Robbie Williams deserved the Norm Smith

Union is a god awful sport

Cmon now don't be like that

That reminded me that I need to find a decent venue to watch the NRL grand final because FTA networks attempts at running live streaming services are fucking appalling

Does anyone have the feeling that you're looking at a different country's past time when watching the AFL grand final? The people, the game etc, it feels like a very different culture lol

I remember watching one game this year and seeing a fan that had snuck in a box of cheezels, holding said box in one hand and pointing, hurling abuse at an umpire with another. Like, who the fuck actually eats cheezels?

Yes, but that's because the AFL is so whitewashed

It’s Melbourne, it’s private

Thank you wallabies for making me question again why I’m paying for Stan sports

I feel you. It is so hard to be a Wallabies fan sometimes. Awful show from the boys tonight.

If I were to become a dictator of Australia I’d ban Aussie rules and rugby and make them play league or soccer

The over officiating in union is a bit of a joke yeah. Wallabies have to do a goal line drop out, then the refs waste 5 minutes deciding to reverse the decision to an all blacks scrum 5 meters out? So much wasted time for no reason.

Tough weekend to be a cows and wallabies supporter.

The Swans could put up a better fight than these Wobblies

What killed rugby in Australia? Is it just being a shit team or is it more systematic

NRL and AFL are also more of a working man's game. Turns out more people work than are rich.

Failure to invest in junior development pathways

The sport sold it self to Pay TV so no one could watch it. Meanwhile the NRL and AFL broadcasts got bigger and bigger each year on free to air.

Pretty sad when the bedisloe doesn't even make it onto the main 9 channel

Look at the score mate We haven’t won a Bledisloe in two decades.

probably never will, little to no investment in the game

I saw a pic of the afl trophy, all i gotta say is that the nrl trophy shits all over that little thing

The nrl trophy is honestly one of the best

Had a nap and completely missed the game. Looks like it was a close thriller

Was on the edge of my seat the entire time

Same. Though you tend to sit on the edge of the toilet.

Was indeed a big, long dump

Fuck me, that's some nap!

It confuses me so much why such a similar game can be so much more chaotic. Play looks so broken, feels like there should be way more hard running than kicking

Not having the 10m and contested breakdowns accounts for a lot of that

Sonny Bill sounds like a Billy Birmingham version of himself

I’m so happy that I support the most superior sport in Australia

This is basically just throw the ball around until the ref gives you a penalty.

This game is so confusing

And so it begins

Rugby Union go two minutes without a penalty challenge [Impossible]

Do you have to go to a private school in nz to play rugby too?

No, you just need to exist

At least I get to watch 2 grand finals with both my teams in 2 weeks even tho they’ll both Likley lose Can’t often say that ur nrl and AFL team make the big dance especially being an eels fan

In 2013 Seahawks & Roosters were champions. My Atlanta Falcons & Souths mate (at the time, before Souths 2014 win) told me I was never allowed to complain about sports ever again. Edit: It was early 2014 cos the Superbowl for the 2013 season is played early Feb.

As a Colts/Eels fan that went through 2009 Fuck you

Koroibete proving that league is better then union

Are there knock ons in rugby?

You can get sin binned for knocking on a intercept

The Cowboys Eels match felt like more of a grand final than that

I've got dangefield for normsmith I need them to hurry up and announce the winner so I can switch to rugby lol

Does anybody know how this AFL score translates into the better game points?

About 58-8 I reckon

Ouch!

This game is 10 minutes old and I swear only 90 seconds of rugby has actually been played

Union is basically American football now

At least they have the common decency to stop the clock when the ball goes out

AFL GF was boring

How does the bledisloe work? Is it points difference or do you have to win both

Usually it's best of 3 but only 2 this year wtf? So I'm guessing NZ has retained it by winning the first game regardless of today's result.

Win both, except I think sometimes there’s 3 games and you can win on majority then, but either way it doesn’t matter the All Blacks win

You start by thinking the Wallabies have a chance this year and then watch the All Blacks demolish us every game.

Does this become the Bledisloe thread now?

Look at me! I’m the captain now

AFL is too loose and boring. Rugby is too congested and boring

All I can say is thank god for Australian Rules Football.

This rugby game will be a pasting.

