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2018 AFL Women's Grand Final


retained second position and qualified for their second consecutive grand final. Adelaide's match was watched on television by the Brisbane players, who celebrated wildly after it concluded. Despite the loss, Adelaide coach Bec Goddard congratulated the Western Bulldogs and Brisbane Lions for clinching the two spots in the grand final, saying "the two sides...are in there and I'm sure they will have a cracking contest next week." It was announced by the AFL that the 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final would be played at Ikon Park.
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2018 AFL finals series


The 2018 Australian Football League finals series was the 122nd annual edition of the VFL/AFL finals series, the Australian rules football tournament staged to determine the winner of the 2018 AFL season. The finals ran over four weekends in September 2018, culminating with the 2018 AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 29 September 2018. The top eight teams from the 2018 season qualified for the finals series, which has been played under the current format since 2000. The matches of the 2018 AFL finals series were contested at three
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2018 AFL finals series


finals receive a bye to the third week. The losers of the qualifying final plays the elimination finals winners in a semi-final. In the third week, the winners of the semi-finals from week two play the winners of the qualifying finals in the first week. The winners of those matches move on to the Grand Final at the MCG in Melbourne.section begin="2018" afl="" finals="" bracket="" / section end="2018" afl="" finals="" bracket="" / The first qualifying final saw minor
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AFL Grand Final


handicapping system has also been introduced; however this has not been used since the 2013 grand final. The grand final has always been played in Melbourne on a Saturday afternoon, and all but nine have been played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The venues used on the other nine occasions were: The current agreement (as amended in 2018) between the Melbourne Cricket Club, the MCG Trust, the AFL and the Victorian State Government stipulates the AFL grand final will be played at the MCG every year until at least 2057.
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2019 AFL Women's Grand Final


As it turned out, the competition was lopsided, with Conference A teams winning 14 of the 16 cross-over matches. The finals series was expanded to include preliminary finals for the first time. The two teams that finished the highest in each conference at the end of the home-and-away season qualified for the preliminary finals. The winners of these games then played in the AFL Women's Grand Final. After winning the 2017 AFL Women's Grand Final, the Crows finished a disappointing fifth in 2018. The
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2018 AFL Women's Grand Final


The 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final was an Australian rules football match held on 24 March 2018 to determine the premiers of the 2018 AFL Women's season, the league's second season. It was contested by the and and was won by the Western Bulldogs. The Bulldogs claimed their first AFL Women's premiership, whilst Brisbane suffered their second consecutive loss by six points in a Grand Final. The Australian Football League (AFL) continued with the top-two qualification system, whereby the two highest ranked clubs would qualify for
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AFL Women's Grand Final


were the same) in 2019 when a conference system was in place. This means that different venues have been used for the grand final over the opening three seasons of the competition: Metricon Stadium hosted the grand final in 2017, Ikon Park hosted the grand final in 2018 and Adelaide Oval hosted the grand final in 2019. While there are currently no plans for a permanent grand final venue (like in the Australian Football League (AFL), where the grand final is played annually at the Melbourne Cricket Ground), the
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2018 AFL Grand Final


The 2018 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the West Coast Eagles and the Collingwood Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 29 September 2018. It was the 122nd annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2018 AFL season. The match, attended by 100,022 spectators, was won by West Coast by a margin of five points, marking the club's fourth premiership and first since 2006. West Coast's Luke Shuey won the
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2018 AFL Women's Grand Final


to have the AFL amend the differences between the AFLW regulations and the AFL regulations. Brisbane named an unchanged line-up. The 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final was broadcast on the Seven Network, as part of a broadcasting rights deal that saw Seven West Media gain broadcasting rights to all matches of the 2018 AFL Women's season, airing on the Seven Network, 7mate, or the video on demand service, PLUS7. Outside of Australia, it was made available live and for replay on the Watch AFL subscription web site
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Tahlia Randall


outs in Brisbane's round 6 loss to in heavy rain. Randall went on to play in the 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final loss to the , Brisbane's second consecutive grand final loss. She finished the season with the third-most hit-outs in the competition (140), after leading the statistic earlier in the season. On 11 May 2018, after appearing at her junior club Kawana only days earlier as part of her AFL Women's Rising Star nomination, Randall was signed by at the beginning of the
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2018 AFL Women's Grand Final


the grand final, rather than having a finals series. The date of the match clashed with the opening round of the 2018 AFL season, however the start time of 12:35 pm Australian Eastern Daylight Saving Time allowed the match to conclude before the first AFL premiership match to be held later that day, which featured the Brisbane men's team. Entering the final round of the regular season, five clubs were a mathematical chance of qualifying for the grand final, with the Bulldogs tied with on points but ahead on percentage in the
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Jayde Van Dyk


Jayde Van Dyk (born 28 March 1996) is an Australian rules footballer playing for in the AFL Women's (AFLW). A defender who played with Hawthorn in the VFL Women's (VFLW), she was drafted by Carlton with the twenty-first selection in the 2018 AFLW draft. Van Dyk debuted in the opening round of the 2019 season and played in the 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final. Van Dyk played for her local club in Chirnside Park, Victoria. She trained with Carlton as injury cover during
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VFL/AFL premiership and grand final statistics


This page is a collection of VFL/AFL premiership and grand final statistics. The Australian Football League (AFL), known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) until 1990, is the elite national competition in men's Australian rules football. Each year, the premiership is awarded to the club that wins the AFL Grand Final. The grand final has been played in all VFL/AFL seasons except for 1897 and 1924 (where the premiership was awarded without a grand final being played), and has been an annual
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Bec Goddard


