2010 WAFL Grand Final

Swan Districts

Claremont
14.16 (100) 14.15 (99)
Date19 September 2010
StadiumSubiaco Oval
Attendance24,638
Accolades
Simpson MedalAndrew Krakouer (Swan Districts)
Broadcast in Australia
NetworkABC1 (television)
720 ABC (radio)
ABC Grandstand (radio/online)
 2009 2011 

The 2010 WAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Claremont Football Club and the Swan Districts Football Club on 19 September 2010 at Subiaco Oval, to determine the premier team of the West Australian Football League (WAFL) for the 2010 season. Swan Districts won the game by one point, 14.16 (100) to 14.15 (99), with Andrew Krakouer winning the Simpson Medal for best on ground. The attendance of 24,600 was the largest for a WAFL game since the 2002 Grand Final.[1]

Build-up and history

Claremont had dominated the 2010 home and away season by winning seventeen and drawing one of their twenty matches. They then defeated Swan Districts in the major semi final on Sunday 5 September to advance to the Premiership decider. The Tigers were aiming for their first premiership since 1996.

Swan Districts competed in a Grand Final for the second time in three years, following a long period where the club had lingered at the lower reaches of the WAFL table and had serious financial problems threaten its very existence.[2] After losing to Claremont in the first week of the finals, they defeated East Perth in the preliminary final to reach the league’s showpiece game, whilst Brian Dawson aimed to be only the third coach after Haydn Bunton junior and John Todd to lead Swan Districts to a premiership. They were aiming for their first premiership in twenty years. Former Richmond player, Andrew Krakouer, played for the Swans in what had been a spellbinding season for him, which was capped off by winning the Sandover Medal. Krakouer had been previously imprisoned for a violent assault.

The game

The first term was played at a fast tempo in which both sides’ defences held firm. Swan Districts though were wasteful with their kicking for goal, scoring 1.6 (12) during the quarter to go into the first break down by nine points.

Swans began to outwit and outrun Claremont in the second quarter, largely thanks to Krakouer. They managed to add four goals to their total compared with the Tigers who managed only a further two goals.

The intensity of the match increased after the long break and both sides added four goals and five behinds to their respective scoreline, giving the Swans a slim lead at the final change.

As was the case in the third term both sides scored an equal number of goals in last quarter, the most important and dramatic of these though was Krakouer's late goal merely seconds before the final siren. It put Swans into the one point lead that they would carry until the end of the game to clinch their first flag since 1990.

Andrew Krakouer was the stand out performer of the match, kicking four goals and gaining forty possessions.

Final score: Swan Districts: 14.16 (100); Claremont: 14.15 (99)

Teams

Claremont

FB:Blake AndersonBrandon FranzNic Chidgzey
HB:Ryan NeatesBeau WilkesSimon Starling
C:Byron SchammerLuke BlackwellAndrew Foster
HF:Ian RichardsonJesse LaurieAndrew Browne (c)
FF:Jarrod NinyetteDavid CrawfordKane Mitchell
R:Andrew RuckRory WaltonTom Swift
I:Lewis StevensonTom DerickxRyan Brabazon
Ian Rowe
Coach:Simon McPhee

Swan Districts

FB:Graham JettaTallan AmesMatt Riggio
HB:Wayde TwomeyMatthew SpencerClancee Pearce
C:Tom RoachJosh Roberts (c)Pat Hassett
HF:Justin SimpsonTim GeappenPaul Richardson
FF:Andrew KrakouerAshley HansenBen Colreavy
R:Llane SpaandermanBrett RobinsonTravis Casserly
I:Ryan DavisStephen ConiglioTony Notte
Michael Walters
Coach:Brian Dawson

References

Further reading

http://waflfootyfacts.net/season/games/stats.php?GameID=8999

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