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QAFL
2009 Home-and-Away Season
2009 Qualifying and Elimination Finals
2009 Semi-Finals
2009 Preliminary Final
2009 Grand Final
2009 Grand Final
The Grand Final was originally scheduled
to be played at Carrara, but with redevelopment work being carried out at
that venue, the game was moved to Giffin Park at Coorparoo.
Morningside went into the game as strong favourites having won their last 17
games. Nonetheless, Mt Gravatt had themselves won seven on the trot
and were the last team to beat the Panthers, albeit way back in Round 2.
A good crowd and a very warm day set the stage for the season’s ultimate
battle.
Morningside’s David Lillico was felled by former team-mate Tom Tarrant in
the first quarter, sparking a wild melee. After a closely-fought
opening term, the teams were locked together on the scoreboard at the first
break.
Morningside opened an 8-point gap by half-time, and in the third quarter
threatened to take the game by the scruff of the neck. However the
Vultures courageously kept the three-quarter time deficit to just 21 points.
Then three Mt Gravatt goals early in the final stanza saw them edge to
within just three points, and a repeat of the Vultures’ last-quarter
heroics against Southport a week earlier looked a distinct possibility.
Morningside dug deep, however, and were determined not be overrun in the
last quarter of the Grand Final for a second successive year. Austin
Lucy snapped a great steadying goal to halt Mt Gravatt’s momentum.
Then, after a period in which both sides failed to make the most of their
opportunities, Kent Abey marked and goaled for the Panthers. Three
more Morningside goals settled the issue, although the final margin of 31
points was probably a little unkind on Mt Gravatt.
Final scores were:
Morningside 14-10 (94)
Mt Gravatt 8-15 (63)
This was Morningside’s seventh
premiership and their third in the last seven years.
Morningside’s young centre half-back Ben
Gibson won the Joe Grant Medal for the best player on the ground.
A detailed report of the game can be found here
at the AFLQ web site.
DVDs of the 2009 finals can be purchased here
at the Velocity Sports web site.
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Images from the Grand Final between
Morningside and Mount Gravatt
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More photos of the Grand Final can be viewed at the Quest Newspapers
website here:
2009
QAFL Grand Final
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