Finals Talk 2025

[braddsey]

From afl.com >https://www.afl.com.au/news/1403462...-week-one-of-2025-afl-finals-series-confirmed

Tickets for both qualifying finals will go on sale this Thursday, August 28, with the timing of on-sale times to be confirmed later on Monday.

Edit- Not sure if that is member pre sale tickets or just the open access tickets.

Anyone remember cost of tickets from last year finals at the MCG (excl. grand final)?

 

[braddsey]

I'm going to get in early and ask if anyone on this board has a membership barcode they're willing to let us use for this final. My group are all hardcore Lions fans but we have a casual supporter who didn't get a membership this year.

If anyone can't make it to the game, we would very much appreciate your help to add another loud Lions voice at the G.

You shouldn't need additional barcode. Email just came from the club, can purchase 10 tickets per barcode, and maximum 10 tickets per transaction.

 

[Full Wingspan]

You shouldn't need additional barcode. Email just came from the club, can purchase 10 tickets per barcode, and maximum 10 tickets per transaction.

Just saw - thought it might have been limited. We'll be there loud and proud.

 

[Mayestro]

Anyone remember cost of tickets from last year finals at the MCG (excl. grand final)?

You can use the link in the email you received from the club now to look at tickets, you just can’t buy them. It appears that level 1 and 2 are $105, and level 4 is $58 to $77 dependent on how close you are to the front.

 

[Nathan Barley]

A lot of talk about the draw but if we ran out that last quarter against the crows with a little but of poise and won it like we should've then we would've finished first

 

[M Malice]

A lot of talk about the draw but if we ran out that last quarter against the crows with a little but of poise and won it like we should've then we would've finished first

Yes, reflecting on the season so far our best footy is clearly the best IMO, just got to bring it for 3 more games.

 

[braddsey]

A lot of talk about the draw but if we ran out that last quarter against the crows with a little but of poise and won it like we should've then we would've finished first

woulda coulda shoulda... can't undo what's been done, so look forward. We've got a qualifying final at current spiritual home ground!

 

[Nathan Barley]

woulda coulda shoulda... can't undo what's been done, so look forward. We've got a qualifying final at our new spiritual home ground.

Just more a point that we came that close to finishing first despite the hardest draw, short preseason and tonnes of injuries

 

[braddsey]

Just more a point that we came that close to finishing first despite the hardest draw, short preseason and tonnes of injuries

Yep - against top-9 teams we were/are top. I think first crack said 8 and 3?

Fingers crossed Lachie & Bez come back in and we get no more injuries for the remainder of the season.

 

[M Malice]

Yep - against top-9 teams we were/are top. I think first crack said 8 and 3?

Fingers crossed Lachie & Bez come back in and we get no more injuries for the remainder of the season.

Fage's said both are certain ins for the QF, also mentioned Berry could have played last night, they decided to be over cautious with him.

 

[Nathan Barley]

Fage's said both are certain ins for the QF, also mentioned Berry could have played last night, they decided to be over cautious with him.

That gamble definitely paid off

 

[dlanod]

It'll be an interesting finals series. There are some really one-sided matchups in recent history:

	Adelaide	Geelong	Brisbane	Collingwood	GWS	Fremantle	Gold Coast	Hawthorn	Bulldogs
Adelaide (W-L-D)	N/A	0-5	2-2-1	1-4	2-3	1-4	2-3	2-3	3-2
Geelong	5-0	N/A	1-4	3-2	1-4	3-2	3-2	4-1	3-2
Brisbane	2-2-1	4-1	N/A	1-4	2-3	3-2	3-2	1-4	4-1
Collingwood	4-1	2-3	4-1	N/A	3-2	3-1-1	3-2	2-3	2-3
GWS	3-2	4-1	3-2	3-2	N/A	3-2	5-0	3-2	1-4
Fremantle	4-1	3-2	2-3	1-3-1	3-2	N/A	4-1	4-1	2-3
Gold Coast	3-2	2-3	2-3	2-3	0-5	1-4	N/A	4-1	2-3
Hawthorn	3-2	1-4	4-1	3-2	2-3	1-4	1-4	N/A	1-4
Bulldogs	2-3	2-3	1-4	3-2	4-1	3-2	3-2	4-1	N/A

Adelaide against Geelong, Collingwood and Fremantle (huh).

Geelong against us and GWS.

Us against the Pies and Hawks.

Hawthorn against Geelong, Freo and Gold Coast (strong change Hawks go home early, which removes one problem matchup for us).

A lot of this finals series might be dictated by who gets who in the first couple of weeks.

 

[M Malice]

Reported on Foxsports that Snoop Dogg is being paid $5,000,000 for his GF performance, is it just me or is that an obscene waste of money?

Why do we need "big" international acts, AFL is not and never will be an international sport, just focus on making it as good as it can be for the niche Australian market.

Why not pay a good Australian act $500,000 and spend the left over on grass roots footy.

 

[Darren Downunder]

Reported on Foxsports that Snoop Dogg is being paid $5,000,000 for his GF performance, is it just me or is that an obscene waste of money?

Why do we need "big" international acts, AFL is not and never will be an international sport, just focus on making it as good as it can be for the niche Australian market.

