| Director | Richard Gray |
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| Genre | sport film |
| Runtime | 102 min |
| Country | Australia |
| Budget | $5 million |
| Box office | $49,000 |
The Torquay Tigers are a successful team playing in the Bellarine Football League. Their coach Charlie "Chang" Hyde has guided the team into their first Grand Final in seven years. There is talk that the team's best three players, Dunn, Mortimer and Regan, may get drafted by one or more AFL clubs. On the eve of the match the coach drops star player Tom Dunn for poor attitude. The club is successful and wins the flag. Dunn feels left out of the celebrations and strikes up a friendship with Rose Walton, whose younger sister Sammy, (McIver) is part of the team's support staff, carrying water for the players.
The following year, Torquay again plays off for the Grand Final and manage a come-from-behind win. At the after-match celebration party, young Sammy has underage sex with Mortimer. Dunn, who had been told by Rose to look out for her sister, is drugged by a spiked drink and passes out. The local paper publishes photos of the night with the out-of-control party, and the team goes from heroes to zeros overnight. The scandal that follows rips the team apart, with Dunn leaving for America. Only Regan gets drafted; the other two don't because the major league clubs don't want to be caught up in the scandal.
Ten years later Chang collapses and dies while addressing the players during a match on the eve of the finals; Dunn returns from America for the funeral and to face his demons, the girlfriend who scorns him and his best friend. Feeling uneasy about being in his hometown after many years, Dunn finds that the townfolk haven't forgotten him or the scandal. Rose has moved on and married but still is bitter towards him.
Regan, whose football career was ruined by injury has returned to be Changs's assistant. Encouraged to take over the team, he asks Dunn and Mortimer to assist him as he coaches the team into the finals.