Sunday bloody Sunday

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Garry Lyon had a little grizzle on Footy Classified the other night about how many Sunday matches the Demons have played.

Our last five games have been played on Sundays and we have 7 of our next 8 on a Sunday also. The only non-Sunday game happens to be the Monday of Queen's Birthday. We have a total of 15 for the year. 15 out of 22. That's just over 66%.

I'm not sure whose stupid idea it was to request so many Sunday games. I could understand why we were Sunday conscious in the early part of this decade when Joe Gutnick was our president, but I have to agree with Garry - it's far from ideal. Particularly when Sunday is a junior footy day for most kids. We apparently have the lowest number of Auskick registered kids barracking for our club. Perhaps the AFL think they're inconveniencing the least amount of people by giving us Sundays, but we need to be proactive and accommodate for all our supporters. And that means an equitable mix of timeslots for our games.

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Garry Lyon had a little grizzle on Footy Classified the other night about how many Sunday matches the Demons have played.

Our last five games have been played on Sundays and we have 7 of our next 8 on a Sunday also. The only non-Sunday game happens to be the Monday of Queen's Birthday. We have a total of 15 for the year. 15 out of 22. That's just over 66%.

I'm not sure whose stupid idea it was to request so many Sunday games. I could understand why we were Sunday conscious in the early part of this decade when Joe Gutnick was our president, but I have to agree with Garry - it's far from ideal. Particularly when Sunday is a junior footy day for most kids. We apparently have the lowest number of Auskick registered kids barracking for our club. Perhaps the AFL think they're inconveniencing the least amount of people by giving us Sundays, but we need to be proactive and accommodate for all our supporters. And that means an equitable mix of timeslots for our games.

We didn't request it, in fact Gardner came out after the draw and said how dissapointed he was at how many Sunday games we got. Not to mention the lack of night games, it's a joke that we've got just 1 Friday night game for the WHOLE year.

When Gazza was talking about the Sunday games, Carro had the nerve to say that there wasn't any difference between Sunday games and the other timeslots. I was shocked at her remarks, it's common knowlege that not only is it a lower drawing day, but a lot less TV exposure.

Bottom line is that next year they'd better make up for it by giving us some decent timeslots, ESPECIALLY if they are going to reduce/discontinue the CBF. The only way they can even out the competition is to take away the high exposure slots from the likes of Collingwood and Essendon, and give them to Us, the Doggies, and the Kangas.