September 28, 2024 • 10 mins
It's the biggest day on the Australian Sporting calendar.
Both the NRL and AFL Grand Finals are today, the AFL set to kick off first this afternoon.
Eddie McGuire is synonymous with the sport, and he joined Piney to discuss the big day.
“It is, you know, I go to the Super Bowl every year. You know, the Kiwis know what it's like when the All Blacks are playing and it's a big game or a Bledisloe Cup or, or a World Cup in these days. That's what it's like.”
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Fine
from Newstalk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Biggest day on the Australian sporting calendar Australian Rules Football,
the AFL Grand Final between these two.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
They're true to the Grand Final in a show.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
At their six o'clave all the season.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
This is beamed for the Sydney Swans.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Those that were here will never forget what they saw.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Brisbane just had.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Unfinished business to attend to at the MC two and
they will get their chance next week against the sydneys Es.
And next week is today. It is the Sydney Swans
and the Brisbane line set to do battle at the
iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground four point thirty this afternoon New
Zealand time, two thirty local time in Victoria. It's a
(01:03):
massive pleasure to welcome in a man's synonymous with AFL
and its broadcast coverage in so many different capacities and
a very familiar voice on both sides of the Tasman,
Eddie McGuire. Of course, Eddie, welcome to Weekend Sport on
News Talks. He'd be first of all, how unusual is
it to have two non Victorian teams in the Grand Final.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, it's been something that's building over the years. You know,
you go back to nineteen ninety when the Victorian Football
League became the Australian Football League, and you know within
two years the West Coast Eagles from Perth had won it.
They wanted again two years later and Adelaide won it
twice within the first nine years, so that all built up,
and then the two thousands you had the prism of
(01:44):
Lines winning three in a row and I think there
was about five years in a row where there were
two non Victorian teams in it, but it's been about
sixteen years since that happened. But look at the national
competition these days and there's two teams in Queensland, New
South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia. So there's chances that
these teams are going to get there eventually. But look
there there are two great teams that both been last
(02:05):
year brisonan run lucky against my boys Collingwood in the
Grand Final, missed by a kick and the Cydny's one's
been on top of all later basically all year and
have played their final series perfectly, so all set for
a big day.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Indeed, from what I can see, any of the bookies
have the Swan's slight favorites top after the twenty three
game regular season. As you say, how heavily favored would
they be to win the flag this afternoon, I look at.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Don't think it's they're heavily favored. As I said, look,
they had a hard hit at and we just got
up in the last second against Greater Western Sydney in
the first qualifying final. But it turns out that was
a great result for them in that good hit out,
had a week's break, then had a pretty easy puliminary
final win against Port Adelaide, which just tuned them up nicely.
Apart from that captain calm Mills who's missing with a
(02:49):
hamstring injury but has missed a lot of football this year.
They've pretty much got everybody in the side that they want.
They're playing well, they're confident, they're running on top of
the ground. Whereas Brisbane have had a horror year in
many ways. They started badly, they had a number of
massive injuries early in the year year they look like
they're completely done cooked and Chris Fagan has done a
(03:10):
miraculous job in getting together re calibrating their side, but
they've had to come from behind and they're two big
wins this final series, massive comebacks, so they either feel
like they're invincible and they can beat anyone, or they
might have played their race. So that's why Sidney, all
things being equal, going as favorite.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Just on the lines finishing fifth, so they'd become what
just the second team after the Western Bulldogs in twenty
sixteen to win the flag from outside the top four.
But I guess ade that basically been playing knockout footy
for the last three weeks. So will that have them
in part a bit match hardened?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, it depends which way you're to look at it,
isn't it. You know, it's either match hardened or they're
cooked one or the other. And they've got through relatively unscathed.
They said that they've lost a number of star players
to knee reconstructions and debilitating injuries earlier in the year,
but subsequently they've been a really good form and you know,
it's those things that they when they take the game
(04:04):
on and they run hard and they believe in themselves.
