Round 23 Fixture

[Axe Man]

A pretty good result for us - a nice early game on the Saturday that will allow the team to get back to Melbourne on the Saturday night at a reasonable hour.

Round 23 fixture. All times local

Friday September 4
Richmond v North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium, 7.50pm (Channel 7)

Saturday September 5
Geelong v Adelaide at Simonds Stadium, 1.05pm (Foxtel / Fox Sports)
Brisbane Lions v Western Bulldogs at the Gabba, 1.45pm (Channel 7)
Port Adelaide v Fremantle at Adelaide Oval, 3.20pm (Foxtel / Fox Sports)
Hawthorn v Carlton at the MCG, 4.40pm (Foxtel / Fox Sports)
West Coast v St Kilda at Domain Stadium, 5.40pm (Channel 7)
Sydney Swans v Gold Coast at the SCG, 7.20pm (Foxtel / Fox Sports)

Sunday September 6
Melbourne v GWS at Etihad Stadium, 1.10pm (Foxtel / Fox Sports)
Collingwood v Essendon at the MCG, 3.20pm (Channel 7)

[LostDoggy]

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I was expecting the early Sunday game! Great result.

[LostDoggy]

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Surprisingly flexible of the AFL to programme 5 Saturday games.

All the likely Top 4 teams are later Saturday whilst the likely 5-8 teams are all Friday night or early Saturday. Fair play to the AFL, couldn't be fairer.

Bet the AFL were expecting Coll-Ess to be the blockbuster when they did the initial fixture early in the year, now it's the Sunday dud, whilst we were programmed at the Gabba as a Vic team certainly missing finals, who could be consigned to the meaningless Sunday matches.

Man I'm loving this season.

[Throughandthrough]

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Lol @ the sound of 100,000 Collingwood fans realising that they wont make the 8.....

[azabob]

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Great result.

[ledge]

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GWS got a raw deal

[LostDoggy]

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I guess the AFL have calculated that GWS (and Collingwood) are least likely to still be in contention come R23, which seems fair enough to me.

[1eyedog]

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Gee that 1.45 timeslot in late August is going to knock it out of us. I suggest we send up the VFL team if our ladder position is irrelevant.

[Rocco Jones]

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Gee that 1.45 timeslot in late August is going to knock it out of us. I suggest we send up the VFL team if our ladder position is irrelevant.

I was thinking the same in terms of heat but we can't have it all. Very happy to have the 2nd earliest time slot. Also, you must factor in the opposition. With all due respect, the Lions are crapola and will take less lot of us than any other side.

[Bulldog4life]

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I was thinking the same in terms of heat but we can't have it all. Very happy to have the 2nd earliest time slot. Also, you must factor in the opposition. With all due respect, the Lions are crapola and will take less lot of us than any other side.

Plus they might be eyeing off first pick in the draft

[boydogs]

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Surprisingly flexible of the AFL to programme 5 Saturday games.

6 actually. They only had 5 last year, but there were more games where both sides were outside the 8

http://www.afl.com.au/fixture/2014-afl-results?roundId=CD_R201401423#tround

[1eyedog]

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I was thinking the same in terms of heat but we can't have it all. Very happy to have the 2nd earliest time slot. Also, you must factor in the opposition. With all due respect, the Lions are crapola and will take less lot of us than any other side.

Yes true they are playing like witches hats so hopefully we come through unscathed.

[Eastdog]

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No Sunday twilight. Yeah ���� makes sense that they would put us on a Saturday afternoon.

[Eastdog]

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Post in this thread for Round 23 Discussion.

[SlimPickens]

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Richmond ain't going far in finals, if they serve this up!