Tom Ryan under pressure gets a handball away to a teammate in the Hoppers forward line.
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Rennie 5.3, 12.8, 15.11, 19.17.131.
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Blighty 0.0, 1.3, 3.6, 4.9.33.
Goals: Rennie: D. Bruce 4, C. Hargreaves 4, D. Chung 3, T. Ryan 2, M. Wilson 2, R. Burns, J. Welsh, L. Dwyer, J. Fountain.
Blighty: B. Thomson, R. Reids, N. Fogo, A. Simpson.
Best: Rennie: J. Fountain, J. Cooke, C. Hargreaves, O. Cope, L. Dwyer, D. Bruce.
Blighty: A. Gardiner, R. Stringer, Z. Chapman, H. Michael, D. Leyden, H. Burton.
The Rennie Hoppers grabbed their third victory of the season defeating Blighty by 98 points at home on Saturday.
Rennie took control of the match early kicking five goals to none in the first term as ruckman Welsh won every tap-out.
Fountain was amassing huge disposals and Cooke was taking a very aggressive position at half back and providing multiple forward forays.
Jack Welsh handballing to Tanner Freeman.
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Term 2 saw more of the same with the lead blowing out to 71 as Hargreaves and Bruce became strong targets up forward, Cope and Burns were controlling their wings and Dwyer was cleaning up at half back.
Blighty regrouped after the long break and were able to stop the Hoppers from having deep forward entries as the sting had already gone out of the game, but it opened up late in the final term with the Hoppers chasing a 3 figure victory but just failing.
Ryan Burns kicks truly to kick his major.
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Bruce and Hargreaves kicked 4 goals and Chung 3.
Really solid effort from Rennie with Fountain leading from the front well supported by Cooke, Hargreaves and Cope.
Connor Hargreaves was the equal top goal scorer for the Hoppers, booting 4 majors in the Hoppers 98 point win.
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Reserves
Rennie 31.20.206 def Blighty 0.0.0
The two’s blew this game apart in term 1 kicking 11 goals.
With 6, 9 and 5 goals in the ensuing terms whilst holding their opponent scoreless won by 206 points.
Long with 7 goals had sticky hands all day well supported by Trinder-James with 4 goals and Martin, Lewis and Bone with 3 each.
The Hoppers had 14 individual goalkickers with the workload shares evenly across the ground.
The two’s are now only out of the eight on percentage.
Goals: H. Long 7, R. Trinder James 4, B. Bone 3, B. Lewis 3, L. Martin 3, A. Smith 2, W. Taylor 2, B. Douglass, T. True, T. Woodward, B. Preston, A. Nish, T. Dykes, T. Bryce.
Best: H. Long, B. Bone, B. Lewis, L. Martin, T. Dykes, Z. Garner.
Awards: Premix King – Hayden Long, Lake Mulwala Bakery – Brad Bone, Yarrawonga Hotel – Brady Lewis, ClubMulwala – Liam Martin, Shayne Stiles Roofing – Tim Dykes.
Thirds
No game.
Fourths
Rennie 12.23.95 def Blighty 1.2.8.
The fourths set the trend for the day having a huge first term kicking 8 goals. Although they slowed from then with poor conversion in front of goal ensuring there will be goal shooting practice, this week they won by 87 points.
Really evenly spread with Zander Rhdes kicking 2, supported by 10 other goalkickers.
Temporary coach Cowan, stepping in for an ailing coach Hemphill was very pleased with how the Hoppers worked together and kept looking for a teammate in better position.
Excellent team effort.
Goals: Z. Rhodes 2, D. Hargreaves, F. Bruce, F. Wood, F. Strawhorn, N. Nunn, E. Withers, L. Legudi, D. Fasoli, H. Crawford, B. Ednie.
Best: E. Withers, F. Strawhorn, H. Crawford, L. Legudi, J. Rhodes, A. Hodgson.
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