Why not pay a good Australian act $500,000 and spend the left over on grass roots footy.

Could not agree more!
I find the cultural cringe
Nauseating.

 

[Jivlain]

I'm a little slow on the uptake with this but thought I would write it down to ingrain it in my mind.

If the Suns win by under circa 30 points- they are away v Giants.

If Suns win by over circa 30 points- they are away v Dockers.
____________________________

We play the winner of Dockers v Suns or Hawks in a Semi Final if we lose v the Cats.

If the Suns do the unthinkable and lose v the Bombers they miss finals and the Dogs make it to an EF v the Giants and the Dockers v Hawks EF is a lock.

If Essendon score...	Gold Coast need...	Margin
0	15	15
1	16	15
2	17	15
3	18	15
4	19	15
5	21	16
6	22	16
7	23	16
8	24	16
9	25	16
10	27	17
11	28	17
12	29	17
13	30	17
14	32	18
15	33	18
16	34	18
17	35	18
18	36	18
19	38	19
20	39	19
21	40	19
22	41	19
23	42	19
24	44	20
25	45	20
26	46	20
27	47	20
28	48	20
29	50	21
30	51	21
31	52	21
32	53	21
33	55	22
34	56	22
35	57	22
36	58	22
37	59	22
38	61	23
39	62	23
40	63	23
41	64	23
42	65	23
43	67	24
44	68	24
45	69	24
46	70	24
47	71	24
48	73	25
49	74	25
50	75	25
51	76	25
52	78	26
53	79	26
54	80	26
55	81	26
56	82	26
57	84	27
58	85	27
59	86	27
60	87	27
61	88	27
62	90	28
63	91	28
64	92	28
65	93	28
66	94	28
67	96	29
68	97	29
69	98	29
70	99	29
71	100	29
72	102	30
73	103	30
74	104	30
75	105	30
76	107	31
77	108	31
78	109	31
79	110	31
80	111	31
81	113	32
82	114	32
83	115	32
84	116	32
85	117	32
86	119	33
87	120	33
88	121	33
89	122	33
90	123	33
91	125	34
92	126	34
93	127	34
94	128	34
95	130	35
96	131	35
97	132	35
98	133	35
99	134	35
100	136	36
101	137	36
102	138	36
103	139	36
104	140	36
105	142	37
106	143	37
107	144	37
108	145	37
109	146	37
110	148	38
111	149	38
112	150	38
113	151	38
114	152	38
115	154	39
116	155	39
117	156	39
118	157	39
119	159	40
120	160	40

Were Gold Coast to win 25-9 they finish on the exact same percentage as Hawthorn. That's advantage to Gold Coast because they won the game between them this year.

 

[HereIGoAgain]

Reported on Foxsports that Snoop Dogg is being paid $5,000,000 for his GF performance, is it just me or is that an obscene waste of money?

Why do we need "big" international acts, AFL is not and never will be an international sport, just focus on making it as good as it can be for the niche Australian market.

Why not pay a good Australian act $500,000 and spend the left over on grass roots footy.

Bah humbug! If true that's insane. Other than the poor publicity, how does this contribute to our sport? Was there a generation in Australia who grew up listening to this bloke? AFL do us all a favour and drop it like it's hot.

 

[MSB ROYS]

I want TISM.

 

[Elixuh]

Reported on Foxsports that Snoop Dogg is being paid $5,000,000 for his GF performance, is it just me or is that an obscene waste of money?

Why do we need "big" international acts, AFL is not and never will be an international sport, just focus on making it as good as it can be for the niche Australian market.

Why not pay a good Australian act $500,000 and spend the left over on grass roots footy.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game

 

[Lazza16]

We've just finished inside the offense and defence premiership window for the season.

We're ranked 6th for defence and 5th for offence.

Pretty sure the rule of thumb is no team has won the premiership this century if their defence and offense isn't top 6. (Think there might be one exception for the Offense part)

Good omen!

Brownie will be happy n relieved now.

 

[Section 5]

Crows (H) v Pies
Cats (H) v Lions

Dockers (H) V Suns
Giants (H) v Hawks

Only the Giants will get a small crowd

 

[braddsey]

Just placed an order for my 2025 BELIEVE scarf, and a couple of hanging flags for the front of the house. I'm now finals ready!

Conveniently I had a lions shop voucher for $110, and it came up as $110.24.
(I hope bloody auspost can get it delivered in 7 business days).

 

[braddsey]

With all the talk about goldfish in recent weeks, sorta feels like the 2025 mantra is about goldfish. Not quite as interesting as believe or dancing on thin ice

Brotherhood has been a strong one too.

 

[M Malice]

Crows (H) v Pies
Cats (H) v Lions

Dockers (H) V Suns
Giants (H) v Hawks

Only the Giants will get a small crowd

Prediction time >

Week 1
Crows v Pies
Cats v Lions
Dockers v Suns
Giants v Hawks
________
Week 2
Pies v Giants
Cats v Dockers
________
Week 3
Lions v Giants
Crows v Cats
_______
GF
Lions v Cats

 

[Bucking Beads]

We could get a 3rd QClash this year.. that said I don't think it'll happen.

 

[Nathan Barley]

Like Kane Cornes has said, the winner of us and Geelong will likely make the GF and be premiership favourite