As we wait for Saturday afternoon and the 2024 Grand Final between Sydney and Brisbane it's a great time to go over some football facts relating to past Grand Finals.
Someone posted that question 4 months ago (as the Swans have been flag favourites for almost all season), and that last happened in 1992 (it happened a lot of times in the past, remember that there were initially just 9 teams, then 12 from the 20s to the late 80s). Guess who were the wooden spooners then? Yeah. You are right. Sydney. The eventual premiers back then were West Coast, they finished 16th in 2024, that’s just one place lower than Sydney were in 1992 (competition had 15 teams back then).
Didn't fritzroy destroy all their primership cups when it merged. Why are vics calling Brisbane Loins fritzroy when it only has 2001 2002 2003 primership cup in its trophy cabinet 😂
What I don’t get is that the 1997 Gf between Crows and Saints had over 98,000. That was before the MCG did its expansion and yet current Gf crowds are still around the 98-99,000 crowd size???
Yeah. In most sports in the past, including soccer, Aussie rules and Rugby, the regulations for standing room were very loose and weak. Now that we got a lot of proof in the last 40+ years that places being too crowded is actually extremely dangerous, there are a lot more regulation, thankfully. Such that things like crowd rushes with dozens of casualties do not happen anymore.
