September 20, 2004
Australian Football Grand Final!
So, after a heavy weekend in Australian football, 2 teams have emerged to play against each other this saturday in the 2004 Australian Football Grand Final.
Port Adelaide and the Brisbane Lions will have it off to see who will be premiers this year. Brisbane will be fighting for their fourth premiership in a row.
This will also be a non-victorian Grand Final played at the MCG, with both teams coming from outer-state, which many are saying shows the true national aspect of the game.
Brisbane have a lot of grand final experience but are also carrying a few injuries from the weekend match against Geelong. Port have made it to the finals but in the past have failed to find their legs, so it's shaping up to be a good competitive match between the two teams :)
Update:
After a long friday 'all-nighter' I managed to see the game at MacGowan's Irish Pub, just around the corner from where I live - at 6am Frankfurt time. :)
The match was great, certainly a high quality grand final in comparison to previous years. Both teams fought quite hard for the match, but the winners in the end were Port Adelaide, 17.11.113 (that's goals (6 points), points, total score) to 10.13.73, who'll be taking the premiership back to South Australia.
There were great performances from Bradshaw, and Aka on Brisbane's side, and Tredera, Pickitt, and Wanganeen for Port Adelaide, with also a bit of 'biffo' during the match :)
In the end I think Port went for the ball harder than Brisbane and made each goal count, they certainly caught Brisbane off-guard during the first quarter and made them work hard to even the scores during the second. Star performances from Voss and Lynch were missing (in fact Voss missed most of the first quarter) and Brisbane missed a few too many goals that were needed to keep pace with Port. In the end, Port were able to keep their momentum going throughout the game to win the match.
It's been a big season of change for AFL this year, so next season promises to be a great one - looking forward to it already :)
Posted by crafterm at September 20, 2004 11:35 AM | TrackBackMy cousins made us discover footy during the Big Trip, we went to watch Carlton vs. Essendon.
After some live explanations about how the games works we enjoyed the game - it is rough between the players (three injuries in that game), but the fact that supporters of each team are mixed in the audience and are friendly to each other makes a big difference in enjoyment compared to what we see around here!
The fun thing was this sign: "patrons not allowed on the grass - penalty $6000". Man, for that kind of money people *do* stay out of the field ;-)
So...this post brings back memories ;-)
Posted by: Bertrand Delacrétaz at September 20, 2004 01:12 PMHi Bertrand!
Glad you got to see a game during your trip to Australia! I'm sure there's even an AFL league in Switzerland (there's even one here in Germany!) :)
Cheers,
Marcus
Posted by: Marcus Crafter at September 26, 2004 11:54 PMI hear there is going to be a rematch due to loss of the national game to SOUTH AUSTRALIANS (jeez). The scheduled rematch will be held in Cancun Mexico this January and will be clothing optional.....again
Grant
Posted by: Grant at October 7, 2004 01:05 PMHi Grant!
Mate, looking forward to the rematch then - we'll have to make sure we bring the footy this time :)
Cheers,
Marcus
Posted by: Marcus Crafter at October 7, 2004 02:31 PM