One-Percenters: Player kicks club record 21 goals, another slots nine in a half plus other quirky titbits from the Adelaide Footy League
Veteran full-forward Trevor Rigney smashed O’Sullivan Beach/Lonsdale’s record for most goals in a game on Saturday with a whopping 21 – here’s this week’s amateur footy wrap.
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WELCOME to One-Percenters — a wrap of some of the quirky talking points from across the Adelaide Footy League.
Each edition we will bring you eight or so titbits — they might be eye-catching results, milestones, comebacks, big wins, broken droughts or inspiring stories.
If you have heard about something quirky, email us your suggestions or photos to matthew.turner1@news.com.au.
Here are some of the things that caught our eye at the weekend:
RIGNEY THE RECORD-BREAKER
Trevor Rigney kicked a club record 21 goals for O’Sullivan Beach/Lonsdale on Saturday in the Lions’ 188-point thumping of Flinders University in division seven.
But Sullies’ football director Shane Clark reckoned the veteran forward could have booted even more in the 34.12 (216) to 4.4 (28) result.
“He was passing off a lot ... and was very unselfish,” Clark said.
“But it just kept coming to him.
“It was a phenomenal performance.
“To do what he did, I haven’t seen that before.”
Rigney’s 21.4 broke the club’s previous record of 17 goals in a game, which had been held by both Keiren McIntyre (2007) and Troy Williams (2006)for more than a decade.
The haul was also a personal-best for Rigney, who once kicked 16.
He has now slotted 45 goals for the season – 16 more than the seventh tier’s next best, Marion’s Ryan Wade.
“It was pretty good delivery ... but he had a couple of people in front of him all day trying to stop him and it just wasn’t happening,” Clark says.
“Most of the goals were 40 metres out ... and a couple of times he was right on the boundary and had to do checksides to get them through the goals.
“And he’s not just sitting up at full-forward, he’s putting himself on the ball at times as well.”
Rigney’s football CV is long and includes 928 senior goals.
He has lined up in 12 league games for South Adelaide, won three A-grade flags, been in association teams 12 times, made a state country squad and nabbed four league leading goalkicker crowns.
Rigney, who has been a star for Brighton, McLaren Vale and Peake, returned to the Lions, his junior club, after they switched to the Adelaide Footy League at the end of last season.
This year, Rigney is playing with his brother, Adam.
“He certainly is a talent and he works so hard for the football and the team,” Clark says.
EAGLES NEED TO FIND THEIR WINGS
Could one of the league’s most dominant sides since the turn of the century be in danger of demotion?
Gaza has not played lower than the top two tiers since 1978 when the Eagles won the division three premiership and were promoted.
Coach Andrew Jarman’s side has had a slow start to the season and has managed just a 1-4 record.
Its solitary victory came by 16 points against winless Golden Grove in round one.
This Saturday’s contest away at fellow 1-4 side Unley Mercedes Jets will be crucial.
Gaza spent 14 straight years in division one from 2001-2014 during which it played in four grand finals and won two premierships (2003, 2011).
PNU NOTCHES FIRST WIN
Payneham Norwood Union has finally prevailed in division one, avoiding a 0-4 start to the campaign.
Pressure was starting to mount on last year’s runner-up and coach Garry McIntosh after an uninspiring opening to the campaign but they turned it around with a 14.11 (95) to 6.9 (45) home triumph over Henley on Saturday.
Norwood premiership player Liam Davis snagged five goals for PNU.
The Falcons play Port District, which has a 2-2 record, this Saturday.
10-GOAL TURNAROUND
Houghton’s Loky Anderson booted nine goals in the second half of the Raiders’ 130-point shellacking of Golden Grove in division seven on Saturday to finish with 10 for the match.
Anderson had kicked one to half-time before registering five in the third quarter and four in the fourth on his way to a best-on-ground performance.
Raiders football director Dave Keetch said the small forward “turned it on” during the third term.
Houghton ultimately prevailed 25.13 (163) to 5.3 (33).
“He found himself in front a lot and probably eight of those goals were from set shots,” Keetch said.
“It was a good effort by him.”
Anderson joined Houghton from Hope Valley this season.
BEST OF A SCUMMY LOT
Labor leader Peter Malinauskas made his season debut for Adelaide University’s C6 side, affectionately nicknamed “the Scum” a fortnight ago, as you might have read in this column.
But SA’s new Opposition Leader has gone one better in his second game, getting named in the Blacks’ best as they notched their first win of the season.
Finally a win! It’s low grade footy, but they all count - especially when playing with your brother and good mates. pic.twitter.com/A4W2L11PhK
— Peter Malinauskas (@PMalinauskasMP) May 5, 2018
Malinauskas booted two goals in Uni’s 16.7 (103) to 7.9 (51) triumph against Payneham Norwood Union at Park 10.
“The Scum” are away to Edwardstown this Saturday.
LACE UP FOR LYNNE
Goodwood Saints’ annual “Lace up for Lynne” ladies day raised more than $8000 last weekend.
And the club can thank A-grade ruckman Tom Carter for helping tip in almost $1000 after he shaved his head post-match.
The “Lace up for Lynne” concept started in 2016 to raise money and awareness for secondary breast cancer.
It was created by the family of Lynne Brooks – the mother of ex-Saints A-grade captain Simon Brooks – after she died that year from the illness, aged 57.
All Goodwood teams wore pink shoelaces on Saturday and Sunday.
Other clubs have also got behind the cause and donned pink laces.
Simon played in the B grade on Saturday — two weeks after getting hit while attempting to shepherd Tea Tree Gully’s Ryan Spittle.
To donate: laceupforlynne.gofundraise.com.au
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