A’s Match Report
Hi All,
Last Saturday we took on Sacred Heart Old Scholars at the SHC Middle School.
We were very pleased to announce another A grade debut with Jett Holberton making his A grade debut on Saturday. Jett is from the McLaren Vale Footy club in the Great Southern League and had spent some time at South Adelaide footy club. Jett is a great young guy and has had a great pre season and start to the season in the B grade. He would probably be close to leading our best and fairest in the B grade for the first half of the year and thoroughly deserved his promotion. Jett acquitted himself very well and I thought he was in our best players to half time.
We went into this game fresh off a much needed week off and our training during the week was as good as it has been all year.
For a change, we started well and led at quarter time. The second quarter was quite even and I felt we dominated the second half of the second quarter which gave us some confidence heading into half time.
However, the 3rd quarter was really poor from us. We failed to kick a goal to Sacred Hearts 4 and trailed by 27 points at ¾ time.
SHOC’s kicked the first goal of the last and we were in big trouble (33 points down) but to our guys credit we finished strong kicking the next 5 goals. Unfortunately though, we could get the job done and ended up 8 points losers.
Full credit to SHOC’s who were harder at the contest (especially in the air), we lost to a better side (on Saturday).
We need to be more consistent over 4 quarters and we have considerable work to do on our decision making and skill execution.
Rulla Kelly Mansell and Mac Nield kicked 3 goals each with Adam Scholz and Riley Carter hitting the scoreboard again with 2 each.
Better players for the day were Tom Pearce, Sam Inglis, Adam Scholz, Nick Ramsey, Henry Papatolis, Declan Grant and Max Scott.
This week we are back at the Cave and take on Salisbury North for another big test, they have been in some good form.
See you at the footy!
Minnas
