Photo: Brooke Sleep Media
By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yend
PALM BEACH CURRUMBIN v MT GRAVATT
Palm Beach Currumbin
Highest score – 20.12.132 v Sherwood (Round 20)
Lowest score – 6.8.44 v Broadbeach (Round 13)
Scores + 100 = x 3
Leading goal scorer
Cameron Poharama – 37
Record against teams in top 6
Rd 2 v Aspley
13.9.87 to 16.10.106 (L – 19)
Rd 6 v Broadbeach
9.4.58 to 12.17.89 (L – 31)
Rd 9 v Mt Gravatt
11.7 to 10.13.73 (D)
Rd 10 v Aspley
8.5.53 to 14.7.91 (L – 38)
Rd 12 v Morningside
18.6.114 to 5.3.33 (W + 81)
Rd 13 v Broadbeach
6.8.44 to 15.11.101 (L – 57)
Rd 19 v Maroochydore
6.10.46 to 12.12.84 (L – 38)
Rd 21 v Mt Gravatt
11.11.77 to 3.14.32 (W + 45)
Total For – 81.60.546
Total Ag – 85.77.587
Highest – 18.6.114 v Morningside
Lowest – 6.8.44 v Broadbeach
W/L/D – 2/5/1
Mt Gravatt
Highest score – 14.16.100 v Surfers (Rd 11) & Maroochydore (Rd 20)
Lowest score – 3.14.32 v PBC (Rd 21)
Scores + 100 – x 2
Leading goal scorer
Gareth Hunt – 15
Record against teams in top 6
Rd 4 v Morningside
6.8.44 to 9.17.71 (L – 27)
Rd 7 v Aspley
5.8.38 to 11.6.72 (L – 34)
Rd 9 v PBC
10.13.73 to PBC 11.7.73 (D)
Rd 13 v Maroochydore
9.13.67 to 10.3.63 (W + 4)
Rd 15 v Broadbeach
7.5.47 to 15.7.97 (L – 50)
Rd 17 v Morningside
5.8.38 to 15.17.107 (L – 69)
Rd 20 v Maroochydore
14.16.100 to 7.6.48 (W + 52)
Rd 21 v PBC
3.14.32 to 11.11.77 (L – 45)
Total For – 59.75.429
Total Ag – 78.76.544
Highest – 14.16.100 v Maroochydore
Lowest – 3.14.32
W/L/D – 2/5/1
SUMMARY
It’s not the only fixture this weekend where teams played each other in Round 21 as these two battle it out for the second week running.
Palm Beach Currumbin has a lot of depth in its line-up and will be aided by a full range of players at the selection table on the back of its Seniors advancing to the finals.
Mt Gravatt on the other hand may benefit from the Reserves missing finals but does appear to lack that strong power forward who can take the game away from a historically tight defence of the Lions.
How much do we read into last week’s performance? Perhaps very little but PBC is the second-best attacking team in the competition and has kicked over 80 goals against teams in the top six this year, or four goals per game on average better than the Vultures.
The draw between the pair was the difference in the end for the Lions making the top two; and it will be doing everything in its power to extend its stay in the finals race. IF Mt Gravatt can keep it low-scoring and under 10 goals; this could get interesting.
MAROOCHYDORE v MORNINGSIDE
Maroochydore
Highest score – 19.13.127 v Sherwood (Rd 12)
Lowest score – 5.5.35 v Aspley (Rd 15)
Scores + 100 = x 4
Leading goal scorer
Harrison Kerr 36
Record against teams in top 6
Rd 3 v Broadbeach
9.8.62 to 8.9.57 (W + 5)
Rd 6 v Aspley
8.11.59 to 7.6.48 (W + 11)
Rd 7 v Morningside
6.8.44 to 15.10.100 (L – 56)
Rd 10 v Broadbeach
9.10.64 to 6.4.40 (W + 24)
Rd 13 v Mt Gravatt
10.3.63 to 9.13.67 (L – 4)
Rd 15 v Aspley
5.5.35 to 11.11.77 (L – 42)
Rd 19 v PBC
12.12.84 to 6.10.46 (W + 38)
Rd 20 v Mt Gravatt
7.6.48 to 14.16.100 (L – 52)
Total For – 66.63.459
Total Ag – 76.79.535
Highest – 12.12.84 v PBC
Lowest – 5.5.35 v Aspley
W/L/D – 4/4/0
Morningside
Highest score – 18.11.119 v Surfers Paradise (Round 19)
Lowest score – 3.10.28 v Broadbeach (Round 20)
Scores + 100 = x 5
Leading goal scorer
Shaq McLeod – 25
Record against teams in top 6
Rd 4 v Mt Gravatt
9.17.71 to 6.8.44 (W + 27)
Rd 7 v Maroochydore
15.10.100 to 6.8.44 (W + 56)
Rd 8 v Broadbeach
10.10.70 to 13.8.86 (L – 16)
Rd 12 v PBC
5.3.33 to 18.6.114 (L – 81)
Rd 13 v Aspley
14.9.93 to 10.9.69 (W + 24)
Rd 17 v Mt Gravatt
15.17.107 to 5.8.38 (W + 69)
Rd 20 v Broadbeach
3.10.28 to 9.12.66 (L – 38)
Total For – 71.76.502
Total Ag – 67.59.461
Highest – 15.17.107 v Mt Gravatt
Lowest – 5.3.33 v PBC
W/L/D – 4/3/0
SUMMARY
What a season both these two teams have endured.
Maroochydore has been the only team to beat premiership favourites and Minor Premiers Broadbeach, twice yet in the shadows of the end of the home and away season; a traditionally low-scoring Mt Gravatt put 100 points on its defence.
Morningside beat fellow premiers contender Aspley, put triple figure scores on eventual finalists Maroochydore and Mt Gravatt, yet dropped games to Sherwood and Redland-Victoria Point who finished with four wins each in the bottom two positions on the ladder.
Both teams have the capacity to play Jekyll and Hyde, hot one week, cooler the next and vice versa which makes this contest extremely exciting.
If one game across all six is going to go the distance this weekend, this is the contest that will get there and picking a winner ahead of time is like picking the winning lottery ticket and makes for a must-see spectacle.
With both teams having its Senior teams out of the finals race; the availability of some big names could be the difference in who wins this contest.
