Sunday the 8th September will go down in club history as the first time that both the Seniors and Reserves won the premiership in SFNL division 3.
The Seniors were next up and the weather conditions had deteriorated further with steady rain falling as the game commenced. Some pundits believed the poor conditions would favour Clayton.
In a stunning start to the game we kicked the first goal within about 30 secs of the start of play courtesy of some excellent work by Cam Williamson. Clayton answered 3 minutes later and match was tightly poised. We were looking more likely to score but could not find the big sticks, then as the quater progessed we were able to kick two furhter goals to Aaron Holden & Peter Dye to lead 3.6.24 to 1.1.7.
The second quarter commenced and weather had not improved with rain still falling making conditions quite wet and clean ball handling difficult. We were able to kick the only 3 goals of the quarter to extend our lead with scores at half time being 6.6.42 to 1.3.9
The boys down in defence were not letting any attack by Clayton get through and restricted Clayton to 2 pts for the quarter whilst we kicked a further 2 goals to extend lead at 3/4 time with score being 8.8.56 to 1.5.11.
The final quarter only the one goal was scored at the 4 minute mark whilst the defence kept Clayton scoreless for the quarter to see the final margin being a 54 point victory with final score 9.11.65 to 1.5.11.
The whole team put in an outstanding effort on the day in very poor weather conditions. Nathan Carver was awarded best on ground. Better players on the day; Phil Nanfra, Cory Phillips, Shaun Walsh, Shannon Henwood & Mitch Woolgar.
Goalkickers; Peter Dye, Phil Nanfra, Cam Williamson 2, Nathan Carver, Aaron Holden, Cory Phillips 1.
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