So yeah, you've got both teams going in naturally if
you get through the Grand Final. You're in pretty good form.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
The Swan's humbled by Geelong in the twenty twenty two
final one thirty three fifty two. Goodness, mean, will those
scars still be relevant or will they instead be deeply
motivated to put that right?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I think it quite to be honest that they were
the team in the Grand Final was young and they
probably got to a Grand Final ahead of time. So
they've had their humiliation, They've had an extra couple of
years of pre season, they've built up and now all
those twenty two year olds are twenty four years of
age but one hundred and fifty games and their profile,
(04:46):
their demographic is perfect at the moment. So you know
whether it's a motivation or whether it's system growing and
realizing how much they had to do to get themselves
right to play premiership football. They've been able to do it.
So yeah, there is prepared as you could possibly get.
They're playing great football. They're run and carry, their kicking,
their skill, their aggression. Now they're a really good side
(05:09):
and finished on top of the ladder of the inn
of the Home and I series. You with good reason.
So it's these to lose to be perfect. Illness and
more we think about it, who are.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
The most important players for each of these two sides.
Maybe the favorites for the Norm Smith Medal for beast
on Field.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, the Macannonie, the big ruckman, Dissile cutting his shower
for Brisbane. It opens the door for Brodie Grundy, who's
you know, one of my great friends. He played with
Collingwood and then he had this hiccup where he went
from being the All Australian ruckman two times best and
first of Collingwood. So after I'd left as president, he
was moved on and then he went to Melbourne and
it was going to be the big story of him
(05:46):
and Mexican were going to donate things and he got
moved on again and it was circumstances more than anything.
He's a wonderful, very highly intelligent, big ruckman who plays
really hard football. Anyway, he's had a great season at
the Sydney Swans, so he'll hit the mcg and know
all about it. He played in the losing Grand Final
side in twenty eight en for Collingwood and you know
(06:07):
he's at the peak of his power, so you know
it could be a Grundy production. As they say that
wins the Norm Smith Medal. But you know they've got
that great midfield. The Sydney Swans as well, and Isaac
Heeney has been just an enormous player all year, and
Warner and gold and Golding and all these sorts of
players are great. Similarly for the Brisbane Lions, if Joe
Danaher up forward, who you get good Joe and bad
(06:28):
Joe sometimes within five minutes in a game. But if
he can put it together and make the difference, you
know he'll be a huge component to the outcome of
the match. And Eric hit what's his sort of second
tier forward up there. And Harris Andrews the captain of
the side across halfback, who's a beautiful intercepting mark. So
you know they've got they've got winners all through the place.
(06:49):
The midfield generally sets the tone in the Grand Final,
but of a big forward or a big ruckman can dominate,
it goes a long way to winning the premiership.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
All right, Just before I get your top for our
listeners here in New Zealand, Diddy, can you just put
into context for us how big a sporting day this
is in Australia.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Well, when you look at it on a World's card.
It's one hundred thousand, and if mcg held three hundred thousand,
they would have sold every ticket as well. So it's massive.
Three hundred thousand. Literally people line the parade route. It's
the biggest television event in the country. I've just left
another once here today with twelve hundred people at the Crown.
I hosted the show last night in the telethon which
(07:26):
raised five and a half million dollars around the football.
You know, the opposition, Channel seven had their TV show
on the night before. We had another show the night
before that, we had another show, and so it's just dominating.
