The 2007 Manchester Australian Rules Football Carnival was held on Saturday.
Well done to The British Bulldogs who won the Grand Final on the day and to the Mozzies who won the
Runners Up trophy.
Overall Best and Fairest on the day was
Adam Bennett (Bulldogs - above) with Chris 'Baz' Sproule (Mozzies) coming Runner Up.
Hopefully this can become an annual event. Thanks to all the teams for participating and thanks to
Martin Smith, Bryce Stone, Brian Clarke and Nathan Blakey for umpiring.
RESULTS
Best players for each team (as voted by the umpires) were:
Bulldogs - Bennett, Whiteaker, Holthouse
England Dragon Slayers - Fielder, Andrew M,
Wales - Wells, #4 (name TBA)
Scotland - Lyle, Hardwick
Manchester - Sproule, Richardson, Henderson
The Ladder
| | W | L | PF | PA | % | Points |
Bulldogs
| 4 | 0 | 224 | 27 | 829.6 | 16 |
| Scotland | 2 | 2 | 163 | 117 | 139.3 | 8 |
| Manchester | 2 | 2 | 87 | 133 | 65.4 | 8 |
| England | 2 | 2 | 89 | 179 | 49.7 | 8 |
| Wales | 0 | 4 | 39 | 146 | 26.7 | 0 |
Round 1
| | G | B | Total |
| England | 5 | 3 | 33 |
| Wales | 2 | 4 | 16 |
| | G | B | Total |
| Manchester | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Bulldogs | 9 | 8 | 62 |
BYE - Scotland
Round 2
| | G | B | Total |
| Scotland | 7 | 6 | 48 |
| Wales | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| | G | B | Total |
| England | | 1 | 1 |
| Bulldogs | 13 | 8 | 86 |
BYE - Manchester
Round 3
| | G | B | Total |
| Wales | 1 | 8 | 14 |
| Manchester | 4 | 4 | 28 |
| | G | B | Total |
| England | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Scotland | 10 | 5 | 65 |
BYE - Bulldogs
Round 4
| | G | B | Total |
| Wales | | 1 | 1 |
| Bulldogs | 5 | 7 | 37 |
| | G | B | Total |
| Manchester | 6 | 4 | 40 |
| Scotland | 5 | 2 | 32 |
BYE - England
Round 5
| | G | B | Total |
| Manchester | 1 | 6 | 12 |
| England | 4 | 1 | 25 |
| | G | B | Total |
| Scotland | 2 | 6 | 18 |
| Bulldogs | 5 | 9 | 39 |
BYE - Wales
Grand Final
| | G | B | Total |
| Bulldogs | 3 | 10 | 28 |
| Manchester | 0 | 3 | 3 |
It was decided early in the day that Scotland would be unable to take a finals position
as a penalty for excess numbers of Australians playing on the day. The third placed
team at the end of round 4 would be competing in the Grand Final.
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