ROUND 13
Saturday 30th of June.

WEST 7.3 13.6 16.8 21.10 (136)
GLENELG 0.1 2.6 6.7 10.10 (70)

Bloods run riot

By Paul Kermode.
West Adelaide has taken a giant leap towards playing in this year's major round, thrashing a struggling Glenelg at Adelaide Oval yesterday.
The 66-point victory gives the Bloods a three game buffer over sixth-placed South Adelaide with nine games remaining-an equation that should ensure that the club returns to the major round after missing last season.
West can take another significant step towards that goal next week when it plays the Panthers at home.
Led by a miserly defence that conceded just two goals when there was some heat in the game during the first half, a dominant midfield and an eight goal haul from Adam Richardson, West simply had too many answers for the Tigers, who are now only one win off bottom place.
The contest was over at half-time, with the Bloods 66 points ahead and in complete control. The fact that the margin was exactly the same at the end of the game was a source of frustration for West coach Ian Borchard, and a reason he will not yet declare his side has secured a spot in the five.
"I'm happy with the result, we set it up well, but we've got to play longer and harder over the whole four quarters and that's our same old problem'" he said.
"What I reckon we had before half time was a very even contribution rate - everyone was a part of what happened in the first half. In the second half, we had players coming in and out, in and out."
West effectively set up the win in the first 20 minutes when it piled on 6 goals without reply.
The Bloods midfield found plenty of space and on the wide expanses of Adelaide Oval - Chris Barrett, Luke Nathan and Domenic Cassisi winning a ton of possesions and finding willing targets in centre-half forward Ed Richardson and full forward Adam Richardson.
By quarter time, West had a 44-point lead and Glenelg just a solitary behind. In the second term West piled on a further six goals to two to take a commanding 11-goal lead into the main break.
While Glenelg will take something from equalling the Bloods in the second half, coach Brenton Honor is determined to bridge the gap between his side's best and worst footy.
"Our first half was disgraceful, very disapointing," he said.
"I want to find out the reason we can be so bad for a half of footy.
"I just want some answers, because there's no reason we should play that badly in the first half. And when we decided to be more competitive and earn the footy and attack the ball a bit harder and cover each other's opponents, all those kind of things we expect of the side we outscored them."
Glenelg did have a few bright spots on another grim day. Mark Viska did well on Crow Scott Welsh and Sam Logan and Ryan Smyth gave the forward line some life.

BEST PLAYERS: Viska, Shir, McKenzie, Cook, Smyth, Logan.
SCORERS: Smyth 3.2, Logan 2.2, Thompson 2.0, Howard 1.1, McEntee, Golding 1.0, Burke, Hay, Hams 0.1, rushed 0.1.
INJURIES: Cook (hamstring).
CROWD: 1671.