Another outing at the South Western Football League, only this time my game is at the Collie Recreational Ground hosting Eaton in a round 9 clash on a bright, sunny and slightly warm winter conditions on a good day for football. Collie who have not had a great start to the season are entering the middle section of the season struggling to find some form and are searching for some much needed momentum to launch themselves towards a rather hopeful tilt at the finals come September. While Eaton are desperately looking for a win as they have not had an ideal start to the season. Any remote possibility of salvaging a potential tilt at a finals shot is slim but they're looking for anything to jump-start their season. Hopefully they can turn it around against a good showing in Collie. Though it will be a tough ask when Collie are in some impressive form that is showing some sparkle.
Collie had kept Eaton restricted with only two goals in the first quarter. But their inaccurate kicking in the first quarter would prove to be a foreshadowing of things to come for the Eagles. Eaton would just be giving the ball away with costly turnovers to really gift Collie the ascendancy with three goals in the quarter, though with seven points in the quarter, a highly frustrating quarter to watch.
The second quarter was much the same with Collie dominating the midfield and pushing hard into their attacking forward 50. The only issues were just the careless turn-overs and the hopeful kicking up in hope which would result in some tense passages of play where Eaton looked threatening but were simply ineffectual to make an impact. Half time was 6.12-48 to 2.1-13, the inaccurate kicking was frustrating to say the least.
Third quarter was a continuation of the first half, though the issue was again with the accuracy. Collie could have easily put the game to bed in the first or even second quarter. Though at least they were moving forward and progressing while applying constant pressure on Eaton to not allow them to find any form of composure to try and mount any meaningful counter attack. The inaccurate kicking of Collie was the crack in the armor that could allow Eaton to sneak back into the game. Though at three quarter time the scores were 9.17-71 to 5.2-32.
The last quarter was just the same with more inaccuracies and just Eaton pushing forward and snagging occasional goals and remaining accurate with the low amount of points that were registered. Though this was shut down with Eaton only scoring 2 goals in the quarter with Collie kicking 4. However, the inaccuracies were again prevalent with four points kicked to finish with 13.21-99 to 7.2-44. Collie were in control, though their lack of accuracy was of high concern, especially when it comes to the bigger sides and against Busselton who they play next week.
Now to the food and drink. Well I had a hotdog and it was rather nice. It was a standard white bun with a sausage with some tomato sauce and perhaps I could have been rather decadent and added some mustard with it but I was just satisfied that I had a hotdog, compared to what happened the other game at Bunbury. The hotdog was 6 dollars with a coke that was 3 dollars. I think that these were reasonably priced though the hotdog could have been the 5 dollar mark.
Later on in the game I decided to have a bucket of chips for 6 dollars and I had a Swan Draught for7 dollars. Was a middy size so, I could imagine that a pint would have been around 11 or 12 dollars on guessing. Then I finished with a can of Emu Export for 7 dollars. By then it was game over and time to head home. My first time watching some football in Collie and thought it was a good afternoon out. Looking forward to heading down there to watch some more football there during the season.
