A ferocious St Bedes / Mentone Tigers stunned premiership contender Old Scotch away at Camberwell on ANZAC Day and came home with an outstanding 74 point victory.
The Tigers were again fierce around the football from the start and with Luke Wintle dominating in the ruck and around the ground and new skipper James Tyquin imposing himself on the game the visitors took a handy 21 point lead into the first break.
In the second quarter, the ball hardly moved from the Tigers half as they slammed on 5.13 to 5 behinds to again take an amazing score of 10.15 to 1.10 into the long break, Scotch could only be thankful that the Mentone team were wasteful in their shooting for goal or it could have been a whole lot worse.
With the breeze in the third, Scotch regained some pride with some early goals only for the Tigers to resume normal transmission with a brace of 6 of their own.
The Tiges continued on in the last to run out easy victors against a team fancied by scribes as the flag favourites and whom they had failed to defeat last year in their premiership season.
This St Bedes / Mentone Tigers outfit has already shown that they are a very well drilled football team and notwithstanding the form of their experienced brigade they would be more than happy with the output of Tim Mavric, Patrick Tyquin, Hiwad Shakaib and Gavin Brown all from last year’s Under 19 premiership season who have slotted into the senior team superbly – the mix of experience and talented youth is at this early stage proving to be a very effective combination.
Next week the Tigers are at home to Old Ivanhoe who easily accounted for the Mentone team in the last round of the 2008 home-and-away season at Brindisi Street and should prove a real test for the locals who have started the season in fine form.
The Tigers’ Under 19s, Under 18s and Club XVIII all had good wins to remain undefeated after 2 rounds.