[Archive 2010-09-20] Australian rules football: Maffra win 2010 Gippsland Football League grand final

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Maffra defeated Drouin in the 2010 Gippsland Football League grand final. The Gippsland Football League, officially the Gippsland League, is the only major Australian rules football competition in the Gippsland region according to the Victorian Country Football League.

Maffra finished on top of the ladder and won through to the grand final by winning the second semi final against Traralgon, their only match for the finals series.

Drouin finished fourth on the ladder and qualified by defeating Leongatha in the elimination final, Morwell in the first semi final and Traralgon in the preliminary final.

The Gippsland League traces it roots to the Central Gippsland Football League of the 1930's. More recently, it is a merger of the Gippsland Latrobe Valley and West Gippsland leagues and was known as the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League.

At the league's annual general meeting in December, it changed it's name from the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League. At the same meeting, Wonthaggi joined the GL after dominating the Alberton Football League during the past decade. The Power made five consecutive Alberton Grand Finals winning three, losing only to Yarram (2007) and Stony Creek (2009).

Wonthaggi Power Football Club is a result of a merger between Wonthaggi Blues, a former Gippsland FL team, and Wonthaggi Rovers, an Alberton FL team. In February, the Gippsland Football League announced that Wonthaggi would be changing their uniforms, because their original one was similar to that of Warragul.

Towards the end of the season, Moe had to transfer a game from Yallourn North due to that ground not coping with the stress of hosting extra games. "[T]he Yallourn Nth ground is not coping with the extra Moe home games and the wetter than normal winter," said Soumilas in an email to First XV News. They played their last home game in Yalourn Noth.

Maffra clinched top spot after fifteen rounds of the 2010 GL season. After eighteen rounds of football, they finished on 56 points and 179.45. Traralgon finished second with 44 and 132.34.

Moe, finished third on 48 points and 100.5%. Drouin, finished fourth on 48 points and 100.4%. Leongatha finished fifth on 36 points and 106.81% after they defeated Moe in round 18.

Missing the finals in 2010, in order, Moe with 28 points and 88.1%, Sale with 20 points and 96.08%, Wonthaggi with 16 points and 63.3% and Warragul with 4 points and 38.04%.

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