GEELONG Cats 12.8 (80) Saint Kilda – Saints 9.14 (68)

Geelong Gets the glory for the footy finals 2009

The scores were level with just five minutes to play in a nail-biting final term, but a quick snap from Paul Chapman gave the Cats a lead they would not surrender despite the Saints’ best efforts in the frantic final minutes.

Chapman’s heroics in the final minutes capped a gutsy 26-possession, three-goal display that saw him awarded the Norm Smith Medal.

Joel Corey (29 possessions), Gary Ablett (25) and Joel Selwood (24) all played critical roles in around the many stoppages

Geelong are deserving premiers. Thousands of column inches have been written about the game itself by people who were actually there, so I’ll not go down that route.

THE 2009 Toyota AFL Finals Series has a set a new finals attendance record, with 615,283 fans attending the nine matches played in September. Saturday’s 2009 Toyota AFL Grand Final attendance of 99,251 saw this year’s total attendance for the finals series eclipse the last years

Statistics from the final footy games

St Kilda     3.2   7.7   9.11 9.14 (68)
Geelong     3.0   7.1   9.4   12.8 (80)

GOALS
St Kilda: Schneider 2, Goddard, Hayes, Koschitzke, Jones, Dempster, Riewoldt, Montagna
Geelong: Chapman 3, Mooney 2, Hawkins 2, Rooke 2, Selwood, Byrnes, Ablett

BEST
St Kilda: Gram, Hayes, Ball, Jones, Montagna, Baker, Goddard
Geelong: Chapman, Rooke, Milburn, Taylor, Selwood, Ablett, Corey, Bartel, Ling, Scarlett

INJURIES
St Kilda: Goddard (nose)
Geelong: Nil

Reports: Nil

Umpires: McBurney, Ryan, Rosebury

Official crowd: 99,251 at the MCG

PRE -Comments on the Brownlow medal 2009

“If Judd wins this then I will boycott all AFL awards shows for at least 3 years. He’s alright, granted, or at least … he USED to be. At Carlton though he’s just the prince of mediocrity, wallowing in the pleasure he gets from everyone else down there making him look good.
I still back Ablett, he will have had a good enough first half of the season that even a mediocre second half should see him through … oh wait …
That would have needed the umps to not be blind.”

Just for those of you with an eye to history, you can click on the links below and see who has been recognised with such esteemed and prestigious honours in the past.

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