{"id":33684,"date":"2025-07-31T00:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33684\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:21:08","slug":"panthers-and-bulldogs-battle-for-state-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33684\/","title":{"rendered":"Panthers and Bulldogs battle for state glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Highflyer Images<\/p>\n<p>The Morningside Panthers will be aiming to win their second flag in three seasons as they face the Ormeau Bulldogs in this Sunday\u2019s Queensland Wheelchair Football League Grand Final at Nissan Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Morningside Panthers secured the minor premiership after a strong home and away season with a 11-1 record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ormeau Bulldogs have quickly established themselves as one of the most consistent teams and will need to be on-song if they are to clinch their maiden flag. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was only in last week&#8217;s Preliminary Final 1, that the Panthers put on an attacking display for the ages against the Bulldogs with Michael Dobbie-Bridges slotting 12 majors to advance the Panthers to this year\u2019s decider with a 128-point victory. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ormeau regrouped and bounced back quickly, with a hard fought 26-point win over Mt Gravatt led by Paul Letters with 8 goals. The Preliminary Final 2 win, setting up an intriguing story line heading into the Queensland Wheelchair Football League Grand Final. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The story written so far in season 2025, is Morningside leading the head-to-head 4-nil this season, which sets up a fascinating next chapter in this evolving storyline. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After another exciting season of the Queensland Wheelchair Football League, it all comes down to this, will the Panthers win their second flag in three years, or will Ormeau claim their maiden title?<\/p>\n<p>Location:\u202fNissan Arena\u00a0<br \/>Time:\u202f11:00am ball-up\u00a0<br \/>Date:\u202fSunday 3 August<\/p>\n<p>FREE ENTRY<\/p>\n<p>9:30am \u2013 Gates Open<\/p>\n<p>10:20am \u2013 Warm ups begin<\/p>\n<p>10:50am \u2013 Pregame ceremony<\/p>\n<p>11:00am \u2013 Grand Final begins<\/p>\n<p>12:15pm (approximately) \u2013 Post Game Presentations<\/p>\n<p>For those that can\u2019t make it to Brisbane, the match will be broadcasted and commentated, available to view on the \u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SnPPdubWme8 \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFL Queensland YouTube channel.\u202f\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Highflyer Images The Morningside Panthers will be aiming to win their second flag in three seasons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-33684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33684","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=33684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}