The 2010 WAFL Grand Final was an
Australian rules football
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game contested between the
Claremont Football Club
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and the
Swan Districts Football Club
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on 19 September 2010 at
Subiaco Oval
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Subiaco Oval was the high ...
, to determine the
premier team of the
West Australian Football League
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(WAFL) for the
2010 season. Swan Districts won the game by one point, 14.16 (100) to 14.15 (99), with
Andrew Krakouer
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Early life
Krakouer is the son of Jim Kr ...
winning the
Simpson Medal
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for
best on ground
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. The attendance of 24,600 was the largest for a WAFL game since
the 2002 Grand Final.
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.
[“Swans Call for Help”; in '']The West Australian
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'', May 24, 1995, p. 79 After losing to Claremont in the first week of the finals, they defeated
East Perth
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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
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player,
Andrew Krakouer
Andrew James Krakouer (born 4 February 1983) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club and Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Early life
Krakouer is the son of Jim Kr ...
, played for the Swans in what had been a spellbinding season for him, which was capped off by winning the
Sandover Medal
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. 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
Swan Districts
References
Further reading
2010 Grand Final Football Budget
External links
http://waflfootyfacts.net/season/games/stats.php?GameID=8999
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