Round Reviews | IT’S only two rounds played, but South Bendigo has shown it’s a team to be reckoned with in the Bendigo Bank Bendigo FNL senior footy action.

The Bloods celebrated a 27-point victory at Gisborne’s Gardiner Reserve as the league’s second round was played on Good Friday.

In consecutive weeks a South Bendigo team coached by Troy Coates, non-playing, and Jack Fallon, playing, has taken on and beat last season’s preliminary finalist and now runner-up.

The Bloods charged to a 26-3 lead by quarter-time of the Good Friday contest.

Both teams scored four goals in the second as the visitors led 51-29 by half-time.

The Rob Waters-coached Gisborne hit back to win the third quarter, 20-9.

An 11-point buffer for the red and white at the start of the last became 27 by the siren after South Bendigo scored 6.2 to 3.4 in the final term.

A previous winner of the Ron Best Medal as the competition’s leading goalkicker, Kaiden Antonowicz kicked three goals.

The brilliant small forward led an attack which was without Steven Stroobants who began a four-match suspension.

Other multiple goalkickers for the Bloods were Callum Crisp, Brody Haddow, Brock Harvey and Alex Smith on two.

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