Rebecca 'Bec' Goddard is an Australian rules football coach who served as the head coach of the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW) between 2017 and 2018, winning the 2017 AFL Women's Grand Final. She was assistant coach of the University of Canberra Capitals in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) in 2018/19, when it won the league championship. Goddard played Australian rules football as a junior until the age of 13 before the absence of a girls competition forced her to stop.
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Melbourne Cricket Ground


100,022 in the 2018 grand final, followed by 100,021 attending the 2017 AFL Grand Final. In the modern era, most finals games held in Melbourne have been played at the MCG. Under the current contract, ten finals (excluding the Grand Final) must be played at the MCG over a five-year period. Under previous contracts, the MCG was entitled to host at least one match in each week of the finals, which on several occasions required non-Victorian clubs to play "home" finals in Victoria.
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2018 AFL Women's Grand Final


The decision was made on the basis that Ikon Park could manage a greater capacity than the Western Bulldogs' home ground the Whitten Oval. It was the first time an AFL Women's Grand Final was played in Melbourne. The game was played in wet and blustery conditions, with heavy rain falling in the hours leading up to the game. This kept the crowd numbers down, with most huddled under the sheltered areas, and caused the scheduled pre-match entertainment by Missy Higgins to be cancelled. The first quarter opened with
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2015 Hawthorn Football Club season


premierships in the AFL era. Grant Birchall, Shaun Burgoyne, Luke Hodge, Jordan Lewis, Sam Mitchell, Cyril Rioli, and Jarryd Roughead all won their fourth premierships, tying with Martin Pike for the most in the AFL era. Shaun Burgoyne played in his sixth AFL Grand Final, tying with Martin Pike for the most appearances in the AFL era. As of 2018, this was the last time Hawthorn won a final. The 2015 AFL season was the 119th season of the VFL/AFL competition since its inception in
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1998 AFL Grand Final


Final saw the Kangaroos playing in their second Grand Final in three years, after their triumph in the 1996 AFL Grand Final. The Crows were competing in their second consecutive Grand Final, and were seeking back-to-back premierships after winning the 1997 AFL Grand Final. Craig Sholl for the Kangaroos was to play his 200th game. At the conclusion of the home and away season, North Melbourne had finished first on the AFL ladder with 16 wins and 6 losses, winning the McClelland Trophy. They had won their last
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2018 AFL Women's season


The 2018 AFL Women's season was the second season of the elite women's Australian rules football competition. Eight teams competed in the league, the same as the previous season, all of which are associated with existing Australian Football League (AFL) clubs. The first game was played on Friday, 2 February, and concluded with the grand final on Saturday, 24 March. Three rules were changed heading into the 2018 season: The full fixture was released on Friday 27 October 2017. Notable features of the draw include:
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Monique Conti


Monique Conti (born 9 December 1999) is an Australian rules footballer and basketballer with the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) and the Melbourne Boomers in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). She previously played for the Western Bulldogs from 2018 to 2019. As an Australian rules footballer, Conti won an AFL Women's premiership with the Bulldogs in 2018, and was adjudged best afield in the grand final. She was also selected in the 2019 AFL Women's All-Australian team and won
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Lisa Whiteley


Lisa Whiteley (born 17 January 1993) is an Australian rules footballer who played for in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Whiteley grew up in Adelaide's southern suburbs. She began playing football for Morphettville Park in 2017; in 2018 she kicked 17 goals in 13 games for the club. Whiteley also played for South Adelaide in their 2018 premiership season in the SANFL Women's, and was ranked among their best in the grand final. She also played netball for Goolwa in wing defence. Whiteley was selected by GWS
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2018 AFL Women's Grand Final


for Kirsty Lamb. Deanna Berry somehow evaded two defenders and managed to kick the Bulldogs' first goal with a long shot from outside the 50 metre arc. This was followed in quick succession by another, dribbled in by Kirsten McLeod, who had been brought in to replace the suspended Katie Brennan, but had not touched the ball in the first half. Monique Conti, an 18-year old who also played in the basketball grand final with the Melbourne Boomers, and wound up being voted best on ground, concluded the third term
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2009 AFL Grand Final


1966 Grand Final. This was the first time that St Kilda and Geelong had met in a grand final. In spite of their respective ladder positions, Geelong entered the game as the favourite team to win amongst most bookmakers. It was also the first grand final to be played since the death of cartoonist William Ellis Green (better known as WEG), who had been drawing victory posters after VFL/AFL grand finals since 1954. The posters had been sold after each Grand Final with the proceeds going to the Royal Children
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2018 AFL season


, the AFL confirmed that the pre-season would feature an AFLX competition. The game is played on a soccer-sized pitch over two ten minute halves. Each team features seven players on the field and three interchange players. Teams were split into three groups of six, with a grand final to be held for each group. The matches were played from 15–17 February 2018. The winners of the competition were Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane. The pre-season series of games returned as the 2018 JLT Community Series.
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Xavier Ellis