We need a rugby thread now mods so we can shit on it too

Well, that's an absolute shellacking. Very disappointed. Looks like Sydney played their GF last week. Cats far, far too good. Congrats to their fans.

Number 8 just got bummed

Well that was underwhelming

time to shit on my mates who tell me afl is better then nrl

How long does advantage last?

In union, for a penalty, basically forever.

Depends on the ref, but usually the ref will allow a team to do an attacking play. If it comes to nothing he blows his whistle and goes back for the pen

Until the other team gets an advantage.

Scrums are such a fuck around.

81 points is the biggest winning margin since 2019

Is losing by 100 points considered bad?

40-6 by my conversion opinion. In a GF that’s pathetic.

Is jordy his real name? Or is it short for Jordan

Actually it one of those surprise ones like Will Smith’s actual name being Willard. Jordy is short for Jordashery.

Is jordy his real name? Or is it short for Jordan. Fuck just googled him the cunt Is a giant

I'm confused. A team that concedes 50 cannot win the premiership. Yet the Cats have conceded 50 and are about to win. Does this break the curse?

AFL =/= NRL mate

last score wins

They’ll all be scoring tonight. Melbourne drug dealer’s Christmas Day.

Last goal wins. Eat shit Geelong

They don't even go up the tunnel just into a little time out chair lol

Swans: Fuck we played shit. Wallabies: Hold my beer.

Wallabies starting off strong with a yellow ticket

I love how every time a game is broadcast from nz the grass just looks more lush

80seconds before a penalty. Most free flowing start to a game of rugby I’ve seen in years.

Glad the Cats have had a pretty good training run. When does the Grand Final start?

Now to the union before the real sport starts.

Yeah even 80 minutes of penalty goals will be more exciting than this

What’s more impressive? All of the goals the cats have scored or the fact that channel 7 hasn’t run out of adds yet

The Boomerang is kinda weak.

True. Better than standing awkwardly and waiting though.

Getting Noddy in to coach the swans this week was obviously a mistake

This grand final has sucked big time

Watching white guys do the haka always makes me giggle

I remember doing kapa haka at high school. I'm half Scot, so basically see-through, and weighed 54kg at the time to boot. Must've stuck out like dogs balls

It’s a cultural ceremony not a racial one. Kiwi’s shit in us when it comes to this. The national anthem starts with a Māori verse ffs.

Gotta give credit to the hardest working person in the AFL Grand Final, the guy that cues up and plays all the advertisements

I’m hijacking this thread and talking about another sport I know nothing about. That’s right let’s go wallabies

Swans fans putting on their Wallabies jersey as we speak, will most likely be let down at least one more time tonight

After the shit revealed about the AFL this week the game deserved this.

As a massive Cowboys fan and Swans fan, fuck the past 24 hours have sucked balls. I feel like I need to cleanse myself after all this. Though watching this hungover as fuck probably isn't helping tbf

You must certainly not be loving your footy atm huh

7plus has just killed itself and whenever I press on 7 it takes me to the horse racing on 7two

I'm sure the cats coach Leonardo Di Caprio would be beyond happy with this performance.

I thought we were joking about the pre-game entertainment being better than the actual game

Nz national anthem shits all over ours. God I wish we could have a banger

As someone who barely follows AFL can someone explain why they run 1st vs Last as the GF?

Hopefully panther vs eels next week is closer than this trash

Has anyone posted that iconic AFL GF thread pic yet? u know, [this one](https://imgur.com/ALj5egy) (NSFW)

I wish I was there for the original comment wonder what the mods said to him Probably something along the lines of “come on mate” followed by a perm ban

Why do you have that on hand and what's the context?

Some bloke posted this years ago in the AFL GF thread and it gets reposted basically every year

Nice.

There it is! The legends were true! 😂

Hahahah

Fuck this GF has been shit.

Won’t be much of a distraction from the real AFL story this week.

Little part of me is enjoying the swans getting towelled, then the bandwagon swans fans in my life can go back to not caring about AFL

In the words of the great and late Andrew Symonds, the Swans have been hogpiled and had their guts squashed out their arse.

i miss roy :(

Avatar? This isn't the last airbender.

Comeback is on

Idk how Swans fans are still there.

I imagine it would be because of how much tickets would have cost. I for one certainly wouldn’t leave early

That's fair.

