The Official 2012 Aussie Rules Grand Final Thread - Hawks vs Swans - Sep 29 12:30am

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So I've been making this thread for the last couple years and I'm not gonna stop now :D

This is the Australian Football Rules Grand Final. The #1 seed (Hawthorn) vs the #3 seed (Sydney) being played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

In the most ignorant description possible this is Aussie Rules Football:

-The mass scrambles of a fumble in football
-The jumpballs of basketball
-The tactics of soccer and rugby
-The movement of soccer
-The field goal kicking/punting of football
-The hitting of hockey/football
-The catching of football
-The scrums of rugby

With about 50 players on the field and things happening all over the place at once, looking mad random cause of the scrambling going on most of the time when there's a fumble.
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TEAMS
#1 seed Hawthorn (Hawks)
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#2 seed Sydney (Swans)
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RULES
the field, an oval
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scoring - three posts, the middle one (6 points), the side ones (1 point)
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the grand final
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There's 90,000 people expected to be there.

Fox Soccer Plus (FSP) in the USA and TSN2 in Canada will carry the Grand Final between Hawthorn and Sydney LIVE on Friday night / Saturday morning, September 28th / 29th. US coverage on FSP will begin at 9:00 PM EDT Friday including most pre-match festivities; Coverage will continue until 4:30 AM EDT Saturday concluding after the awards ceremony and post match interviews. First bounce is about 12:30 AM EDT. Canadian coverage on TSN2 will begin at 11:30 PM EDT and run to 4:00 AM.

It's a shame FS+ has the rights instead of ESPN2, I used to keep up with the league every week but not anymore. Geelong went downhill ever since Ling retired, and Collingwood lost int he playoffs (again!) so these are two new powers going for the title.

Tune it, or stream it, it's gonna be a good one :whew:
 

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One of the greatest finals of all time from 2 years ago, some of the greatest sporting drama I've ever seen
 
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I know breh, it's confusing when someone that aint your kind knows so much about what you probably follow regularly (I think that's your post, I'm not sure)

just a fan :D
 

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Pregame started on Fox Soccer Plus

and they got Cameron Ling in the panel :bow:

now some guy is playing the guitar

now they're interview this aussie player, some dreadlocked black guy
 

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damn, I forgot about the 100 meter sprint by the league's fastest players at halftime. dreadlock guy is gonna be running that

would love to see that in other leagues :yes:
 

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Goofiest looking thing in sports is those referees throwing the balls in play from out of bounds or bouncing it off mid field....
 

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damn, Hawthorn scored about 3 goals in 2 mins, got the early lead 29-10
 

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huge momentum shift after 1st quarter.

hawthorn was leading big, 2nd quarter all sydney, 3rd quarter going sydney's way too. will there be a push on hawthorns part?
 

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:wow: the momentum swings

Hawthorn made up a 30 point deficit in half a quarter, and it took Sydney 1.5 quarters to get that lead
 
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