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Was this the best we've ever seen? The extraordinary burst that defined a year (opens the original)
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Sometimes a football season saves its best until last. The 2026 version didn't so much save it as unleash it in one extraordinary burst. There were 218 games played this year, but there's a fair argument the best three came in the final nine days. Fremantle's stunning preliminary final comeback against Sydney, Brisbane's epic shootout with Hawthorn the following evening, then a grand final which arguably trumped even those two, the Lions coming from 17 points down with barely four minutes remain
Connolly: the grand final X-factors who will decide premiership glory (opens the original)
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Whatever Saturday's grand final delivers in terms of spectacle, it's difficult to argue we haven't ended up with the two most worthy combatants. Fremantle was the best team of the home-and-away season. Brisbane is the best team of the past three years. One is chasing the first premiership in its history, the other a place among the greatest teams of the modern era. There's plenty at stake before we even get to the actual game. The one meeting between the teams this season, back in round 12 at th
The key factors that will decide who makes the AFL grand final. Here's our tips (opens the original)
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AFL fans have become used to grand finals proving anticlimactic blowouts over the years. Which have often left them thankful that at least the previous week's preliminary finals delivered. We don't want to tempt fate on another repeat, of course, but you do sense at least one of this week's play-offs for a grand final spot could give us a nailbiter. Both games certainly have plenty to recommend them. At the SCG, Fremantle shoots for its second-ever grand final berth. Interestingly, last time the
Tactical shifts and selection dilemmas to decide AFL's biggest games (opens the original)
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September is often full of surprises, but few AFL finals series in recent memory have been turned on their head as comprehensively as was this year's last weekend. The losses of flag favourites Fremantle and Brisbane have left both having to do it the hard way, with Hawthorn suddenly the new fancy and the undermanned Sydney having completely changed perception about its chances with its destruction of the Lions. There's no more second chances now, and as eight premiership prospects became only s
The breakdown: why every team can, and can't win finals this weekend (opens the original)
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The AFL's wildcard finals might have put a different spin on the season, but these few days are for many hardcore footy fans close to the best of the year. We're down to the traditional eight teams again, and there's not one, two, but four big finals to keep the punters entertained, and this year played across four different states. Two qualifying final winners will move straight into preliminary finals, but it's season over for two elimination final losers. They're all genuinely tight contests,
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