South Melbourne vs Footscray 23-Apr-1973 Lineups

Monday 23-Apr-1973

Final Round 3

South Melbourne Coach: Graeme John

118 17.16

135 20.15

Footscray Coach: Bob Rose

The team sheet

Who takes the field

Attacking this way

Home team

South Melbourne

Recorded positions

Positions recorded for this match.

Exact positions unavailableAvailable players are listed below.

Position unavailable 20

11 Peter Bedford — 33 Greg Lambert — 12 Norm Goss — 21 John Pitura — 19 Jim Prentice — 18 Bruce Davis — 17 Russell Cook — 29 David McLeish — 32 Peter Brown — 8 Barry Beecroft — 28 Robert Doyle — 22 Eric Moore — 27 Reg Gleeson — 26 Steve Hoffman — 10 Brian Woodman — 45 Graham Dempster — 5 Greg Miller — 25 Haydn McAuliffe — 30 Geoff Craighead — 6 John Murphy —

Away team

Footscray

Recorded positions

Positions recorded for this match.

Exact positions unavailableAvailable players are listed below.

Position unavailable 20

17 Adrian Gallagher — 2 Bernie Quinlan — 23 Stuart Magee — 48 Dennis Collins — 24 Gary Dempsey — 38 Terry Wilkins — 10 Gordon Casey — 16 David Thorpe — 12 Colin Dell — 9 Laurie Sandilands — 25 Ron Jacks — 40 Harry Frei — 6 Charles Pagnoccolo — 18 Ian Salmon — 14 Barry Round — 4 Peter Welsh — 27 Garry Baker — 20 Les Bartlett — 31 Graeme Austin — 19 Gary Merrington —

Quarter Scores

Team	1Q	2Q	3Q	4Q	Total
SMO	4.3	4.4	5.3	4.6	118
FTS	6.4	7.6	5.3	2.2	135

Match Leaders

Goals

2 tied leaders

Peter BedfordSMO

Behinds

4 tied leaders

Peter BedfordSMO

SuperCoach

Not available yet

Tackles

Not available yet

Team Stats

SMOFTS

Scoring / Attack

17Goals20

16Behinds13

0Behinds Rushed0

Possession

298Disposals277

259Kicks233

39Handballs44

Clearance / Contest

21Hitouts37

Other

90Marks61

How the match finished

Footscray beat South Melbourne by 17 points, 135–118.

Footscray took a 33-point lead into the last quarter. South Melbourne cut that back to 17 by the final siren, scoring 30 points to 14 in the final term.

This match record does not include scoring sequence.

Match records and coverage

This summary uses the recorded scores; it cannot explain tactics or individual moments. Quarter comparisons are included only when all four quarters add up to the final score. Missing records are not counted as zero.

Understanding historical coverage