A HOST of Wimmera football exports have just wrapped up their seasons with some positive results.
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Former Horsham Demons footballer Chris Curran finished runner-up in Glenelg Football Club’s senior best and fairest.
Playing in the highly rated South Australian National Football League, Curran was co-captain of Glenelg this season.
He was also named in the league’s team of the season in the back line.
Curran said it was a positive individual season for himself but it was disappointing not to have team success.
“I thought I was pretty consistent but in the first half of the year the ball spent most of the time in the back line so I saw a bit of action,” he said.
“It was disappointing from a team point of view. I don’t think we will lose too many blokes and we have a couple coming back from overseas and hopefully with another full pre-season we will be ready to go.”
Glenelg finished sixth and missed out on playing finals.
“We won the last six games and we played well at the end of the year,” Curran said.
“It is a good competition. We didn’t have a coach here until January so we didn’t get rolling with him until then. It meant the first half of the year was going to be hard. We knew we would come home strong.
“It was probably my best year. I played every game last year but I had a string of injuries in the last couple of seasons. It was a matter of being able to train consistently and the coach gave me the freedom to play to my strengths.”
New Minyip-Murtoa assistant coach Tim MacKenzie also played at Glenelg this season.
MacKenzie made his senior debut at the start of the season, before spending most of the year in the reserves. He was named the reserves best and fairest.
Former Kalkee and Fremantle Dockers player Tanner Smith tasted the ultimate glory in the SANFL with North Adelaide.
His side came from fifth on the ladder to claim a memorable flag, beating Norwood by 19 points at Adelaide Oval on Sunday.
It was North Adelaide’s first flag since 1991. It came with controversy, with North Adelaide fined $10,000 and docked four premiership points for next season after having 19 players on the field in the preliminary final for four minutes in the fourth quarter.
Former Minyip-Murtoa footballer Lachie Delahunty also enjoyed a grand final win on Sunday, claiming the West Australian Football League flag with Subiaco.
Subiaco was dominant, winning 19.13 (127) to West Perth’s 7.4 (46). Subiaco had lost the past two grand finals.
Delahunty had 25 disposals in the win as Subiaco went through the entire season undefeated.
