Round 5 2008

West Coast v Port Adelaide
Round 5, 2008

Glass in action in his 150th. Photo: aflphotos.com.au

Date

Sun, 20 April 2008 (2:40 PM WST)

Venue

Subiaco Oval

Attendance

38,302

Result

Lost by 24

Score

PA 19.14.128 - 16.8.104 WCE

Brownlow

3 D.Rodan (PA)
2 S.Burgoyne (PA)
1 Brett Ebert (PA)

Ladder

15th

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Port recorded their first win of the year and continued West Coast's losing run with a comprehensive win at Subiaco. The Power blew the game open with a eight goal second quarter and led by 68 points during the final term before a run of seven unanswered West Coast goals to close the match (three of them to Ben McKinley) restored a scrap of respectability. McKinley continued his good form to finish with five goals and Adam Selwood fought hard but West Coast had too many passengers on a day when Port's midfield dominated, and failed to honour champions Darren Glass and Dean Cox as the pair reached the 150 game milestone.

Result

		1/4 time		1/2 time		3/4 time		Final
West Coast		3.3.21		5.4.34		9.5.59		16.8.104
Port Adelaide		2.7.19		10.11.61		15.11.101		19.14.128

Goals: McKinley 5, Lynch, A.Selwood, Wirrpanda 2, Armstrong, Cox, C.Jones, Kerr, Spangher

Best: McKinley, Wirrpanda, A.Selwood, Embley

Injuries: Nil

Reports: Fletcher for making negligent contact with umpire

Milestones: Cox 150th game, Glass 150th game, McKinley Rising Star nomination

Named sides

	West Coast				Port Adelaide
B:	38.B.Jones	23.Glass	37.A.Selwood	HB:	36.Pettigrew	27.Carlile	9.Surjan
HB:	8.Waters	39.Hunter	6.Nicoski	B:	7.P.Burgoyne	28.Thurstans	25.Cassisi
C:	24.Rosa	4.Kerr	10.Braun	C:	10.Boak	35.C.Cornes	18.K.Cornes
HF:	32.Embley	21.Lynch	35.Armstrong	HF:	15.Rodan	1.Tredrea	33.Ebert
F:	44.Wirrpanda	27.McKinley	14.Seaby	F:	4.D.Motlop	39.J.Westhoff	5.Lade
R:	20.Cox	5.Stenglein	25.Hurn	R:	20.Brogan	3.Salopek	8.S.Burgoyne
I:	7.Fletcher	15.C.Jones	30.Spangher	I:	30.Chaplin	29.Krakouer	44.Logan
	13.Masten				6.Thomson
E:	12.McNamara	31.Schofield	17.Kennedy	E:	16.Pearce	14.Stewart	24.White

In: C.Jones, Wirrpanda, Embley, Fletcher

Out: Hansen (hamstring), Staker (concussion), S.Selwood, McNamara

From the coach

"Disappointed at half-time after a pretty good start. We let Port into the game early with turnovers but we hung in there. In the second quarter we got blown away too easily. I asked the players if they really wanted to take the challenge up in the second half.

"...Players that make some of the mistakes now didn't make them the year before, or the year before that. Every player in the competition makes errors, that is what we have got to understand, but it is the frequency of them as a percentage of your touches and where you make them, and I think that the big difference at the moment is that pressure errors, which is what AFL footy is about - when you have got that fraction of a second which is not a lot of time but it is all you have got - when you don't hit your targets it really hurts you and we are making a bigger percentage of those errors."

From the papers

The Age

"Apart from two rallies, West Coast played without confidence, lacked speed, made poor decisions and struggled around the stoppages.

Port's surge was fired by the tenacity of David Rodan and the class of Kane Cornes, Shaun Burgoyne and Travis Boak. The Eagles were corralled into places they didn't want to go as Port, for the most part, played the game on its terms.

The Eagles' periods of dominance came when victory was beyond their grasp, for a period in the third term and for a large part of the fourth term when they booted seven goals. But that will count little for the Eagles coaching staff because when the game was on the line, West Coast players were second to the ball and offered only meagre resistance.

The Eagles' woes were reflected in a battle between Kane Cornes and Daniel Kerr and a passage of play in the second term when Michael Braun was ideally placed to provided a block for Dean Cox. The big man misread his mate's intentions and handballed straight at his unprepared wingman. Port cleared the ball."

WAFL

Round 5 (18-19 April)

West Perth vs Swan Districts (Notte, Davis)

Perth (Sullivan) vs Subiaco

East Perth vs South Fremantle (Graham, Wilson)

Peel (Schofield, Ebert) vs Claremont (MacKenzie, Thomson, Wilkes, McGinnity, Stevenson)

Bye: East Fremantle

Injury list

In the lead-up to the round the following players were listed as injured:

Player		Injury		Expected duration
Brown		Knee		Season
Priddis		Knee		2 weeks
LeCras		Groin		1-2 weeks
Butler		Osteitis pubis		1-2 weeks
Graham		Thigh		1-2 weeks
Staker		Concussion		1 week
Wirrpanda		Hamstring		Test
Embley		Illness		TBC

References

http://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/2008/131820080420.html