Category Archive: AUSTRALIANIA
Close but No Cigar
Bays v Dogs, Elizabeth Oval, 7 July 2018 In case anyone cares: Glenelg 9.9 (63) Central District 9.11 (65)
Continue Reading →Don’t Throw in the Towel (Yet), Rocky
Glenelg v Woodville/West Torrens Eagles, Gliderol Stadium, 23 June 2018 Memo to the SANFL: the Bays don’t need any help – they can lose a game all on their own – missing set shots, kicking out of bounds, turning the ball over, and so on. In a game where the Tigers, safely ensconced near the foot of the table, take on 2nd-placed, perennial-finalist, Hybrid-Prius, sharp-practice W/WT, why then fail to pay 20 odd frees that should have gone to us, not to mention about 6 25-metre penalties? At the other end, a pretty-boy called Hayes gets 3 cheap frees (including one…
Continue Reading →A loss is a loss is a loss
Glenelg v North Adelaide, Gliderol (Open Air) Stadium, 11 June 2018 We dreaded the Queen’s Birthday match – the Roosters crowing at the top of the table and the Tigers skulking down in 9th place. Predictably, North’s legion of fair-weather fans had come out of the woodwork, and they were in strong voice. This may have influenced the umpires to decide not to report a North player for using his elbow on a Bay player’s head, but what else is new? North are a class team and move the ball into their multi-pronged attack with verve. The Bays rely on perspiration rather than…
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Glenelg v Sturt, Unley Oval, May 26, 2018 10 goals to nothing over quarters 2 and 3. No-one wins many games going to sleep for 50% of the game. Glenelg 8.9 (57) Sturt 15.11 (101) [PS. Vale Keith Pattinson, a great rover for the Bays from 1965 to 1971. 91 games, 109 goals, including a glorious outing against North in 1969, when he kicked 8 goals! As Peter Cornwall, in Pride of the Bay, noted: “Pattinson had been a reserve for the league side 11 times the previous year, but hard work to find an extra yard of pace and bulk up had…
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Glenelg Tigers v Adelaide Crows, Glenelg Oval, May 19, 2018 The Adelaide Crows and the AFL in general, continue to show its contempt for the SANFL and true SANFL teams. The Adelaide reserves team has some fine players, and several of them have been mined for the AFL brand, thereby denuding the team at SANFL level. They are the Crows’ “Organ Farm.” But it is hard to avoid the thought that they don’t give a damn about the competition at this level, which is why they’re now regarded as ‘The Bye’. The struggling Bays took the latest advantage of this…
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