AFL's Wildcard Weekend Delivers Box Office Drama as Finals Series Looms

The AFL's inaugural wildcard finals weekend delivered pure box office drama, with 172,000 fans packing the MCG and GMHBA Stadium across two nights while a staggering 7.4 million viewers tuned in at some point. Tim Membrey's after-siren miss for Collingwood on Saturday night left 91,000 fans gasping as the Bulldogs survived by the skin of their teeth — proving the AFL's controversial experiment has legs, even if purists are still picking their jaws off the floor.

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