21.   Three times Gary Ablett has played in an Australian Football League grand final.

22.   Under the agreement, the winger could feature in grand finals in the northern and southern hemispheres within a month.

23.   Carlton powered home in the last quarter to overwhelm North Melbourne here on Saturday to set up an Australian Football League grand final with Geelong next weekend.

24.   Earlier, Geelong qualified for their fourth grand final in seven seasons with a smashing victory over Richmond in the other preliminary final.

25.   It will be the first time Carlton and Geelong have played each other in a grand final.

26.   It was a big day for diminutive Toovey, who was awarded the Clive Churchill Medal for man of the match in the grand final.

27.   It was Lockett who hoisted the Swans into the grand final with a kick after the fulltime siren to pip Essendon by a point last Saturday.

28.   On Saturday, the Bulldogs upset the odds when they dumped Canberra out of the finals to advance to the grand final.

29.   The grand finals in Tianjin, for example, saw surprise victories by Europeans over higher-ranked Chinese, raising some hopes of a European come-back.