Xavier Ellis (born 28 February 1988) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club and West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). Over 120 senior matches, and two AFL Clubs, Xavier played in three Grand Finals. 2008 would mark Xavier Ellis as a Premiership player but he would also play in the 2012 Grand Final and 2015 Grand Final. Ellis was drafted by the Hawthorn Football Club with their first selection and third overall in the 2005 national draft. In 2006,
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2018 AFL Grand Final


final at Perth Stadium, and overcame the Magpies by sixteen points to advance to the preliminary final. There, the Eagles hosted Melbourne and won comfortably by 66 points to advance to the grand final for the first time since losing the 2015 AFL Grand Final to . The grand final attendance of 100,022 people was the largest crowd since the 1986 Grand Final. As pre-match entertainment, the Black Eyed Peas performed a number of their hit singles, including "Where Is the Love?", "Let's Get It Started
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Luke Shuey


in the award in 2014 and 2017. He played in the club's victory over Collingwood in the 2018 Grand Final, and was awarded the Norm Smith Medal as the best player on the ground. Shuey was raised in Melbourne and attended Marcellin College, playing for the school football team. One of his teammates was David Zaharakis, who was also drafted into the AFL. Outside of school football, Shuey played his junior football for Bulleen-Templestowe. In 2008, his final year of high school, he was selected for
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1999 AFL Grand Final


and (as of 2018) most recent premiership victory. This was the ' second consecutive appearance in a grand final, whilst it was Carlton's first since winning the 1995 AFL Grand Final. It was not a grand final matchup that was widely anticipated prior to the finals, with the top placed Essendon Bombers clearly the standout team of the home & away season and heavily backed to reach the grand final against another top four aspirant. While the second placed filled its end of the bargain to qualify for the premiership playoff,
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Penrith Australian Football Club


Dukes Oval", Emu Plainsbr 2006 - Present: "Greygums Oval", Cranebrook SENIOR GRADE (4)br 1989 - "Sydney AFL Second Division Senior Grade"br "Grand Final:" Penrith 14.5 (89) d Auburn 5.8 (38)br 1991 - "Sydney AFL Second Division Senior Grade"br "Grand Final:" Penrith 22.17 (149) d Hawkesbury 10.11 (71)br 2011 - "Sydney AFL Division 2"br "Grand Final:" Penrith 12.7 (79) d Balmain 6.8 (44) 2018 - "Sydney AFL Platinum Division "br
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Corey Ellis


The following week he was named as an emergency, but did not play, in Richmond's AFL Grand Final team. Despite having no significant injury troubles, he finished the 2017 season having played just six AFL matches. For the first time in his young career Ellis would complete a full slate of pre-season training leading into the 2018 AFL season. This work saw him play in both of the club's official pre-season matches before being selected to play in round 1's season opener against . Ellis was relatively
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Salary cap


premiership points. As of 2018, no club has been penalised for breaches of the salary floor regulations, and no punishment has included the deduction of premiership points. The VFL/AFL's salary cap has been quite successful in terms of parity: since the cap was introduced in 1987, each of the 17 teams have played in a Preliminary Final, 16 teams have played in a Grand Final, and 13 teams have won the premiership. Another major statistic in regards to the success of the VFL/AFL's cap is
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Andrew Gaff


played in the club's grand final loss to Hawthorn. He won the John Worsfold Medal as West Coast's best and fairest player that year, and was also named in the 2015 All-Australian team. Gaff placed equal fourth in the 2016 Brownlow Medal. He was named in the 2018 All-Australian team, but missed playing in West Coast's victory in the 2018 AFL Grand Final after being suspended late in the season. Gaff attended Kew East Primary school until 2004 and Carey Baptist Grammar School in his high school
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2018 AFL Women's Grand Final


of the game by Bulldogs' defender Naomi Ferres, who grasped it as the final siren sounded. When it came time to raise the winner's cup at the end of medal presentations, acting captain Ellie Blackburn declared: "I can't hold that cup up alone – KB, get up here!" The two raised the cup together, Brennan lifting her shirt to reveal the Bulldogs' guernsey beneath. The gesture invoked memories of the 2016 AFL Grand Final, when injured Bulldogs skipper Robert Murphy was similarly called up on
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AFL Grand Final


2012 then winning the 2013, 2014 and 2015 premierships against , and . On 19 April 2016, the AFL announced that drawn grand finals will be resolved by the use of two five minute extra time periods, with the siren not being sounded to end the second period until the tie is broken, abolishing the use of a full replay. On 12 April 2018, the AFL, Victorian Government and Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) announced that the Melbourne Cricket Ground would continue to host the grand final until at least 2057.
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Brad Sheppard


best in the deciding match. In Round 17 of the 2018 Season, Sheppard played his 150th match against the Fremantle Dockers. In the first week of the 2018 Finals series, Sheppard suffered a season-ending hamstring injury and subsequently missed playing in the 2018 AFL Grand Final which was won by West Coast. Sheppard is a versatile medium-sized player that has primarily played as a defender, but has also demonstrated ability at playing midfield and half forward roles. He is considered a well-rounded young player with good ball
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2018 AFL season


The 2018 Australian Football League season was the 122nd season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 29th under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989. There were 18 teams competing in the league, the same as the previous six seasons. The first game was played on Thursday, 22 March, and the season concluded with the 2018 AFL Grand Final on Saturday, 29 September between and . defeated by five points, winning their fourth premiership. On 17 November 2017
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Alex Woodward


season, he was delisted again by Hawthorn. In 2017 he joined the Collingwood VFL team, but ruptured his ACL again in his third game for the club. He returned strongly with the club in mid-2018, and managed to finish third in the J. J. Liston Trophy despite playing only eight games for the year. Woodward also served as a runner for the Collingwood AFL team during the year, and controversially became involved in the play during the 2018 AFL Grand Final to Collingwood's detriment. Late in the third quarter, Collingwood
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VFL/AFL premiership and grand final statistics


2018 season". The most consecutive years in which a club has featured in the VFL/AFL grand final is seven, achieved by and . "Table correct to the end of the 2018 season". "Table correct to the end of the 2018 season". A club has won premierships in three grades in a single year on only two occasions – in 1950, and in 1973. During the years that it was achievable, no club ever won a senior, reserves, under-19s and night premiership in a single
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AFL Record


and provides content for the official AFL website (AFL.com.au) and the AFL App. As of 2018, the editor of the "AFL Record" is Michael Lovett. In July, 2018, the AFL sold the "AFL Record" and its related products to Crocmedia in a $8.1 million deal. The sports media company will take over all weekly match-day magazine content, including the "AFL Record", AFLW publications, the "AFL Season Guide" and AFL Grand Final edition. The publication began as the
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2010 AFL Grand Final


