Australian Football

Match Report

On Sunday afternoon at the Alberton Oval, the Magpies met the Tigers. There have been 13 matches between these teams over the previous five seasons, the Tigers holding a single match over the Magpies 7-6. But the past four games have all been black & white victories, including the Round 23 game at the bay which many supporters believed was the end of the Port Adelaide Football Club as they knew it, with "big brother" taking full control of the Magpies' destiny from there onwards. The Tigers are a team in re-build mode, a great deal of their line up either league newbies or new faces... who had no idea of what punishment was ahead of them.

This Magpies outfit was everything that rival SANFL clubs feared, a team with several Power-listed players, which would proceed to tear this under-prepared and under-experienced Tigers line-up. The Bays would manage just a single behind in the first quarter, while Port rammed through 10.4 to take a startling 63-point lead at quarter-time. Inaccuracy crept into the Port camp in the second term, but the Tigers would not for a second come close to causing concern. They added a further 4.5 to Glenelg's 3.1 to put their lead out to 73 points by the half-time break. The Glenelg faithful could have been forgiven for taking their leave at this point, because when play resumed so did the destruction. The Magpies slammed home a further 7.4 to 2.1 in the third quarter, stretching the gap to 106 points by the final change. The final result would send chills down spines and probably make a lot of SANFL fans extremely concerned and angry as the 'Pies ran away with it, hammering the point home in the last term with a 8.2 to four behind effort to take a 152-point win.