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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

Browne-Kerr kicked his second goal for the quarter to steady the Magpies and Srecko Salopek was
controlling his wing and giving the 'Pies plenty of drive.

Towards the end of the first quarter the Magpies really got on top and went through the Tigers'
backline as if it was not there

Two goals to Harold Kelly and one to Cammerino in the space of three minutes put the writing on
the wall and Yarraville appeared to be in big trouble unless they could get their game together
quickly.

After quarter time, with everyone expecting Yarraville to come back into the game, it was Parkside
play¬ing excellent team football which kicked the first major of the quarter when O'Keefe goaled.

Getting into the thick of play again, Frost took the mark of the season, but an illegal shepherd by a
Yarraville teammate prevented him kicking for goal.

At this stage of the game Parkside defenders Ray Davis, John Cuzzupe, Zeno Tzatzaris, Neal Gunning
and Ahmed Taleb were playing cohesive football and not giving their oppo-nents any opportunity to
score.

John Bruzzaniti eventually broke through for the Tigers' second goal, while Ricky Gashi was unlucky
to register a poster.

Spectators at the match expected Yarraville to come back through positional changes; many were
made but the Parkside machine went from strength to strength and nothing was going to get in their
way on the road to their second grand final in as many seasons.

Every endeavour by the Tigers was answered by the Magpies who indi-cated they were well on their
way to the elusive back-to-hack flag.

Hard to pick

From a great team effort during which every Parkside player put in, it was difficult to choose their
five best players.

· Srecko Salopek, best on ground, controlled the school wing all day, took all that was handed
out but con-tinued to win kicks and kicked long and accurately into his forward line;

· Harold Kelly, who kicked eight goals and proved a very elusive for-ward, is having a top finals
series as he also performed well against Port Colts;

· Paul Burgess, who nicked all day and gave his runners first use of the ball and kicked some
handy goals when he drifted into the for¬ward line;

· Neal Gunning, who stopped many attacks at centre half-back, and often turned defence into
attack;

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider