It’s the fourth quarter and South Australia is just nine points down in the last women’s exhibition match of the round. Midfielder Ebony Marinoff is when the coach calls her back on the field.
With just seven minutes to go there is just one goal in it. She is awarded a free kick from the left pocket.
No stranger to scoring a goal from an awkward angle, Eddie Betts watches on from the sidelines with fellow Adelaide Crows players.
With a ball in his hands he taps the side panels of the Sherrin, signaling for a banana kick to bend the ball back towards the goal in a tight curve.
But Marinoff didn’t see any of it.
In the moment she kicks a drop punt and the ball goes sailing between the posts for what will be the match-winning goal!
“I had no idea of Eddie showing me how to kick the ball,” Marinoff told Fox Footy after the match.
“Lucky for me it was a left pocket so just kicked a drop punt. I would love Eddie to show me a banana kick from his pocket one day, though!”
Eddie snapped up the after his impressive tactics and superb kick during the Sir Doug Nicholls Indigenous Round (Round 10) match against the GWS Giants at the Adelaide Oval.
The goal was described by the AFL as: ‘simply incredible. A desperate dive, a flirt with the boundary line and a glorious snap.’
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