Weekly Advertiser | Warracknabeal’s Anzac Park is the place to be this Saturday at what is tipped to be an intriguing Wimmera league grand final set to showcase the two best teams in the competition.

Southern Mallee Thunder earnt last week off after progressing through to the grand final with a second semi-final victory over the previously undefeated Ararat.

Thanks to an impressive second-half of football, the Rats scored a 57-point win over Nhill in the preliminary final to earn their grand final place.

But the great unknown is hanging over the grand final like a black cloud – with the question on every Wimmera league follower’s lips ‘Will Tom Williamson play?’

The Ararat co-coach was eligible to play in the preliminary final despite being red-carded in the second semi-final.

Williamson received a second yellow card at the start of the fourth quarter of the final at Minyip for what is understood to be an alleged vilification incident against a Southern Mallee Thunder player in the third quarter.

With two yellow cards equalling a red card, Williamson sat out the remainder of the match – some saying it changed the course of the match.

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