Tezzas Tiger News G’Day Footy Fans, Well, just two matches that attracted our attention on this, the first day of finals with the Senior team playing Woori Yallock at Healesville in the Qualifying Final and preceding that, the Under Eighteens would be up against Mt. Evelyn in the Elimination Final which was to be played at Woori Yallock. So a mixed bag of venues plus eventually, an equally mixed bag of results for us. The Seniors’ match had an unusual scoring aspect to it with no less than nineteen goals being scored at one end of the ground – the southern end – while at the other end just six goals were gained and there really seemed no immediately apparent reason for this. Upwey had first use of this “scoring” end and started out well with a goal in the first minute of play but Woori Yallock immediately replied with their own opening goal of the match. Now Woori Yallock was doing most of the attacking and perhaps looked slightly the better of the two teams and it came as no surprise when they added a second goal not too long after. But now Upwey began to gradually impose itself into the match and, having first stemmed Woori’s advance, began to put the ball forward with some purpose and scored two goals, one on top of the other, midway through the quarter. Upwey was able to keep some control over proceedings and put through two more goals before Woori Yallock, in the dying moment of the quarter, snatched their third goal but Upwey had gained a ten point lead and had been playing quite well in the process. As the second quarter began, Woori seemed to breathe new life into their play while Upwey’s seemed to quietly expire. As had Upwey in that first quarter, Woori Yallock goaled immediately upon the start and Upwey very soon replied to this with an answering goal but that was just about it for the Upwey lot as Woori Yallock took control of the match and really ran away from Upwey. It was difficult to understand how this change in fortunes could happen as Upwey now began to run second just about everywhere around the ground as Woori Yallock added a further four goals to that opener while Upwey could only claim one behind, and that late in the piece. Upwey trailed by some sixteen points when the half-time siren sounded and all were grateful to hear it. As the match resumed for the third quarter this topsy-turvey match produced yet another twist as now it was Upwey that would be in the ascendency as they were able to shrug off that poor second quarter form and play some much more considered football. The team began to put some more run into their play and began to more effectively cover the opposition players. Although scoring was slight in the early parts of the quarter – just a behind each being early gains – Upwey was starting too look the better outfit and soon enough their much improved play was rewarded with some major scoring. Altogether the team added four goals while, just as importantly, managing to keep Woori Yallock goalless for the entire quarter. Upwey held a seven point lead going into the last quarter and had played some good football in achieving that lead. Yet again the match turned as the fourth quarter began with Woori Yallock goaling in the opening minute and then gaining a second goal – and the lead – a couple of minutes later. Upwey now managed to mount an attack that brought them a goal and a regained lead but Woori soon changed that when they goaled a couple of minutes later and then a fourth goal to that team extended that lead a little. Woori kept on attacking but could only gain a string of behinds but they all counted. Upwey scored their second goal of the quarter some twenty-seven minutes later to raise their hopes but the siren sounded very shortly after with Woori Yallock still nine points in front. This had certainly been a rather unusual match in which neither team seemed able to gain the upper hand for any considerable time as witnessed by the changing fortunes, quarter by quarter. Indeed, perhaps the best attempt by either team to gain a definite advantage came from Upwey in the third quarter when that team was able to negate Woori Yallock’s well known “chipping” tactics and finally gain some ascendency but then that advantage was allowed to fritter away in the final quarter to the puzzlement of all. Nine points is not a big margin but it is quite enough. All things considered, a very disappointing result. Scores: Upwey-Tecoma – 5.2.32 6.3.39 10.4.64 12.4.76 Woori Yallock – 3.4.22 8.7.55 8.9.57 12.13.85 Best: Chad Davis, Kyle Grenda, Tom Hedge, Steve Dawson, John Hevern. Goals: Dylan Sloane 3, Kyle Grenda 3, Ben Hinton 1, Jackson Waters 1, Michael Charles 1, Daniel Waters 1, Seamus Parkinson 1, Tom Hedge 1. The Under Eighteen’s Elimination Final opponent was Mt. Evelyn and these two teams had had met twice before this season with honours so far even. Each team had won their respective home ground encounters with the