Sydney – 18.15 (123)
Port Adelaide – 10.8 (68)
Sydney have smashed, and likely demoralised, Port Adelaide at the SCG on Sunday afternoon. Sydney took just one minute to open their account and open the floodgates shocking Port into submission early. The Swans piled on 8 goals to 1 in the first quarter alone, with Ports only score coming in the 24th minute from youngster Hamish Hartlett. The second quarter saw Port kick the opening goal in just 48 seconds through big man Warren Treadrea but the quarter still belonged to the Swans who kicked 3 goals to 2 to go into half time with a 52 point advantage. Each team added 7 goals after half time and the swans finished with a 55 point win.
Turning points of the match It’s too hard to go past the 43 point quarter time lead to the Swans. Their first quarter blew the Power away dashing any hope of an upset win. Key Players for Sydney Brett Kirk – Dominated with 32 touches, 8 tackles, 4 marks and 2 straight goals. Jarred McVeigh – Also had a cracker with 26 disposals, 7 marks and also kicked 2.2. Barry Hall – Like McVeigh he kicked 2.2 and gathered 17 possessions with Troy Chaplin playing on him. Key Players for Port Adelaide Hamish Hartlett – One Of Ports few four quarter performances. In a game that didn’t see much go Ports way he managed 16 disposals, 4 marks and kicked 2 straight goals. Kane Cornes – Clearly still playing with an injury he racked up 23 possessions and 7 tackles. Domenic Cassisi – Played a tagging role on Ryan O’Keefe and held him decently until the last quarter. He Gathered 21 touches and 7 marks. Musings from the match · The Swans first seven goals saw seven different goal kickers. · Port Adelaide dominated the hit outs, 50-28. · Of those, Darren Jolly had 15 and Jesse White had 10 for the Swans. · Compare that to Dean Brogans 30 and you see the only part of the game that Port had the upper hand. · The Swans were just over 11% more efficient with their disposal, but had only 4 less clangers than the Power. · Sydney had 11 more marks inside 50. · The Swans also dominated the inside 50’s, with 11 more than Port (common trend occurring here) · Each team had the same amount of rebound 50’s. · Despite the loss Port had a higher goal scoring accuracy with 82.14% to the Swans 73.33%. · The Swans had 28 more contested possessions and a whopping 99 more uncontested possessions. · The Swans just seemed to dominate all over the field with more kicks, 208-166, more handballs, 197-112, and more marks, 99-74. Overall they finished with 127 more disposals than the Power. Supercoach news Brett Kirk – Followed up his 149 last week with a 154 this week. This guy is a gun, if you can grab him he looks the goods at the moment. Jarrad McVeigh – Hard to believe that anyone beat Kirk’s score but McVeigh did just that with 158. He has been a little inconsistent but with the ability to score that well he is still a decent pickup. Expensive though.
Tags: Barry Hall, Brett Kirk, Darren Jolly, Dean Brogan, Domenic Cassisi, Hamish Hartlett, Jarred McVeigh, Jesse White, Kane Cornes
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[...] Previous Encounter: Round 9, 2009 Sydney – 18.15 (123) Port Adelaide – 10.8 (68) Sydney have smashed, and likely demoralised, Port Adelaide at the SCG on Sunday afternoon. Sydney took just one minute to open their account and open the floodgates shocking Port into submission early. The Swans piled on 8 goals to 1 in the first quarter alone, with Ports only score coming in the 24th minute from youngster Hamish Hartlett. The second quarter saw Port kick the opening goal in just 48 seconds through big man Warren Treadrea but the quarter still belonged to the Swans who kicked 3 goals to 2 to go into half time with a 52 point advantage. Each team added 7 goals after half time and the swans finished with a 55 point win. …read more… [...]