ROUND 19
Saturday 15th of July.

WEST 1.6 3.8 6.15 7.17 (59)
GLENELG 1.2 3.5 4.4 6.11 (47)

Having battled hard all day to be in contention in the final term, Glenelg failed to take its chances and let the game slip. Two easy set shots from inside 50 with the breeze were missed and Ben McEntee, after taking great grabs all over the ground, was unable to take an uncontested mark twenty metres out from goal.
The Tigers' forward set up was non existent. Time and time again, West Adelaide defenders took uncontested marks, as the Tigers bombed the ball into attack without purpose. Incredibly, Glenelg's two second quarter goals were scored by full-back Sherwood and back-pocket Tipuamantamerri. The Tigers did not have a multiple goal scorer.
In a game that was decidedly sub-standard, West Adelaide displayed many of the same deficencies as Glenelg, causing supporters from both clubs to spend much of the game squirming in frustration.
Glenelg face North Adelaide at Adelaide Oval next Saturday in a game that the Tigers must win to have some hope of avoiding the wooden spoon.
The match report is extracted from the"Sunday Mail."

Brave Richo seals it for scrappy Bloods.

By Doug Robertson.
A controversial free kick with just minutes remaining - and a desperate need to win - helped West Adelaide limp across the line by 12 points in a scrappy and scrambly contest against Glenelg at Brighton Road yesterday.
Bloods big man Adam Richardson showed the courage expected of a dual Ken Farmer by diving at the ball in a pack and was rewarded with a free kick for a high tackle by unlucky Damian Raidis 24 minutes into the last term.
West led by just six points but Richardson's third goal meant the Tigers had to score twice to rein in West when time was rapidly evaporating. Glenelg had control for most of the second half and bolted in the final term with a strong wind at its back to come within a whisker of its third win of the seson.
If not for a huge lift by half-forward Tim Symes - and Glenelg's appalling skills under pressure - it would have been the Tigers celebrating an unattractive but much-wanted win.
West messed and fussed about with the ball so often from forward of centre it kept Glenelg interested early in the game. The Bloods held on to the ball too long, kicked high and wide into the wind and generally wasted possessions while Glenelg gradually built up confidence.
"They had an off day," West coach Mike Taylor said.
"We came away with a win but... the disappointing thing was we had four or five guys who played okay but the others were well below."
Tigers tiro Ben McEntee found touch as a new wingman and pulled down 11 marks, including two or three from well above the packs.
Martin Mellody, Alistair Burke and ruckman Matthew Golding kept working in the middle and gave the Tigers enough of the ball to lead.
But it was their own brand of over-use that was costly in a tense last term. After kicking the first two goals of the term, Damien Gigney and then Shane Tipuamantamerri missed seemingly easy shots from inside 50 that would have killed off West.
Kane Cornes, Simon Nicholas and Paul Sherwood were rebounding well from defence, its forwards were finding space and Glenelg made West look ragged.
But the mistakes under pressure came because of a worrying combination of poor skills and low - confidence, coach Tony McGuinness said. "Wasted opportunities, poor decisions and missed shots inside 50 cost us," he said. "We certainly had our chances."
West won but could take few positives from a contest mostly played at a schoolboy standard.

BEST PLAYERS: Mellody, Nicholas, McEntee, Golding, Cornes, Hele.
SCORERS: Tipuamantamerri 1.3, Hams, Gigney, McEntee, Pearce 1.1, Sherwood 1.0, Burke, Hele Ellis 0.1, rushed 0.1.
INJURIES: Mellody (hamstring), Hele (stitches under eye).
CROWD: 1862.

RESERVES: West 25.10 (160) d Glenelg 7.8 (50)
UNDER 19: West 19.8 (122) d Glenelg 9.15 (69)
UNDER 17: Glenelg 10.7 (67) d West 8.10 (58)