{"id":149220,"date":"2025-09-17T07:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149220\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T07:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T07:24:20","slug":"stars-face-off-ahead-of-afl-sydney-premiers-grand-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/149220\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars face off ahead of AFL Sydney Premiers Grand Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stage is set for the Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s AFL Sydney Premier Division Grand Finals, to be held at Blacktown International Sports Park this Saturday 20 September.<\/p>\n<p>After a thrilling home and away season and finals series, the North Shore Bombers have secured their place in both the Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Grand Finals, facing off against the Manly Warringah Wolves in the Men\u2019s Grand Final, and Sydney University ANFC in the Women\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from the Grand Final teams met today at the hallowed Sydney Cricket Ground alongside the coveted Grand Final silverware, including Christian Loone who will captain the North Shore Bombers\u2019 Men\u2019s side, alongside Cameron Manuel of the Manly Warringah Wolves.<\/p>\n<p>Matilda Eder, Zoe Hurrell and Olivia Edwards will spearhead the Bombers\u2019 Women\u2019s side when they met Sydney University in the Grand Final, captained by Maryanne Harley.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later this morning, representatives from all four clubs appeared alongside the team coaches and appointed umpires at the AFL Sydney Grand Final Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Held at Sydney Swans HQ, attendees heard from Sydney Swans Assistant Coach Mark McVeigh and former Head Coach John Longmire as they shared their stories and insights to inspire the AFL Sydney community ahead of the Grand Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The festivities for the AFL Sydney Premier Division Grand Finals began earlier this week at the Phelan Mostyn Medal.<\/p>\n<p>South West Sydney Blues\u2019 Finbar Delbridge was awarded the Phelan Medal, while Manly Warringah Wolves star Hannah Woolf secured her second consecutive Mostyn Medal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P&#038;M Media Wall - Jordan Mahoney-39.jpg\" data-entity-uuid=\"d1e66db3-08b5-4055-a3c1-defaa13f4d97\" data-entity-type=\"file\" alt=\"Hannah Woolf\" width=\"7008\" height=\"4308\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The AFL Sydney Premiers Division is the highest level of community AFL competition in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Several other AFL Sydney Grand Finals will held this weekend, including \u2013<\/p>\n<p>AFL Sydney Under 19.5 Division One: Sydney University ANFC v Manly Warringah Wolves (Saturday)AFL Sydney Men\u2019s Division One: Parramatta Goannas v North Shore Bombers (Saturday)AFL Sydney Women\u2019s Division Two: Southern Power v East Coast Eagles (Sunday)AFL Sydney Women\u2019s Division Three: Wollondilly Knights v Parramatta Goannas (Sunday)AFL Sydney Men\u2019s Division Four: North Shore Bombes v Manly Warringah Wolves (Sunday)AFL Sydney Men\u2019s Division Five: UTS Bats v Southern Power (Sunday)<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/sydneyafl.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sydneyafl.com.au<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The stage is set for the Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s AFL Sydney Premier Division Grand Finals, to be held&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-149220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}