1987 SANFL Grand Final

1987 SANFL Grand Final
North Adelaide Glenelg 23.7 (145) 9.9 (63)
1 2 3 4 NA 5.2 (32) 11.4 (70) 18.5 (113) 23.7 (145) GLE 0.1 (1) 1.5 (11) 4.7 (31) 9.9 (63)
Date	Saturday, 3 October (2:10 pm)
Stadium	Football Park
Attendance	50,617
Umpires	Neville Thorpe, Rick Kinnear, Mostyn Rutter (goal)[1]
Coin toss won by	Darel Hart (NA)
Kicked toward	southern end (with the wind)
Ceremonies
National anthem	Ricky May
Accolades
Jack Oatey Medallist	Michael Parsons (North Adelaide)
Broadcast in Australia
Network	Channel 7 and 2
Commentators	Peter Marker, David Darcy, Ian Day, Graham Campbell[1]
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The 1987 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the North Adelaide Football Club and the Glenelg Football Club, held at Football Park on 3 October 1987. It was the 70th annual grand final of the South Australian National Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1987 SANFL season. The match, attended by 50,617 spectators, was won by North Adelaide by a margin of 82 points, marking that club's 12th premiership victory.

Background

This was the third consecutive year that North coached by Michael Nunan and Glenelg coached by Graham Cornes met in the grand final. It gave Nunan his first success as a coach, and Cornes the first of 3 losses in 4 years.

The Jack Oatey Medal was won by North Adelaide ruckman Michael Parsons^[2] who top scored with 6 goals and 1 behind.^[3]

Teams

1987 Premiership Team

B:	Peter Simmons (31)	32 Paul Arnold	22 Stephen Riley
HB:	1 John Riley	29 Trevor Clisby	04 David Tiller
C:	11 Roger Carlaw	Kym Klomp (7)	David Sanders (9)
HF:	Darren Jarman (8)	Peter Bennett (35)	5 Craig Burton
F:	Michael Parsons (28)	25 John Roberts	02 Steven Sims
Foll:	42 Michael Redden	17 Andrew Jarman	3 Darel Hart (c)
Int:	16 Michael Armfield	34 Wayne Slattery
Coach:	Michael Nunan

Glenelg: F: Craig Woodlands, John Seebohm, Robin Kidney HF: Alan Stringer, Tony Hall, Geoff Winton C: Mark Hewett, David Marshall, David Kernahan HB: Wayne Stringer, Michael Murphy, David Grenvold B: Max Kruse, Jim West, Scott Salisbury R: Peter Carey, Peter Maynard, Chris McDermott Int: Ross Gibbs, Mark Donovan Coach: Graham Cornes ^[4]

Match summary

The match was played in superb conditions. Besides North Adelaide's crushing victory, this game would later become known for Ricky May's terrible performance of the national anthem before the game, forgetting the lyrics and falling out of tempo with the backing track.^[5]

Second quarter

Third quarter

Fourth quarter

Scorecard

References

1. "TV replay". SAfootballarchive. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
2. "List of Jack Oatey Medal winners". South Australian National Football League. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
3. "North Adelaide Football Club 1987 grand final – player list". North Adelaide Football Club. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
4. https://gfchistory.com/html/team-runnersup.html
5. Jackson, Russell (23 September 2014). "The Joy of Six: AFL grand final entertainment". The Guardian.