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Back to back
Premierships 1998 |
| 1998 saw the Crows win their second
and back to back Premierships. They defeated the more fancied North
Melbourne despite the fact that the Kangaroos dominated the first half with 21
scoring shots to 7 but failed to put the Crows away due to inaccurate kicking.
The Crows dominated the second half to win by 35 points
Australia Post released a special postmark (PM 2094)
and overprinted "Aboriginal Art" PSE to commemorate the historic win. 20,000
were cancelled. |
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| Two private covers (50 sets) were
also released to commemorate the win. Cover 1 is shown below.
Cover 2. |
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| Two 1996 AFL Centenay covers overprinted with all
the
Premiership Winners
since 1897 were later overprinted with the
Crow's 1998 Premiership Details.
(The covers are in conjunction with 1997 Premiership details).
The Norm Smith Medallist for best on the Ground
again went to aboriginal player Andrew Mcleod.
His win was commemorated by one private cover
with the Adelaide Premiership PM (PM 2094) (50 produced) |
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Their Best and Fairest went to Mark
Ricciuto.
His win was commemorated by one
private covers with the Adelaide Premiership PM (PM 2094) (50 produced) |
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