The game was finished at 7:30.And I went to that prelim. It’s a bloody hard timeslots to get to. You can still only do things that take a short time in the morning, and I got home at 11. For a GF it would be 12. “Family friendly slot”.
Your location is KP so presume you are from Geelong, even giving you 30min of celebrating as it was the Tigers making a GF....3 hours to get back to Geelong seems a long time!
Funnily enough this was the biggest complaint when the FA Cup moved from the ‘traditional’ 3pm start to 5:15....and unlike AFL the majority of English games do still have 3:00pm kick offs.
Fans from non-London clubs would battle to make the last train back to Manchester or Wigan or Stoke etc...but FA Cup final changed time slot.
Majority of fans at an AFL GF would either be from Melbourne or interstate and staying in Melbourne anyway...but yes it would potentially cause grief for regional Victorian’s trying to travel home the night after a GF.