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The Richmond Tigers have gone into halftime of the 2017 AFL grand final with a nine-point buffer, leading the Adelaide Crows 40-31 at the major break.
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It was the Crows who started the match strongest, Rory Sloane kicking two first-quarter goals to help Adelaide to an 11-point lead at the first break.
Sloane grabbed the opening goal of the match from a set-show straight in front, before Eddie Betts nabbed the second moments later courtesy of a horrible fumble by Nick Vlaustin that gifted the enigmatic forward an open run to the goal.
With Adelaide threatening to break the game open, Richmond began to hit their straps. Jack Riewoldt was the first Tiger to hit the scoreboard, but could only grab three behinds from his opening shots.
Josh Caddy finally grabbed Richmond’s first major of the game, and Bachar Houli goaled soon after to give the Tigers the lead.
However, some poor stoppage pressure late in the quarter allowed Sloane and Hugh Greenwood an easy goal each, pushing Adelaide’s margin to 11 at quarter-time.
The Tigers gained the ascendancy in the second term around the ground, although the Crows should have grabbed the first goal of the term when Tom Lynch marked on a slight angle 35 metres out, only for the tall forward to pull his shot to the near side.
Richmond kicked the next two goals of the game through Riewoldt and Jacob Townsend, before fifth-gamer Jack Graham gave the Tigers the lead heading into halftime with a composed finish on the run.
That goal was immediately followed by a major for Dustin Martin who, after a first quarter which saw the Brownlow Medallist get plenty of the ball without making much of an impact, really worked his way into the game in the second term.
Martin’s major capped off a four-goals-to-none quarter for the Tigers, sending the men from Punt Road into the major break ten points up.