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Cats win by a whisker

Geelong has won a nail-biting AFL Grand Final over St Kilda in a clincher on a drenched Melbourne afternoon.

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afl1Geelong has won a nail-biting AFL Grand Final with 80 points over St Kilda’s 68 points.

On a drenched Melbourne day, the Cats snatched their second win in three years, denying the Saints their first premiership in 43 years.

The game was so close it was still tied with just minutes to go. The emotion was so overwhelming for some Saints players, they were in tears at victory dashed from their grasp.

For Geelong it capped off a big week after Gary Ablett Jr. won the Brownlow Medal.

afl2Pre-show entertainment included Farnsy & Barnsy plus Mark Seymour, with the National Anthem sung by the cast of the Jersey Boys musical.

Commercial interests were all over match this year, with a Qantas jumbo circling the MCG as children sang I Still Call Australia Home.

Geelong’s #1 ticket holder is Daryl Somers, who returns to Hey Hey its Saturday next week, alongside Saints supporter Molly Meldrum.

The match screened on TEN and ONE.

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  2. @ Bogues – All the additional NRL coverage is the other two games like the NSW cup, etc. Not many people would be interested especially interstate. Whereas the AFL coverage all day was all discussion and lead up to the actual main game.

  3. it was a great grand final. we might have a game next week the way things were going late in the game. the idol idiots no doubt would have been the pre game entertainment

  4. David said : ‘On current ratings system 2005: 3.39m thanks to Sydney Swans in the game’.

    I was lucky enough to be at the MCG on that day to see my beloved Swans win after so many years. It was fantastic.

    Well done Geelong, you deserved the win. Wonder who cried more, Molly Meldrum, Shane Warne, Eric Bana or Nick R 🙂

    With regard to One HD’s coverage, I enjoyed it, especially the last three hours. It was great to see them cover the players in the middle of the MCG later in the evening, then off to meet the fans as Federation Square. A lot of repeated stuff was going on, and way too many adverts, which I understand they need to do, but overall well done One HD.

    David, I am happy with all the content you publish here – if others don’t like it then don’t visit or make comments.

    Keep up the good work David.

  5. @Jerome: Yes it is a bandwidth issue and it is inefficient to have ONE HD, ONE SD and TEN all using bandwidth for the one program. So ONE SD is reduced to a test pattern so that more bandwidth can be increased for TEN and ONE HD. (TEN/ONE has been doing this since ONE launched back in March)

    And as for Seven, they are all just the one channel with duplicate channel IDs, it is not multiple channels

  6. This is a bit of topic but The 7pm Project promos ten ran during the ad breaks made the show look terrible. This was a great opportunity to give the show a mini re-birth but they failed miserably. Great game though. The shots of Eric Bana were hilarious.

  8. Great game today, and fantastic coverage by Ten. Strangely, Ten’s watermark was on the bottom right of the screen for pre-match coverage, and only appeared on the top right corner until game time.
    @PD: Last year’s Geelong v Hawthorn pulled 1.289 million in Melbourne, which I think is the record audience for the city.
    @angelsgal: I agree, Ten should have used the GF coverage to promote shows such as The 7pm Project and Glee.

  9. Nine need to take a lesson from today. One showed all 12½ hours (and ten showed all 10 hours) coverage in ‘NRL states’. Next Sunday Nine will have eight hours in NRL states and just 2½ hours in Victoria (according to the Advanced Guide on this site). It’s not like the 1969 movie they are going to show at midday next Sunday in Victoria is going to be a big rating show.

    Go the Storm and Eels 🙂

  10. I don’t recall a photo montage when Australia got through to the (real football) World Cup. Hate to say this, but I agree with Allan – to a degree. I’m sure the Eals/Bulldogs game had more viewers in Sydney last night than this final today, but no article there either (Good – it’s a stupid game anyway!). But, as I don’t have my own blog – David can print as he wishes – tv related or not.
    Re Blake and his whinging about whinging – agree completely. I think we should all whinge about the whingers until there are no whingers left. Which would mean no TV Tonight. Now there’s something to whinge about.

    1. Clearly not every event is covered here, but nor should it be expected to. It’s a cross section of television, and yes it is a personal response. I view the AFL Grand Final as a significant event on TV, just as Sound Relief, the Black Saturday Memorial, the Obama Inauguration, the Michael Jackson Memorial were. But they don’t make the site a music / poltical / funeral blog either.

  11. Yes well done Geelong. And terrific job by Channel 10/ One HD. I have always thought that they do it best. Hope they get the AFL rights again from 2012. And what they did post match was excellent. Reminded me of when Sports AFL used to show the Grand Final post match. Channel 10, great job!

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