2:10 PM
Sun 5th September.
TEAC Oval
Port Melbourne
B Cain Dalton Keddell
HB McGrath Pleming Raymond
C Johnston Valenti Dillon
HF Suckling Pitt Dwyer
F Lynch Bonaddio Martin
R Fanning Pinwill R. McMahon
Int Keely Burstin Henderson
 Wall Schultz Burge
 Sinclair Smith
Box Hill Hawks
B Breust Muston Savage
HB Kayler-Thomson Morton J. Hoegel
C Schoenmakers Moss S. Gibson
HF Ladson Kenna Fagan
F Shiels Pedersen Suckling
R Campbell Lisle Milne
Int Jackson Sierakowski Lowden
 Thompson Neil Smithwick
 Mirra Kiel
A rematch of last years epic semi-final. The Borough will be looking to bounce back after the horror match against Williamstown. Box Hill has a very good win against Essendon at home, however, it will be a different ball game against the Borough at TEAC oval. Batsanis is a big loss, however it is time to reset and take it up to Box Hill next week.
Port Melbourne by 7pts.
Three Quarter Time
Port Melbourne 9-14(68)
Box Hill 11-7(73)
Final Score
Port Melbourne 12-17(89)
Box Hill 14-11(95)
The Hawks won the game with a goal with 23 seconds left.
Pinwill is worth 2 or 3 goals on his own with his attack on the ball out of the centre every week.
Foolish foolish act that cost his team a crack at North Ballarat next week. :((
Be happy Rooster as the biggest winner out of the game today was North Ballarat. Your boys will be fresh after the week off and will play a Hawthorn team that will be absolutely stuffed after todays game.
Very proud of the inexperienced kids that wore the port jumper today. They gave it their best shot. However , some of the more experienced players let the team down today. To Cory McGrath thanks for the way you giving 100% every week.
(I'm not mentioning the umpires, because they don't deserve a thought!!!!!)
Bring it on 2011
What a fantastic effort by the mighty borough,never gave up,with all those players we had out and the young kids coming in had a crack,it went down to the wire but we just couldnt get over the line,well done boys heads up you guys did a great job.Looks like im following the roosters now as willy suck.
Yes agree Rooster, Pinwill will be filthy on himself for letting the himself down, not to mention the rest of the team.
A brainless action that will he will never be able to shake loose.
As a totally neutral observer I found the commentary team of Phil Cleary & Peter Donegan to be right over the top & the support for Port bordered on psycophancy. (A**e licking ).
Marty Pask is by far the best special comments going around & has a bright future when he gives footy away.
I thought that Phil was going to wet his pants over coach Gary Ayres speech at 3 quarter time & to compare his address with Winston Churchill was mind boggling. He will be lost over the finals series without his love child.
A great effort by Port & would have been a worthy winner. We will always be asking what would have happened if Pinwill had stayed on the ground. ?
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Think Digs gor it right on this occasion....
and he was also right about the unbelievably biased broadcasting by Phil Cleary and Peter Donegan.....I can understand Cleary being a tad biased but not Peter Donegan...he always struck me as being fairly neutral
It always hurts to lose a final but I was proud of the effort the Borough side gave today. They never gave up despite being severly undermanned. Every player had a massive crack and put in 100%.
When u consider Galea, Valenti, Bentick, Batsanis, Brewer, McLaren, Sandilands and Pinwill(1 qtr) were unable to take the field it was a very spirited effort and no Borough supporter could be nothing but proud.
Hopefully we continue to build our list and come back bigger and better in 2011. The list has plenty of ability and with a bit of luck with injuries and a few new recruits Im sure we will be around the mark again.
Congratulations to Cory McGrath on a fine football career. 75 AFL games and just over 100 VFL matches is a fine achivement.
Also good luck to the players who are nominating for the AFL draft.
On many occasions today the ABC ruined the game by putiing up replays and showing players and coaches etc on the bench.
In such a tight game it was annoying to not know what was happening and where the ball was.