Australian Football

Match Report

The last match to close up the round finds us at the Peter Motley Oval in Unley for another catch up as the Blues faced the Bloods. Both of last years games between these two clubs both went the way of the reigning premiers, the first being a 45-point win in Round 4, then a nightmare outing for the Bloods in Round 17 as they went down by 89 points. Both sides haven't tasted victory this season, the Bloods went down to North Adelaide a couple of weeks ago, while the Blues were hammered at Alberton as mentioned earlier. 

Early goal-kicking issues dogged the Blues as they scored six behinds while the Bloods managed to score 2.3 to lead by nine points at the first change. But soon enough, they found the big sticks to kick 4.2 to Westies' 2.3 in the second term, the Blues leading by two points at the long break. When play resumed, so did Sturt's poor shooting on goal. Not that it was a problem in that period, they still managed to take their lead out to 27 points with a 5.7 to two goal third quarter. Note that those two Bloods goals were the first of the second half which saw them re-take the lead, albeit briefly. The Bloods final quarter saw them get the inaccuracy bug, which was Sturt's saving grace in the end seeing as with all of Westies' misses they could have nicked the game. They kicked 2.7 to two goals as the home side bagged their first points of the year, a 20-point victory. 

Patrick Wilson can lay claim to a rare feat, two best afield honours in one round for the Blues. The Bloods named Chris Schmidt as their best.