2006 AFL Grand Final
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Pre-match entertainment before the game. Giant banners were unfurled featuring the colours and emblems of all 16 clubs of the 2006 AFL Premiership season.
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| Date | 30 September 2006 | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 97,431 | |||||||||||||||
| Umpires | Michael Vozzo (2), Brett Allen (10), Darren Goldspink (32) | |||||||||||||||
| Coin toss won by | West Coast Eagles | |||||||||||||||
| Ceremonies | ||||||||||||||||
| Pre-match entertainment | Brian Mannix, John Paul Young, Sean Kelly, Daryl Braithwaite, Shane Howard and Irene Cara | |||||||||||||||
| National anthem | Brian Mannix, John Paul Young, Daryl Braithwaite and Shane Howard | |||||||||||||||
| Accolades | ||||||||||||||||
| Norm Smith Medallist | Andrew Embley (West Coast) | |||||||||||||||
| Jock McHale Medallist | John Worsfold | |||||||||||||||
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| Network | Network Ten | |||||||||||||||
| Commentators |
Stephen Quartermain (Host) Anthony Hudson (Commentator)) Robert Walls (Expert Commentator) Malcolm Blight (Expert Commentator) Neil Cordy (Boundary Rider - Sydney) Tim Gossage (Boundary Rider - Perth) |
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The 2006 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Sydney Swans and West Coast Eagles, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 2006. It was the 110th annual Grand Final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2006 AFL season. The match, attended by 97,431 spectators, was won by West Coast by a margin of 1 point, marking that club's third premiership victory.
This was the second consecutive year that these two teams played in the premiership decider, with the Swans having won the 2005 AFL Grand Final by a margin of 4 points. At the conclusion of the home and away season, West Coast had finished first on the AFL ladder with 17 wins and 5 losses, winning the McClelland Trophy. Sydney had finished fourth with 14 wins and 8 losses.
In the week leading up to the Grand Final, Sydney's Adam Goodes was awarded the Brownlow Medal.
Prior to the match, at 10:00 a.m. the TAC Cup Grand Final was played.
The Red Berets parachuted into the MCG delivering the match balls, followed by a team warm up and the beginning of pre-match entertainment. The entertainment included a performance of the song "Flashdance (What A Feeling)", performed by Irene Cara, [1] as well as appearances from Brian Mannix, John Paul Young, Daryl Braithwaite and Shane Howard (lead singer of Goanna). The medley of songs they performed included "Solid Rock", Yesterday's Hero", "The Horses", "Everybody Wants to Work" and "I Hear Motion".
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