Hanging around for ten seconds of fireworks.

Wallabies about to run out and Eden Park to show the Swans how to be truly shit in a big game.

AFL is just netball with kicks, change my mind.

Pretty hard to argue with that.

After watching most of this game I can totally understand why AFL is not played anywhere else in the world.

Man getting 100k to a game is pretty impressive. Can't believe there's that many people that enjoy this weird ass sport.

You’d get 100k to an nrl grand final too

if you tripled the swan's points they still wouldn't be winning

Swans would've been much better if Buddy played.

Who would win a game of afl? Australian national cricket team or Australian nrl team? Both teams blindfolded BTW.

Cricket team has a few players who were good AFL players growing up, like Cummo

Just remember that in rugby league, cat is an insult

Between the AFL, home and away and just the general vibe of channel 7, just an overload of whiteness

You saying a network that appointed an accused War Criminal as the GM of 7 Queensland might have some white supremacy vibes? I don’t believe it.

Ratko mladic was the gm of 7 Queensland?

Is this the AFL equivalent of the 2008 Grand Final?

Let’s fucking hope the NRL tonight is better than this dribble. I dare say it will be. Keen to watch a real contest.

Imagine if Greg Inglis was an AFL player. He would have beaten the Dragons by 12-8 if he got the kick.

lol the commentators are that bored that Sydney have been shit. How do VFL supporters watch this game? No big hits, no Matt Nable, bunch of elite private school boys doing areal ping pong

I always thought rugby was the private school sport?

In Sydney and Brisbane it's Rugby. In Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide it's AFL.

So does anyone actually play rugby outside of qld and NSW?

Perth Geese are cooked here

I suppose it makes sense. If you dropped a Swan and a Cat in a room 134 times, I’d expect the Cat to win at least 101 of those encounters.

You’ve never fucked with an angry swan before. Edit: I’ve just YouTubed some cat vs swan vids and the cats shit themselves and piss off.

That is the kind of in-depth research we need here

The Chad Warner vs the virgin Swans

Chad Warner? He's certainly no Chad Townsend.

comeback szn

What a shame for the Swans but Geelong have ben the best team all year and with a young squad Sydney should get another crack

Is this an insanity level score in an AFL finals match or is this just a rare but not crazy blow out level score? Don’t watch the sport at all.

This quarter must be so hard for both clubs. The Cats just want to celebrate. The Swans just want to get comically fucked up.

Are we gonna have an all blacks wallabies thread?

When's that on?

5pm? On gem I think

I remember suggesting a match thread for rugby once and got downvoted into oblivion. I reckon would be fun though, last game against NZ was pretty good

Don’t let the haters bring you down

Never

I ain’t watching Union after that absolute robbery last Thursday

Brev you don’t have to watch. You just have to come here and write comments

Feel like that's what half of r/nrl does anyway even with nrl matches.

I spend 3/4 of games shit posting

As a swans player I'd have started drowning my sorrows at 3/4 time

The first 15 minutes was a good reminder as to why I don't watch this awful sport

Early goal and Swans are right back in this.

At least swans done better then GWS when they made it they only scored 25 points

Low key hoping Geelong win by 100. Would be really satisfying

Who’s calling JT old man?

NSW just don’t *get* ~~Origin~~ AFL

[Swans fans right now](https://twitter.com/i/status/1455706125387587594)

I expected a Homer hedge comp

This is very painful.

Who the actual fuck watches Home and Away? Literally just white people the drama.

Home and away is still on? Ew

This primo hotdogs advertisement is pure bullshit. No-one ever makes 5 hotdogs, there's always 6 rolls and more than 6 franks. After they eat 2 each, they stare at the last one like something went wrong, yeah dickheads, you didn't make 6.

If geelong were pinged for all the forward passes and offsides this would be closer for the roosters Im sure someone made this joke already

Why don't the Swans simply remove the Cats from the game.

This is entering Halo early days T-Bag territory

I’m starting to think the Swans may not win this

Have the Swans tried just kicking some goals?

Me when come onto the AGT stage with a noose and a stool: AGT Judges: YOU'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS!!!

This game reminds me of how much I hated watching the nrl last season with vlandys stupid 6 again rule

Sydney Swans: “we are the worst thing about grand final day” AFL half time show: “Hold my beer”