelong at Kardinia Park next Sunday. The Saints lost the corresponding match last season by an even 100 points.
GOALS
Port Adelaide: Gray 4; Wingard, Schulz 3; Polec, Lobbe, Trengove, Hartlett, Impey, Westhoff, Pittard, Cassisi, Ebert
St. Kilda: Riewoldt 4; Saunders 2; Milera, Hayes, Dunstan
BEST - THE SUNDAY AGE
Port Adelaide: R. Gray, Hartlett, Lobbe, Pittard, Wines, Impey
St Kilda: Hayes, Riewoldt, Steven, Dunstan, Jones, Newnes
BEST - AFL.COM.AU
Port Adelaide: Gray, Lobbe, Hartlett, Wines, Impey, Pittard
St Kilda: Riewoldt, Hayes, Steven, Dunstan, Saunders, Ross
COACHES' COMMENTS
Ken Hinkley (Port): We were defensively really good tonight. One of the areas that we were focussing on going into the game was that we wanted to get back defending somewhere near our best and tonight, credit to the boys, they were able to do that.
Alan Richardson (StK): Our ability to rebound, particularly after half time was not there. We didn't help ourselves. Some of our execution was pretty sloppy. They were very strong defensively. We've got a group of players that can do it but they just didn't execute tonight. We'll get better in that area.
INJURIES
Port Adelaide: Nil
St. Kilda: Nil
SUBSTITUTES
Port Adelaide: Jared Polec replaced by Ben Newton in the third quarter.
St. Kilda: Sam Dunell replaced by Jack Billings in the third quarter.
UMPIRES: Donlon, Dalgleish, Leppard
TELEVISION BROADCAST: Fox Footy
COMMENTATORS: Dwayne Russell, Jason Dunstall, Mark Ricciuto, Barry Hall
Video sourced from YouTube, courtesy of AFL Media.
Port Adelaide | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
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# | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
5 | Broadbent, Matthew | 15 | 8 | 5 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23y 310d | 90 | 38 |
27 | Carlile, Alipate | 13 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27y 38d | 142 | 5 |
25 | Cassisi, Dom | 6 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 31y 258d | 225 | 74 |
18 | Cornes, Kane | 15 | 4 | 8 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 31y 153d | 279 | 91 |
7 | Ebert, Brad | 11 | 4 | 11 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 24y 66d | 133 | 70 |
9 | Gray, Robbie | 16 | 6 | 9 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 26y 69d | 101 | 140 |
46 | Gray, Sam | 6 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 22y 126d | 4 | 4 |
8 | Hartlett, Hamish | 17 | 8 | 19 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 23y 297d | 77 | 46 |
36 | Hombsch, Jack | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21y 92d | 25 | 0 |
24 | Impey, Jarman | 16 | 8 | 4 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18y 333d | 11 | 3 |
42 | Jonas, Tom | 11 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 23y 149d | 42 | 0 |
23 | Lobbe, Matthew | 8 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 25y 115d | 53 | 15 |
37 | Mitchell, Kane | 13 | 8 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 24y 188d | 17 | 12 |
38 | Newton, Ben | 8 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21y 303d | 2 | 0 |
29 | Pittard, Jasper | 16 | 13 | 9 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23y 67d | 42 | 7 |
21 | Polec, Jared | 12 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 21y 238d | 27 | 17 |
28 | Schulz, Jay | 15 | 11 | 2 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 29y 50d | 153 | 244 |
12 | Trengove, Jackson | 9 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 23y 217d | 89 | 8 |
39 | Westhoff, Justin | 11 | 9 | 8 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 27y 249d | 145 | 188 |
16 | Wines, Ollie | 8 | 1 | 18 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 19y 243d | 35 | 16 |
20 | Wingard, Chad | 16 | 10 | 7 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 20y 313d | 53 | 76 |
40 | Young, Aaron | 4 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21y 183d | 25 | 11 |
Rushed | 2 | |||||||||||||
Totals | 251 | 135 | 170 | 421 | 19 | 15 | 55 | 69 | 21 | 13 | 24y 84d | 1770 | 1065 |
St. Kilda | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
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# | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
15 | Billings, Jack | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18y 293d | 8 | 7 |
27 | Bruce, Josh | 7 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21y 364d | 20 | 3 |
21 | Delaney, Luke | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 24y 348d | 37 | 1 |
24 | Dempster, Sean | 9 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30y 138d | 171 | 20 |
38 | Dunell, Samuel | 5 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 24y 106d | 10 | 1 |
36 | Dunstan, Luke | 12 | 3 | 12 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 19y 129d | 10 | 7 |
7 | Hayes, Lenny | 12 | 1 | 14 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 34y 144d | 287 | 92 |
4 | Jones, Clinton | 8 | 1 | 11 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 30y 125d | 144 | 37 |
9 | Lee, Tom | 6 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 23y 156d | 11 | 17 |
18 | Longer, Billy | 5 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 21y 26d | 15 | 0 |
32 | Milera, Terry | 8 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 26y 150d | 28 | 30 |
11 | Montagna, Leigh | 7 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 30y 217d | 222 | 136 |
30 | Murdoch, Brodie | 9 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 20y 137d | 10 | 2 |
16 | Newnes, Jack | 10 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 21y 103d | 36 | 2 |
22 | Ray, Farren | 4 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 28y 76d | 187 | 55 |
12 | Riewoldt, Nick | 10 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 31y 233d | 270 | 601 |
6 | Ross, Sebastian | 11 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 21y 31d | 18 | 3 |
35 | Saunders, Josh | 7 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 19y 280d | 18 | 7 |
39 | Shenton, Cameron | 5 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 23y 253d | 5 | 0 |
31 | Simpkin, Tom | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 23y 304d | 28 | 0 |
3 | Steven, Jack | 13 | 2 | 16 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 24y 71d | 81 | 62 |
44 | Weller, Maverick | 4 | 0 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 22y 114d | 37 | 4 |
Rushed | 1 | |||||||||||||
Totals | 159 | 48 | 156 | 315 | 9 | 5 | 26 | 67 | 13 | 20 | 24y 239d | 1653 | 1087 |