2010 WAFL Grand Final
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| Date | 19 September 2010 | ||||
| Stadium | Subiaco Oval | ||||
| Attendance | 24,638 | ||||
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| Simpson Medal | Andrew Krakouer (Swan Districts) | ||||
| Broadcast in Australia | |||||
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ABC1 (television) 720 ABC (radio) ABC Grandstand (radio/online) |
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The 2010 WAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Claremont Football Club and the Swan Districts Football Club on 19 September 2010 at Subiaco Oval, to determine the premier team of the West Australian Football League (WAFL) for the 2010 season. Swan Districts won the game by one point, 14.16 (100) to 14.15 (99), with Andrew Krakouer winning the Simpson Medal for best on ground. The attendance of 24,600 was the largest for a WAFL game since the 2002 Grand Final.
Claremont had dominated the 2010 home and away season by winning seventeen and drawing one of their twenty matches. They then defeated Swan Districts in the major semi final on Sunday 5 September to advance to the Premiership decider. The Tigers were aiming for their first premiership since 1996.
Swan Districts competed in a Grand Final for the second time in three years, following a long period where the club had lingered at the lower reaches of the WAFL table and had serious financial problems threaten its very existence. After losing to Claremont in the first week of the finals, they defeated East Perth in the preliminary final to reach the league’s showpiece game, whilst Brian Dawson aimed to be only the third coach after Haydn Bunton junior and John Todd to lead Swan Districts to a premiership. They were aiming for their first premiership in twenty years. Former Richmond player, Andrew Krakouer, played for the Swans in what had been a spellbinding season for him, which was capped off by winning the Sandover Medal. Krakouer had been previously imprisoned for a violent assault.
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