THE huge gap between the Riverina League's top two and the rest was on full display in Ganmain-Grong Grong-Matong's 113-point belting of Turvey Park at Maher Oval on Saturday.
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The second-placed Lions were ruthless against a Bulldogs side looking to break into the top five and build on last week's win at Coolamon.
But the visitors dominated across the park, their size in key positions in attack and defence proving too much for the hosts to handle.
Lions ruck Jacob Olsson played most of the game up forward and booted seven goals, while key forward Riley Corbett kicked five of his six goals in the third quarter in a return to form.
Ganmain-Grong Grong-Matong are now 9-1, while Turvey Park remain a game behind the fifth-placed Tigers and their percentage has taken a massive hit.
Turvey Park were kept goalless for three quarters, with their only majors to Baxter Wallett and Billy Glanvill coming in the third term.
"It was an excellent display from us, we talked about playing for four quarters and we didn't take the foot off the pedal at any stage," Lions coach Sam Martyn said.
"To restrict a team like Turvey who have some quality players to 14 points, it's an outstanding effort."
The Bulldogs were missing several key players in ruck Shaun Allan and key runners Matt Ness, Tom Yates and Luke Fellows, but coach Michael Mazzocchi said their effort areas simply weren't up to scratch.
"Our performance was right off for some reason, whether it was psychological (I don't know)," he said.
"We had so many go out this week, maybe we felt we were undermanned and our pressure just wasn't there. It doesn't matter how good you are though, you can still chase and tackle and we just didn't bring it today.
"It was a really flat performance coming off a couple of good wins. It was unfortunately a perfect storm where our enthusiasm and endeavour wasn't quite there against a good side."
In contrast, the Lions are flying and are averaging more than 110 points a game.
The only downside for the victors was Matthew Knagge failing to finish the game after his shoulder popped out during the match.
Young Turvey Park forward Baxter Wallett was also hampered by a shoulder injury after crashing into Corbett in a solid contest during the third quarter.
The Bulldogs badly missed Allan, with the Lions' Olsson and Dan Foley ruck partnership dominanting.
"They had some outs but it's still a pretty good side to put a score on against," Martyn said.
"It is hard not having a specialist ruckman, it does make it difficult and especially having a key back (Rhett Weidemann) play that ruck position for them, I'd hate to go up against Olsson and then a fresh Foley."
GGGM 6.5 9.8 15.9 19.13 (127) def Turvey Park 0.1 0.2 2.2 2.2 (14)
Goals: GGGM - Jacob Olsson 7, Riley Corbett 6, Jesse Lander 2, Daniel Foley 2, Jack McCaig, Matthew Hamblin; Turvey Park - Billy Glanvill, Baxter Wallett.
Best: GGGM - Jacob Olsson, Riley Corbett, Jesse Lander, Ben Walsh, Matthew Hamblin, Daniel Foley; Turvey Park - Jack Haggar, Ashley Harris, Stephen Camp, Angus Grigg, William O'Connor, Ryan Shaw
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