Round 21: South v Centrals - Saturday 18 August 2012 @ Hickinbotham Oval

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Saturday 18 August
Hickinbotham Oval

Reserves: 11:25am
League: 2:10pm

Broadcast: No broadcast

South are coming off a loss to Norwood, while Centrals are coming off a shock home loss to West. Which side will bounce back this week?

I will be giving regular updates from this game throughout the day on 107.9 LifeFM from their call of the Eagles v Port game.

So it's a home game for South......

thats a loss.

Will keep our pathetic home record at 1 win 8 losses for the year!!

The way Central are playing at the moment, South will probably win, regardless of their poor home record...

Big Phil wrote:The way Central are playing at the moment, South will probably win, regardless of their poor home record...

Can only hope Big Phil

Fingers crossed!!!

Will be interesting to see how big ruckman Josh Wilson goes in his League debut for the Dogs.

29 years old, played a lot of footy at varying clubs around the country and joined Central about 2 months ago after playing for Yankalilla.

Dominated his first few games in the reserves then did a calf. Back in the 2's last week and had a good game, now getting a League gig.

Good luck to him...

Panthers

F: Brooksby, Wundke, Beilby
HF: Rolfe, Ainger, Miller
C. Cross, Murphy, Watson
HB: Carey, Crabb, Veide
B: De Visser, Casley, Redigolo

R: McKernan, Stribling, Liddle

INT: Houlihan, Dowdell, Gotch, Crate, Taylor

IN: Miller, McKernan, Dowdell, Watson
OUT: Bass (omitted), Daniel (omitted)

Central

F: Habel, Hardy, Gowans
HF: C.Gowans, M.Westhoff, Schiller
C: O'Hara, Williams, Barmby
HB: Sansbury, Templeton, Collier
B: Thomas, Hynes, Marschall

R: Hannath, Symes, Boyd

INT: Goodrem, Menzel, Prior, Waldhuter

In: Menzel, Barmby, Prior, Waldhuter
Out: Jenner (hamstring), Dutschke (back), Milne (omitted)

Some confusion about Central's side as their website names Wilson as an in but he's not included in the placed team or bench.

South for me.

The dogs to win this.

Two questions arise from this game.

South kick big scores and lose. Is their game style outdated, or do they just need some better defenders? Or both?

Central kicked a heap of goals at the end of the game. Cheap goals, or is it the sort of starter they needed to find their confidence again?

(I think that's more than 2 questions)

South's defrence is certainly it's weak point, in my opinion...

Brad Crabb needs another 1 or 2 big defenders to help him out down there...

Ben Casley withdrew late from the side, which wouldn't have helped...

Central kicked 11 goals straight in the final term. They kicked 4 goals in the first 5 minutes - including 2 to Ryan Williams within 45 seconds - then to South's credit they fought back into the contest.

They were only 7 points down, 14 minutes in before Central (mainly through Trent Goodrem in the middle) lifted their intensity at the clearances and slammed home 7 consecutive goals in the last 15 minutes of footy.

I think South were almost stunned in that last period of the final term, the Dogs found their running game again, the midfield took the advantage back and the forwards were too big and too stroong.

Flag No.9 wrote:Some confusion about Central's side as their website names Wilson as an in but he's not included in the placed team or bench.

The software Central use to load their side onto their page only allows 4 players on the bench. When there are extended squads, often a 5th player can't be shown.