AFL Grand Final 2015: Date, Start Time, Live Stream for Hawthorn vs. West Coast
Hawthorn will look to become the first club in more than a decade to win three Australia Football League titles in succession when they meet West Coast Eagles in Saturday's 2015 Grand Final.
Alastair Clarkson is in the hunt for his fourth Premiership win at the Hawthorn helm while this would be a maiden crown for West Coast counterpart Adam Simpson, appearing in his first AFL final.
The two teams will clash at Melbourne Cricket Ground after losing just 12 games between them in this year's campaign, with full streaming information and match preview discussed in further detail ahead.
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Date: Saturday, October 3
Time: 5:30 a.m. BST/2:30 p.m. AEST/12:30 a.m. ET
Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
Live Stream: AFL Global Pass (Worldwide), AFL Live app (AU)
The most prevalent storyline to emerge from this year's Grand Final comes in relation to who will come out best in a clash between the AFL's two top attacking outfits.
One man West Coast will be relying on to see them through to a first AFL triumph since 2006 is Matt Priddis, who shone as a key player in the 2015 campaign, and more recently in the preliminary final against North Melbourne, per the league's official Twitter:
Priddis finished as runner-up to Nat Fyfe in last weekend's Brownlow award ceremony, although many felt it was the Eagles star who deserved to lift the award after leading West Coast to the Grand Final.
Priddis was only drafted by the Eagles in 2006 and so had very little input in that year's premier, giving him all the more motivation to make this year's outing count as Hawthorn make their fourth consecutive final appearance.
Many in Clarkson's squad have been here before and know full well what it takes to claim the biggest prize in Aussie rules, not least of whom is president Andrew Newbold.
However, it seems long-term success can have a sympathising effect on its beneficiary, as the Hawthorn figurehead has admitted he'd "be really pleased" to see West Coast win on Saturday for the sake of competition, per ABC:
"I shouldn't probably say this but I'd be really pleased if they won it. I have enormous respect for them ... (chairman) Alan Cransberg, who's been in the job eight years, has really turned that place around.
Simmo's a great coach. If he can do it in the second year, it'd be a great achievement. Obviously, I'm desperate for our club to win it but, if they (Eagles) were to win it, you won't hear any complaints out of me.
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It's an astonishingly candid and unselfish view from Newbold, but the Hawthorn masses will only be taking one side in Melbourne in search of what would be their 13th Premiership win overall.
It's of course worth pointing out that West Coast got the edge over the reigning champions but three weeks ago, when a 32-point defeat at Domain Stadium put Hawthorn's campaign in doubt.
The Eagles' defence has been something to reckon with this season, but Simpson's men conceded 70 points the last time they played at the MCG, where they beat Richmond by 20 points in Round 12.
Cooler heads and superior tactics will be what counts on Saturday, however, as the AFL's mightiest powerhouses meet in what appears destined to be an explosive encounter.
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