Central v Port Rd 7 2007

[Wedgie]

Trent was born to try

May 20, 2007 12:15am
Article from: Sunday Mail (SA)

A THREE-GOAL, final-quarter explosion by Central District recruit Trent Goodrem piloted the undefeated Bulldogs to a fighting 10-point win against Port Adelaide at Elizabeth last night.

The ex-Sydney Swans player booted each of his goals in a game-turning twist to a rugged contest between the SANFL's first and second-placed teams.

The younger brother of singer Delta Goodrem, he had only one kick and three handpasses until three-quarter time but splitting open a contest that for more than a half never stretched beyond a 12-point margin.

With his side leading by just two points, he courageously put his head over the ball to earn a free kick and his first major five minutes into the last quarter.

Two minutes later he extended the lead to 14 points - the biggest margin since Centrals led by 18 points in opening term - and restored the buffer 11 minutes on after Port Adelaide forward Brent LeCras threatened to pull off his own take-over.

After a tight first three quarters in which neither side could break clear, the final term opened with all the fireworks missing from early in the game.

Centrals busted from the centre and James Gowans found Ian Callinan in open space to goal with 18 seconds on the clock.

Magpies key forward Clive Waterhouse - quiet compared with recent weeks - goaled in similar time after the restart before Goodrem intervened.

Exciting but wayward Bulldogs forward Justin Westhoff - who finished with 3.6 - could have sealed Centrals' timely surge on the tick of time-on but he hit the post from a set shot 15m out.

LeCras (4.1) menaced the home crowd of 6673 with a late goal to bring Port's deficit back to nine points but the Magpies could not make up any more ground.

Daniel Hargraves, who finished with 4.3, was a superb target inside 50 for Port.

After an errant start as both sides adjusted to the slippery ground conditions, it took until the 14th minute for the first goal to come, through a lightning snap from Trent Goodrem.

Two more goals to Westhoff and Callinan in the next seven minutes gave the home side a three-goal break. Hargraves put the Magpies on the board when he capitalised on a clever kick from Jeremy Clayton.

A goal-for-goal shoot-out developed from the 10-minute mark of the second term when Waterhouse played on and booted his first.

Westhoff answered for the Dogs and Magpie forward Kyle Jenner hit back a minute later.

The slug-fest continued until the Bulldogs finally prevailed.

[WRxb0y]

That news article tells of a very close game for both of the teams. In reality, the only thing that kept Port in the games were the umpires.
That game was riddled with shit umpiring. I lost count of how many high tackles that Port got away with.
There was even one incident in the Dogs' forward 50 when 3 players went up for the ball .. two of them Dogs' and they took each other out... but somehow that resulted in a free for the Pies.. go figure. Another real beauty was again down in the Dogs' forward 50 with play happening as usual, and then out of no where a free took place in the forward 50 for Port... (Thats right !!) some 100-150m away from the ball, which undoubtly resulted in a goal.
The umpiring last night was a total disgrace to the code. Those mattress stains of umpires made even Williams look a saint ... and thats saying something.

I would love to see the free count !!

[Apachebulldog]

One thing i did not mention, why was there no radio broadcast of this Saturday night's SANFL game, this was the game of the round 1st versus 2nd and no broadcast.

So how about it Adelaide radio stations, lift your game and broadcast Sat night games in the future as some of us supporters do like to listen and watch the game.

It seems to happen everytime there is SAT NITE GAME.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF !!!!!!