ROUND 20
Saturday 23rd of July.

GLENELG 3.6 7.8 9.10 14.12 (96)
NORTH 4.2 6.3 11.6 13.9 (87)

Finally the Tigers have broken through to record their third win of the season. In fact, for the first time in 2000, all four Glenelg teams recorded wins.
Matthew Kelly had his best game of the year and the Tigers benifitted from the return of Byrne and Bode. Golding did well around the ground, despite being defeated in the ruck by former Crow team mate and former Tiger Lucas Herbert.
Glenelg overcame rampant North forward Hargraves (7 goals) and some lop-sided umpiring (North received 22 frees to Glenelg's 9) to come home against the breeze to record a 5 goal to 2 last term.
Whilst a 9 point victory against second bottom North is hardly an emphatic win, at least the side displayed the full effort and commitment that has been missing in some games this year. And after 9 straight losses, any win is a good one!
The match report is extracted from the"Sunday Mail."

Tigers roar despite Hargraves' 7.

By Paul Kermode.
Glenelg has overcome a brilliant solo effort from North Adelaide forward Daniel Hargraves to break a winless streak stretching back to April.
The Tigers absorbed a seven-goal haul from Hargraves to record a morale boosting nine point win at Adelaide Oval yesterday, giving them a chance of avoiding football's most hated prize: the wooden spoon.
North now holds just a half-game buffer over bottom placed Tigers, who regained the winning feeling after dropping nine games since beating Sturt in roung eight on April 30.
Yesterday's win had an unlikely source of inspiration: former Port Adelaide Magpies coach John Cahill giving the players a pep talk when they had the bye a fortnight ago.
"He spoke to us about self-esteem and in a footballers' life, his self-esteem is primarily driven by how well he plays on a Saturday afternoon," McGuinness said.
We talked about how our self-esteem is only going to peak by giving hard, committed efforts on Saturday afternoons and if we do that then it gives us a chance of winning."
"At three-quarter time we were under the pump, but I thought we gutsed it out fantastically well in the last quarter."
It was a character-filled win for Glenelg, which held sway for much of the first half only to see Hargraves rip the game apart in the third quarter to give the Roosters an eight-point break going into the last quarter, when they had the aid of a slight breeze.
But Glenelg, riding the back of a hard working midfield, kicked three goals in three minutes early in the final term to set up the victory.
Glenelg received great drive from hard workers Alistair Burke and Richard Kelly, acting captain Simon Hhele and returning AFL players James Byrne and Matthew Bode. And Kane Cornes displayed his great potential with a mature showing against AFL listed Wade Chapman.
But for all the drive the Tigers could generate from the midfield, they struggled to nail a reward on the scoreboard. This left the Roosters close enough at half-time for North to pounce, led by Hargraves and a bold showing in the centre square from Danny Morton and Lucas Herbert.
In a game otherwise dominated by the mosquito fleets of both sides, Hargraves stood head and shoulders above the other players on the ground.
Hargraves proved too tall and strong for a succession of Glenelg defenders, Simon Nicholas, Damien Gigney and Cameron Venables all trying in vain to stop the one shining light in the Roosters' attack. The former Footscray and Fremantle forward booted three first half goals to keep North in the game and then exploded after the break kicking three goals in the first ten minutes of the third quarter, the second from a superbly strong mark he took after camping underneath a high, floating ball.

BEST PLAYERS: Burke, Kelly, Byrne, Hele, Cornes, Bode, Golding, M.Raidis.
SCORERS: M.Raidis 4.1, Bode 2.3, Hams 2.2, Cornes 2.0, Tipuamantamerri, Hosking, Kelly, Golding 1.0, Sherwood, Burke, McEntee, Venables, Byrne 0.1, rushed 0.1.
INJURIES: Nil.
CROWD: 1763.

RESERVES: Glenelg 15.14 (104) d North 12.16 (88)
UNDER 19: Glenelg 22.7 (139) d North 11.8 (74)
UNDER 17: Glenelg 8.11 (59) d North 6.14 (50)