TANGLES IS UNLIKELY MORE THAN LIKELY TO PLAY ON SUNDAY

Will David Lillico play on sunday is the question and from what i have heard in the siders camp is. he doesn't want to take the place of a young gun and when i heard this, I knew it would go over like a led balloon. He is a match winner and he is a brilliant leader for these young kids. He might just be the x factor the siders might need on Sunday. The thing is you don't want to break up a winning team and he has been playing ok in the 2s for the last 3 weeks and he has 4 full games under his belt and i have seen him play after breaking his leg 1 year and he won the Joe Grant medal for bog in the grand final. Is he ready for the grand final though. Maybe he is and he would be nice and cherry ripe for the big occasion In this big game he could be what they need off the bench in bursts as well. I think he would play mostly in the forward line and go into the midfield in little bursts here and there as well. Well i am pretty sure blairy will want him in the side but it might come down to if tangles want to play and take a spot away from a young gun that has been there all year. We won't know until 2 oclock sunday afternoon.

MAGGIES FEATHERS ARE PLUCKED

The end was near for the western magpies and it wasn't pretty. They have decided they don't want any part of the top division for next year and beyond. I suppose when you don't have any money running through the club house, that will put a massive dent in any hopes of recruiting decent players to the club. They gave their pokie machine to Kenmore which already had the tab licence and they were really stuffed before than. But back to the football side of things. It seemed to me they were always in pineapple hotel cup mode from day 1 in the state league and that's why they never won a game. They were given a full year and a bit to get themselves ready for the state league and in that time they won a division 2 premiership. Of course there are many people to blame. From what i heard it could all be thrown at the AFL or the board at the club. The afl didn't put a club developement officer in earlier enough as far as I ma concerned and it put them on the back foot straight away and most of the people at the club weren't to pleased with the hire of the bloke they put in place. The board didn't have faith in the coach and they just about pushed him out the door for their bad management. It was a long 2 years for them and i am betting they are happy it's over and they will domminate in the pineapple hotel cup nin the years to come no doubt

SIDERS GRAND FINAL HERE WE COME. SOUTHPORT GET THE CHECKBOOK OUT AGAIN

In another classic final between these 2 arch rivals yesterday at Coorparoo. It was tough going for both clubs in blustery conditions, where the breeze was flukey at the best of times. Morningside were clearly winning more of the ball in the early stages of the first quarter and they just couldn't ram home the advantage. They kicked 4 behinds before they slotted their first major, in that time southport slotted their first through Ben Merrit and it was a tight first quarter with no one giving an inch. The second was just about the same as the first. But southport took their chances and kicked 3 goals to 2, but morningside had so many chance to be in front or further in fron at half time. Mark rootsey should have had a shot at goal, but passed it off to shelton instead and the movement fell down and southport pounced and kicked a goal out their movement forward. It wasn't southports 2 gun forwards recruits that were doing all the work. They were being completely shut out of the game and barely had a touch at all in the game. Payne was domminating again like he did last week and showed what class player he really is. At 3 quarter time the panthers needed a couple players to get themselves into the game and to get themselves out this rut. When Southport kicked the first goal of the third quarter, things started to look a bit bleek. But things started to happen, Bonney was starting to get plenty of the footy and Gough was getting over his rib problem fast and started to win the ruck and collect plenty of the ball around the ground. The main problem southport were having was, they couldn't find an avenue to goal. The brick wall in Price, Rogers and Bell absolutely blanketing Southports best forwards, they, they were going to struggle. Then it all fell into place for the sider. 5 unanswered goals later and they had a handy 5 goal lead and looking for a berth in the grand final against labrador. The first few minutes of the final quarter were just a cooling of period. A quick forey forward by the sider was repelled and the ball was moved quickly up to centre half forward for the shark and with his first mark for Cleve hughes and with his first kick of the game he slotted it. They got a roll on and had a sniff and the sider were thinking oh no not again. 4 unanswered goals in the space of 12 minutes and sharks were back in the game and they had momentum. The last 10 minutes were played between the siders half forward line and the sharks forward line, the sharks just couldn't break through that wall and the siders slowed the play down and grinded it out in the last few minutes to put the sharks to bed and put themselves in the grand final for the third consecutive year. It was a great game of footy to end a great weekend of footy all round. the grand final will be a great game