Australian Football

Match Report

In the final game of round nine, the Tigers and the Roosters faced off at Gliderol Stadium on the public holiday Monday. The past dozen encounters between these two sides have seen the Tigers take seven wins to North's five, the last match saw the Tigers hammer the Roosters to the tune of 67 points at Prospect which ended a four-match losing streak that began in mid-2010. This Queen's Birthday fixture has become a traditional feature of the SANFL calendar, much like the Melbourne vs. Collingwood match on the same day. The Roosters are knocking on the door of the top five, while the Tigers needed to take a victory if they wanted to rise from the bottom of the ladder.

The Bays would make a decent go of it in the first half of the match, they began the afternoon's proceedings with a 3.2 to 2.3 first term to take a five-point win at quarter-time. North would answer back in the second term, inaccuracy on goal seeing them jump ahead by just four points after kicking 3.4 to the Tigers' 2.1. Unfortunately for the Glenelg faithful, once again they just couldn't play more than a half of football and the Roosters ran rampant from here. When play resumed, the inaccuracy continued but would hardly be a factor as North kicked 7.7 to a paltry 1.1. At three quarter-time, the visitors held a 44-point lead. The point was rammed home in the final term, North adding a further 5.2 to the Bays' 3.3 to take out a 57-point win, putting them level with the Redlegs on points with only percentage keeping them out of the top five.

Jay Shannon was named best afield for North and took the Dean Higgins Medal, while the Tigers named Matthew Snook as their best on ground.