In a special day for the club that saw the seniors, reserves and under 16s wearing purple socks to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation, the Jets overcame a dogged Magpies’ team to almost certainly seal the double chance in the finals.

It was Moorebank’s first visit to Richmond since 2004 for what can always be described as a physical encounters with both teams reliant on RAAF and Army personnel.

The Jets were without key midfielders Ed Sullivan and Adam Fox, and the first quarter was an armwrestle with no quarter asked or given in a high-tempo opening.

With the Magpies still holding a faint finals’ hope, the home team knew they had to step it up a gear, and they went about it professionally, with mobile ruckman Dale Wellington playing a lone hand in the middle feeding midfielders Nick Milkins,Aaron Clayden, Gerard Smits and Cheyne Anderson.

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