Freo are in the Cairns hub so I reckon we'll play them up at Cazaly
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Freo are in the Cairns hub so I reckon we'll play them up at Cazaly
TBH I see West Coast as the team whose list and style match up best against us so I'm not confident anywhere we play them.
Bravo to anyone with the plums to chalk up anything other than the bye as non-losses.
Tomorrow's game could credibly be the final time we get to feel good about footy this season.
Nothing like the self-satisfied swagger of knocking over the last-placed team.
We could be waiting on the result of the Monday game to see if we make finals.:eek:
Geez I’m not too happy having to play Hawks in Adelaide and then Freo at Cazaly.
So including this round, this is the fixture including the days' breaks for each team from 6th to 10th.
Round 16
St Kilda (9 days) v Hawthorn (5 days)
Collingwood v Bye
GWS (5 days) v Adelaide (7 days)
Western Bulldogs (9 days) v West Coast Eagles (5 days)
Melbourne (4 days) v Fremantle (5 days)
Round 17
St Kilda (4 days) v West Coast Eagles (4 days)
Collingwood (14 days) v Gold Coast Suns (5 days)
GWS (4 days) v Melbourne (4 days)
Western Bulldogs (7 days) v Hawthorn (7 days)
Melbourne (5 days) v GWS (5 days)
Round 18
St Kilda (8 days) v GWS (6 days)
Collingwood (7 days) v Port Adelaide (9 days)
GWS (6 days) v St Kilda (8 days)
Western Bulldogs (7 days) v Fremantle (8 days)
Melbourne (7 days) v Essendon (7 days)
The AFL is set to grant the Western Bulldogs a rare travel request and send them to Cairns a day early for their season-defining battle against Fremantle in Round 18.
The Bulldogs need to knock over Hawthorn (Adelaide Oval) and Fremantle (Cazaly’s Stadium) to scrape into an elimination final and have managed to avoid a same-day travel itinerary for both matches.
They will share a chartered flight to Adelaide with Essendon on Saturday morning before Sunday’s clash against the Hawks.
But it was Round 18 that loomed as problematic for coach Luke Beveridge because the Dogs are travelling to Cairns by themselves.
The Dockers have been based in Cairns since last Thursday and upset Melbourne at Cazaly’s Stadium on Monday night.
The Demons were furious at being forced to travel to Cairns on game day in Round 15, when they touched down just hours before the first bounce against Sydney.
The Swans had spent several days at the Cairns hub and had trained at the windy ground.
“We would’ve loved to have been up here before the day of the game to get a feel for the conditions,” Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin said on Sunday.
“It is different. It’s windy every day – so we need to plan for that and be ready for that.”
The Bulldogs wouldn’t confirm their itinerary when contacted on Wednesday.
But it’s believed that league officials have already given them the green light to fly north from Gold Coast next Saturday.
The Dogs are 4-0 at Cazaly’s Stadium – all against Gold Coast – and boast an average winning margin of 38 points at that ground.
The conditions shouldn’t be too foreign for the Bulldogs given 14 players from the club’s last game in the regional town remain on the list.
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On the topic of turnarounds between games this season ...
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I am happy we are playing Freo in Cairns.
We are unbeaten at that ground.
Jack Macrae goes pretty well up there as well.