2025 GRAND FINAL - Sturt vs Glenelg

[Booney]

You are favourites.

No, you are.

But you should win.

No, you should.

Someone take it on!

[mots02]

You are favourites.

No, you are.

But you should win.

No, you should.

Someone take it on!

Sturt are favourites.

We should win.

There.

[dedja]

Arrogance

[am Bays]

You are favourites.

No, you are.

But you should win.

No, you should.

Someone take it on!

Sturt are favourites.

We should win.

There.

There, that wasn’t so hard*, was it….

[nwdfanparade]

My front and back lawns will be getting my attention Sunday afternoon.

[dedja]

My front and back lawns will be getting my attention Sunday afternoon.

What about the hubcaps?

[Spargo]

if we get up sunday it will no doubt be the clubs finest hour

Imagine a club going for a 3peat positioning itself so strongly as a rank outsider in a 2 horse race.

Not the club's stance.

Glenelg are the outsider, the betting shows it. The weight of tipping shows it. Strut only losing 1 game for the season shows it. Strut easily winning the Second Semi shows it. Glenelg losing their best defender shows it. Glenelg having to play 4 Finals shows it.

It doesn't make sense why you are so afraid to adopt being the favourite.

I’m not afraid to adopt the position of being favourites, we should be for all the reasons you mentioned.

My point is related to your fans adding the mayo on the underdog tag…. The clubs finest hour…

It would be our finest hour, not sure what’s so funny…

[dedja]

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Brothers Jarryd and Corey Lyons hope to turn flag dream into reality in SANFL grand final

Former AFL star Jarryd Lyons joined Glenelg this year to try to win a premiership with his younger brother, Corey. Now the siblings are one win away from turning their dream into a reality, writes Andrew Capel.

This is what it was all about for the Lyons boys.

When 194-game AFL midfielder Jarryd Lyons linked up with his younger brother, Corey, at the Bay this year, the dream was to win a SANFL premiership together.

Now they are within one tantalising victory of turning their dream into reality.

“I remember being on the Gold Coast last year and watching Glenelg win the SANFL grand final and feeling very proud, but also jealous, given I haven’t won a flag since the under-16s, so being in this position now, with Corey, is pretty special,’’ Jarryd said as Glenelg prepared for Sunday’s SANFL grand final against Sturt at Adelaide Oval.

“When I came back to Adelaide to join Glenelg the goal was for us to play in a premiership team together, so hopefully we can get the job done this week.’’

The high-profile brothers - born six years apart in Victoria, with Jarryd being 33 and Corey 27 - have achieved plenty in football but they have taken different paths to success.

Jarryd was drafted to the AFL by Adelaide from the Sandringham Dragons at pick 61 in 2010 and played 194 AFL games and kicked 102 goals in a distinguished 14-year career at three clubs.

A classy inside midfielder, he played 55 games for the Crows from 2011-16, 37 for Gold Coast from 2017-18 and 102 for Brisbane from 2019-24.

He finished equal-ninth in the 2021 Brownlow Medal, polling 23 votes, and featured in the Lions 2023 grand final team that lost to Collingwood by four points.

Corey, also a midfielder, joined Glenelg in 2022 after spending four years at Brisbane, which drafted him with its final pick at the 2016 national draft (No. 71 overall), and one with the Aspley Hornets.

He trained alongside Jarryd at the Lions in 2019-20 but did not play an AFL game in his four years at the club, winning two NEAFL premierships before starring in back-to-back flags with the Tigers in 2023-24.

The only senior game the brothers had played together prior to this year was an AFL pre-season practice match for Brisbane in 2019.

“When Jarryd came across to Glenelg the goal was to play in a premiership team together and for that to now be at our fingertips is pretty special,’’ Corey said.

“I think back to when we were growing up and the fact we always had a footy in our hands.

“I’m six years younger, so Jarryd bullied me a lot, but I vividly remember playing with one of those little, soft, rubber footballs in the loungeroom, kicking it around and playing against each other.

“There’s always been that bit of rivalry going head-to-head, so for us this year to have the ability to run out together on the same team each week has been special.

“If we were able to achieve the ultimate together, win a flag, well, it’s hard to sum up right now what that would mean, but I’m sure it would be something that we’d reflect fondly on when our careers are over.’’

Jarryd, who met his wife Savahna in Adelaide during his time with the Crows, had opportunities to join Adelaide and Port Adelaide’s SANFL teams after retiring from the AFL.

But the lure of saddling up alongside Corey for a flag push was too great to knock back.

He had previously played 37 games for the Bays from 2011-13 when he was on the Crows’ AFL list.

“Family is a big thing for us and I didn’t want to look back later and regret missing the chance to play with Corey,’’ Jarryd said.

Jarryd said he had loved his time back at the Bay, describing the club as “unbelievable’’.

“It’s so much like the Brisbane Lions, with how ‘Reeva’ (coach Darren Reeves) conducts himself, he’s a lot like ‘Fages’ (Brisbane coach Chris Fagan), with the family club he’s created and the way the boys buy into it,’’ he said.

“Rolling from Brisbane to here hasn’t been that big of a transition for me because the two clubs are just so similar and I’ve had a great time.’’

The Lyons’ understand that Sturt, which has lost only one game this season, deserves to start hot favourite but they believe Glenelg’s best football is good enough to cause a grand final boilover.

“They do deserve to go in as red-hot favourites because they’ve been the best side all year but, as we know, anything can happen on the day,’’ Corey said.

“We know our best stacks up against anyone but we certainly have to bring that to be a chance.’’

The Lyons family will be out in force at Adelaide Oval, hoping the brothers can strike grand final gold.

“We had a family group chat the other day and the message from dad (Marty) was ‘I’m just so proud of my boys’, so as much as this is important for us, I think he’s probably more excited than anyone,’’ said Jarryd, adding that the family had asked for 15 tickets.

“He’s loved the way that we’ve gone about our sporting careers - he was a great cricketer and footballer back in the day - and is loving watching us play in the same team together.

“If we can get the ultimate (a premiership) together, it would be a dream come true.’’

[stampy]

i remember paul bagshaw stating in 76 that it was struts finest hour after belting the red hot magpies, this is nothing different ffs............

[nwdfanparade]

My front and back lawns will be getting my attention Sunday afternoon.

What about the hubcaps?

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