ROUND 6
Saturday 5th of May.

EAGLES 0.4 2.10 6.12 10.17 (77)
GLENELG 1.1 1.4 3.4 4.6 (30)

Honor's tactics can't save Bays.

By Paul Kermode.
Fine conditions. Adelaide Oval in perfect nick. Three goals to half time. On the face of it, something did not add up about Woodville-West torrens' clash with Glenelg on Saturday.
And while a half-time scoreline of 2.10 to 1.4 would suggest a series of pitched one-on-one battles across the ground, the reality was quite different.
The Tigers flooded their backline and, whenever in doubt, headed straight for the boundry line to stop the flow of play. The result was lose players in the Eagles' defence who won a swag of uncontested possession but struggled to pinpoint team mates in a highly crowded forward line.
It appeared a negative tactic from first year coach Brenton Honor but he insisted the controversial tactic was designed with victory in mind, not to minimise the damage against an Eagles side full of running power and forward options.
"I wouldn't say it's a defensive tactic. It's something different," Honor said. "The flooding game doesn't have to be just flooding back, you can flood forward as well. We flooded back really well but didn't flood forward very well.
"That's a confidence thing, they're focusing so much on getting back and when we did get the footy, they didn't have the confidence to flood forward. It's a very taxing style of game and a game where they've got to concentrate and work hard. They're the specific areas where we haven't done enough. That was part of the whole soul-searching week - we wanted to play lads that have a passion to play for Glenelg and we wanted to see which players would take on instructions and play to a game plan.
"It could have come off but it didn't.
"Always the plan was to be within two goals at three-quarter time and we'll go for it.
"Unfortunately that two goals turned into four and a half. It's hard on them because they put so much into it but weren't rewarded at the end, which is disappointing."
Eagles boss Ron Fuller was pleased with the two points, a 47-point victory and the fact that his side bounced back after its forst loss of the season. He praised the players' ability to adapt but said he would take very little else from Saturday's encounter.
"We could only do what we could under the circumstances," he said. "I think we probably had a bit too much time sometimes and some of the decision making wasn't instinctive because of it. I was happy with the way they toughed it out and they just tried to do things the way Glenelg played.
"There were a lot of people in the crowd who weren't very supportive of it but it's not my position to judge Glenelg. I don't know what the reasons for it were but we went out there to play our type of football and because we were'nt allowed to, we had to adjust and I thought we adjusted pretty well."

BEST PLAYERS: M.Raidis, Mellody, Fogden, Sherwood, Yoemans, Venables.
SCORERS: Venables, Mellody, Willet, Pearce 1.0, Angwin, Harwood, Burke, O'Brian 0.1, rushed 0.2.
INJURIES: Golding (knee), Angwin (hamstring).
CROWD: 2363.