{"id":171297,"date":"2025-09-26T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171297\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:54:08","slug":"the-sun-rises-on-footys-biggest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171297\/","title":{"rendered":"The sun rises on footy&#8217;s biggest day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Follow our live blog ahead of the 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                An aerial view of the MCG on Grand Final morning, September 27, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Grand Final Day &#8211; the biggest and best day on the AFL calendar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s AFL season decider pits Geelong against Brisbane, two of this century&#8217;s most successful teams, against one another as they look to add another premiership cup to their trophy cabinets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the big game, global superstar Snoop Dogg will headline the Telstra Pre-Game Entertainment, which begins from 1.25pm AEST.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And for those who can&#8217;t wait until the first bounce to get a taste of Grand Final Day footy, the best young players eligible for the 2026 Telstra AFL Draft will be showcased in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/news\/1428956\/team-boak-and-team-docherty-locked-in-for-futures-showcase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Marsh AFL Futures Boys game<\/a> from 9.30am AEST.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll bring you all the news and colour from the build-up to the 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final throughout Saturday morning in our live blog below.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow our live blog ahead of the 2025 Toyota AFL Grand Final An aerial view of the MCG&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-171297","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","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171297","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=171297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}