Grand Final History
Welcome to Grand Final History, a Podcast that explores every VFL and AFL premiership since 1897. Each episode takes you through a summary of the season, the changing rules, emerging trends, controversies and highlights. Then into the finals culminating in two teams challenging each other in a Grand Final to become the premiers for the year (Apart from the seasons where a round robin system replaced the Grand Final). From the early years of the VFL when 8 suburban clubs built a competition to a national league playing games in every state and territory across the country.
Episodes
![Episode 32 1928 A Lot Depends on You Today](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/1225332/Grand_FInal_Main_Logo6o020_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Episode 32 1928 A Lot Depends on You Today
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Collingwood players threatening to go on strike over pay cuts, the VFA looking to affiliate with the VFL, a Brownlow winner off to the USA to teach American footballers to kick and meet Hollywood stars and Geelong’s grandstand burns down so the players get new boots. 1928 was a busy season as the economy started to look tougher clubs looked to save money. But how could the Magpies defend their premiership if they went on strike? And how did Fitzroy have three more scoring shots than the Cats but lose by 76 points? The Bulldog makes an appearance at Footscray but not everyone is pleased. The VFL gets its first draw in a finals series then in the Grand Final one player sets a goal kicking record that still stands today.
![Episode 31 1927 The Uncertainty Principle](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/1225332/Grand_FInal_Main_Logo6o020_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Episode 31 1927 The Uncertainty Principle
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
One champion footballer killed in a car crash and Geelong nearly lose three premiership players in another accident on the Geelong Road. The popularity of cars is increasing and the road toll is growing. 1927 was not short of drama and incident. Collingwood dumped their captain before the season started with never ending rumours of bribery and corruption. At the National Football Championship a tactic used by the VFL causes an immediate rule change for all future championships. Meanwhile violence on the ground and by spectators reaches new heights. The season ends in a Grand Final that sets records that have not been matched since.
![Episose 30A Supplemantary The Third 10 Years 1917--1926](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog1225332/Grand_FInal_Main_Logo8ifpi_300x300.jpg)
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Episose 30A Supplemantary The Third 10 Years 1917--1926
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Saturday Jan 14, 2023
Ten years in one episode, the third decade of the VFL. From a time of war and global pandemic a six team competition grows to 12 clubs and the game is faster, with higher scores but not everybody is happy. The first radio broadcasts and growing number of newspapers feed a never ending hunger for news about footy. Gambling and bribery scandals target premiership teams. There is event discussion of privately owned clubs and night football decades before theire time. And will Collingwood be allowed to play their home games at Victorai Park?
![Episode 30 1926 Six Wonderful Minutes](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/1225332/Grand_FInal_Main_Logo6o020_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Episode 30 1926 Six Wonderful Minutes
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Tragedy strikes on and off the field, bushfires burn the state and one VFL player dies due to a tetnus infection after breaking his arm in a game. 1926 had its challenges. There were also highlights, the game was faster, the scores were higher and a Grand Final was won with six wonderful minutes sealing the game. It was also the year where two men coached at one club but played for another in the same season. And, if you think that's odd, wait until you hear about the Geelong business owners who want the reigning premiers to leave the VFL.
![Episode 29 1925 Now we are 12](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/1225332/Grand_FInal_Main_Logo6o020_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Episode 29 1925 Now we are 12
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
The VFL becomes a 12 team competition, Hawthorn, North Melbourne and Footscray leave the VFA. Threats of legal action, suspensions and accusations of dishonourable conduct. But then proposals for two new privately run teams, playing under lights on Saturday and Sunday decades before night football was established. And Grand Final players bashed after training by a gang of supporters from the other club. It was all happening in 1925. New clubs, new rules and host of new coaches across the league, all looking for their place in Grand Final History.
![Episode 28 1924 No Grand Final but plenty of scandal and the first Brownlow](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/1225332/Grand_FInal_Main_Logo6o020_300x300.jpg)
Sunday Sep 18, 2022
Episode 28 1924 No Grand Final but plenty of scandal and the first Brownlow
Sunday Sep 18, 2022
Sunday Sep 18, 2022
No Grand Final but plenty of scandal. Did the premiership team take a dive? Why did Fitzroy select the coach of Melbourne to play in their Semifinal? Is the Brownlow for the Fairest and Best or the Best and Fairest and why are the umpires casting the votes? And the league looks at a new ground as an alternative to the MCG. And will the VFL finally make a decision to admit a 10th team. All this and more in season 1925.
![Episode 27 1923 The Blues get the blues](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/1225332/Grand_FInal_Main_Logo6o020_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Episode 27 1923 The Blues get the blues
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
Thursday Aug 11, 2022
1923 sees the start of radio broadcasting but letting people know who won the Grand Final can also be done by shooting flares from an air-plane over a crowded Caulfield Cup crowd. Every team except Carlton would spend some time in the Four yet it would come down to the last round of the season to lock in the finalists. The Blues were not a happy club and players fighting with committee members after a game at Essendon was not going to help but it did see three players suspended. It would be the latest date in the year for a VFL Grandfinal, and the first time a Premiership match was postponed due to the weather. Who would win on this one day in October?
![Episode 26 1922 The Sun Rises Over a New Globe](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/1225332/Grand_FInal_Main_Logo6o020_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Episode 26 1922 The Sun Rises Over a New Globe
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Significant changes in 1922 as some of the VFL's biggest names end their careers while two Newspapers debut, providing even more coverage of football for a sports hungry public. The Sun News Pictorial and the Sporting Globe add their voice to the 26th season where Richmond will attempt their third premiership in three years, Essendon move to a new home at Windy Hill and the VFL grapple with new rule proposals. Will throwing the ball become legal?
![Episode 25 1921 Up there Cazaly](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/1225332/Grand_FInal_Main_Logo6o020_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Episode 25 1921 Up there Cazaly
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
1921 in the Victorian Football League, it was a year that Essendon’s efforts to find a new home ground saw the temporary demise of North Melbourne and a slow train journey to Perth had the best players from Victoria and South Australia playing kick to kick on the wide open Nullarbor Plain. Roy Cazaly moved to South Melbourne and the cry of “Up there Cazaly” was born. During a vicious hail storm that covered the MCG with ice spectators from the outer invaded the hallowed MCC Members’ Stand, desperately seeking shelter. Alongside these and other curious events Richmond were trying to back up their first premiership while eight other clubs were looking to get in their way.
![Episode 24 1920 Morning Games](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/1225332/Grand_FInal_Main_Logo6o020_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Episode 24 1920 Morning Games
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Innovation was the theme in 1920 for the VFL: New jumpers proposed to avoid clashes, new rules to open the game and reduce congestion, proposals for ground rationalisation down to two grounds in Melbourne and scheduling Morning Games in the fixture. It was all happening over 100 years ago. Also, controversy in Grand Final week as one player is barred from playing due to a zoning restriction and another makes his debut, in his one and only VFL game, in the Grand Final.
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