AFL Grand Final AFL 2024 GRAND FINAL - Swans v Lions Sat Sept 28th 2:30pm EST (MCG)

[Gavin Excell]

Good luck to supporters of both sides.

 

[Freomaniac]

The fact that 2/3 field umpires from 2016 are back very much concerns me...

I assume Matt Stevic is one of them?

Not a fan of him either. Funny thing is he was an umpire in the Swans vs port preliminary final last week. Swans just wanted kick as many goals as possible early to make sure that won't be a factor.

He was one of the 3 umpires in the 2012 grand final as well wasn't he?

 

[Freomaniac]

Good luck to supporters of both sides.

I guess you and other cats fans like JackFlash are happy that Ross Lyon won't be in this grand final? LoL

 

[bloodsbigot]

I assume Matt Stevic is one of them?

Not a fan of him either. Funny thing is he was an umpire in the Swans vs port preliminary final last week. Swans just wanted kick as many goals as possible early to make sure that won't be a factor.

He was one of the 3 umpires in the 2012 grand final as well wasn't he?

Stevic and Meredith were two of the three. However Scott Jeffery was the worst of all and thankfully he no longer umpires.

The early calls in the Port game were atrocious. Umpires just wanted to impose themselves on the game and gave Port some easy goals.

My gut says umpires will ruin this Grand Final.

 

[Gavin Excell]

I guess you and other cats fans like JackFlash are happy that Ross Lyon won't be in this grand final? LoL

I'm more just sympathetic to the eventual losing supporters as being beaten in a GF can be a hard road

 

[dean33]

Posted this on the footy jumpers board...
this is a nice jumper match up in theory, but not great for afternoon telly. Take for example from rd 19:
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Unless Sydney were also to wear white shorts, which they seldom do, I just can't see the AFL allowing that mash up for their marquee match - and also can't imagine Swans not pushing for their full home kit, which they've earnt the right to wear.

I think logically it's going to be Sydney in their home kit and Brisbane in their Bears clash:
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It's really not a bad look imo.

Bears jumper is awful. Why couldn’t they wear the maroon and blue with white shorts? Don’t tell me that clashes with Sydney’s kit?

 

[joe444]

I'm more just sympathetic to the eventual losing supporters as being beaten in a GF can be a hard road

Let's hope they don't have to deal with Umpire 22 being a factor.

 

[justlookingaround]

Bears jumper is awful. Why couldn’t they wear the maroon and blue with white shorts? Don’t tell me that clashes with Sydney’s kit?

Both teams are wearing full home kits with dark shorts on Sat.

 

[Chief]

 

[JackFlash]

I guess you and other cats fans like JackFlash are happy that Ross Lyon won't be in this grand final? LoL

I'm not happy about anything to do with football at the moment, but yes Ross Lyon not being there will make it slightly more bearable to watch i suppose. I'm watching it at a lunch with some mates who support Richmond and Essendon, so it could be worse!

 

[Upstart Swan]

Any old South Melbourne based fans really are just victims cheering on a team that left them.

And to think I donated money to Hawthorn in the 90s to help fans like this keep their football team.

 

[celestial]

Will be interesting to see if the swans try to force starcevich to play on a fast small fwd. Surely the ghost of bobby hills gf performance still looms large in the back of starcevich's mind, might be ripe for someone like papely to exploit him.

 

[dean33]

Both teams are wearing full home kits with dark shorts on Sat.

Finally common sense prevails, unlike in 2017 when Richmond for some reason was made to wear our clash jumper.

 

[Cleansweep17]

Finally common sense prevails, unlike in 2017 when Richmond for some reason was made to wear our clash jumper.

In hindsight I like it cause we had one in each jumper. But yeah I was annoyed at the time.

Glad they made it right this year.

 

[NeverEddie]

Brisbane, who will be getting this years Number One pick and got the Number One pick from two years ago. What a league!

Yeah, have to say . . .as someone who had kids going through the talent system at the same time as Father/Sons, I don't agree with the father son BS. They absolutely do get a leg up. But, we were certainly not the first to benefit from a golden run of F/S and you can guarantee we will not be the last.

 

[Pistol Night]

Yeah, have to say . . .as someone who had kids going through the talent system at the same time as Father/Sons, I don't agree with the father son BS. They absolutely do get a leg up. But, we were certainly not the first to benefit from a golden run of F/S and you can guarantee we will not be the last.

No one gave a **** when we were trotting out the Brown brothers and Will Kelly…

 

[NeverEddie]

I don't really watch it... The AFL lost me years ago.

great . . .why don't you s*d off out of here then eh champ and leave the homo sapiens alone

 

[Pistol Night]

great . . .why don't you s*d off out of here then eh champ and leave the homo sapiens alone

Champ? You go straight for jugular hey?

 

[NeverEddie]

No asterisk?

Have you not heard of this little thing called academies?

apparently all the academies do is take a few talentless rugba heretics every season and convert them to the lords game . . .spitting out the odd AFL level player once every 3 to 4 years. Is that enough for an asterisk?

 

[NeverEddie]

Champ? You go straight for jugular hey?

well . . .he's a true champ!

 

[NeverEddie]

campaigner or flog is much less offensive thank you

sorry . . .yes was probably a little harsh.

 

[sabso]

Bears jumper is awful. Why couldn’t they wear the maroon and blue with white shorts? Don’t tell me that clashes with Sydney’s kit?

They’ve never had a good jumper across their two club history.

 

[NeverEddie]

I will be rooting for the lions, but swans will be a lot fresher.

why don't you wait until after the game at least? Or . . .you can always get one in before hand.

 

[Blackhawk42]

The last few sides to make a grand final from outside the top 4 have had the dream run come crushing down on Grand Final day.

The Giants were just never in it in 2019 (after a very similar run to Brisbane's, with an incredibly close semi final away & close prelim final away too), and the Dogs faded out of 2021 with the Demons fresher legs taking over.

I think there's a reason there's only been one premier from outside the top 4. I would obviously love to be wrong, but think this will be a Sydney win, and possibly a relatively comfortable one too.

Can't completely use that excuse for the Dogs in 2021. There was a week off between the prelim and Grand Final that year. Both teams pretty much went in as fresh as one another.

 

[Miluxx]

They’ve never had a good jumper across their two club history.

We got the best jumper in the league. Only prom queens wear sashes.