IMROVED: PREMIERSHIP CELEBRATIONS AND PRESENTATION
Premiership presentation rebuilt from scratch. A full stage presentation of the Dusty Medal winner and all 23 players receiving premiership medals and premiership hat by the auskick kids followed by wild celebrations.
Name plate for each player shows their full name, an honour label and a row of cups for how many premierships they've won.
Club crest and abbreviation on the Dusty Medal overlay
NEW - NIGHT GAME PYROTECHNICS
Night-game pyrotechnics on the run-out. units fire as the teams come through. One of three effects: fire, fountain sparks, or fireworks
Day / Night toggle on the "Run out the teams" screen.
NEW - 100 GOALS CROWD PITCH INVASIONS !
100-goal crowd pitch invasion. Kick your hundredth goal of the season, your thousandth career goal, or break the all-time record of 1361, and the crowd comes over the fence. Supporters stream onto the ground from all around the boundary, , while team-mates converge on the goalkicker and mob him. A gold-bordered panel names the milestone, the player, his club and his season and career tallies.
Three new honours on the player's record with their own medals: Season Goal Achievement, Career Goal Achievement and All-Time Goalkicking Record.
Career setting: "Adjust 100 Goals Celebration to Season Length" (default Off). Turn it on and the milestones scale to the length of your season, so a 3-game season using 1 minute qtrs celebrates 15 goals rather than 100 / and 150 Career Goals rather than 1000. All recognised honours on player cards.
IMPROVED - VISUALS
AFL-style 50m arc markings. A strip of colour is painted inside the arc line on the goal side — red at one end of the ground, blue at the other — with a "50" set into the line either side of each arc, placed halfway between the top of the arc and the boundary.
Goal posts redesigned — graded colour across the pole, a catchlight down the front, a rounded cap, padding with a tie-off lip and dark base, and a wider soft ground shadow.8
Stadium scoreboard and ground-name plate cut to about 70% of their old width with a much slimmer name plate.
Player names, HUD and carrier markers no longer appear on the big-screen vision — it now looks like a broadcast feed.
Run-through banner sits higher and the cheer squad lines up from the boundary line to the banner, thicker rows, no longer running off into the crowd.
NEW - ADVERTISING BOARD SPONSERS
Added: Daddy Donuts
Added: GDR Software
BUG FIX
A match could sometime show five quarters. The break screen would read "Three-Quarter Time" while showing four quarters of scores, with a phantom 0.0–0.0 first quarter shifting every real quarter one column across.
Support poles under the suburban and country scoreboards ran past the fence onto the playing surface after the board was lowered — they now stop at the boundary line.
The Dusty Medal overlay used to appear from the moment the ceremony began. It now waits until the medallist actually has it around his neck.
Commentary lines and report cards raised right on the siren no longer freeze on screen while the camera pans to the huddles.