ROUND 21
Saturday 29th of July.

NORWOOD 6.3 9.4 16.6 19.9 (123)
GLENELG 6.3 10.5 12.7 14.11 (95)

Couldn't make the match so will leave it to Doug Robertson to relay the details.
The match report is extracted from the"Sunday Mail."

Tigers test "lazy" Norwood.

By Doug Robertson.
A fully stretched Norwood rallied desperately to beat Glenelg by 28 points in a tense contest which remained in the balance until the final term at Adelaide Oval yesterday.
Norwood's character and skill level shone through in a gutsy burst from 10 minutes before three-quarter time, and again to open the last quarter, when it kicked five unanswered goals to rudely snatch the crucial premiership points.
Wholesale changes at the main break including moving Ben Wilson (2.0) and Hamish Tamlin (1.0) into attack and sturdy defender Troy Clements coming on for his first run after three months out for a fire brigade training program, sparked a bigger effort.
Norwood, which seemed suprisingly lazy for two quarters, extracted a measured and telling lift from John Cunningham, Aaron Keating, Ben Kemp, Scott Borlace and Damiam Obst around the ball. It had traded blows with a determined and cohesive Glenelg in a see-saw contest where the lead changed eight times to three-quarter time. But when the 'Legs became harder in the clinches and found run from defence, it forced enough second-chances out of Glenelg to make it pay dearly.
Stuart Brown (24 possessions and 10 marks) at half-forward and rugged Robert Neill (4.0) kept Norwood in the hunt in the first half despite limited opportunities and they did not ease the effort when the ball began to flow freely forward. If not for them, Norwood would have been way down at half-time, which has left coach Neville Roberts pondering on the 'Legs inability to switch on when they are still fighting for a finals berth.
"I was critical of our first half effort - they were at it and we clearly were not," he said. "We lost the out-of-centres... but we didn't have any really powerful runners out of defence. We didn't get the ball into our forward lines quickly enough and we didn't have anywhere near the workrate we had last Friday night ( against the Eagles)."
Wingman James Gallagher (thigh), effective against Simon Hele early, did not return after half-time, but neither did Glenelg's hard-working centreman Richard Kelly, which evened the injury score.
Glenelg had knocked the Redlegs off their usually neat running game in a spirited first half and battled brilliantly throughout the third term, only to be sabotaged from within by turnovers and missed opportunities. Glenelg tested Norwood in every facet - and matched it in most - but the finer skills again nobbled the physically tenacious but often tentative Tigers.
"I thought there was a 10 minute patch late in the third quarter where we stopped dead, and in the last quarter we didn't capitalise on the many opportunities that we had," coach Tony McGuiness said. We kept kicking it long to no space but even when we did take a mark or find space, we didn't nail the goals."
Sitting bottom but one point behind North Adelaide with two games remaining, Glenelg faces finals' contender South Adelaide at Brighton Road next Saturday.

BEST PLAYERS: Golding, Hele, Bode, Nicholas, Mellody, Burke, D.Raidis.
SCORERS: M.Raidis, D.Raidis 4.0, Bode 2.2, Hams 2.1, McEntee 1.3, Burke1.0, Tipuamantamerri, K.Cornes, Mannion, Veneables 0.1.
INJURIES: Kelly (knee strain.)
CROWD: 2334.

RESERVES: Norwood 17.11 d Glenelg 166.10 (106)
UNDER 19: Glenelg 13.8 (86) d Norwood 10.14 (74)
UNDER 17: Norwood 11.11 (77) d Glenelg 4.11 (35)