| 2007 Grand Final Write-Up (01/09/07) |
Saturday the 1st of September saw the South Dublin Swans take on the Cork Leeside Lions in the Grand final of Irish Australian Rules Football.
The Cork Side lined out with four Australians in their playing squad compared to fourteen in the match day squad of the Swans. The league’s rule that 50% of the players on-field at any time must be non-Australian meant that the Swans Irish players and one German were tested physically as they had to play much of the game without a rest while the Lions were able to rotate players freely.
The swans came out fighting and one the first bounce with conviction but as would prove a tough ask all day were unable to convert their chance from the middle into scores on the board. After that the Lions signalled their intentions early with a goal after just four minutes. After numerous chance to kick goals by the end of the quarter only one had gone through with many chances going wide for minor scores.
During the Second quarter the swans began to find some rhythm getting early goals through Luke Ohea and Dom Hoban. With the interchange running hot some players found it hard to settle. Cork came back straight away and kicked another to take the lead sending the teams into the halftime break with one point the difference.
The Third term is where it all went wrong. Not having enough on the bench to rest one half of the team cost the swans on the big ground and Cork soon showed their dominance kicking successive goals which the swans couldn’t reply too. Dropped their heads a little too early let Cork set a big deficit and try as they might the lads just couldn’t bring it back.
Leeside Lions 9.13(67)
South Dublin Swans 2.7(19)
Full praise to Cork. The better team on the day and a deserved win.
Full credit to our boys for persisting through the year and thanks to all the lads who helped keep the club going.
South Dublin Swans: Steven Waugh, Michael Oakes, Dom Hoban,Scott Sloan, Luke O’ Hea, Cathal Kavanagh, Tim Riordan, Neil Lester, Dave Horan, Ross Slater, Simon Cattley, Brian Kelleher, Paddy Jordan, Damien Herbert, Stephen Cook, Eddy Warren, Bryce Fraser, Rob Olwill, Paddy Finnigan, Mick Nigel Hobb, Kev Dolan, Jeremy Hunt, Alan Fitzsimons.
SOUTH DUBLIN SWANS 2007 Final - 1st September 2007 |
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