Teams announced for F-League Grand Final

The Dural Warriors will meet the South Brisbane Futsal Club in the Women (10am) while the East Coast Heat will line up against the Dural Warriors (12:15pm) in the Men in what will be a massive day for Australian Futsal at Valentine Sports Park on Sunday 26th of June.
2015 Women’s F-League final
Dural Warriors meet South Brisbane in a dreamy third-versus-fourth 2015 Women’s F-League final at Valentine Sports Park on Sunday morning.
South Brisbane were outstanding in a 3-2 semi-final win against premiers East Coast while Dural scored four extra-time goals to finally put Inner West to the sword 7-3 and set up an interstate clash for the third-time running.
South Brisbane overcame an imposing NSW hoodoo to rise above Heat and register just their second win in 11 NSW  adventures (following a triple-Sydney loss last month), but although these sides seem perfectly matched (they’ve both scored 59 competition points in three steadily-improving winters) the scales may slightly tip Dural’s way.
The Warriors have beaten South Brisbane four times in six league meetings, including a recent 3-0 shutout, and boast 21 goals to Brisbane’s 11 throughout those encounters; and Dural’s 52 goals in 2015 is the third biggest haul of any women’s F-League side (behind Parramatta 59 in 2013 and East Coast 54 this season).
The Queenslanders have scored 36 goals in their 13 game comparison, the majority coming from Natalie Tathem (13), Sarah Amorim (7) and Rebekah Horsey (4), but South Brisbane’s strength is in their strategy and structure. They dismantled East Coast superbly in a gripping semi-final and showed great patience to take their opportunities well.
Incredibly, 25 of South Brisbane’s 38 F-League matches have been decided by two goals or less and the northerners have only lost seven of them (to go with eight draws), including four wins of five one-goal contests this winter, so they know all about fortitude.
Now raise the curtain for Warriors weapons Sarah Yatim (15 goals), Rachel Perrins (11), Dominique Caridad (8), Samantha Nagy (6) and Tess Olsen (5), who’ve propelled Dural to six unbeaten games (scoring 35 goals and conceding 16 in that time) – Perrins’ five braces one shy of Capital’s Rebecca Kiting high-mark set this season.
And what a brisk Yatim winter – a league-record six goals against Capital and 15 blasts just three short of Jodie Bain’s Parramatta Season-1 total; her meteoric rise now third on the all-time scorers chart with 23 F-League strikes listed behind Bain (39) and Nikola Orgill (25).
Not that it’s all about the goals, Dural keeping an impressive three cleansheets this season (six times overall to be two short of Scorpions) and Warriors have kept half their 38 F-League results to within two goals; but they’ve only won six times (they lost three of the opening five rounds by a goal this year) to show some fragility under pressure.
Which could be a real opening for South Brisbane, who absolutely can turn it on in an instant – in three different games last year they had seven players hit the scoresheet, against Capital, Vipers and Boomerangs (the record’s eight).
What’s sure is this: Dural and South Brisbane have reaped the reward of steady development and face off in a evenly-poised grand final that’s well and truly up for grabs from both sides.
The best of luck for an exciting encounter!
2015 Mens F-League decider
It’s a repeat of last year’s grand final as Dural Warriors and East Coast Heat line up again to decide the 2015 Mens F-League championship at Valentine Sports Park on Sunday afternoon (12.15pm).
It’s been a riveting season and with runaway premiers Vic Vipers knocked out by East Coast on Saturday and second-placed Inner West eliminated by old foes Dural its left the short-step podium-getters to determine this winter’s champion – mirroring Season-1 when third-placed Maccabi Hakoah beat fourth-placed St Albans in the final.
It’s Dural’s third straight grand final appearance after winning the 2012 and 2014 premiership, eerily enough, beating East Coast home to the post both times.
But these are different times and despite Dural beating East Coast in seven of their first eight F-League meetings the Heat burned brightest in their last encounter, winning 5-3 as Grant Lynch picked up a double and cohorts Lachlan Wright, Jordan Guerreiro and Shervin Adeli stunned the Warriors with a decisive 5-zip halftime lead.
And who could forget last year’s F-League final that 16-game unbeaten Dural won 3-1 in pulsating circumstances, Greg Giovenali and Jarrod Basger striking early as Warriors led by three, with Heat on the ropes after losing ironclad keeper Peter Spathis and Sam Perre to second bookings.
East Coast (down to three on-court players for several minutes) played out of their skin and Guerreiro scored to make it 3-1, but Dural – as they usually do – found a way to stem the tide of excitement and seal yet another memorable title.
2015 would always be a different Warriors read however as lynchpin Toby Seeto left to English Futsal and Jarrod Basger went to Inner West – but enter the dragon as fitter, sharper, stronger Wade Giovenali notched up a spritely 22 goals (behind Vipers gun Adam Cooper 29 and Capital’s Brett Forward 26), with Chris Polkinghorne (12), Daniel Burns (11), Brendan Hoyer (7) and Glen Kelshaw (7) more than filling the void.
But this winter’s East Coast seem an even greater threat than with a record-breaking 18 players contributing to a 105-goal production machine (only Vipers 114 this year and Warriors 108 in 2012 have scored more), and Heat rolled seven past first-placed Vics in Saturday’s powerful semi-final win.
The East Coast big-guns have really combined to become an offensive juggernaut in front of the cage and Grant Lynch (19), Shervin Adeli (13), Jordan Guerreiro (13), Daniel Martinez (11), Chris Zeballos (8), Clayton Musumeci (7) and Lachlan Wright (6) are all capable of crunching the net.
Plus, Heat have scored in all its 61 F-League appearances (the most consecutively of any club)… and they’ll need every ounce of ammo if they want to break a Dural defensive line that’s leaked a miserly average of just 2.6 goals in each of the 79 league games its participated in.
Good luck to both sides in what promises to be a riveting finale!
Blow that whistle, ref!
2014 F-League premiers Dural Warriors may have pulled out of next week’s AFC Club Championship in Isfahan, Iran, but it’s best of luck to AFC referee of the year Chris Colley (from WA) and NSW whistleblower Scott Kidson as they journey across the Asian continent to officiate Asia’s best Futsal clubs.
LIVE STREAMING
Women’s FINAL – 10AM
https://livestream.com/oeyeo/events/4218436  
Men’s FINAL – 12:15PM
https://livestream.com/oeyeo/events/4218438  
LIVE MATCH CENTRE
Women’s Grand Final
http://www.foxsportspulse.com/round_info.cgi?a=MATCH&fixture=64479195&c=0-8469-0-345403-0&pool=1001  
Men’s Grand Final
http://www.foxsportspulse.com/round_info.cgi?a=MATCH&fixture=64479216&c=0-8469-0-345404-0&pool=1001