Australian Football

Match Report

The final game for the Saturday afternoon takes us down to the bay, to the Gliderol Stadium in Glenelg where the Tigers faced the Double Blues. The Blues have taken the previous three games against the Tigers, the most recent was back in Round 2 at Unley where the Blues won by 28 points in a match where they probably should have won by more. The Blues last trip to Tiger-land was more fruitful, the opening round of 2014 saw them win by 43 points. But Sturt's recent form would make the Tigers -- who inflicted Norwood's second loss -- the favourite to win.

The Tigers went a long way to back that tag up, they started the afternoon's proceedings by ramming through seven goals without a miss and kept the Blues to one behind as they went into the first change with a 41-point lead. At this time the Glenelg that defeated the reigning premiers seemed to slow up, the Double Blues set about repairing the damage immediately and started with the second quarter, where they kicked 5.1 to the Tigers' 2.1 to cut the deficit back to 17 points. When play resumed for the second half, the Blues continued to chip away at the Tigers' already trimmed down advantage. The third quarter was riddled with inaccuracy for both teams, the Blues reduced the gap to one straight kick by the final change after scoring 5.4 to 3.4. Glenelg would be up by five points at three quarter-time. But the Bays weren't going to let this one slip, the match becoming an arm-wrestle as the Tigers kept the Blues away long enough to win by five points after both sides scored 4.1 to finish the afternoon.

Matthew Snook was named Glenelg's best, while the Double Blues voted James Battersby as their standout.