So and we don't have the rights. They meagine all
would happen if we had the rights, but no, it's
all consuming, it is. And I got to the Super
Bowl every year. You know the key weason know what
(07:49):
it's like when the All Blacks are playing and it's
a big game or platters like cup or a World
Cup in these days, that's what it's like, and it's
it's just enormous. Katie Perry's singing before the game, so
I think she's getting paid five million dollars and soon
million bucks. So bad is it? She actually getting paid
more than a play. But it's going to be it's
(08:09):
going to be a huge game. And because they're from
the Queensland and New South Wales, the whole of Victoria,
South astral and West Australian, Tasmania Northern Territory watching, so
now the other two popular states in Australia will be
all over it. So it'll probably be the highest running
Grand Final in history.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Okay, who's your pick and by what sort of margin?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Well, I'll say Sydney for all the reasons I gave
you before. I'd really like to see Brisbane window. Their
coach Chris Fagan is a wonderful man and he is
just absolutely sensational and he's had a lot of things,
a lot of pressure on him this year and he
deserves He deserves it more than anyone. His eldest coach
and in a I think he's one of the oldest
(08:48):
coaches to get to a Grand Final and he's a
wonderful person. I'd love him to whenever I think the
Sydney's ones might just have too much.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Hidi, thanks so much for leading us your expertise. That's
been a great pleasure to jet to you. Thanks for
taking the time made by well, that is Idy Maguire
of course, unmistakable voice across so many different platforms as
far as I have concerned. Who wants to be a millionaire?
Of course he was formerly president of Collingwood, Head of
Collingwood for a while. They're not in it obviously, as
(09:15):
you heard Eddie mentioned, it's the the Sydney Swans and
the Brisbane Lines, both of who of course used to
be based in Victoria. The Swans were formerly South Melbourne
and the Brisbane Lines ill throwback to the Fitzroy Lions.
So I guess effectively it's something of a home game
for the older fans of these two teams. It just
(09:37):
seems so odded to us, doesn't it, relocation of teams
to different states. But yeah, no Victorian side in the
Grand Final, but that one stop at being an absolute
sellout as Eddi mentioned, and the ratings on television are
set to be absolutely huge when the Grand Final gets
underway in just over two hours. Actually, Sidney Swan's Brisbane
(09:57):
Lines latest tab odds. I've seen Swan's won seventy five,
Brisbane Lines two dollars ten, So that's the thinking, and
I've looked around some of the bookies as well around
the Australian betting scene and it's pretty much the same
as you will probably speak. So the Swan's the best
team right throughout the season and the regular season. The
Brisbane Lions finished fifth but have made their way all
(10:20):
the way through to the Grand Final and maywell way
well win the whole thing. Who Knows four point thirty
this afternoon two thirty in Victoria.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talks b weekends from midday or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Fine
from Newstalk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Biggest day on the Australian sporting calendar Australian Rules Football,
the AFL Grand Final between these two.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
They're true to the Grand Final in a show.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
At their six o'clave all the season.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
This is beamed for the Sydney Swans.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Those that were here will never forget what they saw.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Brisbane just had.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Unfinished business to attend to at the MC two and
they will get their chance next week against the sydneys Es.
And next week is today. It is the Sydney Swans
and the Brisbane line set to do battle at the
iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground four point thirty this afternoon New
Zealand time, two thirty local time in Victoria. It's a
(01:03):
massive pleasure to welcome in a man's synonymous with AFL
and its broadcast coverage in so many different capacities and
a very familiar voice on both sides of the Tasman,
Eddie McGuire. Of course, Eddie, welcome to Weekend Sport on
News Talks. He'd be first of all, how unusual is
it to have two non Victorian teams in the Grand Final.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, it's been something that's building over the years. You know,
you go back to nineteen ninety when the Victorian Football
League became the Australian Football League, and you know within
two years the West Coast Eagles from Perth had won it.
They wanted again two years later and Adelaide won it
twice within the first nine years, so that all built up,
and then the two thousands you had the prism of
(01:44):
Lines winning three in a row and I think there
was about five years in a row where there were
two non Victorian teams in it, but it's been about
sixteen years since that happened. But look at the national
competition these days and there's two teams in Queensland, New
South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia. So there's chances that
these teams are going to get there eventually. But look
there there are two great teams that both been last
(02:05):
year brisonan run lucky against my boys Collingwood in the
Grand Final, missed by a kick and the Cydny's one's
been on top of all later basically all year and
have played their final series perfectly, so all set for
a big day.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Indeed, from what I can see, any of the bookies
have the Swan's slight favorites top after the twenty three
game regular season. As you say, how heavily favored would
they be to win the flag this afternoon, I look at.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Don't think it's they're heavily favored. As I said, look,
they had a hard hit at and we just got
up in the last second against Greater Western Sydney in
the first qualifying final. But it turns out that was
a great result for them in that good hit out,
had a week's break, then had a pretty easy puliminary
final win against Port Adelaide, which just tuned them up nicely.
