Sport / Brisbane, QLD

Your guide to the AFL grand final

24 Sept 2026 19:04 AEST Summary

From the report

From Wharfie Time to Country Roads, this is your one-stop shop for all things Fremantle and Brisbane in the lead-up to the grand final.

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

Indicators

Niral Score 4.1 mundaneloaded

None in this text. Words that carry a fact and quoted words are not counted.

final2grand2

Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 50 sorrowjoyful

6 read zero: sentiment, political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Sentiment 0 hostilefavourable Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

Measurements of how this article is written, not of whether it is correct. How each one is measured.

Measured on The Sydney Morning Herald’s report as filed, which is all we may publish of this one.

How outlets headlined it

Each outlet's own headline. ~~Struck through~~: the loaded words our version leaves out. Plainest first.

The Sydney Morning Herald Your guide to the AFL grand final plain
The West Australian Wet and wild: AFL grand final shapes as soggy affair plain
The West Australian Neale thanks Lions after escaping AFL grand final ban plain
The West Australian Fremantle player profiles: Meet all your Fremantle Dockers going for AFL grand final glory plain

How this outlet filed it, and how we rewrote it

No other newsroom we read has filed on this event, so there is nothing to compare it with yet.

Also covered by The West Australian, WAtoday, Brisbane Times, The Age. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

Outlet	Niral Score
The Sydney Morning Heraldas they published this story	4.1

Also reported by

7 Australian outlets reported this story. These are the ones we do not read; their headlines are matched to this one automatically, so an occasional match may be a different story.

Wet and wild : AFL grand final shapes as soggy affair muswellbrookchronicle.com.au
Wet and wild : AFL grand final shapes as soggy affair macleayargus.com.au

Coverage from The GDELT Project.

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The same event elsewhere

6 other outlets filed this story. The scoreboard above is what they did differently.

The West Australian Wet and wild: AFL grand final shapes as soggy affair Niral 13.5 political 0 The West Australian Neale thanks Lions after escaping AFL grand final ban Niral 4.6 political 0 WAtoday Your guide to the AFL grand final Niral 4.1 political 0 Brisbane Times Your guide to the AFL grand final Niral 4.1 political 0 The Age Your guide to the AFL grand final Niral 4.1 political 0 The West Australian Fremantle player profiles: Meet all your Fremantle Dockers going for AFL grand final glory Niral 5.2 political 0