By JARROD POTTER
AFL Metro Championships
FOUR Bulls weren’t enough to change the fortunes of the Eastern Football League – downed easily by 46 points as the VAFA maintained top spot in the interleague rankings.
Noble Park quartet Stewart Kemperman, Brett Dore, Sam Monaghan and Tim Kelly donned the red, white and black colours of the league in the revived AFL Victoria Metro Championships.
This year’s marquee match had the EFL facing the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) for the right to next year’s number one ranking.
An early Eastern lead turned into a stopping point as the EFL couldn’t move off two-goals-one through the second term. From there the VAFA ticked along to grasp the lead before it set about destroying the EFL. The VAFA slammed on seven goals in the last term as Brendan Goss (5 goals) stormed home with the clash.
EFL interleague vice-captain and Noble Park stalwart Kemperman was listed among the best alongside former Hawthorn premiership ruckman Simon Taylor and Balwyn trio Taylor Gilchrist, Shane Tregear and Jarryd Chirgwin.
Northern Football League will vie with the VAFA for top spot in 2015 after knocking off Essendon District 13.9 (87) to 7.8 (50).
Eastern will face the Western Region in next year’s third-versus-fourth clash.
Southern Football League – with three Greater Dandenong area clubs, Dandenong, Sandown Cobras and Lyndale, didn’t fare any better than Eastern, downed 6.10 (46) to 11.16 (82) by the Western Region Football League to fall to sixth-of-six on the Metro Championships table.
