Round 4 2007

West Coast v Carlton
Round 4, 2007

Seaby gets tackled. Photo: aflphotos.com.au

Date

Sun, 22 April 2007 (2:40 PM WST)

Venue

Subiaco Oval

Attendance

41,016

Result

Won by 61

Score

WCE 14.16.100 - 4.15.39 CAR

Brownlow

3 C.Judd (WCE)
2 A.Hansen (WCE)
1 S.Hurn (WCE)

Ladder

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West Coast dominated possession on a wet Sunday afternoon, holding the lowly Blues to just four goals for the match. David Wirrpanda's skills were sublime in the slippery conditions, while Ashley Hansen was the best key forward on the ground in his second game for the year and Chris Judd and Daniel Kerr continued to dominate in the middle.

Summary

		1/4 time		1/2 time		3/4 time		Final
West Coast		5.2.32		6.8.44		9.11.65		14.16.100
Carlton		1.2.8		2.6.18		3.11.29		4.15.39

Goals: Hansen, Wirrpanda 4, Kerr 2, Armstrong, Cox, Hurn, Waters

Best: Judd, Kerr, Wirrpanda, Cox, Hansen, B.Jones, Braun, Glass

Injuries: Nil

Records: Carlton lowest score vs WCE

Named sides

	West Coast				Carlton
B:	44.Wirrpanda	23.Glass	38.B.Jones	B:	26.Anderson	17.O'hAilpin	32.Thornton
HB:	8.Waters	39.Hunter	25.Hurn	HB:	1.Walker	30.Waite	29.Scotland
C:	24.Rosa	37.Selwood	10.Braun	C:	4.Gibbs	7.Bentick	33.Houlihan
HF:	5.Stenglein	41.Staker	17.Chick	HF:	44.Carrazzo	8.Whitnall	19.Betts
F:	32.Embley	21.Lynch	14.Seaby	F:	14.Fisher	25.Fevola	12.Lappin
R:	20.Cox	3.Judd	4.Kerr	R:	11.Ackland	3.Murphy	6.Simpson
I:	35.Armstrong	29.Hansen	18.R.Jones	I:	28.Cloke	5.Kennedy	2.Russell
	11.Priddis				34.Wiggins
E:	22.Graham	2.LeCras	1.Brown	E:	13.Blackwell	23.Hartlett	38.Jackson

No change

From the papers

The West Australian

"The Eagles had a staggering 228 handballs, with players such as Brett Jones, Tyson Stenglein, Adam Hunter and Steven Armstrong leading the way.

The very first contest featured Kerr flexing through two tackles to get the ball to Judd who bent to collect it with one hand.

And, when the deluge hit to keep the gardeners happy, the two players vying for Brownlow Medal votes in the first three games, showed they were anything but fair-weather sailors.

Skills deteriorated as the conditions promoted a slide show but the Eagles pair eschewed the view that wet weather knocks the edge off stellar performances."

The Age

"Where the ground seemed to take forever to cover when the Blues got the ball, Judd and Kerr ran so strongly they looked physically bigger than their opponents. They had more room to move in because they took less room to pick the ball up and be in a position to do something with it.

Andrew Walker took a turn on Judd late, after Jordan Russell had done his time, and made the above problem very clear. The Eagles captain often got to his feet a second or two before the young Carlton player, allowing him the extra time to get away from him.

Judd needs little room to move at the best of times; if Russell didn't have an elbow pressed against him when any particular contest began, then he had had no hope of denying him some sort of influence on which team got the ball and where it went.

Then there was Wirrpanda, who caused as much trouble as anyone in the first part of the match. His low, clean scoop-ups were a highlight, too, and helped give his teammates the sort of time and space that helps more than ever when it's so wet."

WAFL

Round 5 (20-21 April)

South Fremantle (Sampi, Graham) vs East Perth (McKinley, Spaanderman)

East Fremantle (Spangher, Brown, Houlihan, McNamara) vs West Perth (LeCras, Sharp)

Peel (Schofield) vs Claremont (Morton, MacKenzie, C.Jones, Wilkes). Thomson played reserves.

Subiaco (Fletcher, Wooden) vs Perth

Bye: Swan Districts

References

http://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/2007/031820070422.html