East Gippsland: Lucknow’s Brenden Flinn and Boisdale-Briagolong’s Shaquille Coridas to miss rest of finals series

Flag contenders Lucknow and Boisdale-Briagolong will be without key players for the rest of the finals series following a tribunal hearing this week.

Lucknow’s Brenden Flinn will miss the club’s best shot at its first East Gippsland league premiership for more than a decade after being suspended for rough conduct.

Flinn was reported and sent from the ground early in the final quarter of last Saturday’s second semi-final for a sling tackle that left Boisdale-Briagolong’s Shaquille Coridas concussed.

Coridas also won’t play again this season due to strict new 21-day concussion protocols for community football competitions introduced this season.

Previously a player to had sit out 12 days after suffering a concussion.

Boisdale-Briagolong must beat reigning premiers Wy Yung in the preliminary final on Saturday to earn another crack at Lucknow in the grand final seven days later.

Flinn was offered a two-match penalty with an early guilty plea.

Boisdale-Briagolong lost last year’s East Gippsland league grand final to Wy Yung, which it will play in Saturday’s preliminary final. Picture: Yuri Kouzmin

But he elected to go to the tribunal on Tuesday night where he was found guilty and rubbed out for three matches.

Lucknow led by five points at three quarter time of the second semi-final and despite being a player short for most of the final quarter, it held on for a two-point win.

Lucknow’s last flag was in 2012 and Boisdale-Briagolong hasn’t won a premiership since joining the East Gippsland league in 2015.

It won three flags in the Riviera league before the competition disbanded in 2003.

Boisdale-Briagolong lost only two matches in the home and away rounds with one defeat being by a point to Lucknow in late April.