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MOUNT
GRAVATT

Current Affiliation:
Queensland Australian Football League/AFL Queensland
since 1994
Club Address:
P.O. Box 6741, Upper Mt Gravatt 4122
Home Ground:
Corner Clump & Logan Roads, Upper
Mt Gravatt
Colours: Blue,
black and white
Emblem: Vultures
Senior Premierships: South
Queensland Football Association Division One - 1971-2, 1974, 1983 (4 total); AFL
Queensland State League Division One - 2002, 2007 (2 total)
Grogan
Medallists: Brad
Jones 1999; Mick Stinear 2004 (2 total)
QAFL Top Goalkickers: S.Dupuy
(80) 1996 (1 total)
Since its admission to Queensland
football's state competition in 1994 Mt Gravatt has enjoyed remarkable
success. Competitive from the start, the Vultures reached their first
grand final in 1996, only to succumb badly to a combination of finals nerves and
a ruthless opponent in West Brisbane, which won with ease by
9 goals.
Another grand final the following year brought an even more emphatic reversal,
with perennial power club Southport running riot to
win by a record margin of 94 points, 26.13 (169) to 11.9 (75).
| That ultimate hurdle is often the hardest
one to surmount, and so there will have been great relief in the Vultures' camp
when, on their next appearance in a grand final in 2002, they not only won, but did so
with an ease and a conviction that was completely unexpected. The fact
that the grand final opposition was provided by the club's 1997 nemesis,
Southport, only reinforced the satisfaction gleaned from an emphatic 20.11 (131)
to 10.10 (70) triumph.
In 2003 the side was
struggling to recapture anything remotely approximating to its premiership
form of the previous year when a mid-season appointment of Michael Gibson
to the senior coaching position inspired a sudden and seismic upsurge in
fortunes. The side not only reached the finals, but made it through
to the 'big one' to defend its title. Unfortunately, however, Morningside
proved to have the Vultures' measure when it counted, and won an
unexpectedly one-sided grand final by 63 points.
The 2004 season brought a marked decline in fortunes as the side slumped to 5th position on the
ladder, although Mick Stinear's Grogan
Medal triumph afforded some consolation.
Things got even worse in 2005 in
what was the Vultures' inaugural season as members of the newly
constituted state league division one. With a mere 5 wins from 18
minor round matches, they finished just one place off the bottom in an
eight team competition. |
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Michael
Gibson, who took over the coaching reins at Mt Gravatt midway through the
2003 season. |
After that, qualification for the finals
in 5th place in 2006 represented a significant improvement, even if Mt Gravatt's
premiership hopes were immediately dashed in the elimination final by
Morningside. Then, in 2007, things finally came together perfectly as the
Vultures proved beyond any question that they were the leading team in the
competition. After winning 14 and drawing 1 of their 19 home and away
matches to top the ladder they cruised to premiership glory on the strength of a
17.19 (121) to 13.11 (89) 2nd semi final defeat of Morningside, and a 16.12
(108) to 10.10 (70) grand final win over Southport.
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