The 2010 AFL Grand Final was a series of two Australian rules football matches between the Collingwood Football Club and the St Kilda Football Club. Together they are considered the 114th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), and were staged to determine the premiers for the 2010 AFL season. The premiership is usually decided by a single match; however, as the first grand final ended in a draw, a grand final replay was played the following week and was won by Collingwood. Both grand
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Parkside Football Club


Division Three Grand Final Parkside 02.07.19 lost to Hurstbridge 07.10. 52 2011 Northern Football League Division Three Grand Final Parkside 11.13.79 lost to South Morang 15.12.102.. In 2018 Parkside Were Defeated By North Brunswick 15.11.101 to 9.11.65 in the Division 4 Grand Final and will play in Division 3 In 2019 The club is rich in history and tradition. The club's most famous VFL/AFL player Ray Gabelich played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League during the 1950s and 1960s. A group of mates were having a beer at the Alphington Hotel.
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2006 AFL Grand Final


Best and Fairest" AFL Player of the year. It is selected by a 3-2-1 voting system awarded by the umpires of each match for the whole year (excluding finals and pre-season). The winner of the 2006 Brownlow Medal was Adam Goodes, the Sydney Swans utility who was playing in the grand final later that week. The grand final parade took place on Friday 29 September 2006 and commenced on St Kilda Road, Melbourne, and ending at Spring Street, Melbourne. The crowd was officially
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Brayden Sier


the 2018 AFL season, when Adam Treloar was sidelined with a serious hamstring injury. Sier debuted in round 15 against the Gold Coast Suns at Carrara Stadium. He averaged 19.5 possessions (including 10.6 contested), four clearances and 4.6 tackles for the year and played in the 2018 AFL Grand Final loss to the West Coast Eagles. ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2016 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2017 ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2018 ! colspan=3| Career !
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Sydney AFL


three finals matches to qualify for the grand final. Their opponent in the grand final was Pennant Hills. All finals matches were again played at Henson Park except for the second semi-final which was played in wet conditions at North Dalton Park The grand final was played in 33 degree heat, the hottest grand final day in the history of the Sydney AFL competition. After a tight and low-scoring first half, Pennant Hills took complete control after half-time to cruise to a comprehensive 105 point victory. Pennant Hills
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Tendai Mzungu


returned to football 10 weeks later, to be selected directly to the AFL, rather than for Perth in the WAFL. His debut for Fremantle was in the Round 9 match at AAMI Stadium against , which Fremantle won by 52 points. He was selected as the substitute player and only played the final quarter, replacing Hayden Ballantyne who suffered from a corked thigh (quadriceps contusion). Tendai Mzungu played for Fremantle in the 2013 AFL Grand Final against Hawthorn, Fremantle's first ever Grand Final in their history. In the second
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Andrew Rogers (footballer)


in 1988 but after being unable to cement his place in the side crossed to Geelong. He was at Geelong for four seasons, playing finals football, including the 1992 AFL Grand Final which they lost and was to be his last game in the league. When he returned to South Australia in 1993 he rejoined his old club Woodville who, while Rogers was in the AFL, had merged to become Woodville-West Torrens. As vice-captain, Rogers played in their inaugural premiership team that year, with a Grand Final
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Sydney–West Coast AFL rivalry


15 points in Round 13, 2018. Since the Eagles joined the VFL in 1987, West Coast and Sydney have faced off 47 times, with the Swans leading 26–21. From these 49 games over 31 years, the two clubs have played in five finals against each other, including the 2005 and 2006 Grand Finals. They have not played against each other in a final since the 2006 Grand Final. In Round 3 of the 1987 VFL season Sydney and West Coast would play against each other, at Subiaco Oval, in
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2010 AFL Grand Final


to play in the Replay. On Tuesday 28 September, the AFL announced a rule change such that any player who had played in the drawn grand final but missed the replay, through omission or injury, would still receive a premiership medallion if his team was victorious. Under previous rules, players would not have received premiership medallions unless they were present in the team that won the premiership-deciding game. This would mean that Leon Davis, who would be replaced for the Replay, would eventually receive a medallion (although he
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List of VFL/AFL minor premiers


series, and the main league award is the AFL premiership, which is awarded to the winner of the AFL Grand Final. As of 2018, 64 minor premiers have won the VFL/AFL premiership, 43 have finished as runners-up, and 15 have finished third, failing to qualify for the grand final. Since 1995, only six minor premiers have gone on to win the premiership, and 1980 remains the only season where neither of the top two teams during the home-and-away season qualified for the
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2017 AFL Women's season


can be sorted by margin, winners are represented in the first half of each column, and losers are represented in the second half of each column once sorted In the absence of a finals series, the two teams who finished the highest on the ladder at the end of the home and away season played in the AFL Women's Grand Final. finished as the minor premiers and secured a spot in the grand final at the end of round six; 's round seven win over saw them secure the second spot in the grand
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South Australian National Football League


the Grand Final. Up to the end of the 2013 season, when not playing with the two Adelaide-based AFL clubs, Port Adelaide Power or the Adelaide Crows, AFL-listed players would play for the SANFL clubs from which they were recruited. Those recruited to these AFL clubs who had not previously played for an SANFL club were allocated to a club by means of a "mini-draft", or played as a "guest player" if they were not playing for their Adelaide based AFL club, and
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Grant Tanner


