1989 SANFL Grand Final
The 1989 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Port Adelaide Football Club and the North Adelaide Football Club, held at Football Park on 7 October 1989. It was the 88th annual Grand Final of the South Australian National Football League, staged to determine the premiers of the 1989 SANFL season. The match, attended by 50,487 spectators, was won by Port Adelaide by a margin of 94 points, marking that clubs twenty-ninth premiership.[3]
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| Date | Saturday, 7 October (2:10 pm) | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Football Park | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 50,487 | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | Laurie Argent, Michael Abbott[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Coin toss won by | Port Adelaide | |||||||||||||||
| Kicked toward | South End | |||||||||||||||
| Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
| Jack Oatey Medallist | Russell Johnston[2] | |||||||||||||||
| Australian Football Hall of Fame | John Cahill (2002) Darren Jarman (2007) Greg Phillips (2020) | |||||||||||||||
| Broadcast in Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Network | Channel 9 | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators | Ian Day, Kym Dillon, Neville Roberts, Graham Campbell, Peter Carey, Brian Cunningham | |||||||||||||||
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Played in blustery conditions the normally precise North Adelaide could not hit the mark with their passes and were dominated at ground level by a well coached Port Adelaide.
In a pre-game press conference before the game North Adelaide coach Mick Nunan quipped that "We have one goal in mind".[4] North Adelaide would end up only kicking one for the whole Grand Final.[4]
Game entertainment was provided by the Pembroke Girls choir, under the direction of Mr. Colin Curtis.
Scorecard
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| Saturday 7 October (2:10 pm) | Port Adelaide | def. | North Adelaide | Football Park (crowd: 50,487) | |
| 5.5 (35) 9.7 (61) 11.11 (77) 15.18 (108) |
Q1 Q2 Q3 Final |
0.2 (2) 0.3 (3) 1.6 (12) 1.8 (14) |
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| Hodges, D. Smith – 4 | Goals | 1 – Burton | |||
| B: | 4 George Fiacchi | 7 Roger Delaney | 22 Greg Boyd |
| HB: | 5 Bruce Abernethy | 20 Greg Phillips | 32 Paul Northeast |
| C: | 27 David Hutton | 10 Stephen Williams | 12 Simon Tregenza |
| HF: | 13 Rohan Smith | 28 Darren Smith | 14 Wayne Mahney |
| F: | 15 David Hynes | 11 Scott Hodges | 21 David Brown |
| Foll: | 1 Russell Johnston (c) | 3 Andrew Obst | 2 Tim Ginever |
| Int: | 35 Russell Boyd | 6 Phil Harrison | |
| Coach: | John Cahill | ||
References
- "TV replay". SAfootballarchive. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- "List of Jack Oatey Medal winners". South Australian National Football League. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- "Australian Football - SANFL Season 1989". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- "Footy players in the 1980s". Gold Coast Bulletin. 11 July 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2021.