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2018 Fixture
What are we hoping for with our fixture for season 2018?
As we finished between 7th-12th will be getting a fixture in the "medium range". Nowadays no "easy" games.
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Re: 2018 Fixture
Originally Posted by
Eastdog
What are we hoping for with our fixture for season 2018?
As we finished between 7th-12th will be getting a fixture in the "medium range". Nowadays no "easy" games.
Didn't help us this year.
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I would expect at least 4 Friday night games, including Good Friday with North and us as the home team this time. Season opener to continue with Collingwood.
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Should be pretty balanced, less Friday nights and more Sunday twilights than in 2017 but not as bad previous years
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I have to spend a week in Melbourne for work sometime in about 6 months, desperately want a Friday night match around that time so I can work out what week to be there!
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There are only five days between this round 1 Sunday game and Good Friday, so the AFL have surely booted us out of the fixture after just one year and despite large number of our supporters attending what was an away game for us this year.
Really hoping for North and St Kilda/Carlton to get a crap crowd and for the League to be roasted over this rubbish decision.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/afl/...25-gz7x6k.html
http://www.footyology.com.au/afl-nee...riday-fixture/
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Brace yourselves, we are going to get pummeled by the AFL with their fixture. They were pissed about giving us a reasonable return last year (while still being so petty as to make nearly all Friday nights away games) and having not lived up to expectations they'll use that as an excuse to give us a draw worthy of a wooden spooner.
I predict;
- Good Friday gone. Justified by missing finals last year while giving it two teams that finished below us
- Zero Friday night games
- Heaps of Sunday games
- Majority of home games against interstate cubs
Gilligan and his Muppets are determined to create a have and have nots league.
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"Hello 4.40pm Sundays my old friend."
Hard to believe we will not be given another commercially garbage draw in 2018.
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AFL Round 1, 2018
Thursday, March 22
Richmond v Carlton, MCG, 7.25pm
Friday, March 23
Essendon v Adelaide, Etihad Stadium, 7.50pm
Saturday, March 24
St Kilda v Brisbane Lions, Etihad Stadium, 3.35pm
Port Adelaide v Fremantle, Adelaide Oval, 4.35pm
Gold Coast v North Melbourne, Cazaly’s Stadium, Cairns, 7.25pm
Hawthorn v Collingwood, MCG, 7.25pm
Sunday, March 25
Greater Western Sydney v Western Bulldogs, Canberra, 1.10pm
Melbourne v Geelong, MCG, 3.20pm
West Coast v Sydney, Perth Stadium, 7.10pm
ALL Melbourne times
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Originally Posted by
Greystache
Brace yourselves, we are going to get pummeled by the AFL with their fixture. They were pissed about giving us a reasonable return last year (while still being so petty as to make nearly all Friday nights away games) and having not lived up to expectations they'll use that as an excuse to give us a draw worthy of a wooden spooner.
I predict;
- Good Friday gone. Justified by missing finals last year while giving it two teams that finished below us
- Zero Friday night games
- Heaps of Sunday games
- Majority of home games against interstate cubs
Gilligan and his Muppets are determined to create a have and have nots league.
This attitude has permeated messaging through head office and the media even since our last fixture was released, and has gotten stronger post season this year.
The AFL is an idiotic and non-progressive organisation that hasn't realised inclusiveness is actually more profitable than the alternative. How can they seriously think that marginalising some groups of supporters is good for business? The *!*!*!*!ing idiots wouldn't know the benefits of diversity if they tripped over them, and once again - as I always say, they are really lucky they don't have any viable and natural competition in their heartlands.
Now, one more thing without being anti-elite - the AFL would do well with less people like Gill at the top of the tree, or the Simon Lethlean's or take your pick thereafter. These people are establishment pragmatists, they have no regard for what is beyond the establishment and what is important to an average punter. I have mixed and played with their ilk, they have no idea.
Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.
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Couldn't have asked for a much worse first game of the season than that.
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I'll take that
GWS will have had approx. 4 less weeks pre-season than us by that stage. We will be cherry ripe.
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Originally Posted by
Greystache
Brace yourselves, we are going to get pummeled by the AFL with their fixture. They were pissed about giving us a reasonable return last year (while still being so petty as to make nearly all Friday nights away games) and having not lived up to expectations they'll use that as an excuse to give us a draw worthy of a wooden spooner.
I predict;
- Good Friday gone. Justified by missing finals last year while giving it two teams that finished below us
- Zero Friday night games
- Heaps of Sunday games
- Majority of home games against interstate cubs
Gilligan and his Muppets are determined to create a have and have nots league.
Yep the AFEL strike again. North, Saints and Dogs handed the dud Round 1 draw. How predictable. And on the back of one poor year we've been banished to the wooden spoon timeslots and stripped off Good Friday. The double standards of this league are amazing. It's only a matter of time until it does them in.
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Originally Posted by
bulldogsthru&thru
Yep the AFEL strike again. North, Saints and Dogs handed the dud Round 1 draw. How predictable. And on the back of one poor year we've been banished to the wooden spoon timeslots and stripped off Good Friday. The double standards of this league are amazing. It's only a matter of time until it does them in.
They have only released one game as far as I know, I will wait until they whole fixture is released before I go off tap , losing Friday night games would astound me,especially when most were away games last year for us . So we got bugger all out of it anyway.
Bring back the biff