Grant Tanner (born 24 July 1970) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the AFL during the mid-1990s. Before Tanner came to Geelong he was on Adelaide's books but never made a senior appearance. In between he played in the SANFL with Norwood. He was part of Geelong's 1994 finals campaign but missed the Grand Final due to injury. The following year he was again injured late in the season but recovered in time for the 1995 AFL Grand Final, which his team lost heavily to Carlton
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2018 AFL Grand Final


Norm Smith Medal as the player judged best on ground. The presentation ceremony following the match was the most watched television program in Australia for the 2018 calendar year, marking the fifth year running the AFL Grand Final topped television viewership, with 2.62 million viewers in the five largest Australian metropolitan cities. Beaten by in the previous season's semi-final, recorded its best season in three years, with a 16–6 win–loss record, to finish second on the ladder. The club hosted third-placed in the second qualifying
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2018 Brisbane Lions season


The 2018 Brisbane Lions season is the ' 22nd season in the AFL. It is also their 2nd season in the AFL Women's and they will field a reserves team in the NEAFL. At the end of the 2017 season, the Lions announced that they were delisting five players from their squad: Ryan Harwood, Jarrad Jansen, Josh Clayton, Jonathan Freeman and Blake Grewar. They had all played in the Lions' 2017 NEAFL Grand Final win. After 154 games at the club, former captain Tom Rockliff accepted an offer
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AFL Capricornia


the North Queensland Cowboys – which are based in Townsville, Queensland – who play in the National Rugby League. AFL Capricornia is an amateur Australian Rules Football competition played across Central Queensland between the months of March to September, which are typically the cooler months of the Queensland climate. Traditionally the Grand Final is held in Rockhampton at the "Rockhampton Cricket Ground" or occasionally at "Stenlake Park" (last in 2011), however Gladstone has twice held the Grand Final at "Clinton Park" (2004 & 2015).
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2014 AFL finals series


The 2014 Australian Football League finals series is the 118th annual edition of the VFL/AFL final series, the Australian rules football tournament staged to determine the winner of the 2014 AFL Premiership Season. The series ran over four weekends in September 2014, and culminated with the 2014 AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 27 September 2014. The top eight teams from the season qualified for the finals series. AFL final series have been played under the current format since 2000. won the premiership after defeating in the Grand Final
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1999 AFL Grand Final


yet were forced to play the match at the MCG due to a contractual agreement with the AFL that required at least one match to be played at that venue every week of the finals. The AFL acted quickly, and in season 2000 the finals system was changed, requiring the need for teams that finished between 5th-8th after the home & away season needing to win all their finals matches to reach the grand final (a loss in any week would see them eliminated). The MCG finals contract was also renegotiated, with only
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Mitch Grigg


both seasons. At the conclusion of the 2016 season, he was delisted by Adelaide without an AFL game being played for the 2016 AFL Season. He is now back playing with his home club Norwood in the SANFL. Since returning to Norwood in 2017, Grigg has won back-to-back Magarey Medals and was awarded the Jack Oatey Medal after the 2018 SANFL Grand Final, the first player in SANFL history to be awarded the medal whilst playing for the losing side. ! scope="row" style="text-align:center"
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Jason Blake (footballer)


’s 3rd AFL Cup Win. Blake played in 22 of 22 matches in the 2009 home and away rounds in which St Kilda qualified in first position for the finals, winning the club’s third minor premiership. St Kilda qualified for the 2009 AFL Grand Final after qualifying and preliminary finals wins. Blake played in the 2009 AFL Grand Final in which St Kilda were defeated by 12 points. Blake played 26 games in 2010, including four finals matches, and finished in the top 10 of St Kilda's best and fairest,
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2010 AFL season


The 2010 Australian Football League season commenced on 25 March 2010 and concluded on 2 October 2010. It was the 114th season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 21st under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989. The premiership was won by , who defeated by 56 points in the Grand Final Replay, which was played after the first Grand Final was drawn. Collingwood's win marked the 15th VFL/AFL premiership in the club's history. The 2010 AFL
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Sean Dempster


rule - his father, Graham Dempster, having played 64 games for South Melbourne Football Club between 1972 and 1979. Dempster played his first AFL game in Round 3, 2005, against the Brisbane Lions wearing jersey number 26. In the 2005 AFL season, he played 22 matches, first as a defender and later on the wing. He was a member of Sydney's 2005 AFL Grand Final premiership team. In the following AFL season, he played 18 matches, mostly as a defender, including the Sydney losing grand final
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Eagle Rock (song)


the pre-game entertainment at the 1996 ARL Grand Final in which Manly won their 6th rugby league premiership. The song is also played at West Coast Eagles games at Optus Stadium in the Australian Football League and the Eagles' Rick 'The Rock' Eagle mascot character is also named after the song. The song was also played at the MCG after the Eagles victory in the 2018 AFL Grand Final. The song is also the basis of a tradition practiced among a small group of Australians for decades. Whenever the song is
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Justin Koschitzke


pre-season cup win. Koschitske played in 20 of 22 matches in the 2009 AFL premiership season in which St Kilda qualified in first position for the 2009 finals series, winning the club’s third minor premiership. Koschitzke had one of his most consistent seasons in 2009 playing mainly at full-forward. He contributed to the Saints making the 2009 AFL grand final and polled well in the Brownlow Medal, finishing equal 11th. St Kilda qualified for the 2009 AFL Grand Final after qualifying and preliminary finals wins. Koschitske played in
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Tim Lane (journalist)


a replacement for Rex Hunt (who moved to Triple M and has since retired). Lane leads the Sunday pre-match discussion and calls Saturday and Sunday games. He replaced Dennis Cometti (who moved to Triple M) as a Saturday caller. He is also a commentator for Macquarie Media's cricket coverage. In addition, he called the 2010 AFL Grand Final and Friday Night matches during the 2011 AFL finals series for the station. Lane is a regular columnist for "The Age" newspaper in Victoria. In 2018
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St Kilda Football Club


in the club's history and one of the most dominant home and away seasons ever in AFL history. St Kilda defeated Collingwood in the qualifying finals and went on to qualify for the 2009 AFL Grand Final by defeating the Western Bulldogs in the preliminary final. They did not win the 2009 AFL premiership in the grand final, however, a match in which the most dominant team of the season played against the most dominant teams of the past two seasons, Geelong. St Kilda were defeated by Geelong in the grand final by
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1990 AFL Grand Final


