Australian Football

Match Report

At Coopers Stadium on The Parade, the Redlegs took on the Crows under Friday Night Lights. Despite there being an Adelaide Football Club in existence at the time and being in the same competition around the period of the original club's 1886 premiership, any history between them and the Redlegs is unknown. In recent times, the two clubs have played against each other during pre-season contests in the early 2000's, but that's about it. Some controversy surrounded the Redlegs during the time where the SANFL clubs were voting whether or not to accept AFL reserves teams, the hierarchy at The Parade initially boasting their intent to vote no. But as the internet meme says... "nek min nit".

The Redlegs premiership defence is in a bit of disarray and the Crows, looking for win number two, would find themselves ahead by 17 points at the first break after kicking 5.2 to the 'Legs 2.3. But the Redlegs would fight their way back into the game in the second term, kicking 5.3 to the Crows' 2.1 to nick a three point advantage at half-time. The early stage of the third quarter was a shootout as the two teams bagged three goals each in the first 10 minutes. The Redlegs put a stamp on it after that point though, adding a further three goals and one behind against the Crows' three behinds to take a 19-point lead at three quarter-time. The Redlegs would not let the Crows back into this one, keeping the visitors to just 1.2 whilst adding 3.2 to their own score to take a 31-point win, their third win of the year.

Michael Newton was a machine for Norwood, his eight goals getting him best afield votes while the Crows named Jarryd Lyons as their best on ground.