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Goal Kickers: B. Aldridge 3, D. Kelsey, T. Brockhurst, J. Faizal, A. Grayson
Best Players: T. Halliday, J. Brennan, C. Ames, B. Aldridge, J. Costello, J. Comley

Reynella at home was going to be a good test to see where we are at as a group, we were up by four points at half time however were not able to score in the third quarter and eventually lost 11.7 to 7.10.
It is always disappointing to lose a game, however it’s better to lose one now to identify where we can improve to build on for the rest of the year.
Some good signs, just need to be more consistent
Marty

Goal Kickers: R. McNamara 5, Ali. Baltagie, T. Warren, C. Buersch, M. Comley, R. Caesarowicz
Best Players: K. Cavouras, L. Warland, B. Tomkins, R. McNamara, M. Caire
Milestones: Chris Buersch – 50 Senior Games

It’s a pleasure to coach such a driven, disciplined, team-oriented and motivated group of men. Nothing is too much of an ask. Everything is taken on board, is discussed in an open forum and is applied correctly, on the field.
As such, the way in which we set up our structures for the first 3 quarters both in transition and at the stoppages, was brilliant.
Kobe Cavouras’ and Blaise Tomkins’ craftiness and clearances in the thick of things, were fantastic. Luke Warland took some big grabs across Half Back and rebounded beautifully throughout the day. Ritchie McNamara is as potent as ever up forward and is 8 goals clear at the top of the goal kicking leaderboard in the B Grade Comp.
Our back line was put under a lot of pressure in the last quarter. Each time it entered our defensive 50, we responded by clearing the ball with method but minor skill execution errors saw us give up the ball across the middle on no fewer than 7 occasions. This allowed our opposition to get repeat entries and play the game at a high speed. This provided us with a good teaching point after the game with respect to being able to alter the tempo of a game especially when we are in the lead by a good margin.
Michael Comley in particular, was instrumental in getting the ball out of the danger zone in the last quarter. As always, Michael Hegarty continues to be our Field Marshall in Defence as he sets up the structures from the very back of the ground. We couldn’t be more proud of how we are soaring above our prey picking them off one by one (week by week). This week, we face off against an in-form Happy Valley so once again, we’ll need to be right on top of our game to get the job done.

Goal Kickers: J. Williams 3, B. Nottle-justice 2, B. Hawkins 2, C. Greening, A. Peterson
Best Players: J. Bunworth, D. Crisa, B. Jenke, M. Wright, C. Wright, S. Murton

C Grade, We got ourselves back on the winners list, with a great hard fought win. Another physical game with a few tough clashes.  With no bench for the whole game, being behind all game and then being able to kick 4 goals in the last quarter to run over the top of them, awesome effort. Winning by 8 points 59 to 51.
With Jacko Williams kicking 3,  Brad Jenke 2, Ben Hawkins 2 and getting the ball down to them
Jake Bunworth, Dan Crisa and Brad Jenke led the way with everyone else playing well.
We are at Reynella this Sunday.

Goal Kickers: R. Stone 4, L. Hollands, J. Costello, C. Nuske, L. Ellis
Best Players: R. Stone, J. Costello, B. Sisson, E. Johnson, R. Young, T. McGORAN

Backing up with another road trip, this is the furthest we travel for the season so it was important to make the trip worthwhile. 

Para Hills while not registering a win as yet were not to be taken lightly as they had pushed other more fancied teams.

We welcomed another seven lads from U15s in the team but this was the first time for the season we had no debutantes. 

Para Hills oval had a similar length to Flaggy but wider wings which we tried to avoid and played the corridor. We played a decent brand from the outset into a slight breeze and even though Para Hills held a one goal lead at quarter time it felt like we had reasonable control of the game.

We kicked into gear with better running play and went into halftime with a three goal lead. We were never really in trouble although Para Hills will rue their wasted opportunities shooting for goal.

Riley Stone was a standout after quarter time with Jacko Costello Great with his ball use and Brodie Sisson backed up a solid game the day before with excellent work in the ruck and around the ground. 

We return home this weekend to face Woodville South who are travelling well and will test out where we are at.

Goal Kickers: G. Roberts, T. Siekman
Best Players: S. Aldridge, G. Roberts, E. Smailes, E. Comley, A. Sorella, S. Richman

Our u14 girls took on the undefeated Port Noarlunga at home last week. Our girls have been progressively getting better each game but coming up against a team which has put away its closest competitors by over 8 goals is always going to test us.
The girls got off to a good start posting the first goal of the game and proved to themselves that nothing was beyond them.  At half time we were down by 2 points and a 3rd term where we missed a few opportunities to put us further in front left us leading  by 7.
Our girl had put it all on the line early and although they were a little gassed, they fought on bravely and had a couple of opportunities but in the end Port Noarlunga were the victors, winning 2.12-24 to Flaggies 2.5-17.
Goal kickers for Flagstaff Hill were Georgia Roberts and Tegan Siekman with a goal a piece. Best players, well we had a host of them,  but we’ve awarded them to Sienna Aldridge who had a blinder all over the field. Georgia Roberts with her best game of the season so far and Erin Smailes with her drive out of the backlines.
We still have much to learn as a team, I could never question our work rate and endeavor, but a few errors in direction by foot may have cost us what would have been a big scalp.  This game will send a message out to the competition that maybe we shouldn’t be taken lightly, even though our ladder position doesn’t look so threatening.