margin exactly fifty-six points on each occasion. The early moments of the first quarter seemed almost to be a way of players from each team getting rid of some excess energy before getting down to the real job. As it was Upwey perhaps steadied earliest and pushed forward to open the scoring with a behind which incidentally became the first score in a competitive match to be recorded on Woori Yallock’s brand spanking new digital scoreboard which had been completed on just the day before. Yet another Upwey “first”? now it was Mt. Evelyn’s turn to make a forward push and the result was a goal. Even at this early stage of the match is was becoming evident, in admittedly small doses, that Upwey was able to keep control of the ball and hold it in their half of the ground and it came as no surprise when they gained the equalising goal and then they proceeded to a second and then a third goal as the team was now playing some fine football. During the season, Upwey’s best performances have come when they have been able to move the ball quickly, usually with some slick handball as team members combined together as opportunities were made and taken. Mt. Evelyn did gain their second gaol of the quarter, thanks to a down-field penalty awarded close to goal to bring them closer. Immediately following that Mt. Evelyn success, Upwey scored their fourth goal of the quarter thanks to a spectacular Keith Warburton- like mark to Mason Kirby that brought the crowd to its feet and the young man then slotted the goal. The quarter ended with Upwey holding a fifteen point lead and they were starting to look much the better team. After Upwey goaled very early in the second quarter Mt. Evelyn put in an attacking effort and that team was rewarded with a goal and then immediately repeated that success but gradually there was a distinct change coming over the match. Upwey was now starting to play some very good football and all team members were clearly growing in confidence as they now really locked the ball in their forward zone. Consistently winning the centre clearances was certainly helping the team’s cause and this was giving the up-field players heaps of scoring opportunities and they were now starting to make the most of each and every such scoring possibility. Upwey was placing enormous pressure on the Mt. Evelyn defence and the goals began to mount up, as regular as prunes in the breakfast diet. By the time that the siren sounded for the half-time break Upwey had added seven goals to their score and, although no one was really saying it aloud, the match was pretty much decided with the evidence for this coming not so much on the scoreboard that showed Upwey now holding a forty-seven point lead but rather from events on the field of play where Upwey had been too quick and too slick for their opponents. Upwey continued on in the third quarter as they had finished the second and after a couple of behinds were scored early on, a fifth minute goal added to their lead. Mt. Evelyn was able to gain a major score of their own soon after but the Upwey defence, by an large, was keeping a tight rein on their opposing forwards as Mt. Evelyn’s scoring opportunities were hard to come by. Upwey kept pushing forward but a series of behinds was the only result before, with the quarter fast fading, goaling success came at last. Three more Upwey goals came in a rush as the door was now well and truly locked fast with the Tigers now holding a most commanding sixty-nine point lead. Four final quarter goals to Upwey and two to Mt. Evelyn only added to Upwey’s dominance as the match wound down to its now predictable ending as Upwey wrapped up this Elimination Final by a more than satisfactory eighty point win. Much still needs to be done however with the First Semi Final next Saturday when this current win will count for nothing but the form certainly gives much promise. Scores: Upwey-Tecoma – 4.4.28 11.7.73 15.12.102 19.15.129 Best: Sam Glazner, Seb Shinegerg, Haydn Stanley, Mitchell Waterman, Damon Torrance. Goals: Sam Glazner 6, Damon Torrance 4, Toby McKern 2, Haydn Stanley 2, Mason Kirby 2, Dylan Asling 1, James Robertson 1, Bailey Stimac-Wuttke 1. Next Saturday we will have four teams in action: the Senior team will be playing Mt. Evelyn in the First Semi Final, the Reserves’ opponent in their Second Semi will be Belgrave while the Under Eighteens will be up against Emerald, also in the First Semi Final. Our A Grade netballers Second Semi Final opponent will be Wandin. the venue for all of these matches is Woori Yallock So we will have a very full program on Saturday and we will certainly need to have all of our loyal Footy Fans on deck to offer full support for all teams but until then remember, you cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. See Ya, Tezza.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 01:14:06 +0000
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