Finals 2025 Week 1

[Booney]

Thursday night

Grudge match - Adelaide Oval

Friday night

Geelong v Brisbane - Not Geelongs ground

Saturday

GWS v Hawthorn - Engie Stadium
Fremantle v Gold Coast - Optus

[wenchbarwer]

Thursday night

Grudge match - Adelaide Oval

Friday night

Geelong v Brisbane - Not Geelongs ground

Tbc
Tbc

is that where you pawk your cawr?

[Jim05]

GWS and Freo are locked in to host. I know the AFL like players getting back from WA early but Saturday night in Perth makes more sense.
Surely they won’t let GWS play at that Primary school oval?
I’d think they play at ANZ or the SCG if it’s the Hawks or Dogs. If it’s GWS v Suns you could play it in a phone box though

[wenchbarwer]

GWS and Freo are locked in to host. I know the AFL like players getting back from WA early but Saturday night in Perth makes more sense.
Surely they won’t let GWS play at that Primary school oval?
I’d think they play at ANZ or the SCG if it’s the Hawks or Dogs. If it’s GWS v Suns you could play it in a phone box though

SCG surface is a dog's breakfast, almost as bad as Allianz

[Jimmy_041]

Thursday night

Grudge match - Adelaide Oval

Friday night

Geelong v Brisbane - Not Geelongs ground

Tbc
Tbc

Difficult to tip these two games
I reckon both less than a goal

[DOC]

The surface of both Sydney grounds is well below acceptable.

Play it in Canberra. While they are at it stop delaying the inevitable and shift there permanently.

[locky801]

Be interesting to see how it all pans out.

3 hardened finals clubs in Collingwood Geelong and Brisbane

5 with little or no finals experience.

Unfortunately i think the grand final sides will come from the first 3 mentioned

But i'm not AE and am usually wrong

[Jim05]

Straight sets exit for Collingwood IMO.
Howe is a huge loss as Moore suddenly has to become accountable aand I can’t see a defensive partnership of Moore and Frampton worrying too many sides

[MW]

Never been a tighter finals race in memory (IMO)
Genuine 50/50 games for all four

[woodublieve12]

Who cares

[MW]

Who cares

You'll bounce back in 2026 when your mid are putting it down the throat of Curnow

[DOC]

Never been a tighter finals race in memory (IMO)
Genuine 50/50 games for all four

Totally agree with this.

All sides good enough. Even ninth, be it bulldogs or suns, included.

Crows last three weeks patchy and unconvincing yet won all three which good sides do. Geelong belted teams low on the ladder which good sides do. Brisbane roughed it out last week against a finals opponentent and belted another one the week before.

I think the winner comes from that group. The biggest surprise for me is if Geelong don’t play the GF.

[Lightning McQueen]

Never been a tighter finals race in memory (IMO)
Genuine 50/50 games for all four

Totally agree with this.

All sides good enough. Even ninth, be it bulldogs or suns, included.

Crows last three weeks patchy and unconvincing yet won all three which good sides do. Geelong belted teams low on the ladder which good sides do. Brisbane roughed it out last week against a finals opponentent and belted another one the week before.

I think the winner comes from that group. The biggest surprise for me is if Geelong don’t play the GF.

Will be more twists than the dance floor at a Chubby Checker concert.

Lions to get up over the Cats in Melbourne to put them on the same side as the Cows setting them up for a Adelaide Oval prelim, probably Adelaide's worst case scenario.

The inconsistency of this season is what makes it great, you can't even write off Freo, GWS have found their form at the right time of the season, if there were two teams I'd draw a line through it would be Collingwood and Gold Coast.

[Booney]

Collingwood will beat Adelaide.

[Lightning McQueen]

Collingwood will beat Adelaide.

No Izak, no Adelaide?

[mighty_tiger_79]

Collingwood will beat Adelaide.

Hang on.

I thought we were just going all up to the granny and having a fill up

[Booney]

Collingwood will beat Adelaide.

Hang on.

I thought we were just going all up to the granny and having a fill up

See LM above. Rankine hurts.

[MW]

Still had midfield and clearance issues while Rankine was there. Without him makes it worse. I mean North got within 2 goals ffs and we barely beat WCE.
Top spot is flattering us right now. I have no confidence under finals pressure we get any wins.

[am Bays]

IMO crows can beat Collingwood next week

They wont be beating Geelong or Brisbane on 19/9

[Jim05]

Collingwood will beat Adelaide.

Hang on.

I thought we were just going all up to the granny and having a fill up

See LM above. Rankine hurts.

No Howe is a bigger loss IMO
Moore goes to water when he actually has to play on someone.
One of the big Crow forwards will kick 5+