Australian Football

Match Report

The last match for the Saturday afternoon takes us to the inner southern leafy streets of Unley, the Double Blues hosting the Crows at Peter Motley Oval. The season opener was the beginning of Sturt's four-match premiership hangover period, the Crows nicking the game by two points despite a final term fightback by the Blues. But they haven't dropped a game since their win against West in the second week of Round 5, six outings without a loss. The Crows have lost just one out of their last five games and were out of the five on percentage alone, they came into this game off a six-goal win against Centrals. 

The Crows were behind the eight-ball early in the term, but three unanswered goals among their opening term 4.3 to Sturt's 3.1 saw them up by eight points at the first change. The Blues were finally able to exert some control over proceedings in the second term, but woeful shooting on goal would see them up by just three goals at the long break after they kicked 4.8 to the Crows single major. The one major thing the Blues were better at was their pressure. They did it against Port and they were doing it again and the Crows didn't have it mainly thanks to a depleted line-up. The scoring wasn't plentiful in the third term but the Blues still managed to add to their lead, they scored 3.2 to 1.2 to stretch the gap to five goals by three quarter-time. The final term was goals-a-plenty, the Blues peppered their goal for a return of 7.6 to Adelaide's 4.2 to win by 52 points. 

Aidan Riley was named Sturt's best on ground, the Crows went for Matt Signorello as their best.