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Round: 16 Venue: Unley Oval Date: Sat, 12-08-2017 2:10 pm Crowd: 2,092 | |||||
Sturt | 3.1.19 | 7.6.48 | 10.12.72 | 14.17.101 | |
Glenelg | 2.4.16 | 3.5.23 | 5.6.36 | 7.10.52 | |
STURT by 3 | STURT by 25 | STURT by 36 | STURT by 49 |
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Match number three now and its off to the city's southern fringes, the Double Blues hosting the Tigers at the Peter Motley Oval in Unley. Earlier this season, the Tigers embarrassed the hell out of the Blues when they came to Glenelg back in Round 2, handing them a 61-point hiding. A lot has changed since that time though, the Blues back on track in their premiership defence while the Tigers' fell down to fifth and have a pair of possible road bumps that could rail-road them out of the finals race. Both sides were victorious in Round 15, the Blues overpowering a determined Bloods outfit at Richmond and the Tigers managed to hold off a fast-finishing Adelaide out at Bordertown.
Accuracy on goal was Glenelg's enemy in the opening quarter, the Blues led by three points at quarter-time after they scored 3.1 to 2.4. The Tigers couldn't keep up their attack in the second term, despite inaccuracy becoming the Blues' issue they still kicked 4.5 to 1.1 to take their advantage out to 25 points by the half-time break. Poor shooting on goal continued to dog the home side in the second half, but the Tigers weren't able to string any together so were not bridging any gaps anytime soon. Sturt's 3.6 to Glenelg's 2.1 saw the lead creep out to six goals by three quarter-time. While their shooting on goal wasn't too flash, the Blues' body pressure was and it told as the Blues ran out 49-point winners, scoring a further 4.5 to 2.4 to finish the game.
Zane Kirkwood was named Sturt's best on ground, the Tigers voting in Matt Snook as their best.