Having come off such a heavy loss against Rovers: this week's game was always going to be a challenge. Chapman Valley has been improving steadily over the past few weeks and they certainly arrived ready to play.

Like last week we started very slowly only kicking 2 behinds in the first quarter. CV were on target at the other end kicking 5 goals, 1 behind to give them a handy 29 point lead at the end of the first quarter. Tim Hamilton had to get carried off the field early in the with ankle injury which left us with only 16 on the field.

The second quarter was another low scorer for us with only 1 goal being added to the score. CV kicked another 2 goals and 5 behinds to take a 40 point lead into the major break.

A stern talking to from the coach: strapping and lollies from the manager and Jason arriving (thanks to Jason for rushing from work for the last few weeks to ensure we have numbers) meant that at least we started with all 18 for the second half. Tim was terrific to come back on, picking up fairest and best votes for his courage and effort and his goal.

We played better footy in the second half and out scored them in the last quarter but the damage had been done by then.

Final Scores
VALLEY 13-13-91 def TOWNS 6-8-44

Best Players:
Wayne Bonney, Declan parsons, Tim Hamilton, William
Thorne, Calvin Parfitt

Goals:
One each to Graeme Adams, Jason Bethune, Wayne Bonney, Ashley Green – Headland, Tim Hamilton and William Thorne