In a low scoring contest it was a goal by Sam Jasper in the dying embers of the match that saw the Saints climb to a 6.9 (45) to 6.7 (43) victory over Minyip-Murtoa.

Saints coach Shayne Breuer was elated with the win after the game.

“To get into a grand final is fantastic and to actually win it is even better,” he said.

“I just couldn’t be more proud of both the players but also the club.

“For the whole club to work through what we’ve done and come out the other side with a premiership is absolutely fantastic.”

Prior to the game it was also looking likely to be a close contest between two sides hungry for that final victory.

For the Saints it was a chance to get two in a row but for the Burras it was a chance to get the first in nearly twenty years.

Both sides started the game feeling each other out as the game remained scoreless for nearly five minutes.

It was Kyle O’Connor who kicked the first of the game to get rid of a few pre-game jitters.

When he backed up to kick another within a minute the Saints team looked like it was just clicking into gear.

Meanwhile at the other the end the Burras had failed to score until Clint Midgley steadied after more than half the quarter had elapsed.

Young gun Nick Kelson was the next to chalk one up and it was game on at the first break as the Burras trailed by two-points at quarter time.

Kelson was up an about again in the second quarter to give the Burras the lead but it didn’t last long before Binns Medalist Jacob Cooke-Harrison kicked his first to sneak the Saints back in front.

The game was heating up as showers came then went and it looked like the contest was not far from really opening up at times.

On form and record the next two goals for Minyip-Murtoa came from an unlikely source.

Tom Delahunty was named at full-back during the week but his two goals put the Burras in front, a lead the side didn’t relinquish until the last moments of the game.

When Kade Petering kicked a goal the Saints backline probably should have prevented all of the momentum was going the way of boys in blue and white.

It took a goal after the siren by Cooke-Harrison from deep in the forward pocket to snatch some momentum back.

The Burras went into the long-break with a 6.1 (37) to 4.6 (30) lead.

It was a completely different type of tight tussle in the second half in no small part to the continually changing weather conditions.

Cooke-Harrison effectively got his second within a couple of minutes of game time shortly after the restart, but it was to be the only goal of the quarter.

Minyip-Murtoa successfully absorbed a lot of pressure through much of the quarter before beginning to apply its own toward the end.

Nerveless it’s lead had been trimmed to under a goal at the final-break.

Neither side was willing to give away anything as the season drew closer to its end with the premiership cup awaiting the victor. 

The game looked likely to be settled in minor scores as no side could manage to get the football to go between the big sticks, but even behinds were hard to come by.

Breuer thought it was always likely to be low scoring.

“I thought we had our chance early in the game and we didn’t nail them,” he said.

“They were always going to come at us.”

Then, as the rains fell down from above, came Jasper’s moment.

He goaled much to the delight of every Saints supporter before everyone’s attention turned once more to the clock.

“I don’t think Jasper had touched it too much for the day,” Breuer said.

“For him to put it through like that just shows the character of the feller.

“I still didn’t think we were over the line; I knew there was a couple of minutes left and I knew there was footy still to play.

“To our guys credit they just kept fighting away.”