ROUND SEVENTEEN
Saturday 25th of July.

GLENELG 3.1 5.4 7.5 15.8 (98)
CENTRAL 2.3 6.5 8.7 9.8 (63)

Glenelg has paid a heavy price for its vital win against Central District, with star midfielder James Byrne breaking his arm. Byrne has been in the best players for almost every game this season and will be sorely missed.
Glenelg will face South Adelaide at Noarlunga next Sunday. No game is a foregone conclusion but Glenelg should defeat the struggling South outfit. Noarlunga is notorious for producing tough, windy conditions and the Tigers will be praying for a fine day as this is an opportunity to build its percentage, before the bye in the following week. Of the seven sides shooting for a spot in the final five, Glenelgs' percentage is higher than only Central.
The match report is extracted from the "Sunday Mail".

TIGERS' LATE BLITZ STUNS DOGS

By Doug Robertson
The Tigers turned a last quarter arm-wrestle into a tear-away 15.8 (98) to 9.9 (63) win against stunned Central District at the Bay yesterday.
Glenelg, eight points down at three-quarter time, engineered an amazing turnaround after drawing even with the desperate Bulldogs midway through the term.
What followed blew a tough, grinding contest out of the water, with the Tigers blasting six unanswered goals in a barmstorming effoort which left the Bulldogs wondering what went wrong.
The blow-out masked what was a tense, torrid match but the Tigers' ability to take the contest by the scruff of the neck and lift to the next level has reignited their finals credibility while nearly extinguishing the Bulldog' finals hopes.
The win, however came at a high cost with key Tiger contributors James Byrne suffering a broken arm and Lance Picioane badly twisting his left ankle, both in the last quarter.
Glenelg coach Tony McGuinness said the injuries definitely soured the victory, but put a challenge to other Tigers to step up and maintain the level of intensity.
"I said to them at three-quarter time this game is still there to be won, even though we had not played very well, and we had to draw on the belif and confidence that we have built," McGuinness said. "If you have got a side that plays with that passion and desperation then it is going to win you those tough, hard games and we demonstrated that in the last quarter when it had to be won."
Glenelg had winners everywhere during its eight-goal siege, with substitute Ben McEntee kicking two late in the term to help the sides' percentage, and busy Alistair Burke and Ben Physick nailing one each to give the Tigers the lead in the ninth minute.
The supply was non-stop through the middle - with Simon Hele, Richard Kelly, Brett Higgins and Nick Chigwidden amongst the hardest workers, while Mark Viska, Paul Sherwood and Martin Mellody had some respite after sterling efforts in defence.
Central, stung by comments through the week about players not pulling their weight, battled desperatly and looked like toppling the Tigers when they lead an evenly-fought contest at three quarter time.
The Bulldogs jumped out to a 15-point lead before Glenelg could score in the opening quarter, maintained the intensity and began to reap the benifits midway through the second quarter when Derek Barr, a late replacement for 'flu victim Brian Haraida, scored and tenacious Daniel Hulm claimed two goals.
Central's bottom-of-the-pack desperation and ferocity at the ball seemed to rattle the Tigers, with work horse ruckman Damien Arnold combining well with a revolving midfield of Hulm, David lillico, Heath Hopgood, Marco Bello and Rick MacGowen. But in the final quarter, with Arnold tiring and Golding getting on top, the Tigers were able to dramatically wrest back control.

BEST PLAYERS: Kelly, Higgins, Mellody, Burke, Viska, Chigwidden, Byrne, Fogden.
SCORERS: Burke 3.1, McEntee 3.0, Golding 2.1, Chigwidden 2.0, Scripps 1.2, Physick Byrne, Carr, Gigney 1.0, Hele, Howard, Cornes 0.1, rushed 0.1.
INJURIES: Byrne (broken arm), Piciane (ankle).
CROWD: 2354.

RESERVES: Central 23.9 (147) defeated Glenelg 9.12 (66)
UNDER 19: Central 14.14 (98) defeated Glenelg 8.7 (55)
UNDER 17: Central 30.13 (193) defeated Glenelg 10.3 (63)