Apart from that captain calm Mills who's missing with a
(02:49):
hamstring injury but has missed a lot of football this year.
They've pretty much got everybody in the side that they want.
They're playing well, they're confident, they're running on top of
the ground. Whereas Brisbane have had a horror year in
many ways. They started badly, they had a number of
massive injuries early in the year year they look like
they're completely done cooked and Chris Fagan has done a
(03:10):
miraculous job in getting together re calibrating their side, but
they've had to come from behind and they're two big
wins this final series, massive comebacks, so they either feel
like they're invincible and they can beat anyone, or they
might have played their race. So that's why Sidney, all
things being equal, going as favorite.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Just on the lines finishing fifth, so they'd become what
just the second team after the Western Bulldogs in twenty
sixteen to win the flag from outside the top four.
But I guess ade that basically been playing knockout footy
for the last three weeks. So will that have them
in part a bit match hardened?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, it depends which way you're to look at it,
isn't it. You know, it's either match hardened or they're
cooked one or the other. And they've got through relatively unscathed.
They said that they've lost a number of star players
to knee reconstructions and debilitating injuries earlier in the year,
but subsequently they've been a really good form and you know,
it's those things that they when they take the game
(04:04):
on and they run hard and they believe in themselves.
So yeah, you've got both teams going in naturally if
you get through the Grand Final. You're in pretty good form.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
The Swan's humbled by Geelong in the twenty twenty two
final one thirty three fifty two. Goodness, mean, will those
scars still be relevant or will they instead be deeply
motivated to put that right?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I think it quite to be honest that they were
the team in the Grand Final was young and they
probably got to a Grand Final ahead of time. So
they've had their humiliation, They've had an extra couple of
years of pre season, they've built up and now all
those twenty two year olds are twenty four years of
age but one hundred and fifty games and their profile,
(04:46):
their demographic is perfect at the moment. So you know
whether it's a motivation or whether it's system growing and
realizing how much they had to do to get themselves
right to play premiership football. They've been able to do it.
So yeah, there is prepared as you could possibly get.
They're playing great football. They're run and carry, their kicking,
their skill, their aggression. Now they're a really good side
(05:09):
and finished on top of the ladder of the inn
of the Home and I series. You with good reason.
So it's these to lose to be perfect. Illness and
more we think about it, who are.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
The most important players for each of these two sides.
Maybe the favorites for the Norm Smith Medal for beast
on Field.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, the Macannonie, the big ruckman, Dissile cutting his shower
for Brisbane. It opens the door for Brodie Grundy, who's
you know, one of my great friends. He played with
Collingwood and then he had this hiccup where he went
from being the All Australian ruckman two times best and
first of Collingwood. So after I'd left as president, he
was moved on and then he went to Melbourne and
it was going to be the big story of him
(05:46):
and Mexican were going to donate things and he got
moved on again and it was circumstances more than anything.
He's a wonderful, very highly intelligent, big ruckman who plays
really hard football. Anyway, he's had a great season at
the Sydney Swans, so he'll hit the mcg and know
all about it. He played in the losing Grand Final
side in twenty eight en for Collingwood and you know
(06:07):
he's at the peak of his power, so you know
it could be a Grundy production. As they say that
wins the Norm Smith Medal. But you know they've got
that great midfield. The Sydney Swans as well, and Isaac
Heeney has been just an enormous player all year, and
Warner and gold and Golding and all these sorts of
players are great. Similarly for the Brisbane Lions, if Joe
Danaher up forward, who you get good Joe and bad
(06:28):
Joe sometimes within five minutes in a game. But if
he can put it together and make the difference, you
know he'll be a huge component to the outcome of
the match. And Eric hit what's his sort of second
tier forward up there. And Harris Andrews the captain of
the side across halfback, who's a beautiful intercepting mark. So
you know they've got they've got winners all through the place.
