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Twilight Grand Final
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Surely that’s the end of day GFs, shocking TV coverage, ball flicking between sun/shade made for a terrible viewer experience. The marquee game of the year and the AFL ends up looking like a tin pot amateur competition.
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Complete opposite.
Yesterday was the perfect example of why it needs to remain where it is.
The MCG looked magnificent bathed in sunshine, for both the Kiss performance and the free flowing footy of the first half.
I'm sure all those Collingwood supporters who had the rest of the evening and night to celebrate are thrilled with the 2:30 start time.
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Most of Australia didn't watch
2.465m watch nail-biting AFL Grand Final | TV Tonight
Updated: Collingwood victory over Brisbane Lions delivers one of the biggest audiences of the year.tvtonight.com.au
A hell of a lot more than last year.
Yes, but if yesterday's game was a twilight fixture (we had a 5.15pm start), that's when the game would roughly have finished. Cup being presented at 8.30pm AEST. Which is not that late for kids, in school holidays and on a Saturday.
Never I hope. It’s at a perfect time as it is.
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Night grand final sucks. Can’t even get a daytime final outside of week one now.
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Twilight 4.30pm is you get the best of both worlds.
You can still have a kick before the game, BBQ, pretty much all the stuff you'd do on a normal day except it starts in a better rating slot.
I have noticed an argument against it is that it didn't work in 2020 and 2021 , but for most of the country bar WA, those 2 games were both at night time. Most of the country literally hasn't experienced a twilight grandfinal.
I love the 2.30 start, but twilight just makes sense as well
You can still have a kick before the game, BBQ, pretty much all the stuff you'd do on a normal day except it starts in a better rating slot.
I have noticed an argument against it is that it didn't work in 2020 and 2021 , but for most of the country bar WA, those 2 games were both at night time. Most of the country literally hasn't experienced a twilight grandfinal.
I love the 2.30 start, but twilight just makes sense as well
I slightly prefer a day Grand Final over night but not massively fussed. What is far more annoying to me regarding the corporate dollar is corporates taking a significant slice of the GF tickets. I could live with a night GF if it meant 10k more members' tickets made available.
Even then the daytime final in week one is a 3:20pm start (2023) or 4:35pm start (2022), effectively making them twilight games. I’d like to see the return of a 2:10pm or 2:30pm start for at least one game in each of weeks two and three.
I was at the 21 GF and I didn’t mind the twilight time slot, but the light in the first quarter had the feeling of a last quarter. That lovely late arvo sun, the long shadows, it just felt like that was when the game should have been ending, not starting.
Anyway I’m a traditionalist/romantic and will always want a daytime GF. I also want no advertising on the back of jumpers, no stupid music before and during games, and footy cards with chewing gum inside, so maybe I’m just getting older and stuck reminiscing about the glory days of my youth
Anyway I’m a traditionalist/romantic and will always want a daytime GF. I also want no advertising on the back of jumpers, no stupid music before and during games, and footy cards with chewing gum inside, so maybe I’m just getting older and stuck reminiscing about the glory days of my youth
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Twilight is the worst time, day or night has the best lighting. Twilight all The Sun goes into the crowd instead of the oval, it looks terrible lighting wise.
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I like both day and night, probably prefer the starting time at like 1:30 so there's better lighting, though, or move the Grand final to after day light savings kick in. The 2020 GF did have a climatic feeling to it, and the lighting was good, too. 2021's twilight had the worst aesthetic because the oval was dim and all it went into the crowd, it looked terrible.
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I agree. Twilight is the worst of all outcomes.
Full day or full night. No half measures.
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Could have the game at Midnight, as long as my side is in it 
I don’t care. 2:30 start.
I don’t care. 2:30 start.
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Matter of time until it goes twilight/night forever ladies.
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I think it should start at 4:30pm or whatever time the final siren went. TV coverage looks bad with the bright spring sunshine mixed with the giant shadows from the stand roof, plus it's harder the so the red sherrin compared to the yellow one.
