2010 AFL Grand Final
| 2010 AFL Grand Final | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Home Team | Collingwood |
| Away Team | St Kilda |
| Date | 25 September 2010 |
| Stadium | MCG |
| City | Melbourne |
| TV in Australia | |
| Network | Seven Network |
| Announcers | Bruce McAvaney and Dennis Cometti |
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The 2010 AFL Grand Final will be the 114th annual Grand Final game of the Australian Football League. The game is scheduled to be played on 25 September 2010, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne. The game will be contested between Collingwood and St Kilda.
Lead-up
Collingwood entered the 2010 season after having lost its preliminary final in 2009 against eventual premiers Geelong. Collingwood was the best performed side of the home-and-away season, finishing with a record of 17-4-1 and winning its first Minor Premiership since 1977 and its first McClelland Trophy since 1970.[1] Collingwood progressed to the Grand Final after comfortable victories in the qualifying final against the Western Bulldogs by 62 points, and then against Geelong in the preliminary final by 41 points.
St Kilda entered the season after having won the 2009 minor premiership with the club's best ever home-and-away record of 20-2, but losing the Grand Final to Geelong by two goals. After winning the first four games of the season, the Saints hit a form slump coinciding with a serious hamstring injury to captain Nick Riewoldt. They would recover to win seven games in a row before Riewoldt's return, and finished third on the ladder with a record of 15-6-1. They overcame a heavily-favoured Geelong team by four points in their qualifying final, and had a comfortable 24 point win over the Western Bulldogs in the preliminary final to advance to the Grand Final.
Collingwood and St Kilda met twice during the 2010 home-and-away season, with each team winning one of the games. In Round 3 at Etihad Stadium, the Saints beat an inaccurate Collingwood by the score 10.9 (69) d. 4.17 (41), in the game which saw Riewoldt get injured; in Round 16 at the M.C.G., Collingwood was a comfortable winner over an innaccurate St Kilda by the score 15.10 (100) d. 6.16 (52). The teams also met in the first round of the preseason competition, St Kilda winning that contest by one point.
This will be the 41st[2] time Collingwood has contested the VFL/AFL Grand Final, and the first time since the club lost back-to-back Grand Finals in 2002 and 2003. The club will be attempting to win its fifteenth VFL/AFL premiership, and its first since 1990. It will be St Kilda's seventh Grand Final appearance,[3] and its second in a row after the loss in 2009. St Kilda will be attempting to win its second premiership, the only previous premiership coming in 1966.[4]
This will be the second Grand Final contest played between these two clubs. The only previous encounter was that 1966 Grand Final in which St Kilda won its only premiership, winning by a single point 10.14 (74) d. 10.13 (73). They have met in a total of nine finals, of which St Kilda has won six, including the last five in a row, dating back to the 1966 Grand Final[5].
Between them, Collingwood and St Kilda have only three players on their lists who have previously won the premiership: Darren Jolly (Collingwood), Adam Schneider and Sean Dempster (both St Kilda) — all three played in Sydney's 2005 premiership.[6]
Scorecard
| Grand Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, September 25 2:30pm | Collingwood | v | St Kilda | MCG | |
| Q1 Q2 Q3 Final |
Umpires: Chamberlain, Rosebury, Ryan[7] Norm Smith Medal: Television broadcast: Seven / 7mate National anthem: Cameron Henderson | ||||
Teams
See also
References
- ^ "Magpies secure top spot". AFl.com.au. 25 August 2010. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
- ^ Summary of Collingwood's results in Grand Finals, includes the 1977 Grand Final Replay, played after the 1977 Grand Final was drawn.
- ^ 0 Summary of St Kilda's results in Grand Finals
- ^ Battered St Kilda faces hot Collingwood Magpies in 2010 AFL Grand Final
- ^ The games in the sequence were the 1966 Grand Final, 1972 First Semi-Final, 1992 Second Elimination Final, 2008 First Semi-Final and 2009 First Qualifying Final.
- ^ St Kilda's Gram sore but he'll play
- ^ Razor Ray gets grand gig