Match

Gold Coast Suns vs Port Adelaide

Commentary / 16 Aug 2014

Pre Game

00:00
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Quarter 1

00:00
Q1 is now underway.
00:54
SCORE BEHIND - Suns (Rushed)
01:52
SCORE BEHIND - Suns (Jarrod Harbrow)
04:04
SCORE GOAL - Suns (Kade Kolodjashnij)
08:11
SCORE GOAL - Suns (Harley Bennell)
19:34
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Rushed)
21:02
SCORE GOAL - Power (Justin Westhoff)
22:41
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Jay Schulz)
23:18
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Rushed)
26:18
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Matthew Broadbent)
27:28
SCORE GOAL - Suns (Brandon Matera)
28:45
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Chad Wingard)
30:37
The siren has sounded to end Q1.

Quarter 2

00:00
Q2 is now underway.
04:52
Suns Interchange - Charlie Dixon off due to an injury.
06:21
SCORE GOAL - Power (Robbie Gray)
09:46
Power Interchange - Andrew Moore off due to the blood rule.
10:14
Suns Interchange - Jack Martin off due to an injury.
11:11
SCORE GOAL - Suns (Tom J. Lynch)
13:01
SCORE BEHIND - Suns (Rushed)
15:18
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Matthew White)
19:07
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Jared Polec)
28:11
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Brad Ebert)
30:15
The siren has sounded to end Q2.

Quarter 3

00:00
Q3 is now underway.
04:28
SCORE GOAL - Suns (Jarrod Harbrow)
08:47
SCORE GOAL - Power (Matthew White)
11:02
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Rushed)
14:05
SCORE GOAL - Power (Hamish Hartlett)
15:38
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Hamish Hartlett)
16:55
The Suns are pinned deep in defence, at the moment they are simply holding on while the Power surge, each blind kick out of defence is simply sent straight back at them.
18:33
Suns Interchange - Danny Stanley off due to an injury.
18:44
Stanley is now in trouble for the Suns, he has come off cradling his shoulder...at this rate they will have no one on the bench shortly!
20:00
The Suns go forward and find Martin who cannot move, he has to simply wait for someone to run past him. The Suns are in real injury trouble.
21:24
BEHIND SUNS - Matera was desperately trying to get his foot onto a bouncing ball in the goal square, he cannot and it bounces the wrong side of the post for a rushed behind.
23:51
BEHIND POWER - Gray with a clever mark 45 out wide on the boundary line, his kick is left hanging and goes through the near side for a behind, Port retake the lead by a point.
24:54
SUBSTITUTION POWER - Port have pulled the trigger on their Sub, injecting the fresh legs of Young into the game to replace Polec.
26:30
BEHIND POWER - Port are still finding it hard to convert their scoring opportunities, on this occasion Westhoff marks strongly deep in the pocket and the sends his kick across the face and behind.
27:50
Stanley is back on the ground, he has been down in the rooms for the last 15 minutes with that shoulder injury but is ready to return to the fray.
30:48
Westhoff kicks the ball out on the full as the siren sounds for three quarter time, Trent McKenzie will have a shot from 90 out...it was a lovely long kick but still fell 15 metres short.
31:25
THREE QUARTER TIME - The Power lead by 2 points against an injury ravaged Suns. If the Power begin to turn their possession into score board pressure they will romp this one in!

Quarter 4

00:00
FOURTH QUARTER - The Suns have 30 minutes to save their finals campaign, if they do they deserve to play in September if they cannot a top four spot beckons the Power.
01:03
GOAL POWER - The Power with the perfect start as they get a clean take away from the centre and deliver it to the leading Schulz who marks 35 out and then converts the set shot.
02:50
BEHIND POWER - Hartlett puts the Power further in front as he puts yet another behind on the board...that is their 13th of the match and they lead by 9 points.
04:19
BEHIND SUNS - Harbrow with a long, long shot on goal, the ball looks good off the boot but drops short and collects the post...Port lead by 8 points.
06:37
The Suns have picked up their work rate but when they go forward there is just 'tumbleweeds, dust and the sounds of crickets', it's not much good defending they need to win this one!
08:57
Now the Power are simply going to wind the clock down, they have the lead and are content to see the ball over the boundary line, time and time again.
10:18
Just what the Suns don't need...the rain is beginning to fall once again.
12:14
GOAL POWER - McKenzie is shepherded out of the contest allowing Moore to slide in, literally, and take the mark. Moore then splits the middle and the Suns need three goals to win!
13:48
Now the rain is coming down in a blanket and the leg weary Suns might just find it too much to claw their way back into this match.
14:58
Carlile with a very poorly camouflaged attempt at putting the ball out of play, he was lucky that a team mate sprinted towards the ball and gave the Umpire something to think about!
16:48
The Suns have been pressing for the last few minutes but the Power are flooding back and clogging up any space that the Suns might find to run into...Gold Coast need to find a score.
18:19
At the moment we are limping from one stoppage to another and the Power do not mind one little bit, they are controlling the tempo of this match and I cannot see them losing it from here.
20:21
Guess what? Another boundary line throw in...followed by a ball up, the Power are just going to strangle this game.
21:54
GOAL SUNS - A pass intended for Lynch comes off hands to big Daniel Gorringe, he scoops the ball off the ground, and kicks a check side running goal...what an effort.
22:27
Power Interchange - Hamish Hartlett off due to an injury.
22:58
BEHIND POWER - Another rushed behind of an attempt from Neade means very little...the Suns still need two goals to win.
24:37
Bennell loops a ball across the face of goal looking for Matera, Matera drops what he should have taken and the Suns blow a gilt edged chance.
25:53
The ball is still deep in attack for the Suns, can they manage to find a goal somehow?
26:15
GOAL SUNS - HERE THEY COME...Bennell with a miraculous kick from deep in the pocket he was running towards the boundary line, when he tumble the ball across his body for a miracle goal.
28:31
GOAL POWER - Wines comes out of a cluster of players and with great vision picks out Wingard 35 out right in front. Wingard makes it hard for the Suns by nailing his kick, Port by 9 points.
30:25
A free kick to the Power for a ruck infringement sees Lobbe kick long looking for the boundary line and time will probably beat the Suns now.
32:12
Westhoff takes a mark deep in defence and then is awarded a fifty metre penalty as he is ridden into the turf...that was a silly fifty to give away.
33:19
FULL TIME - The siren sounds and the Suns September dream is over as the Power win a gritty clash at a sodden Metricon Stadium.
33:20
FULL TIME - Gold Coast must be wondering what happened, they looked set for September action but that has evaporated in a late season slump brought on by fatigue and a mounting injury toll.
33:21
The siren has sounded to end Q4.