{"id":15555,"date":"2017-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/the-afl-has-made-a-call-on-what-time-to-play-the-grand-final\/"},"modified":"2017-03-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T00:00:00","slug":"the-afl-has-made-a-call-on-what-time-to-play-the-grand-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/the-afl-has-made-a-call-on-what-time-to-play-the-grand-final\/","title":{"rendered":"The AFL has made a call on what time to play the Grand Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2017 AFL Grand Final will be played in the traditional 2.30pm AEST time slot, the league confirmed on Friday.<\/h3>\n

“We’re going to keep it where it is,” CEO Gill McLachlan said.<\/p>\n

“The last three weeks, what’s been put out there, is to have a chat.<\/p>\n

“There hasn’t been anything really scientific about it, but in the end we feel 2.30pm is what we want to do in 2017, because of a heap of issues.”<\/p>\n

Debate about when the GF will be played has raged since the league signed a $2.5 billion TV deal, with expectations advertisers would prefer the game to be played later in the day.<\/p>\n

McLachlan has previously stated that a twilight start for the GF is \u201cinevitable\u201d.<\/p>\n

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