Round 13 1987

West Coast v Fitzroy
Round 13, 1987

Date

Fri, 19 June 1987 (7:40 PM WST)

Venue

WACA

Attendance

13,540

Result

Won by 72

Score

WCE 16.18.114 - 5.12.42 FIT

Brownlow

3 J.Annear (WCE)
2 C.Lewis (WCE)
1 R.Glendinning (WCE)

Ladder

7th

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West Coast kept touch with the top five with a comprehensive victory over Fitzroy under lights at the WACA. The Eagles held the visitors to a solitary goal across the second and third terms in their best defensive effort of the season to date. Chris Mainwaring kicked two gols from a team-high 32 possessions and skipper Ross Glendinning bounced back from a quiet game with 10 marks and three majors.

Summary

		1/4 time		1/2 time		3/4 time		Final
West Coast		2.2.14		7.7.49		10.10.70		16.18.114
Fitzroy		2.4.16		3.4.22		3.9.27		5.12.42

Goals: Glendinning, Lockyer, MacNish, O'Connell 3, Mainwaring 2, Laidley, Malaxos

Best: Mainwaring, Malaxos, Zanotti, Annear, Narkle, Glendinning

Injuries: Nil

Named sides

	West Coast				Fitzroy
B:	22.O'Connell	10.Turner	5.Lamb	B:	50.Handley	18.Blakey	7.Gale
HB:	6.Miles	27.Zanotti	15.Laidley	HB:	17.McIvor	1.Roos	4.Thornton
C:	3.Mainwaring	32.Wrensted	7.Narkle	C:	8.Dwyer	40.Clayton	19.G.Osborne
HF:	28.Lewis	4.Glendinning	18.MacNish	HF:	44.R.Osborne	2.Sidebottom	11.Barwick
F:	8.Malaxos	45.Lockyer	1.Matera	F:	33.Stephens	25.Keane	14.Armstrong
R:	26.Ishchenko	16.Annear	36.Hart	R:	9.Rendell	24.Pekin	38.Harris
I:	2.Wiley	38.Barich		I:	48.Hinkley	2.Thomas
E:	12.Scott	14.Brennan	33.Holmes	E:	21.Kappler	5.Wilson	30.Wynd

In: Laidley, MacNish, Wiley

Out: Scott, Brennan, Holmes

From the papers

The Age

"The wet, muddy centre and at times heavy rain might have been expected to help Fitzroy, but the West Coast players led to the ball, threw themselves on to it with the sort of determination expected of VFL players in the depth of a Melbourne winter and emerged from the game with more mud, as well as glory.

West Coast pulled clear of Fitzroy with a five-goal second quarter and added nine in the second half, six of those in the last quarter. Fitzroy, with leading goalkicker Doug Barwick well held and Richard Osborne, its other focus in attack, playing most of the match on the backline, broke down in attack.

When Fitzroy did push forward, it was usually to see the ball rebounded out of the West Coast half-back line through the running skills of Mark Zanotti, Geoff Miles and, playing in defence, the skillful Chris Lewis.

Michael O'Connell and Andrew Lockyer - better known until now as backmen - each scored three goals in the first half. Then, in the second, Ross Glendinning and Andrew MacNish got three each."

Players in the WAFL

Round 12 (13 June)

East Perth (Peos, Bartlett) vs West Perth (Gastev, King, Mifka)

Swan Districts (Holmes, Langsford) vs Claremont

Subiaco (Scott) vs South Fremantle

East Fremantle vs Perth

References

http://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/1987/061819870619.html