(06:49):
The midfield generally sets the tone in the Grand Final,
but of a big forward or a big ruckman can dominate,
it goes a long way to winning the premiership.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
All right, Just before I get your top for our
listeners here in New Zealand, Diddy, can you just put
into context for us how big a sporting day this
is in Australia.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Well, when you look at it on a World's card.
It's one hundred thousand, and if mcg held three hundred thousand,
they would have sold every ticket as well. So it's massive.
Three hundred thousand. Literally people line the parade route. It's
the biggest television event in the country. I've just left
another once here today with twelve hundred people at the Crown.
I hosted the show last night in the telethon which
(07:26):
raised five and a half million dollars around the football.
You know, the opposition, Channel seven had their TV show
on the night before. We had another show the night
before that, we had another show, and so it's just dominating.
So and we don't have the rights. They meagine all
would happen if we had the rights, but no, it's
all consuming, it is. And I got to the Super
Bowl every year. You know the key weason know what
(07:49):
it's like when the All Blacks are playing and it's
a big game or platters like cup or a World
Cup in these days, that's what it's like, and it's
it's just enormous. Katie Perry's singing before the game, so
I think she's getting paid five million dollars and soon
million bucks. So bad is it? She actually getting paid
more than a play. But it's going to be it's
(08:09):
going to be a huge game. And because they're from
the Queensland and New South Wales, the whole of Victoria,
South astral and West Australian, Tasmania Northern Territory watching, so
now the other two popular states in Australia will be
all over it. So it'll probably be the highest running
Grand Final in history.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Okay, who's your pick and by what sort of margin?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Well, I'll say Sydney for all the reasons I gave
you before. I'd really like to see Brisbane window. Their
coach Chris Fagan is a wonderful man and he is
just absolutely sensational and he's had a lot of things,
a lot of pressure on him this year and he
deserves He deserves it more than anyone. His eldest coach
and in a I think he's one of the oldest
(08:48):
coaches to get to a Grand Final and he's a
wonderful person. I'd love him to whenever I think the
Sydney's ones might just have too much.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Hidi, thanks so much for leading us your expertise. That's
been a great pleasure to jet to you. Thanks for
taking the time made by well, that is Idy Maguire
of course, unmistakable voice across so many different platforms as
far as I have concerned. Who wants to be a millionaire?
Of course he was formerly president of Collingwood, Head of
Collingwood for a while. They're not in it obviously, as
(09:15):
you heard Eddie mentioned, it's the the Sydney Swans and
the Brisbane Lines, both of who of course used to
be based in Victoria. The Swans were formerly South Melbourne
and the Brisbane Lines ill throwback to the Fitzroy Lions.
So I guess effectively it's something of a home game
for the older fans of these two teams. It just
(09:37):
seems so odded to us, doesn't it, relocation of teams
to different states. But yeah, no Victorian side in the
Grand Final, but that one stop at being an absolute
sellout as Eddi mentioned, and the ratings on television are
set to be absolutely huge when the Grand Final gets
underway in just over two hours. Actually, Sidney Swan's Brisbane
(09:57):
Lines latest tab odds. I've seen Swan's won seventy five,
Brisbane Lines two dollars ten, So that's the thinking, and
I've looked around some of the bookies as well around
the Australian betting scene and it's pretty much the same
as you will probably speak. So the Swan's the best
team right throughout the season and the regular season. The
Brisbane Lions finished fifth but have made their way all
(10:20):
the way through to the Grand Final and maywell way
well win the whole thing. Who Knows four point thirty
this afternoon two thirty in Victoria.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talks b weekends from midday or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio.
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