2010 Grand Final of real football ends in a draw. (Aussie Rules, AFL)

[PiMan]

St Kilda Saints vs Collingwood Magpies.
The odds were in favour of Collingwood winning, but no one expected this. The game ended in a draw, 68 points each.

What happens now? As happened the only two other times in the league's 100+ year history, a drawn grand final must be followed by a rematch. The rematch has been set for next week.

For someone to explain it better, I present to you a newspaper article:
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/collingwood-and-st-kilda-in-a-draw-20100925-15rbu.html

 

[classical_hero]

Really it should have gone to extra time.

 

[Arwon]

Nonsense. I suppose you think Wimbledon should have tie breaks in the 5th set too?

Replays are a time-honoured way of resolving a grand final draw. The grand final is way too important to be left up to a few arbitrary extra minutes.

 

[Azale]

Real football does not have draws in the championship match.



No seriously, there is something not right about that.

 

[Camikaze]

Is it to be at the MCG again (I assume it would be)?

Ticketing must be a nightmare, although revenue would make up for it.

 

[classical_hero]

Nonsense. I suppose you think Wimbledon should have tie breaks in the 5th set too?

Replays are a time-honoured way of resolving a grand final draw. The grand final is way too important to be left up to a few arbitrary extra minutes.

The comparison is not right, since at Wimbledon they play until a winner is found, just like they should have done for this game.

 

[PiMan]

I prefer the idea of a rematch in case of a draw.

The earlier finals have overtime (prelims and semis), but not the grand final, and that's just the way I like it.

 

[Arwon]

And the only reason the earlier finals have extra time is the replays give unfair advantages and disadvantages to other teams - a la 1990.

I'm not a fan of this American notion that you have to get a result all the time - if you can't score more points in 120 minutes then you don't deserve to win, simple as that.

 

[classical_hero]

Well you need a result for the final match of the season.

 

[Arwon]

And we'll get one! But in this match, neither St Kilda nor Collingwood could score more points than the other team. They wouldn't deserve the 4 points in the regular season, and neither deserved the premiership yesterday.

The grand final is too important to leave to a few moments of extra time.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Thanks for nothing Victorians !!! The NRL grand final will now be even less than it`s usual blip on the radar down there .

Very jeolous of that crowd and atmosphere though......awesome

 

[fishmonger]

Carn the Pies.

 

[classical_hero]

And we'll get one! But in this match, neither St Kilda nor Collingwood could score more points than the other team. They wouldn't deserve the 4 points in the regular season, and neither deserved the premiership yesterday.

The grand final is too important to leave to a few moments of extra time.

The irony is that it will go to extra time should it finish in a tie next week.

 

[Rashiminos]

I hope half of each time gets career-ending injuries in this "real" football rematch.

 

[Arwon]

The irony is that it will go to extra time should it finish in a tie next week.

Which is a baffling decision.

 

[PiMan]

Which is a baffling decision.

Extra time in the rematch final has been a part of the rules since 1991.

 

[classical_hero]

Which is a baffling decision.

So you would have them play out for win every week until there is a winner on one of those weeks?

 

[Arwon]

If that happened it would be awesome and hilarious. Can you name a time for me when a team had two draws in a row? The betting odds of ONE draw occurring are 67 to 1.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

What also surprises me is that AFL is very suited to extra time , in the sense that it is far less likely to remain a draw after this period than say in soccer or Rugby League .

 

[PiMan]

And the result in the replay is a massive win for Collingwood.
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