MAYBE a sixth and final contender has emerged for this year\u2019s McDonald\u2019s Ballarat Football League premiership with the Bloods recording a 27-point victory over the reigning premiers on Saturday at the Eastern Oval, winning 16.14 (110) to 12.13 (83)<\/p>\n
With a red-hot North Ballarat City gunning for the Bloods place in the top six, Melton produced a remarkable 63-point turnaround to keep their season alive and illustrate to the footballing world that they are once again a contender to go one step further this year.<\/p>\n
It was a disastrous start for the Bloods with the Kangaroos taking a 30-point lead at the first break as star on-baller Matthew Johnston booted two first-quarter goals in his first game back since battling severe concussion symptoms.<\/p>\n
Despite trailing and being under all sorts of pressure from a rampant East Point outfit, Melton coach Aaron Tymms remained cool, calm and collected at his quarter-time address.<\/p>\n
He uurged his chargers to clean up their skill level as a starting point and to continue to play with \u201cno fear and no pressure, let\u2019s get the footy in quicker to give our tall forwards the best opportunity out the back.\u201d<\/p>\n
The approach seemed to work with Bloods reducing the margin to only nine points at the major break thanks to three special second-quarter goals from Shaun Campbell in a six-goal quarter.<\/p>\n
Convincingly winning the second half from here, Melton can thank co-captains, Ben Archard, and Bradean Kight, with Archard putting in a best on ground performance in the ruck, while Kight would go on to kick two sealing goals in the final term to secure victory.<\/p>\n
The loss for the Kangas means they join Darley, Sebastopol, Sunbury and Redan all locked on 40 premiership points, and with a tough run home and an injury list that continues to pile up, it is quite possible they could drop as low as fifth by this season conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MAYBE a sixth and final contender has emerged for this year\u2019s McDonald\u2019s Ballarat Football League premiership with the Bloods recording a 27-point victory over the reigning premiers on Saturday at the Eastern Oval, winning 16.14 (110) to 12.13 (83) With a red-hot North Ballarat City gunning for the Bloods place in the top six, Melton […]<\/p>\n