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Sturt v Adelaide | Peter Motley Oval | 2:10pm

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STURT
Sturt has named premiership defender Byron Sumner ahead of schedule for its match against Adelaide on Saturday.

Sumner, who copped a jaw injury against Port in Round 9, was initially expected to miss four weeks but could return a week earlier if he takes his place in the final 21.

The former Sydney Swan is one of three inclusions for the Double Blues’ 23-man squad, with tall forward Hugo Munn and utility Joel Thiele also earning a call up.

Munn has been named to start at centre-haf forward while Thiele, named on the extended interchange bench, could play his first Statewide Super League game of the year after playing 10 in the Reserves for 2019.

League

F: Greenslade, Patullo, J. Hone

HF: Riley, Munn, Sutcliffe

C: Pearce, Colquhoun, Crocker

HB: Stephens, Edmonds, Sumner

B: Illman, F. Evans, Carey



R: Fahey-Sparks, Slimming, Kirkwood

INT: M. Lochowiak, Penfold, Battersby, Thiele, M. Evans

IN: Thiele, Munn, Sumner

OUT: Coomblas

Reserves
T. Hone, Richards, Trenorden, Thornton, Laycock, Voss, Parker-Boers, Coomblas, How, Borlase, A. Lochowiak, Condon, Allan, Armiento, Crane, Hough, Weeks, Grivell, Mitchell, Wills.

Under-18
F: Fahey, Durack, Doyle
HF: Bates, Ferres, Crane
C; Kitto, Liddy, Wingard
HB: Carruthers, Matteucci, Walter
B: Britten-Jones, Paddick, Starr

R: Zevenboom, Kennett, H. Ferrari
INT: Holland, Sims, Staples, Thredgold
EMG: Howe, J. Ferrari, Powell, Z. Parker-Boers

ADELAIDE
Adelaide will be without two key players for its encounter with Sturt at Peter Motley Oval on Saturday.

Veteran midfielder Bryce Gibbs and exciting young forward Ben Davis have been called upon to play against Geelong in the AFL on Friday night with Davis making his AFL debut.

Tall forward Elliott Himmelberg has also been excluded from the SANFL squad.

Five SANFL development players have been included in the Crows’ 23-man list, including emerging Millicent midfielder Tom Hutchesson and utility Hamish Latchford.

League

F: Strachan, Fogarty, Stengle

HF: Wright, Hunter, McAdam

C: Knight, Wilson, Mackay

HB: Sholl, Butts, McPherson

B: Hamill, Otten, Merrett



R: Jacobs, Poholke, Jones

INT: Boyle, Farrer, Hutchesson, Johnson, Latchford

IN: Boyle, Farrer, Hutchesson, Johnson, Latchford

OUT: Davis (AFL), Gibbs (AFL), Himmelberg (AFL)

I think Sturt can get the job done here. Tough encounter looms on the smaller oval with rain likely to make it low scoring.

Sturt by 2 goals

Crows reserves don't look that formidable all of a sudden, Sturt by 20 points

This Ravens side looks as though it could be beatable, unlike their other lineups of late.
Sturt with its own injury worries and now the sudden retirement of Hansen, means we're a few horsepower short also. Throw in some murky weather and my guess is it could go 2 goals either way.
Definitely a must win for the Blues with Port storming towards the 5 and so many other sides playing good footy.

Strut by 11pts.

An ambush for the "Fruit tingles" awaits ......?

Go Strut.

The margin will be be closer due to the rain but Adelaide comfortably.

15 minutes 1st Q

Sturt 0-3
Ravens 1-0

25 minutes 1st Q
Sturt 0-3
Ravens 1-3

Q time score as above

11 minutes 2 Q
Sturt 1-4
Ravens 2-3

Sturt with the past 2 goals.
19 minutes 2 Q
Sturt 2-4
Ravens 2-4

3Q 10 minutes
Sturt 3-5
Ravens 2-6

Penfold's goal puts Sturt up.

4Q 9 minutes
Sturt 3-5
Ravens 4-6
Ravens with the past two.

14 minutes
Sturt 3-5
Ravens 5-6

That might be it for the Blues. It's absolutely pissing down here at Unley, and we'd have to score 3 more goals in about 10 minutes, whereas we've only scored 3 for the entire match so far.

3-5 to 6-6 now

Patrick Wilson with 22 tackles is a fair effort.

beef wrote:Patrick Wilson with 22 tackles is a fair effort.

Crowd 1227, Is this the smallest at Unley?

* Same post as the other game. AFL reserves and weather.