Junior football clubs Strathpine (QLD) and Balwyn (VIC) are $1,000 richer thanks to Robert Copeland and Luke Power’s super goals scored in the Lions’ NAB Cup Quarter Final win over the Bulldogs on Friday night.

As well as being the naming rights sponsor of the 2007 AFL NAB Cup pre-season competition, NAB are helping grassroots clubs all over the country purchase vital football equipment by donating $1,000 to the junior football club of any player that scores a nine point “super goal” (a goal kicked from outside 50 metres).

The Strathpine junior football club rejoiced when Copeland slotted his goal from outside fifty metres during the second quarter of the match while Power’s bomb from outside the fifty metre arc in the third quarter gave Balwyn junior football club a welcome cash bonus.

Copeland and Power join full-back Daniel Merrett (who kicked a super goal against Essendon in the 2006 NAB Cup) as the only current Lions players to have scored a super goal since the initiative was introduced in the 2003 pre-season competition.

Paul Wheatley from Melbourne has kicked more pre-season super goals than any other player in the AFL with six. Collingwood’s Ryan Lonie is second on the all-time super goals list with five.