The Bombers 'outsmart' Melbourne - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) - 9 Aug 1992 (original) (raw)

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Sun 9 Aug 1992 - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995)
Page 12 - The Bombers 'outsmart' Melbourne

Collingwood's Scott Russell tackles Hawthorn's Anthony Condon during yesterday's AFL match

in Melbourne, which Hawthorn won 11.16 (82) to 8.15 (63).

young troop of new players

came through with the goods

yesterday as the Bombers wore

down a tiring Melbourne in the

As Essendon tried to regroup

after last week's 160-point

thrashing by Hawthorn, the

youngsters, including James

Hird and David Calthorpe,

showed there was hope for the

Hird kicked two goals in only

his second senior appearance,

while Calthorpe had a sound

Paul Salmon, playing with a

nagging groin strain, kicked six

goals in the 19.12 (126) to 13.16

(94) win as he was switched to

and from full-forward to full-

The Bombers were inspired

by a purple patch from Greg An-

derson on the half-forward flank

who kicked three goals in as

many minutes with his deadly

left foot during the second quar-

Melbourne had taken a mo-

mentary lead at that stage but

Anderson's performance took

the wind out of the Demons'

Anderson finished the match

with 25 possessions which in-

cluded 18 kicks and six marks

while a busy Salmon record 43

possessions with 18 kicks and 17

form even had coach Kevin

Sheedy scratching his head.

"You can't take anything for

granted," Sheedy said in the

"Last week we couldn't play

because we had lost our confi-

dence but we have picked the

pieces up and hopefully we can

turn it around for the rest of the

year and be ready next year," he

Essendon has a bye next week

and will take the opportunity of

playing a practice match on

Thursday or Friday to keep the

Northey was a disappointed

man especially after his team

had defeated premiership con-

tender Collingwood last week.

"We hit a bit of a flat spot

after half-time," Northey said.

He admitted his players had

trouble trying to contain the Es-

sendon tall men Salmon and Pe-

"We had to take Jim Stynes

off the ball because Salmon was

certainly a handful for us,"

"Their players out-thought us

"We tried a couple of kids to

give them a go but we were al-

ways out to try and win the

Northey said his players fell

into the trap of kicking the ball

long down to Salmon where they

could have tried shorter kicks.

"The first 15 minutes in par-

ticular we didn't think much

about our game," Northey said.

Salmon instead of looking for

Melbourne full-forward Allen

Jakovich kicked four goals for

the game but was kept quiet in

the first and final quarters.

The fourth quarter deteriorat-

ed into a scrappy affair with

some Melbourne players guilty

of half-hearted attempts at goal

as Essendon was pulling away

Glen Kilpatrick was taken out

of Essendon's line-up with a

hamstring injury and replaced

by Willy Dick who began the

game on the interchange bench.

Dick, a recruit this year from

Western Australian, showed his

class in the third quarter when

he shrugged off two attempted

tackles in the centre square to

make ah incisive run to the 50m

line where he drilled the ball

through the posts for his one

Melbourne travel to Sydney

next week to take on the disap-

pointing Swans and should lift