"The year of the crocodile".
This year things really picked up for DAFL. Another team
joined the league, this time from Sweden, making DAFL the
only Australian rules football league to be playing in two
countries. DAFL also announced an exciting scholarship with
the aim to send a couple of Danes to play in Australia for
a year. The Crocs changed their guernseys to the present
Carlton Blues uniform, leaving the red and white Sydney
jumpers to the Danish national side aka the "Vikings".
The Crocs also had a new player named Kym Modra, who is
the brother of a well known football player in the AFL called
Tony Modra. Clayton Coleman had taken the job as coach,
which brought some tactics into the Crocs' game for the
first time ever and Scott Properzi, the Canadian/Italian
mobster took the job as president and organizer. The Crocs
finished second in the regular season after the unbeaten
Tigers. We hosted Aalborg in the first ever DAFL Preliminary
Final, which we won 25 9 (159) - 16 16 (112). The Grand
Final this year then was to be played between the unbeaten
favorites Amager Tigers and the heavy underdogs Copenhagen
Crocodiles. The game is today still described as "the
biggest upset in DAFL history". Against all odds the
Crocs won their first Grand Final, 14 14 (98) - 10 13 (73),
mostly because of BOG Jim Campion, who had come from Tigers
mid-season, and left to form Farum Lions in 1995. Another
important factor in the victory was the fact that Scott
Properzi would keep Tiger "top gun" Rick Ellis
to scoring only two goals (his average was near 10 a game).
At the DAFL Best and Fairest, Abel Kiegstad was given the
most improved player award.
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