ROUND TWELVE
Saturday the 19th of June.

STURT 4.5 5.8 8.13 9.19 (73)
GLENELG 1.1 3.3 3.3 5.5 (35)

The game against Sturt was undoubtedly Glenelg's most disappointing effort so far this season. In many ways the match resembled the last meeting (round 4) between the two clubs. On both occasions Glenelg were simply unable to cope with the immense pressure applied by a determined, professional Sturt outfit. Saturdays 38 point margin was flattering to Glenelg as Sturt missed numerous easy shots for goal. A 70-80 point margin would have been more reflective of Sturt's domination. Glenelg is now fouth on the ladder, ahead of Sturt by percentage. West and Central are bidding for a top five spot with both sides only one win behind Glenelg and Sturt. This makes Glenelg's round 13 clash with Port a must win match. The game is to be played at Football Park as the curtain raiser for the Port Power AFL match. I doubt that there can be a more difficult test than playing in front of 35,000 Port fans on a ground that a majority of Glenelg's side has never played on before. A victory under these circumstance would restore the self belief that must surely have been undermined after Saturdays loss. The match report and photo are extracted from the "Sunday Mail."

BLUES MOVE INTO FINALS FORM.

By Paul Kermode.
Sturt sent a message to the rest of the SANFL competition at Glenelg yesterday, regaining the touch which propelled it to the 1998 grand final, in a dominating 38 point victory against Glenelg.
That message was resounding: We're back.
Looking more like the team which stormed to last years minor premiership than they have at any stage in 1999, the Double Blues had complete control of the game from start to finish.

Chiggy heads for home against Sturt

The only blemish on their report card was the inaccurate kicking in the 9.19 (73) to 5.5 (35) win , Sturt's third in a row.
"That's what we are capable of doing," coach Phil Carmen said of the win, which he described as the club's best effort of the season. "We're pretty happy with our lot aat the moment. Just our ability to be at them all day, all the time - we hadn't had that this year." That's been the biggest disappointment to everybody, we thought we had that and we hadn't been. Fortunately today it worked for us."
Sturt's intense pressure reduced the Tigers, whose fluency and run had been such trade-marks of their surge up the ladder this year, to a predictable stop-start team.
The home side had no run out of the centre, where best afield Damian Squire (31 possessions), Tim Weatherald (27), Brodie Atkinson (26) and Matthew Powell (21) were in brilliant form for Sturt. Their efforts, and the fact that Tom Wattham in ruck was able to prevent Crows squad member Matthew Golding from dominating, gave Sturt the Same kind of drive it enjoyed from the midfield in 1998.
With Glenelg missing recalled AFL players Matthew Liptak and Rod Jameson and with Matthew Bode travelling with the Power to Perth, it needed big games from mid fielders James Byrne and Richard Kelly to match Sturt's output. When that didn't happen, and no-one else stepped into the breach, the Tigers were always going to be in trouble.
So completely did the Double Blues control the play that Glenelg, after scoring a rushed behind right on the half time siren, did not trouble the scorers again until two minutes into the last term, again from a rushed behind.
The Double Blues set up the win with tree quick goals with the breeze in the first quarter, on their way to a 22-point break at quarter time. Glenelg finally scored its first major with the wind halfway through the term when Chad Cornes goaled from a free kick. When Brett Higgins slotted through the Tiger's second a minute later, the large home crowd had visions of a stirring comeback. The 16-point margin was as close as Glenelg came, its next goal not scored until the 13-minute mark of the last quarter.
Glenelg's lack of fight in such an important game - it would have been playing Port for a share of top spot next week if it won yesterday - was a cause for concern to coach Tony McGuinness. "It was a very ordinary effort. We had no spark, no run, we looked flat," he said.
"They won the midfield, the things we pride ourselves on - hard-ball gets and umpire balls - we were beaten badly."
"That meant we broke down in the midfield and our forward line broke down and our backline wasn't able to provide any run and we just broke down all over the ground."

BEST PLAYERS: Fogden, Burke, Higgins, Carr.
SCORERS: Cornes 1.1, Chigwidden, Higgins, Bartlett, Rouvray 1.0, Carr 0.1, rushed 0.3.
INJURIES: None
CROWD: 4009.

RESERVES:Glenelg 12.15 (87) defeated Sturt 11.6 (72)
UNDER 19:Sturt 19.8 (122) defeated Glenelg 14.9 (93)
UNDER 17:Sturt 12.10 (82) defeated Glenelg 12.7 (79)