Auskick kid steals the show in AFL grand final presentation
A young girl has delighted fans after the AFL grand final with a hilarious message for West Coast star Josh Kennedy.
As is tradition on AFL grand final day, a number of young footy players (called Auskickers) got the privilege of presenting the triumphant players with their medals.
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And one such Auskicker came prepared to shine, delivering a brilliantly Aussie congratulations to Kennedy.
“Ripper game mate, well done,” she said with a massive smile on her face.
Fans certainly noticed the awesome moment, taking to social media to share their joy.
Can someone sign up that little Auskick girl to the commentary team … hands over medal and says: "ripper game, mate, well done!" @7Sport
— Holly Byrnes (@byrnesh) September 29, 2018
We need to mic up these Auskick kids more often!!! Gold #AFLGF2018 #AFLGrandFinal #AFLGF
— Evan Hocking (@evan_hocking) September 29, 2018
The Auskick darlings 😍😍😍 #AFLGF
— Megan Hustwaite (@MeganHustwaite) September 29, 2018
Honestly the best thing about the grand final is the auskick kids presenting them with their medal, and the players who fuss over the kids 😭
— jess 🌸 (@AmaazingJess) September 29, 2018
So glad to see the #WestCoastEagles being so nice to the Auskick kids! #AFLGF
— Kristy Sedlarczuk (@KristySed) September 29, 2018
These Auskick kids are adorbs
— carol wical (@WicalBNE) September 29, 2018
Fans were also delighted after Lewis Jetta locked his Auskicker in a massive embrace.
Next best thing to a Swans win is seeing Lewis Jetta get another Premiership Medal #AFLGrandFinal2018 @sydneyswans pic.twitter.com/oAyhbrnMwd
— Jenny Brockie (@JenBrockie) September 29, 2018
Oh my heart! Lewis Jetta hugging the Auskicker… ❤️ #AFLGF
— Kimberley Ramplin (@Kimbo_Ramplin) September 29, 2018
Lewis Jetta is so happy he gave the Auskick kid a hug omg how precious #AFLGF
— Amy Paton (@_amypaton) September 29, 2018
Sloppy start but Eagles banish 2015 demons
They left it inexplicably late and flirted with disaster but West Coast exorcised their demons of 2015 in thrilling fashion.
The Eagles, returning to the last Saturday in September after capitulating to Hawthorn three years ago, pipped Collingwood by five points in a classic grand final.
Those pundits grumbling about a month of largely lopsided finals were sated by a pulsating contest in which momentum shifted frequently and the result wasn’t clear until the final seconds.
West Coast did it the hard way, giving up a 29-point head start before kicking a goal.
The visitors then registered some four consecutive behinds late in the final term before Dom Sheed dobbed a stunning match-winner, putting his side in front with some two minutes remaining.
Sheed was one of West Coast ‘s 12 players who also took part in the 2015 grand final, when the Hawks pounded the Perth-based outfit by 46 points.
There are always plenty of subplots at play in a grand final but the resilience showed by the rattled Eagles, especially those with memories of being outclassed so clinically in 2015, got them over the line.
Coach Adam Simpson, undoubtedly ecstatic, will also wonder why the hell his charges only conjured that composure after quarter-time.
Dual Brownlow medallist Chris Judd, West Coast’s 2006 premiership star, remarked early in the contest that “you can’t win an AFL grand final in the first quarter but you can certainly lose it”.
The Eagles were on the ropes but they followed up the most sluggish of starts with the most furious of fightbacks.
with AAP
