Friendly RADelaide Crows vs Cornhusslers

Here we are on this cold afternoon at Mt. Gambier Football oval. The forcast says it will rain and only reach a max of 10 degrees. So rug up as this one will get under way shortly.

The teams are in.

RADelaide Crows have gone with:

FB: Ryan Hargrave - Darren Glass - Luke McPharlin
HB: Brad Symes - Craig Bolton - Lindsay Gilbee
C: Michael Osborne - Ryan Griffen - Cale Morton
HF: Angus Monfries - Scott Stevens - Hayden Skipworth
FF: Paul Stewart - Lance Franklin - Justin Westhoff
Foll: Josh Fraser - Luke Ball - Heath Scotland

Int: Garrick Ibbotson, Courtenay Dempsey, Cheynee Stiller, Bachar Houli

The key players will be Bolton and Buddy Franklin.

Now to look at the Cornhusslers teams.

FB: Paul Wheatley - Michael Johnson - Nathan Lovett-Murray
HB: Daniel Merrett - Adam Mcphee - Richard Tambling
C: Chad Fletcher - Josh Carr - Kade Simpson
HF: Cleve Hughes - Robert Murphy - Mark Williams
FF: Ben Reid - Matthew Pavlich - David Rodan
Foll: Darren Jolly - Joel Corey - Daniel Harris
Int: Matthew Rosa, Nic Fosdike, Sam Butler, Jason Laycock

Corey and Pavlich are the ones to watch in this game.

So the Key match ups are:
Bolton on Murphy
Stevens against McPhee
Ball on Corey

These teams are even, but if Buddy or Pav get on top of their player it could swing the game around.

Oh right here comes the players now.

 

sweeet

 

The captains come in.

Cornhusslers win and will kick with the wind in the first. Mark Roughly says "Its a huge wind down here, Cornhusslers will be looking at a 6 goal advantage."

 

Great pressure early by Radelaide, forcing the Cornhusslers to stay in side their defensive 50.

 

6 goal wind? lol

 

5 minutes gone and no score yet.

 

not good

 

And here come the rain, i can barely see across the gorund. POURING HERE.

 

And as that happens Pavlich gets the first of the game.

Cornhusslers up by 6.

 

Joel Corey to carve up in the wet

 

good pav

 

M.Johnson with 8 touches already and 5 rebounds.

 

The Crows get a goal through Monfries, great wet play there.

 

Another quick goal, from S.Stevens, what a goal too, 40 out against the wind.

2 minutes later Gilbee misses to the left, should have kicked it.

 

Monfries on fire, he gets another, taking his total to 2.1.

 

Cornhusslers get one back through Murphy.

 

Monfries has three as Lovett-Murray is move onto him.

 

dire game so far