Dead Heat!
"It's going to be a draw!" cried Bruce McAvaney. But it's good news for TV networks and media buyers.
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“It’s going to be a draw!” cried Bruce McAvaney.
“Unbelievable!”
And at 68 points each Collingwood and St. Kilda tied the 2010 AFL Grand Final. The match could have gone either way in the closing minutes, but the rule of no Extra Time put an end to that.
The tie may be bad news for teams and spectators, but it’s good news for TV networks and media buyers who will be racing to do it all over again and soak up the revenue and ratings from a repeat performance. It takes a lot to mount a broadcast of this scale, but for Seven it will net them twice the eyeballs.
Not since 1977 has the Grand Final been tied. But now with multichannels and the very expensive 3D experiment the ramifications are far more involved.
Amendments on this one will ricochet right across the week, particularly if it impacts on The Footy Show (which had already wrapped for the year) and Game Day Prime Time.
Then there are the brekkie shows which had planned to ramp up NRL coverage next week. Its Grand Final takes place Sunday week.
And all of this on the eve of the Commonwealth Games. It will be a three-way sports mega-weekend.
Spare a thought for Producers who will be crewing all over again, and juggling logistics one more time.
The event is one of the biggest audiences of the television year.
So big they had to do it twice.
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60 Responses
Boring…
From next Saturday Home And Away Catch Up moves from the afternoon to the morning 7am-9:30am.
Nine News Adelaide just said in their sports report the Footy Show are preparing a Footy Show ‘Grand Final’ special for Thursday night … backs up Garry Lyons comments on MMM earlier.
Good match … just glad Collingwood didn’t win 🙂
‘So big they had to do it twice.’
Briliant call!
All I want to see is Before the Game! It is the best footy show on TV! I also quite like game day prime time but I missed it this week so I would be happy to watch it this week!
I turned to my mates after the game and said 7 must be licking their lips!
‘So big they had to do it twice.’
Briliant call!
All I want to see is Before the Game! It is the best footy show on TV! I also quite like game day prime time but I missed it this week so I would be happy to watch it this week!
I agree with some of the comments, however what a fantastic game. It was great TV
Poor Seven. With the road cycling championships and rugby, and networks throughout the world hiring all the equipment for Delhi and the cycling, will there be enough trucks in the nation to broadcast in HD?
Next Thursday (September 30) is supposed to be the day for Victoria, SA, WA and Tasmania to catch up on Home and Away episodes as they have fallen behind NSW and QLD due to the AFL finals. So what will happen to these episodes now? (BTW they are shown on 7TWO on Saturday afternoons)
Apparently, Garry Lyon said on Triple MMM that the Footy Show would be on next week — but in the normal studio format (but isn’t the studio closed now?)
It was an epic game nonetheless.
Please Channel 9, give us another episode of ‘Footy Classified’ on Monday night.
If the Tigers and Roosters can go an extra 20 minutes in an NRL finals game surely they can have extra time at an AFL grand final.
As that player said:
“What a joke”.
Anyway, I just can’t stop laughing. It’s so funny.
re: T-Mac … Why would you bother Ringing channel Nine on a Saturday night, just to see if The Footy Show is on next week…
amazing game
hopefully the big name footy shows are back on next week. another week of a build up, i just don’t know if it will be the same
and man, C7 camera angles need working (ultra close ups and extreme far shots were terrible)
NRL goes into overtime I’m surprised that AFL doesn’t.
There is nothing on channel 7 next Saturday of any importance so AFL coverage will probably start from 11am or 1pm at the latest for a 2:30pm game start time. 7Mate will be cleared for the game to be in HD.
Since 7 and 10 take turns in AFL Grand Finals, will 10 cover it next week?? 😉
well, its a good opportunity for seven to claw back some of the money they wasted on x-factor
the bloke and his son that sang the national anthem were terrible and the afl should be ashamed they alowed that to happen. you would think they would have learnt from their woeful mistake of alown idol contestants to sing before the gf in the past
Will Seven clear 7mate’s schedule next Saturday to allow for the GF replay to be shown in HD?
i don’t think the players will want to play another 10 to 20 minutes after 120 minutes of hard at it footy. this is the third drawn gf in the history of the vfl and afl. nothing will change. oh yeah i actually backed it at 41 bucks. i had 10 dollars on it
Embarrassment for CH7: 7mate seems to be experiencing technical problems. Come back 7mate!!!
It’s the most pathetic thing i’ve seen in the history of afl!!! All the afl wants is more money with another big game next week now!! what about all the people who paid and flew over there and had to stay in a hotel? Another 10 mins would have been good
I rang Channel 9 to ask if there’ll be another Footy Show. They said they won’t know until Monday
I’m still coming to terms with it. I’m worn out and sweaty and I was watching it, I can only imagine how the players feel.
This is bizarre.
Will we see another season final episode of the Footy Show, Before the Game etc?
My hunch is Game Day Prime Time is a pretty safe bet. We’ll have to wait and see if the others reassemble. 7mate will be getting ready to adjust I reckon. But another 3D broadcast? Not necessarily. It will be a big week for Amendments!