Final attempts (including the famous draw in the 1977 VFL Grand Final against North Melbourne), in the previous 32 years, not having won a premiership since the 1958 VFL Grand Final. Essendon had last played a Grand Final in 1985, which it had won against Hawthorn; that match was the last game of Collingwood coach and then-Hawthorn forward Leigh Matthews' playing career. At the conclusion of the home and away season, Essendon had finished first on the AFL ladder with 17 wins and 5 losses. Collingwood had
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Robert Eddy


at the ball and ability to apply forward pressure. Eddy played 10 games in the 2009 season, with St Kilda qualifying in first position for the finals series, winning the club’s third minor premiership. Eddy played in St Kilda's two finals victories in 2009 but was dropped for the grand final for Sean Dempster. Eddy played in the 2010 AFL Grand Final in which St Kilda drew with Collingwood and the 2010 AFL Grand Final Replay in which St Kilda were defeated by 56 points. He was delisted by the club at
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AFL Grand Final


), Hunters and Collectors and Birds of Tokyo (2013), Ed Sheeran and Sir Tom Jones (2014), Chris Issak, Ellie Goulding and Ryan Adams (2015), Vance Joy, Sting and The Living End (2016), The Killers (2017), Black Eyed Peas and Jimmy Barnes (2018). Half-time entertainment has been absent since the 2014 AFL Grand Final, with the entertainment occurring pre-match. Since 1977 a running race has taken place on grand final day between various players
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Alex Johnson (Australian footballer)


July 2017, his first competitive game at any level for more than three years after his previous game. He played the rest of the season in the NEAFL, before a groin injury over the 2017/18 offseason again delayed his return to senior football. Johnson finally returned to play his first senior AFL match since the 2012 AFL Grand Final in Round 20, 2018 against , almost six years since his previous game. Unfortunately, he suffered another knee injury the following week, this time rupturing the ACL in his previously undamaged right knee
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Shane Mumford


, Jason Davenport, who was also in the AFL side as a rookie, Geelong's VFL side welcomed Mumford into their ranks for the 2007 season. It became quite a disappointing season for Mumford, only playing in six games for the premiership winning side, (being replaced by Steven King for the VFL Grand Final, and then the next week, Steven King replaced Mark Blake in the 2007 AFL Grand Final), but his pure rucking ability won over the Geelong recruiters, who then drafted him with their last pick (
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2018 JLT Community Series


The 2018 JLT Community Series was the Australian Football League (AFL) pre-season competition played before the 2018 home and away season. It featured 18 matches across 16 days, reducing each team's games played from three to two, seemingly to create space for AFLX events. For the fifth year in a row, the competition did not have a grand final or overall winner. 2018 was also the first pre-season competition played without the nine-point super goal, since its inception in 2003. The competition continued
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2006 AFL Grand Final


these two teams played in the premiership decider, with the Swans having won the 2005 AFL Grand Final by a margin of 4 points. At the conclusion of the home and away season, West Coast had finished first on the AFL ladder with 17 wins and 5 losses, winning the McClelland Trophy. Sydney had finished fourth with 14 wins and 8 losses. In the week leading up to the grand final, Sydney's Adam Goodes was awarded the Brownlow Medal. Prior to the match, at 10:00 a.m. the TAC Cup grand
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Victorian State Football League


as the TAC Cup. At the end of 1994, the VSFL took over administration of the Victorian Football Association competition (which it renamed the Victorian Football League in 1996). The VSFL was succeeded in an administrative capacity by Football Victoria (later AFL Victoria) at the end of 1999. The premiers and Grand Final results of the Victorian State Football League, in its capacity as the reserves competition for the Victorian clubs in the AFL were: All Grand Finals were played as curtain-raisers to the AFL Grand Final.
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Victoria (Australia)


Football League (AFL) clubs based in the state. The AFL Grand Final is traditionally held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the last Saturday of September. Victoria's newest public holiday is Grand Final Friday. The holiday is celebrated the day before the AFL Grand Final and was designated in 2015 "to celebrate Australia's national game". Victoria's cricket team, the Victorian Bushrangers play in the national Sheffield Shield cricket competition. Victoria is represented in the National Rugby League by the Melbourne Storm and in Super Rugby by the
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2000s in sports


