Seeing spots!
Sept 28th was good news for Labor Premier Joan Kirner and fellow Victorians
with the state's morale being
lifted by the victorious members of the Hawthorn Team when they won the
Australian Rules Grand Final, played for the first time at the
now defunct Waverley Park Ground, and for the first time against an interstate team, the
West Coast Eagles. At the time the Great Southern Stand was
being erected at the MCG so it was unavailable.
It was less than two years earlier, at the start of 1990 that the Victorian Football League
had become the Australian Football League and the West Coast Eagles had already distinguished
themselves by been responsible for the first final to be played away from Victoria durng
the preliminary finals, demonstrating that the competition had really become national.
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