It’s the most awaited day of the year. Are you sure you’ve got everything ready to make this Grand Final a cracker? We’ll help you get it all sorted early. Use the items below as a checklist. You’re welcome.

1. Load up on Doritos.

If there’s one thing that will always go down a treat with your Grand Final Day guests- it’s Doritos. You can eat them for Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Throw in a jar of Hot Salsa and you’ve got yourself a gourmet meal.

2. Get to the Vic Market for some snaggas.

Usually a snag fest is not a good thing to be part of, but that’s what your guests want. Don’t buy the supermarket sausages. Get your backside to the Vic Market. Yes you will have to brave the gnarly aromas of raw fish and diced goat, but the BBQ sausages at the Vic Market will make everything worth it!

3. Don’t be stingy with the Tomato sauce

There’s nothing more diabolical than running out of tomato sauce. A snag in bread without tomato sauce is not a pleasant experience. Do not let this happen.

4. Buy an inflatable pool

For swimming..? Maybe after the game. But the true purpose of these babies is keeping the lemonades and ginger beers cool. Just pump them up and fill them up with ice. Available in all good Big W’s, Bunnings and other such high-end stores.

Later on when the ice runs out you can jump in and do your training for the 50 metre butterfly at the Rio Olympics.

5. Shop Early

Do not – we repeat DO NOT leave your booze shopping for Grand Final day. You will be lining up longer than St Kilda have gone without a Premiership. Also with rumored beer strikes to be taking place this year – number 5 is extra important.

6. No Drinks – No Entry

Make sure your guests all bring drinks. Why? Because there’s no way your skinny mate is going to finish off that whole slab. This means lots of leftovers for you. So the next day your fridge will be re-stocked with a nice assortment of UDL’s, half-full $6 white wines, and Cougars. Heck- if you’re lucky someone might even leave behind a bottle or two of Rekorderlig.

7. Drinking Games

We’re all about responsible drinking at BeyondTheGame.tv. But we understand that some people might like to add a bit of extra spice to their GF viewing. So feel free to give these drinking games a dabble.

Take a shot (of lemonade) every time;

Bruce McAvaney gets excited about Cyril.

Every time a commentator mentions ‘The Premiership Quarter’

Every time Channel 7 cuts to a shot of a politician in the crowd. (We’re not sure whether Tony jagged a ticket this year)

Luke Darcy copies what BT says.

Luke Darcy mentions a player ‘coming from a basketball background’.

Lingy mentions the ‘footy factory’

Every time a player with a man-bun gets a kick.

You see Al Clarkson going off his head in the coaches’ box.



Dennis mentions a player coming from Claremont or east Fremantle.

8. Distract The Kids

Most won’t say it but there’s nothing worse than a squawking kid running around when the scores are level at the 20 minute mark of the third quarter. So make sure you have some stuff on hand that will keep the youngsters entertained. Set up an x-box 360 room – or chuck a few miniature ponies in the backyard. Sorted.

9. Tweet your pics to BeyondTheGameAU

Shameless cross-promotion – yes we do it too! It’s okay we’re not going to ask you to watch The Voice or The Block but we want to see all your Grand Final mayhem.

Get your selfie on! We want to see your Grand Final set-up, your colours, your pimp my ride West Coast Eagles fan bus, your Labrador in a Hawthorn Jumper- the lot. Tweet your pics (no nudes – we will get in trouble) to @BeyondTheGameAU.

Bonus:

This one is only for the brave and adventurous. To add some extra spice to your GF telecast put the TV on mute and crank the radio. Yep radio and TV at the same time! Yes this is a massive waste of electricity but is apparently a mind-blowing experience. Think Inception. Don’t knock it until you try it.