I’ve lived in Perth for the last 37.5 years and have never had a problem with watching the game at 12.30pm.
I’ve been to numerous BBQ’s and had a great time eating, drinking and watching the game with friends.
Let’s just agree to disagree as it’s clear that neither one of us will change the other’s mind. 
Loved the GF start time in WA.
Day is just better. The wait for the NRL Grand Final sucks.
I wish they’d move it to about 4-4:30pm. I think that time would be perfect.
Best of all worlds and I hope they move to it at some point.
Just listening to this and Eddie goes into how stupid of a decision this is and funnily enough uses the same example as I did that it’s like a political party going on a spending spree before an election to buy votes. It’s not the best thing long term sending us broke.
It’s short term populace thinking that isn’t good for the game, which is the opposite of the point of having an independent AFL commission. 27 min mark.
Well, I’m convinced.
Well, if it annoys Eddie McGuire, I’m now more supportive of a day grand final.
As much as I can’t stand Eddie I think he has a bit better grasp on the TV landscape than Craig Drummond. It’s actually suprising the AFL has nobody on their commission with this expertise, particularly when TV money funds around 60% of the entire sport.
Yes they are wrong. If this group of fans had consistency in their thought they would demand the AFL play all finals during the day.
Thank you once again Mick Warner for exposing the bullshit corrupt reputation protecting processes the AFL conducts.
The duplicity of the AFL’s ‘justice’ system has long depended on the heavy-hand of its corporate affairs enforcers. But if the Luke Sayers Supreme Court ‘■■■■ pic’ saga takes us to the promised land, the jig may soon be up.
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April 1, 2026
“Now you know what ■■■■ you’ve been writing,” long-time league fixer Patrick Keane barked at Herald Sun reporters on the night Essendon was banished from the 2013 finals after a two-day “hearing” at AFL House.
It was a dig at the newspaper’s exposes into the league’s secret manipulation of the drugs investigation.
Predictably, Keane went silent when it was later revealed that Bombers officials had been showered with threats and inducements, including a secret offer for coach James Hird to study at Oxford University, in exchange for accepting their penalties.
The Luke Sayers saga could throw the workings of the AFL integrity unit into the light. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman
The duplicity of the AFL’s “justice” system – where the league acts as investigator, judge, jury and executioner – has long depended on the heavy-hand of its corporate affairs enforcers.
Many a newsroom editor or an up-and-coming reporter daring to step out of line to shine a light on the AFL’s questionable conduct has been shredded by an attack dog from the league’s PR department.
Play ball, swim between the flags and publish our version of events, no matter how far-fetched, and you’ll survive just fine on the AFL beat is the message.
It’s all part of a well-oiled, in-house brand protection racket oxymoronically known as the AFL integrity unit.
But if the Luke Sayers Supreme Court “■■■■ pic” saga takes us to the promised land, the jig may soon be up.
In the gun and among those with most to lose is former ALP and CFMEU spinner Sharon McCrohan, who was hand-picked by the AFL’s top brass to replace the outgoing Brian Walsh as the league’s corporate affairs executive general manager late last year.
Brian Walsh. Picture: Nikki Davis-Jones
Sharon McCrohan.
Both Walsh and McCrohan were at the coalface of the AFL’s behind-the-scenes response to the posting of a picture of Sayers’ ■■■■■ on his X account last January.
McCrohan had been engaged by Sayers to crisis-manage the fallout from the “■■■■ pic”, before landing her current job at AFL headquarters, while Walsh now spins for Fox Footy owner DAZN.
Their emails and text messages, should they ever see the light, and communications between other senior AFL figures including league general counsel Stephen Meade and integrity unit boss Tony Keane could offer a rare and candid window into the AFL’s do-as-we-please handling integrity probes.
As Tuesday’s Herald Sun revealed, a flurry of subpoenas are set to be fired off by lawyers for Sayers’ estranged wife Cate in a major escalation of the court stoush.
Sayers and wife Cate at the 2024 Brownlow Medal count. Picture: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images.
In court documents filed last week by Cate’s legal team, senior AFL officials are accused of colluding with Carlton and the former PwC supremo in a bid to clear him of the scandal.
McCrohan was slapped with a legal letter last month and has already lawyered up in what is shaping to be one of the trials of the century.
And by running a “substantive malice and improper purpose” claim, Cate’s lawyers have drawn the AFL’s conduct and that of its senior staff into the middle of the proceedings.
The longer the controversy surrounding the picture of Mr Sayers’ ■■■■■ rages, the more you wonder what new AFL commission chairman Craig Drummond and his three female commission colleagues Gabrielle Trainor, Simone Wilkie and Denise Bowden must make of it all.
Perhaps they will finally acknowledge what the rest of Australia already knows about the way in which the nation’s biggest sport conducts its integrity inquiries.
HQ may have landed on the wrong scapegoat this time. They don’t seem to have the usual leverage to be able to bully/threaten/buy-off the (ex?) wife to make this case go away. Hopefully that remains the case.
It’s always been fairly self evident what has gone on here. If those internal communications her legal team are seeking become public as part of a trial it really will be time to get the popcorn out.
Hmmm. Sounds like the AwFL may need to get “Sarah” to call Eddy about Mr Sayers’ dickpics.
Well this is a private matter that should have never seen the inside of a court. It’s a case of the wealthy elite with a big ego wasting court resources. The two saddest things about this event is that Joe or Mary Average would not known of this case and secondly its split the family with two of the children siding with the Dad.
What an unfortunate surname
The AwFuL just can’t help themselves. Everything that starts as a success just ends up as a crass, commercialised, overcooked mess. They strangle the golden goose.
About the only thing they’ve managed to treat with any degree of reverence is Anzac Day, but even then they’ve tried to dilute the impact by scheduling other games on the day. Us being utterly crap for 20 years probably hasn’t helped…
“ANZAC DAY EVE”
