A CHAMPION team will always beat a team of champions, as the saying goes.
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At this time of year, when local associations and sporting organisations are participating in winter code grand finals, the record books show teams win titles.
Individuals contribute within the team for the common goal to succeed.
Southern Power AFL women's second division team (featured on the Leader backpage on Tuesday) won their maiden Sydney AFL premiership on Sunday at Blacktown.
They went through the premiership rounds and finals undefeated, 18 wins from as many games.
Coach Matt Crowe, of Rockdale, took the team to the grand final in 2013 and they lost to Macquarie Uni.
He said the girls vowed to come back and go one better, and they did, defeating rivals Wollongong Saints, 2.6 (18) to 1.2 (8) in a grinding grand final in the wet at Blacktown International Sportspark.
Crowe said the camaraderie, hard work ethic and the motto: "the team comes first" prevailed.
There is no "I" in team, it's "we" or "us" in team sport, simple as that.
In the Cronulla junior league, Taren Point Titans, one of the smaller clubs in the competition, had five of their 11 teams make finals and the club's 14Bs team, coached by Shaun Osfield, defeated Gymea Gorillas, 20-4 at Remondis Stadium on Sunday to win the grand final.
Osfield began the season with just 12 players and the squad grew to 18.
"They're all mates and wanted to play footy together," Osfield said.
Mateship, wanting to be a part of a team, and sticking together through thick and thin, is what's it's all about in sport.
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