DERMOTT BRERETON LASTED 90 SECONDS AND GARY ABLETT SCORED 9 GOALS IN AN EPIC AUSSIE RULES GRAND FINAL

Hot as buggery here today in Toogoolawah, going to wait until it's cooler before i go out and mow the lawn like i was about to do. So i thought i better keep going where i left off last night writing snippets (snippets for me are around 500 words hehe), and seeing that i wrote one about rugby league late last night i thought i better even the ledger by writing a quick one on aussie rules football. Some of us northerners call aussie rules aerial ping pong and sissy rules, while diehard AFL fans call rugby league 'simpleton's handball' and 'you can kick the ball now'. Plenty of sarcastic comparisons are made in Australia between the rival football codes. Like rugby league and union, i am not that fussed about aussie rules, Eddie Maguire will be seething but allow me to say that Collingwood sucks big time. Who outside Victoria believes otherwise? Seriously now, one VFL game which will always remain in my memory is one of the greatest footy grand finals of all time, the brutal & epic showdown between Geelong and Hawthorn in 1989. Dermott 'Dermie' Brereton was knocked out of
the ball game in the first 90 seconds, the Hawthorn forward was considered pivotal to
the Hawks winning the contest, but as was proven, the Hawks prevailed at the final
siren without the tall, lanky beanpole. Gary Ablett, the father of Gary Ablett Jr, now
a talented player in his own right, wore the Geelong colours in the most amazing way
he could and his genius as a goal kicking machine in the forwards was never more on
show than in this bruising encounter. Ablett ended up with 9 goals for the match, as
well as a Norm Smith medal for best on field, but sadly Geelong still walked off the
ground as losers. There will probaly not be a better AFL grand final for a long time.