New Town Eagles vs South hobart Rd 11

A minute's silence was observed before the kick off in memory of Pam Clark, mother of South Hobart's trainer Noel Clark. Pam was a former committee member of the club.
The minute's silence was also a mark of respect for the grandmother of South Hobart's captain, Daniel Brown, who had passed away that same day.

Photo: New Town Eagles' starting eleven and coach George Krambousanos [PlessPix]
New Town Eagles did not stand a chance and the reigning champions were 2-o up after just 13 minutes. It could have been 3-0 as Greg Downes had rattled the Eagles crossbar in only the 3rd minute of the match.
Andrew Clark had been assigned to man-mark Kostas Kanakaris, but the South Hobart striker proved unplayable. In the 11th minute, he headed Andy Brennan's excellent cross from the left down and into the net past a helpless Nathan Pitchford.
Two minutes later, Tom Roach pushed a free-kick short to Kanakaris, who found the net off the left-hand post from 18 metres to make it 2-0.

Photo: South Hobart's starting eleven with coach Ken Morton [PlessPix]
Eagles lost Simon Strang in the 17th minute with a rib injury after a collision with Roach. He was replaced by Alex Leszczynski.
Five minutes before the interval, Eagles pulled a goal back when Michael Anderson's deep cross from the left found Adam McKeown, who nodded the ball expertly past keeper Sam Kruijver and inside the right-hand post.
The dismissal of Anderson was a set-back for Eagles, but we will never know if the home-side would have made more of a game of it had they retained 11 players.

Photo: South Hobart's Tom Roach sets himself for a tackle from Eagles' Michael Anderson (left) [PlessPix]
In the 71st minute, Kanakaris collected a back-heeled pass from substitute Liam Scott and side-stepped Leszczynski before driving a low shot past Pitchford to restore South Hobart's two-goal buffer.
Four minutes from the end, Roach slid to win the ball off an opponent on the right and, all in the same movement, played it into the path of fellow medico Jonathon Lo at the near post and the substitute knocked the ball in to make it 4-1.
The win over the second-placed outfit gave South Hobart an 8-point lead at the top of the standings. They look impregnable now.
Match Report by Walter pless

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