Welcome to the 2010 NWFA season.
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Five unanswered goals before half time proved decisive for Motton Preston, in its North Western Football Association table of the ladder clash with Spreyton, on Saturday.
In muddy conditions the game developed into a good old fashion slog, with neither team able to gain a clear advantage early on, before Motton Preston’s five goal game breaker gave it a 44 point half time lead. The Demons’ runners, Aaron Shelley and brothers Kallan and Bentley Johnson, did the damage for the home side.
After the main break the game returned to its earlier pattern and forays into the respective forward lines were met by solid defence, evident by the fact only five goals were kicked in the second half. At the finish with Motton Preston winning 13.12 (90) to 5.4 (34), it can now lay claim to its second successive minor premiership, but Spreyton finds itself vulnerable in third place and being challenged by Forth for the coveted double chance
The Magpies consolidated fourth spot on the ladder and moved to within four premiership points of Spreyton, with a 29 point win over West Ulverstone. The game was effectively over by three quarter time when Forth led by 54 points. Its midfield was quicker, cleaner and more proactive with the ball and the back half led by Kaine Hall, Clint Distill and full back Glen Belbin, made scoring difficult for the visitors.
With its finals aspirations on a knife edge, West Ulverstone produced a last quarter fight back by scoring six goals to two, but it was too little, too late.
The return of Andrew Leary and Clint Van Neutegem, from injury, enabled Turners Beach to field something like its best line up and was too accomplished for a determined Sheffield. After a relatively even first half with the Seagulls’ lead restricted to just 26 points, there was a sense that something had to give and it came in the third quarter. A more purposeful Turners Beach turned the game on its head with eight goals to two and was unstoppable as Jabob Wiggers, inspired his team mates with some fine individual efforts and five goals, with the home side running away for an 81 point win.
Despite Rosebery Toorak’s best efforts it was unable to provide playing coach and club stalwart, Duncan Mufet, with a fitting milestone win in his 300th consecutive game with the Hawks, with East Ulverstone winning comprehensively by 105 points.
