ROUND NINE
Saturday 6th of May.

EAGLES 6.3 12.5 17.8 26.11 (167)
GLENELG 1.3 1.4 4.5 4.6 (30)

Kane Cornes made his league debut in what would have to be the most inept performance that I can remember from a Glenelg outfit. The Eagles at Woodville were always going to be a tough assignment, the Eagles are the form side of the comp and early favourites for the flag. Although the Tigers had regained the services of Byrne and Bode, they were missing Moore, Mellody, Viska, Nicholas, Carr and Michael Raidis. But a margin of 137 points? Glenelg's strength over the past season and a half has been its ability to be hard at the ball and its ferocious tackling. The most striking aspect of Glenelg's performance against the Eagles was its inability to lay an effective tackle. Time and time again, Eagles players shrugged off and were barely impeded by soft Glenelg tackling. When Glenelg did get the ball they proceeded to play short and adopt the most indirect route towards goal. Kicking short to 50/50 contests, or worse, directly to the opposistion was common. The longer the match went the lower the confidence of the Glenelg players became,and the more common the basic skill errors. Dropped marks, miskicks, kicking into other Glenelg players, running into other Glenelg players, tripping over other Glenelg players, you get the picture.
The season is fast slipping away and the prospect of Glenelg featuring in the finals is becoming most unlikely.
The match report is extracted from "The Sunday Mail".

Records go as Bays crushed.

By Paul Kermode.
Woodville-West Torrens powered to its biggest win over Glenelg, a 137-point humiliation at Woodville oval yesterday.
On a history-making day for the Eagles, they also kicked their highest score against the Tigers - 26.11 (167) to Glenelg's miserable 4.6 (30).
It was a completely dominant performance as the Eagles made light of a handy breeze blowing to the Northern end to outscore Glenelg in every quarter.
They led by 30 points at the first change, 67 points at half-time and 81 at three-quarter time before unleashing their best term of the day - nine goal last-quarter effort - to put the finishing touches on a highly impressive display.
The Eagles now have a fortnight to prepare for a clash with reining premier Port Adelaide, a match which is already shaping as one of the season's highlights.
"There wasn't one outstanding player for us - a lot of players played very good games," Eagles coach Paul Hamilton said.
I thought the one area where Glenelg might have thought they'd have the upper hand on us was thy've got a lot of runners, so we tried to make sure we out-ran them; we did for four quarters, which was very pleasing.
"We knew we had an advantage in height which we tried to exploit and obviously that worked out pretty well."
The midfield set up the win, NickPesch's silky skills setting up the playand the hard running of Jon Floreani, Gavin Colville, Justin Cicolella and Andrew Beverage leaving Glenelg flat-footed.
The Eagles were in control from the opening minutes, booting the first two goals into a handy breeeze and never looking back from there.
With the Eagles getting on top in the midfield - traditionally Glenelg's area of strength - their taller players wer able to have a field day.
First Chris Kluzek and then Andrew Crowell took turns to feast on the good work further up field, with Matthew Manfield and David Niemann drifting around the ground to be consistent marking threats.
Kluzek kicked three goals in the first term, his last one demoralising the Tigers as he swooped on a mis-directed kick across goal from Glenelg defender Bradley Fisher and put the home side 24 points up.
Then Cromwell, after a relatively quiet first quarter, burst into the game after the first break, kicking four goals in the second, including three in four minutes late in the half as the margin blew out to 11 goals.
At the other end of the field, Jamie Tape, Darren Holland and Steven Hall were picking off Glenelg's forward forays with almost ridiculous ease, providing much of the Eagle's drive.
David Hams kicked the Tigers' only goal of the first half after a strong mark at the top of the goals square 17 minutes into the first term.
It was a baffling performance from Glenelg, coming a week after comfortably beating Sturt.
"That was one of the most disappointing days that I have ever been involved with - we've really let ourselves down and our club down," skipper Nick Chigwidden said.
"We should be embarrrassed by that performance - I'm sure our supporters are."
James Byrne was the best of the Tigers' battlers, but even his 29 possesions did little to stem the tide.

BEST PLAYERS: Byrne, Burke, Bode Chigwidden.
SCORERS: Gigney, Hams 1.1, Winstanely, Bode 1.0, Cook 0.2, Chigwidden 0.1, rushed 0.1.
INJURIES: Bode (ankle), Golding (ankle), McEntee (corked thigh).
CROWD: 4649.

RESERVES: Eagles 18.19 (127) d Glenelg 5.6 (36)
UNDER 19: Eagles 10.23 (83) d Glenelg 3.3 (21)
UNDER 17: Eagles 11.11 (77) d Glenelg 9.12 (66)