Adelaide –15.14 (104)
Carlton –8.12 (60)
The Adelaide Crows have survived a scare by the Blues in a match which seemed to be done and dusted by half time. The Crows dominated on the scoreboard and only left the Blue goaless at half time. The Blues finally woke up in the third quarter and moved the margin to within 26 points, but the Crows re-gained composure and won at home by 44 points.
Turning points of the match
The Crows kicked the first 9 goals of the match and held a lead of 55 points early in the third quarter, with the Blues only managing to kick 5 behinds.
Key Players for the Adelaide
Michael Doughty – Ran alongside Judd all night and restrained him to only 19 possessions. He collected 26 disposals, had 6 tackles, obtained 5 marks and kicked a goal.
Tyson Edwards – Had a very solid game for the Crows. He collected equal game high (with Stevens) 32 disposals, had 7 marks and laid 4 tackles. He also had game high 17 kicks.
Chris Knights – Played on Browne all day, and as a midfielder pushed forward and booted an accurate 5 goals straight, with 15 possessions.
Key Players for Carlton
Nick Stevens – One of the Blues most solid for the night. He collected an equal game high (with Edwards) 32 possessions, laid 3 tackles and took 8 marks.
Paul Bowler – Played and ran off Porplyzia and beat him. He collected 25 possessions, and had 6 marks.
Marc Murphy – Collected 23 disposals, laid 4 tackles. He also kicked 2.2. Although much of his disposals were collected in the fourth term, when the game was done.
Musings from the match
- Heath Scotland was a late withdrawal and was replaced by Simon Wiggins.
- The Blues only kicked the 5 behinds in the first half of footy.
- The Blues have not beaten Adelaide in five years.
- The Crows had over 50 more disposals than the Blues.
- The Crows had only 9 more contested possessions to the Blues; 119-110. But when it came to the un-contested possessions the Crows dominated 292- 231.
- Disposals accuracy between the two teams was only separated by 3%, the Crows coming out victors.
- Adelaide had 10 more marks inside 50; 14-10. The Crows also dominated the inside 50’s; 60-39.
- Andrew ‘Bunji’ (an indigenous word for ‘brother’) McLeod has over taken Mark Ricciuto as the Adelaide Crows games record-holder with 313 games under his belt.
SuperCoach news
Jarrad Waite – Hyperextended his left knee in the first quarter and came off. Went into the rooms and then reappeared, but not longer participated in the game. He just had the one handpass, you wouldn’t be happy with that statistic if you had him on your team!
Adelaide had 8 players scoring 100+ points, while Carlton only had the 3.
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