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The much vaunted midfield of the Narrm Football Club came crashing to the sodden earth of Adelaide Oval at the hands of Yartapuulti‘s young guns. The local youngsters were headed by three scintillating quarters of magic in the midfield from ZaK Butters and Connor Rozee and a few magical party tricks from the makeshift Yartapuulti forward line such as Sam Powell-Pepper‘s goal over the shoulder early in the game and Rozee’s late match winner. A controversial mark paid to Ollie Lord that appeared to have touched the grass helped, as did after-the-siren goals at the end of the first and third quarters. Together the grabbed the limelight on the AFL’s Friday Night stage. Narrm had just one quarter of glory when an uncharacteristically quiet Christian Petracca together with Clayton Oliver and Jack Viney restored life and clearance dominance to the team. They surged with seven goals from a game-high deficit of 25 points to a 17 point lead in the driving rain. It was also the only period of time in the game when their defence, led valiantly by Steven May (who can be proud of his Sir Doug Nicholls Round performance). Unfortunately, a couple of late frees that culminated in that last ditch goal gave succor to the home side. The Demons’ final term was weak, with some poor decision-making that let Yartapuulti back into the game and rewarded them with their ultimately well deserved victory. Overall, there were too many passengers among the Narrm small brigade up forward that went missing in the wet. The taller forwards were often caught behind during the first, second and last quarters when the game was won and lost. The ultimate four point final margin was flattering to say the least. Coach Simon Goodwin has some work to do as his team has a tough month ahead and if it doesn’t revert to a more desperate kind of play, they might well lose touch with a top four berth. NARRM 1.2.8 3.5.23 10.7.67 11.10.76 YARTAPUULTI 3.2.20 5.7.37 8.8.56 11.14.80 GOALS NARRM Fritsch McDonald 2 Chandler Hunter Grundy Petracca Pickett Spargo van Rooyen YARTAPUULTI Butters Finlayson Lord 2 Burton Horne-Francis Houston Powell-Pepper Rozee BEST NARRM Oliver Rivers May Hunter Viney YARTAPUULTI Butters Houston Rozee Bergman Burton Horne-Francis INJURIES NARRM J. Bowey (calf) YARTAPUULTI Boak (ribs) McKenzie (concussion) REPORTS NARRM L. Hunter for rough conduct on C. Rozee YARTAPUULTI Nil SUBSTITUTIONS NARRM J. Jordon (replaced J. Bowey in the third quarter) YARTAPUULTI J. Mead (replaced T. Boak in the third quarter) UMPIRES Curtis Deboy Hayden Gavine Jamie Broadbent Leigh Haussen CROWD 37,565 at Adelaide Oval

Clarrie out in front by 18. 127. Clayton Oliver 109. Christian Petracca 50. Jack Viney 44. Max Gawn 33. Brodie Grundy Trent Rivers 30. Jake Lever 24. Angus Brayshaw 23. Lachie Hunter 18. Ed Langdon 17. Steven May 15. Kysaiah Pickett 14. Bayley Fritsch 13. Jake Bowey 11. Kade Chandler 9. Ben Brown 8. Judd McVee 7. Charlie Spargo 6. Tom Sparrow 5. Tom McDonald Alex Neal-Bullen 4. Christian Salem 3. Michael Hibberd James Jordon 2. Jacob van Rooyen 1. Harry Petty

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Narrm returns to the MCG in Round 11 to take on Walyalup on Saturday afternoon. They will be looking to secure their eighth win of the season and stay in the Top 4. Who comes in and who goes out?

Narrm traveled interstate for the sixth time in ten game and failed to fire a shot in the first half of the match before a spirited comeback in the third but ultimately fell short losing to Yartapuulti by 4 points.

Christian Petracca is closing in fast on Clayton Oliver in the Demonland Player of the Year award followed a long way back by Jack Viney and Max Gawn. Please give us your votes for the match. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 …

No one wants to man up Finlayson.

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BT barracking hard

Umpires icing the game.

Demonstrative?

Commentators have already given Butters 3, 2, 1.

🖕 commentators

Commentators couldn’t care less that’s it’s an 8 point ball game.

Not 10

Umpiring an absolute joke

They rarely replay when the umpire gets it wrong.

On the flip side we are under pressure every time we get the ball.

Swiss cheese defence

C’mon Dees. Fire up.

Max gets zero protection from the umpires.

10-0 clearances this quarter. Woeful.