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I love Bailey Smith as a footballer but he's just killed one of the more fun traditions in the AFL :(

2025

New South Wales - Giants
Queensland - Lions (Suns TBD)
South Australia - Crows
Victoria - Cats, Magpies, Hawks
West Australia - Dockers

2004

New South Wales - Swans
Queensland - Lions
South Australia - Power (Premiers)
Victoria - Saints, Cats, Demons, Bombers
West Australia - Eagles

2025

New South Wales - Giants
Queensland - Lions (Suns TBD)
South Australia - Crows
Victoria - Cats, Magpies, Hawks
West Australia - Dockers

2004

New South Wales - Swans
Queensland - Lions
South Australia - Power (Premiers)
Victoria - Saints, Cats, Demons, Bombers
West Australia - Eagles

Rare black-and-white television broadcast coverage of the famous 1964 VFL (Victorial Football League) Grand Final between Melbourne and Collingwood has been located, digitised and preserved in the NFSA collection.

Found among a collection of 16mm kinescope prints donated by a retired GTV9 television audio technician, the newly digitised film reveals the entire second half of the game, complete with long-unheard live television commentary. The exciting conclusion features two of the most famous goals of any grand final, an unlikely hero, and the last premiership for the Demons for more than half a century.

Source (paywall).

Getting pumped for the GF. Predicting a narrow win for 🦁and Errol Gulden for Norm Smith. Disagree? Come at me

Instead we’ve the lions, power, swans and cats.

Who were premiers in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007 respectively (with a cheeky eagles flag in 2006).

edit:

Or, to include repeats and losing the grand final:

The 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 07 & 09 premiers, and, the 04, 06, 07 & 08 runners up are in the prelims this year.

Not one GF in 9 years that didn’t have one of these four and only two that were win by another team.

The Hawks travel to Adelaide Oval looking to continue their fairytale run while the Power are hoping to bounce back after a big qualifying final loss.

Carlton travel to the Gabba to take on the Lions.

The Giants head to the SCG to take on the Swans with a spot in a Preliminary Final on the line.

The Bulldogs and Hawks - two of the in-form teams of the competition heading into September - clash at the MCG in front on over 97,000 fans with the loser's season over.

The Cats head to Adelaide Oval to take on the Power with a spot in a Preliminary Final on the line.

Predictions? Analysis? Anyone heading to a game?

For anyone chiming in from a lemmy.world account, I think comment federation is still delayed by a week. Create an account on aussie.zone to share your thoughts before the games start.

Finals Week 1

Thursday, September 5

Second qualifying final
Port Adelaide v Geelong at Adelaide Oval, 7.10pm ACST

Friday, September 6

Second elimination final
Western Bulldogs v Hawthorn at the MCG, 7.40pm AEST

Saturday, September 7

First qualifying final
Sydney v Greater Western Sydney at the SCG, 3.20pm AEST

First elimination final
Brisbane v Carlton at the Gabba, 7.30pm AEST

Semi Finals

Semi Final 1 - Port Adelaide v Hawthorn
Friday September 13, 7.10pm ACST, Adelaide Oval

Semi Final 2 - GWS GIANTS v Brisbane Lions
Saturday, September 14, 7.30pm AEST, ENGIE Stadium

Beat Carlton. Beat Geelong. Beat Swans. Now beating the Demons easily.

Those are their last four games. Did they change somehting in the past month? Coz they're currently the best team in it.