Round 3: Sydney Swans Reserves v Belconnen Magpies

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  • Round 3: Sydney Swans Reserves v Belconnen Magpies

    Tired, cranky but a busy day tomorrow so I'll jot down a quick summary and a few notes of the players involved.

    Belconnen struggled to clear their defensive zone for most of the day, with most of their forays into their attacking half, hopeful half-blind kicks where the Swans' defence would tidy up with little trouble. While they didn't lose the first quarter this week, they were still quite profligate going inside 50 and only had 4 goals on the board at quarter time. The rain was quite heavy in parts of the 2nd quarter and the Swans could manage only another 4 goals with Belco getting 2 of their own.

    The weather improved somewhat in the 2nd half and the Swans' better ball use and better fitness started to tell. The game was almost exclusively played in the Swans half with most players on both sides stationed in our forward half. We kicked 12 goals to 1 in the 2nd half which was a fair return for such a period of superiority.

    Overall, while Belconnen hardly threatened the scoreboard all game, they did tackle well for most of it and only started to drop off towards the end when perhaps fatigue started to set it.


    There is a bye next week to co-incide with the seniors, and then we play Tuggeranong as the curtain raiser to the Carlton game. It will start at the very interesting time of Friday 4.20pm

    Reserves 4.3 8.6 14.13 20.18 (138)
    Belconnen 0.0 2.4 3.4 4.5 (29)

    Goals: Pyke Haren Parker 3 Moore Meredith TDL Murphy 2 Seaby Kennelly LRT

    • Xie Shan
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      Thanks ugg for the detailed update despite the atrocious conditions! hope the iPhone survived. Pyke and Kennelly have to come in.
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