AFL Grand Final AFL 2024 GRAND FINAL: 2024 Premiers BRISBANE LIONS

[Shai]

What a day, the Lions hit it for 6 and the best horse in the country won

 

[Leon]

Anyone know yet:

a) Guernseys for the game? Know Sydney will wear the home strip but Brisbane wear their Fitzroy guernsey, or just maroon shirt with white shorts like last year’s GF?

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Should be the above IMO.

 

[A Bit Dusty]

There's only one man who's qualified to present the cup

 

[Billy ray]

The Sydney/West Coast grannys would have to have been the most ascetically pleasing colour match up

Suns v eagles/blues would be great

 

[justlookingaround]

Anyone know yet:

a) Guernseys for the game? Know Sydney will wear the home strip but Brisbane wear their Fitzroy guernsey, or just maroon shirt with white shorts like last year’s GF?

We dunno yet - but we can all but guarantee Bris won't be in the Roys strip and Sydney will probably be in their home jumper.
I think it will either be Sydney home Brisbane clash or Sydney home Brisbane home + white shorts, with the former more likely and probably more appropriate too. You'd expect Brisbane will want to play in their home jumper, but who knows, they might even prefer not to wear that with white shorts after losing a grand final in that same strip last year - clubs take this sort of thing seriously!

 

[Billy ray]

Surely no one thinks the top two clash

It’s the back not the front.
Back of all red is the potential issue

 

[justlookingaround]

Surely no one thinks the top two clash

From 2022.
It's not an awful clash, but technically goes against the AFL's convoluted rules on jumper clashes.

 

[Zevon]

Surely Brisbane, swans couldn’t even beat the tigs at this venue

We trounced the reigning premiers there. Also did a number on the Hawks by 12 goals, and they went on to win 7 of their next 8 after they faced us.

If we lose it will have zilch to do with the venue.

 

[Pistol Night]

This actually works quite well

This actually works quite well, and the afternoon sun will only make Sydney’s red even brighter, going to be very interesting to see what the AFL decide.

They'll have to check the weather forecast now

 

[Redders98]

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From 2022.
It's not an awful clash, but technically goes against the AFL's convoluted rules on jumper clashes.

This actually works quite well, and the afternoon sun will only make Sydney’s red even brighter, going to be very interesting to see what the AFL decide.

 

[Tedeski]

Not this GF. As someone from and spent way too many years in Sydney, they're just about the most loathsome supporter base in the game (hard call between Sydney and West Coast). Absolute theatre-goers / pretenders. The fact they use cardboard to clap instead of their hands says it all.

Hope the Lions maim them Saturday.

From a club with the biggest bandwagon supporters in the land.
I went to Hawks v Swans at MCG in Rd 7.
A crowd of 38,000 mainly South Melbourne supporters.
We’re were you all?
Disgraceful,
But sure enough the gold jackets were dusted off after 5 years & the bandwagoners were back by round 20.

 

[Pistol Night]

would be madness if Capper doesn’t present a GF award

Born & raised in Vic. Father in Roy reserves. Warwick in Souths U19s. Then plays for Sydney & Bears and back to Sydney and was a big marketing tool in those markets.

He could present his old shorts to an Auskick kid

 

[demondavey]

Im not sure who I want to win. im not sure I mind.

I am a bit the same, both sides have been really competitive for a long time and are both deserved grand finalists.

I think I’d like the lions to win.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Never Sydney, unless vs Geelong

 

[Pistol Night]

I am a bit the same, both sides have been really competitive for a long time and are both deserved grand finalists.

I think I’d like the lions to win.

Fages doing his lap of honour on a mobility scooter will be more emotional than Ted Whitten also

 

[Leon]

Weather forecast is for sunny and 21 degrees, very nice.

 

[Pistol Night]

Weather forecast is for sunny and 21 degrees, very nice.

Warm weather will favour the Lions like last year?

 

[Leon]

Warm weather will favour the Lions like last year?

Who knows.

Personally prefer GF Day to be sunny, although the Grand Finals I recall that have been played in the wet (Saints vs Geelong and Collingwood vs Brisbane) have both been high quality games.

 

[Xtreme]

And what a glorious day it was.

Only gold cup in history!

I'll trade you more priority draft picks for it!!

 

[sabso]

And what a glorious day it was.

Only gold cup in history!

I think the AFL used the last of Fitzroys liquid assets to pay for the gold

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I still think Lions are a chance, they have the Richmond vibe where they start off slow but eventually grind the opposition down to comeback and win from behind. Belief is very important in these type of games. Not sure if the chips are down that Sydney have that level of determination and grit. The little man upstairs might cook them.

We’ve been pretty good at starting slow and running teams down too, you know…

 

[Festerz]

Perfect entertainment for the most important game in the Australian Football League calendar then... describes the quality of management at AFL House to a tee. Importing has beens has been their thing since forever - with zero sense of irony.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/09/21/katy-perry-143-review/

 

[rdhopkins2]

You sir have insulted Sydney's honour and we demand satisfaction. I challenge thee to a duel.

Prepare thy banjo!

2 cracking sides when they are running hot. So let’s hope for spectacles sake that both teams play out of their skins in a high scoring, skillful and close game. As an aside, you couldn’t get a better day looking at the forecast! May it stay looking good. Also if the feds would put an embargo on the alcohol tax for the weekend that would be great!

 

[Elixuh]

 

[Cleansweep17]

We’ve been pretty good at starting slow and running teams down too, you know…

Yeah but lions seem better at it than you right now.

I still think you’ll win

 

[BornAgainIdiot]

From a club with the biggest bandwagon supporters in the land.
I went to Hawks v Swans at MCG in Rd 7.
A crowd of 38,000 mainly South Melbourne supporters.
We’re were you all?
Disgraceful,
But sure enough the gold jackets were dusted off after 5 years & the bandwagoners were back by round 20.

Yep, we have our share of dogs and cats members. Can't argue that.

You seem to be a Melbourne resident.

I was specifically referring the Sydney based supporters/crowds. After all, they're a Sydney team and have been for over forty years and yet still getting benefits vs other clubs. Any old South Melbourne based fans really are just victims cheering on a team that left them.