Round 3 - Pembroke Kings
Round 3 - Pembroke Kings
Round 3 - Pembroke Kings
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A WORD FROM THE HAFF<br />
Senior Coach Chris Mehaffey<br />
ROUND 3<br />
We hosted the undefeated Adelaide University at home in what would be a tough encounter. We unfortunately<br />
lost captain Sam Fritsch, ruckman Fraser Pinkney, Ollie Winter and Scott Fischer to injury or illness<br />
and brought in Fletcher Doherty, Nick Bentley, Sam Willis and Matt Willis for his first “A” Grade<br />
game…four more changes yet again…very frustrating!<br />
Whilst we didn’t go in at full strength we remained confident we could upset University. It was certainly<br />
a tough day for football with the wind across the ground and some rain, testing all players.<br />
The match failed to reach any great heights. We were poor going into attack, wasting many opportunities<br />
with our slow ball movement, which allowed Uni to work back and cover our forwards making it very<br />
difficult to score.<br />
Uni dominated the dead ball situations and allowing them to have more clean entries into their forward<br />
line than we did. They basically edged away from us all day. To the players credit they kept the intensity<br />
up for four quarters which “limited the loss” to five goals.<br />
Forward entries for the day were 36-34 in Uni’s favour but I think the game could be best summed up by<br />
the last quarter……we had 11 forward entries to their 4…..won the clearances 10 to 7……and scored 6<br />
behinds to their 1.2….that shows the difference.<br />
There was some absolute standout performances on the day led from the back pocket by Charles<br />
“Inspector Gadget arms” Canny who repelled many attacks and ably supported by reliable Glenn Smith<br />
again at centre half back. On-ballers Angus Berry now approaching the best form he has shown in two<br />
years, Alex Holbrook again with his harness around the packs and the ever-cool Ben Way all were standouts.<br />
Mention should go also to Nick Bentley who given a tagging job on their centreman was excellent<br />
causing Uni to reshuffle their structure due to Nick’s effort.<br />
We did have many players down on the day which can be accredited to University’s good play as much as<br />
our below par performance. Unfortunately we relied on too few with six of our players having less than<br />
five possessions for the day and another six having between five and nine. Only three players accumulated<br />
20 possessions…an area we must improve on.
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