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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

But he refused to attribute Ryan's absence with Park-side's poor finish to the game.

Port Colts slammed on 3.6 to 0.0 with Ryan off the ground.

"I don't know (if it cost us the game) — I wouldn't go that far," Browne-Kerr jnr said.

"(It was) definitely the turning point — it turned the game around."

He is adamant the Borough fully deserved their win.

"They were just better on the day," he said.

A bright light on a gloomy day for the vanquished Magpies was wingman Nick Kotoski's best on the
ground performance which won him the prestigious Herb Pascarl Medal — the FDFL first division's
equivalent of the Norm Smith Medal in the AFL.

But it was of little consolation for the clearly shattered Kotoski, who had dreamt of wearing a
premiership medallion around his neck at 5 pm on Saturday.

He was close to tears when briefly interviewed after accepting his medal.

"(I) don't know (what went wrong) to tell you the truth," he whispered quietly.

However, the Parkside reserves blitzed Port Colts by 61 points — 12.17 (89) to 3.10 (28).

Star on-bailer Harold Kelly dedicated his premiership medallion to seriously injured teammate Ross
Napoli. He held up Napoli's No. 34 guernsey and yelled "For you, Roscoe" as he received his
premiership medallion.”

Grand Final 1999: Reserves:

Parkside 4.7 5.8 7.16 12.17 ( (89) d. Port Colts 1.3 2.9 2.10 3.10 (28)

Goals: N. Habglou, S.Salopek, L. Vlassopoulos, B. Sambevski 2

Best: A. Nagl, S. Hanneysee and P. Callaway.

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider