#AFLCrowsEagles - Results and Report

As requested, rather than make this a larger tweet with a deck.ly compressed post, I thought I’d make this report a blog entry. But I’m going to make some comment about it; that I wouldn’t have done on Twitter.

Final results from this afternoon’s clash of the birds are not a surprise, but if you had taken the final result from the opening quarter, maybe they are. 6th played 14th at AAMI Stadium on a cool and cloudy afternoon; the punters were backing the Crows fairly publicly, with one punter’s $10K bet on them within the last half-hour before play, but the market said otherwise at the outset, with Betfair offering $2.26 for the Crows to win here.

Starting strongly, probably urged by that large bet, the score at the break was Adelaide 3.1 (19), West Coast 1.3 (9), with majors to Wright (2.1), Gunston (1.0) [Adelaide], and  Lecras (1.0).

But that was it for the Crows for that half: the Weagles jumped out of the gates for the second stanza with five unanswered goals to two points. At the main break, the visitors had a commanding lead: Adelaide 3.3 (21), West Coast 8.7 (55).

And the shoe was firmly on the other foot for the third quarter, with the visitors stepping up to the plate for the last in this see-saw event. At ¾-time the locals had scored 5.2 to 1.3, but the visitors increased their lead with another 6.6 to 2.2 by the final siren.

Scores

Adelaide Crows       3.1   3.3   8.5   10.7  (67)

West Coast Eagles  1.3   8.7   9.10   15.16  (106)

Scorers for the locals

Richard Douglas & Matthew Wright, 2.1

Rory Sloane & Jack Gunston, 2.0

Bernie Vince & Patrick Dangerfield, 1.0

Chris Knights, 0.3

Nathan Van Berlo, 0.1

Scorers for the visitors

Mark Lecras, 5.2

Mark Nicoski, 3.1

Matthew Rosa, 2.1

Joshua Kennedy, 1.2

Nicholas Naitanui, 1.1

Luke Shuey, Matthew Priddis, & Dean Cox, 1.0

Quinten Lynch, 0.2

Scott Selwood & Brad Ebert, 0.1

Next week, Adelaide (now 14th) have the Bulldogs at Etihad on Friday night #AFLDogsCrows, and the Eagles (now 5th) have another gimme: this one at home with the so-called Power on Sunday arv #AFLEaglesPower.