Weekly Times | THE fairytale ending was not to be for Leongatha and coach Beau Vernon in the Gippsland league grand final on Saturday.
Vernon, who became a quadriplegic in an on-field incident in 2012, was in his first season of coaching his former club and this season took them from seventh to a minor premiership and grand final.
But it was Traralgon, under its first-year playing coach Mark Collison, that claimed a 30-point victory, 12.11 (83) to 7.11 (53), built off a barnstorming opening quarter which saw the Maroons in front by 25 points at quarter-time.