Aussies: Grand Final Weekend!!!

[shooter]

Well it's AFL and NRL Grand Final weekend here in Aus, what are your hopes and predictions?

Saturday:
AFL - West Coast Eagles vs Sydney Swans
Same teams as last year, then I went for the Swans to break the longest drought in footy, but this year I really couldn't care less about the result. I'm tipping the Eagles in a close one.

Sunday:
NRL - Melbourne Storm vs Brisbane Broncos
I hope the storm can bring it back to Victoria, and I think it will happen, we finished 4 games clear on the top of the ladder with the 2nd most dominant season ever seen in Rugby League, and we won some close games so the team should be able to handle the nerves. Can't wait.

[aussielax]

I hope the storm win in the NRL, i really don't care who wins the AFL granny.

[CoUgArLAX18]

What is the NRL and AFL and what is a grand final? Is it a championship game im Australia?

[NewEnglandLaxer]

I hope the Eagles and Storm win

[Jesse]

Sydney.

Even though I was born in Brisbane, Storm..

[cannon]

What is the NRL and AFL and what is a grand final? Is it a championship game im Australia?

Mate,

These are the two Major Types of Professional football in Australia.

the AFL (Australian Football League) is the sport that keeps Lacrosse a minor sport here! It's the biggest spectator sport in Australia(especially in Victoria, South Aus. and West Aus.)

the NRL(National Rugby League) is a psychotic game that makes American Footballers look like sally's....except for a few different rules it is gridiron with no pads. (popular mainly in Sydney and Brisbane)

[cannon]

oh BTW i think West Coast and the Storm will win.

[pumba]

West Coast and then the storm

[Warriors26]

im hoping for a draw in the afl so we can have another piss up barby the next week and storm by a long shot

[cannon]

Warriors spits the truth! a draw would be awesome...though dont they play extra time now?

[whistleblower]

Not for a grandfinal...Extra time is only for a semi or a premlim final

Boys 15 points eitherway @ $2.85 is they way to go...last 7 games have all been decided by less than a goal for Swans and Eagles.

[Aussie_kid]

I am going with the Eagles and Storm, id be suprised if anyone here didnt go for the storm

[shooter]

What is the NRL and AFL and what is a grand final? Is it a championship game im Australia?

National Rugby League www.nrl.com

Australian Football League www.afl.com.au

Yep the Grand Final is the championship game.

They are like our Superbowls, in half the country it's the AFL, in the other half it's the NRL.

[lightningmvp]

STORM AND SWANS! all the way. put $10 on each! he he

[endoftheline]

i'm barracking for swannys for my mate plus they at least have victorian roots, that aside i'd be putting my money on the eagles.
Of course i'm barracking for the storm even though my uncle has sent me down all this brisbane junk. Storm will do it easy.

[Pitsy]

Ok Im tipping Storm (bring it back to melbourne boys!!!) and the eagles for the AFL.

[fogolax03]

i guess the afl is now truly a national competition, u victorians must be mad as cut snakes about that!!! go eagles!

[shooter]

i guess the afl is now truly a national competition, u victorians must be mad as cut snakes about that!!! go eagles!

Not really, if we didn't want it to be a national comp we would have kept it as the VFL.

I am mad Essendon isn't in with a chance, but aside from that whether the finalists are Victorian or not doesn't bother me.

[Pitsy]

Haha I live by Essendon...hopefully next year! ;)

[thunder_15]

west coach and broncos

[pumba]

Broncos. Common mate. And stop messaging me at bloody 3am in the morning. remember it is later hear then over their

[chiefs_lacrosse]

and the eagles win in a thriller,
they kept off the fast finishing swans by the barest of margans, one point.

carn the storm for the nrl, bring it home

[Pitsy]

Brilliant match by two teams...Eagles bringing it home 85 to 84!!! Good job guys!

[endoftheline]

awesome match top stuff beautiful melbourne day huge atmosphere who says afl is dying out in melbourne doesnt matter if there's no vic team in the final.

[shooter]

Dammit!!!!!!! :angry:

Storm lost :sad:


The worst part is it was the result of bad refereeing, even the video ref made a blatant mistake.

[chiefs_lacrosse]

definantly, i tuned in with a half to go to see the bad decisions made such as matt kings try after a high kick, which was hit into a storm players head and down to matt king for the try.
But congratulations to the broncos and all their supporters.

[Pitsy]

Yea...I dont really get the game...like why do you get a chance to score even more points after a try through a kick? I'm going to take the easy way and blame the refs on storms loss! Haha Good game none-the-less! Catch Guys

[thunder_15]

west coach and broncos
wat did i say huh? wat was the end score of the rugby

[endoftheline]

Yea...I dont really get the game...like why do you get a chance to score even more points after a try through a kick? I'm going to take the easy way and blame the refs on storms loss! Haha Good game none-the-less! Catch Guys
I just can't get into rugby as a spectator sport. It seems to me to enjoy it you have to have grown up with it or have a degree in the rules. AFL is so much easier to just sit and watch if you don't care about the results. Of course i love watching the wallabies...

[shooter]

Yea...I dont really get the game...like why do you get a chance to score even more points after a try through a kick? I'm going to take the easy way and blame the refs on storms loss! Haha Good game none-the-less! Catch Guys

I'm sure the American Football fans on here get the concept.

And it sure as hell makes more sense than getting a point for missing (AFL).

I just can't get into rugby as a spectator sport. It seems to me to enjoy it you have to have grown up with it or have a degree in the rules. AFL is so much easier to just sit and watch if you don't care about the results. Of course i love watching the wallabies...

Not really, I never grew up with it but now I enjoy it much more than AFL.

Likewise my brother grew up in Vic but moved to Queensland, and my dad same but moved to NSW both have got into Rugby League (but still prefer AFL).

The rules are pretty simple to pick up, for League at least, union is more complicated.

[shooter]

wat did i say huh? wat was the end score of the rugby

Broncos 15
Storm 8

It's as much an injustice as Australia losing to Italy in the FIFA World Cup, maybe even more.

[igloo dweller]

i dont give a rats about rugby - but the storm got the spicy end of the ref's chilli stick thats for sure. and as for the swans going down by 1...plenty of good teams lose grand finals by 1...i'm still bleeding