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MEIB. 13.14 (122),
ST KILDA 14.16 (100)
U@m@ns and
Scsinfs belie
practice
striatcli form
.Carlton's captain Mike Fitzpatrick, and Coll ingwood's Peter Moore, who won last year's Brownlow Medal, had an interesting tussle in yesterday's game at Victoria Park. Blue Mark Maclure, No 36, awaits the outcome. Help
.Carlton's captain Mike
Fitzpatrick, and Coll
ingwood's Peter Moore, who
won last year's Brownlow
Medal, had an interesting
tussle in yesterday's game at
Victoria Park. Blue Mark
Maclure, No 36, awaits the
outcome.
Melbourne and St Kilda, the bottom teams
of 1979, certainly proved that practice-match
form is a poor guide.
The revived Demons caused the first upset of the
season when they downed the new-look Saints by 22
points at VFL Park.
It was difficult to predict such an outcome as
Melbourne had been soundly thrashed in practice
matches and a national night-series match recently.
In contrast, St Kilda, with its new chairman, new
approach and Alex Jesaulenko, had swept all before
it in pre-season matches.
But Melbourne produced the goods when it
counted as it stunned St Kilda with a six-goal opening
quarter burst to race to a 32-point lead.
Jesaulenko brought St Kilda back into the game
with two goals in the second quarter and the former
Carlton captain-coach certainly paid his way in his
debut with new club.
But even the presence of Jezza on the forward line
could not enable St Kilda to match the quick-moving
Demons.
Melbourne, with new recruit Russell Rowe booting
four goals, fought off a second-half St Kilda challenge
to confound the experts.
It was a tough, hard game with two stretcher cases
and a report.
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