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Footscray v West Coast
Round 23, 1992
S92r23
Date
Sun, 23 Aug 1992 (2:10 PM EST)
Venue
Attendance
15,695
Result
Lost by 30
Score
FOO 7.11.53 - 3.5.23
Brownlow
3 N.Kellett (FOO)
2 T.Liberatore (FOO)
1 S.Wallis (FOO)
Ladder
4th
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West Coast scored just two points for the first three terms and despite a final-quarter rally were held to their lowest score since the Windy Hill massacre of 1989. Chris Mainwaring and Scott Watters were two players who fought hard against the traffic.

Summary[]

1/4 time 1/2 time 3/4 time Final
Footscray 3.5.23 4.5.29 6.10.46 7.11.53
West Coast 0.0.0 0.2.2 0.2.2 3.5.23

Goals: Lewis, Watters, White

Best: Mainwaring, Kemp, Brennan, Watters, McKenna, Pyke

Injuries: Hart (corked thigh)

Milestones: Matera 50th game, Hepburn final appearance

Records: Footscray biggest win vs WCE, WCE lowest score vs Footscray

Named sides[]

West Coast Footscray
B: 10.Pyke 11.McIntosh 32.Clape B: 24.Wallis 6.T.Campbell 2.Reynolds
HB: 17.McKenna 27.Jakovich 39.Waterman HB: 8.Toohey 34.Sexton 27.MacPherson
C: 30.Matera 7.Turley 3.Mainwaring C: 4.Kellett 23.Atkins 46.Kretiuk
HF: 1.Heady 14.Brennan 2.Kemp HF: 29.Grant 20.Coleman 7.Hawkins
F: 18.Evans 4.Sumich 19.Langdon F: 17.Standfield 26.Del-Re 33.Royal
R: 16.Hepburn 5.Lamb 36.Hart R: 15.Wynd 35.Baxter 39.Liberatore
I: 22.Hynes 13.Watters I: 25.Mansfield 11.Corcoran
E: 15.Laidley 28.Lewis 31.White E: 1.Charles 38.Barrow 16.Croft

In: Watters, Hynes

Out: Worsfold (thigh), Harding (knee)

Late change: (WCE) White, Lewis for Sumich (hamstring), Hynes; (FOO) Barrow for Sexton

From the papers[]

The Age[]

"By half-time, the contest was all but over - and with only 3.5 on the Footscray credit line. Next up was the wind again, blowing for the Bulldogs, and West Coast did not look likely to find its feet in time to improve dramatically on its two-point tally.

Oh they tried, the Eagles. They did not stop trying, although some could have thrown themselves into the muck a tad more enthusiastically. But, as Malthouse pointed out, they rarely saw grounds in this condition, let alone trained on them.

The half-time statistics were damning. Footscray had not been magnificent in the first term, but it had scored. When the Eagles' turn came with the wind, the Bulldogs blanketed the danger end, then scored the most important of moral victories by managing a goal of their own.

That second quarter was a triumph of Footscray will and physical grit. It was also grim and frightening with its rash of life-threatening collisions, and potential for sub-surface murders."[1]

Players in the WAFL[]

Round 21 (22 Aug)

East Fremantle (Wilson, Nichols, Krummel, Morphett) vs Subiaco (Scott, Davies)

Claremont (Begovich) vs West Perth (Laidley, West, Hall, Freeman)

South Fremantle (Irving) vs Swan Districts (Ugle, Gow, Ball, Ogg)

Perth (Barich) vs East Perth (Peos, Turnbull)

Injury list[]

In the lead-up to the match the following players were listed as injured or unavailable:[2]

Player Injury Expected duration
Keene Heel injury Indefinite
Sumich Strained hamstring 1-2 weeks
Wilson Dislocated shoulder 1-2 weeks
White Strained medial 1-2 weeks
Peos Cartilage operation 1-2 weeks
Irving Strained knee 1 week
Metropolis Strained knee Test

References[]

http://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/1992/071819920823.html

  1. Penny Crisp, The Age (24 August 1992, p.29), "Gritty Dogs sink Eagles"
  2. The Age (19 August 1992, p.31), "AFL state of play"
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