A Grade

COWELL v KIMBA DISTRICTS…The respective council CEO’s from Cleve, Cowell and Kimba need to meet – urgently.

Agenda – lobby Kevin Crudd for $1580M in federal funding to build an Ethiad Stadium style complex. To be known as the George Cleave ‘Mattarrafact’ Thunderdome, it should be built centrally – in the shadows of the Mangalo Silos - with all games played there every weekend.

The roof would only be opened once – to allow Andrew Demetriou, Don McSweeney and Gerald Travers to parachute in for the opening ceremony. There would be six air-conditioned interchange steward boxes (two for the interchange stewards - one from each team; two for the deputy interchange stewards – one from each team and 2 for the reserve deputy interchange stewards – one from each team), NASA would supply four-way satellite communication linkages between the coaches boxes, the timekeepers box, the umpires and the leagues full time Queens Counsel appointee. There would be five state of the art giant screens showing vision from 247 remote controlled cameras capturing every muscle twitch of every player; and they would be linked to laser-sighted artillery that would eliminate any player involved in any form of unsportsmanlike conduct. (Teams would be allowed eight on the bench to compensate and the SANFL tragedy insurance scheme would be upgraded)

Then, we could be sure of avoiding a repeat of the almost farcical ending to Saturday’s Eastern Eyre Football League grand final where the last quarter stretched out to an incredible 48 minutes.

When the contest began, both teams were virtually unchanged – although Cowell had to name a last minute replacement for Jack Burton who was forced to withdraw with a mystery virus.

Cowells 13 goals came from nine individual goal scorers.

Nathan ‘Tuffers’ Johnson finished with a game high four (0-2-0-2) despite being closely monitored by Kimba defenders – led by Darren ‘Spider’ Hunt. But in doing so, they let a couple of others go under their radar - in particular, Johnno Hunt. He was very creative forward of centre, if not finding space himself he was creating it for others and two personal goals is not an accurate reflection of the influence he had on the final Cowell tally.