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2012 AFL Grand Final
The 2012 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the Sydney Swans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 29 September 2012. It was the 116th annual grand final of the Australian Football League (formerly the Victorian Football League), staged to determine the premiers for the 2012 AFL season. The match, attended by 99,683 spectators, was won by Sydney by 10 points, marking the club's fifth VFL/AFL premiership victory. Sydney's Ryan O'Keefe was awarded
-year contract as full-time coach. In 2010, Claremont finished as minor premiers, but lost to by one point in the Grand Final. The club again finished as minor premiers in the 2011 season, and defeated by 56 points in the 2011 Grand Final.
In October 2011, McPhee was appointed senior coach of the Sandringham Football Club for the 2012 season. He will also serve in a role at the St Kilda Football Club's development academy in the Australian Football League (AFL).