(66)br 2003 AFL Grand Final - Brisbane 20.14 (134) defeated Collingwood 12.12 (84)br 2004 AFL Grand Final - Port Adelaide 17.11 (113) defeated Brisbane 10.13 (73)br 2005 AFL Grand Final - Sydney 8.10 (58) defeated West Coast 7.12 (54)br 2006 AFL Grand Final - West Coast 12.13 (85) defeated Sydney 12.12 (84)br 2007 AFL Grand Final - Geelong 24.19 (163) defeated Port Adelaide 6.8 (44)br 2008 AFL Grand Final - Hawthorn 18.7 (115) defeated Geelong 11.23 (89)br 2009 AFL Grand Final
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AFL finals series


finals tournament systems in its history: With the exception of the AFL Grand Final (which is always staged at the Melbourne Cricket Ground), finals matches are played in the state of the home team, giving a home state advantage to the higher placed team. Venue contracts for finals matches are held by the AFL and are not related to the clubs' home venue contracts; consequently, the home team is not necessarily entitled to play at its usual home venue if the AFL's finals contracts are held with a different venue
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2011 AFL Grand Final


the club has played in a grand final. The teams were named on Thursday, 29 September. The umpiring panel for the grand final, including nine match day umpires and three emergencies, was announced on Tuesday, 27 September. Amongst the umpires were three grand final debutants: field umpire Chris Donlon, and boundary umpires Nathan Doig and Christopher Gordon. "Numbers in brackets represent the number of grand finals umpired; this number includes 2011, counts the 2010 AFL Grand Final and Replay separately, and does not include times selected
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2013 AFL finals series


play each other as do the winners of the first semi-final and second preliminary final. The winners of the qualifying finals play at home. The Grand Final is typically played at 2:30 PM on the last Saturday of September at the MCG in Melbourne, Victoria. Normally there is pre-match entertainment where notable Australian performers perform for the crowd of up to 100,000. After the game the winning team is presented with the premiership cup and the winning players are presented with medallions. Winning the AFL Grand Final is the pinnacle
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Brisbane Lions


in last position, despite boasting a talented playing list. As the Brisbane Lions, the club won its first AFL premiership in the 2001 AFL Grand Final, defeating Essendon 15.18 (108) to 12.10 (82). Lions utility player Shaun Hart won the Norm Smith Medal as best on ground in the Grand Final. In 2002, the Lions won back-to-back premierships when they defeated Collingwood 9.12 (66) to 10.15 (75) in the 2002 AFL Grand Final in cold and wet conditions at the Melbourne
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Max Hudghton


position for the 2009 AFL Finals Series, winning the club’s 3rd Minor Premiership. On 27 September 2009, the day after St Kilda lost to Geelong in the grand final, Hudghton announced his retirement on the stage of Etihad Stadium in front of several thousand supporters at a family day. Hudghton played seven senior games in the 2009 season and was not selected for the grand final. He played 234 AFL games in 13 AFL seasons, all for St Kilda. On 12 October 2009, Hudghton was announced as an assistant coach
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Craig Willis


Craig Willis (born 1954) is an Australian announcer who has appeared as the voice of many of Network Ten / One HD and Seven Network's AFL Grand Final, Anzac Day and major Finals Broadcasts. He is colloquially known as the 'voice of the AFL'. Willis has also performed voiceovers at non-AFL major events, including the Melbourne Cup and is regarded as one of Australia's premier announcers. Willis is often a Master of Ceremonies and hosts the traditional Grand Final Breakfast, a fixture of the AFL grand
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1991 AFL Grand Final


was subsequently broken by Geelong in 2008. Hawthorn's flag closed a period in which the club won five premierships in nine years. The game also represented the final game of VFL/AFL football played by Michael Tuck. His record includes Hawthorn's next premiership would not come until 17 years later, when it defeated the 2008 season's most dominant team, Geelong, in the Grand Final. West Coast did not have to wait long for a maiden flag, defeating Geelong in the 1992 AFL Grand Final. The two teams
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Jayden Short


losing grand final against Port Melbourne. The following week he was named as an emergency, but did not play, in Richmond's AFL Grand Final team. Short finished the season having played 16 matches at AFL level. In the 2017/18 off-season, Short underwent shoulder surgery to repair the troublesome joint that had sustained minor injury in his first AFL match two years earlier. His experience during the procedure and in the early stages of recovery was recorded and later revealed in a documentary short film commissioned by the AFL Players Association
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Brent Renouf


Brent Renouf (born 3 May 1988 in New Zealand) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club and the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). His eighth AFL match was the 2008 AFL Grand Final. Brent was born in New Zealand and moved to the Gold Coast, Queensland in Australia at an early age where he began playing Australian Rules Football. Renouf was drafted with selection 24 in the 2006 AFL Draft from the Southport Sharks and made his AFL début in
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AFL Grand Final


watched Australian television broadcast in 2016 and 2018, with the actual match ranking second on both occasions. The 2005 AFL Grand Final was watched by a television audience of more than 3.3 million people across five of Australia's most highly populated cities, including 1.2 million in Melbourne and 991,000 in Sydney. The worldwide audience has grown substantially to a potential 170 million viewers from 72 countries, although the actual audience is likely to be around 30 million. In the past (2007–2011) AFL domestic broadcast arrangement, Network Ten and the Seven
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1996 AFL Grand Final


gold premiership cup instead of the usual silver in honour of the centenary grand final. Sydney were playing in a Grand Final for the first time since relocating from South Melbourne. It was the Swans' first appearance in a premiership decider since losing the 1945 VFL Grand Final, while it was North Melbourne's first since losing the 1978 VFL Grand Final. At the conclusion of the home and away season, Sydney had finished first on the AFL ladder with 16 wins and 5 losses and one draw, winning the McClelland Trophy.
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Adrian Hickmott


Adrian Hickmott (born 30 March 1972) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and Geelong in the AFL. Hickmott was a utility player who had a tough style of play. He was usually used up forward but was also seen across half back. He started his career with Geelong in 1992 and played in the 1995 Grand Final loss to Carlton. It turned out to be his final game for the club and he was traded to the side that won the Grand Final, Carlton. With 22 games in
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Paul Hamilton (Australian footballer)


Paul Hamilton (born 19 June 1967) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Australian Football League (AFL) during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Hamilton was a defender and usually occupied a back pocket for Essendon. After playing in a Preliminary Final in 1989, Hamilton participated in the 1990 AFL Grand Final. He brought up his 100th league game in Essendon's 1991 encounter against Carlton Football Club at Waverley Park. Hamilton left Essendon after the 1992 AFL season
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Jack Ross (footballer, born 2000)


He was particularly influential in the club's finals series, named one of the best players in Oakleigh's preliminary final and recording 19 disposals along with a goal in the club's losing grand final. For his performances that season, Ross earned the club's best and fairest award. Ross attended high school and played school football at Caulfied Grammar, where he also served as the school's football team captain in 2018. At the end of the 2018 junior season, Ross was not invited to the AFL National draft combine,
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Rory Laird


Rory Laird (born 29 December 1993) is a professional Australian rules football player who plays for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was drafted by Adelaide with pick 5 in the 2011 Rookie Draft. In his first season in the AFL, Laird did not play for Adelaide. He played 18 consecutive games for in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), including three finals, but was dropped from the team that played in the SANFL Grand Final. The Crows elevated Laird to
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Fox Footy


and 441,000 viewers.. The channel currently shows 235 live games a season that includes the JLT Pre Season, Toyota Premiership Season and the Toyota AFL Final Series but shows the Toyota AFL Grand Final on delay as channel 7 has the exsclusive rights to that one game. "All AFL premiership matches are broadcast live, with no ads during game-play, excluding the AFL Grand Final, which is delayed by three hours due to the Seven Network owning the exclusive broadcast rights. Most NAB Challenge matches are broadcast live." Coverage
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Peter Curran (footballer)


Peter Curran (born 15 July 1962) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and the Brisbane Bears in the VFL/AFL. A courageous strong-marking forward, Curran played an important part in the most successful era in Hawthorn's history, the 1980s. After a disappointing loss in the 1984 Grand Final, Curran found greater success in 1985, playing in the upset 9 point win over Essendon in the Foster's Cup night Grand Final and in the come-from-behind reserves Grand Final victory against
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Brett Rosebury


the Grand Final, whilst Scott McLaren, Michael Vozzo and Shaun Ryan took the field. This experience has been a driving force in Rosebury's subsequent success. Rosebury was a clerk with a mining company before being enlisted by the AFL, and now works as the Head Operations Accountant at Ticketmaster. Rosebury has umpired the AFL Grand Final on eight occasions: 2009, 2010 and its replay, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2018, generally performing the game's opening bounce. Rosebury has umpired 44 finals games,
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2009 AFL Grand Final


2009 season after two consecutive minor premierships and two consecutive grand final appearances: a victory against Port Adelaide in the 2007 AFL Grand Final and a loss against Hawthorn in the 2008 AFL Grand Final. They won their four pre-season games to win the NAB Cup and their first 13 home-and-away games. Their first loss came in Round 14 against St Kilda (who at that stage were also undefeated) by six points, with Michael Gardiner kicking the winning goal in the dying minutes for the Saints. Following
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AFL finals series


The Australian Football League finals series, more generally known as the AFL finals, and known from 1897 until 1989 as the Victorian Football League finals series or VFL finals, is a tournament held at the end of each AFL season to determine the premier. The top eight teams qualify for the finals based on the home-and-away season results, and finals matches are played over four weeks under the conventions of the AFL final eight system, culminating in the AFL Grand Final. The finals series is traditionally held throughout September
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AFL finals series


the AFL to schedule a non-Victorian team's home match at the MCG to meet the quota, in the event that non-Victorian teams dominate the competition for an extended period. The Grand Final will be played at the MCG every year until at least 2057, regardless of the state of origin of the teams involved. In the early years of the VFL finals, matches were generally played at neutral suburban venues. Starting from 1902, the Melbourne Cricket Ground became the primary venue for finals, including Grand Finals,
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Will Schofield


Will Schofield (born 24 January 1989) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL). At tall and weighing , he is a versatile defender who has played key-position and half-back roles throughout his career. He was drafted by West Coast from the Geelong Falcons with pick 50 in the 2006 national draft, and debuted in round 17 of the 2007 AFL season. Schofield has played in two AFL Grand Finals: a loss in 2015 and a victory in
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2017 AFL Grand Final


VFL grand final 119 years earlier where neither team had any players to have previously played in a grand final. Shortly after both teams qualified for the match, the AFL announced that Richmond would wear their rarely worn clash guernsey of predominantly the new fluro yellow with a black sash, a decision which received severe criticism from ex-Richmond player Kevin Bartlett. Richmond captain Trent Cotchin was scrutinised for an incident involving Greater Western Sydney midfielder Dylan Shiel in the preliminary final, though was cleared of any charge by the AFL Match Review Panel
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2019 AFL Women's season


was achieved by splitting the competition into two conferences. Each team play four games against their fellow conference members and three "cross-over" matches against teams from the other conference. Conference membership was based on the final ladder positions of the 2018 season. The finals series was expanded to include preliminary finals for the first time; the two teams who finish the highest in each conference at the end of the home-and-away season qualified for the preliminary finals. The winners of these games played in the AFL Women
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1999 AFL Grand Final


forced the Essendon playing group to attend the match as spectators to ponder “what might have been”. They would go on to have their own success just a year later in the 2000 AFL Grand Final. While Carlton’s unexpected feat of reaching the grand final in 1999 has undoubtedly gone into Australian Football folklore, the finals system at the time was widely criticised for allowing a team that had finished as low as 6th to reach the grand final after losing its first finals match (a similar instance also occurred the year prior
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