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Did the AFL get our "bye" wrong?

ICU2 Jerry Jerry
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I am wondering about the rationale behind our second bye.

Considering it's an AFL initiative to have games in Darwin in unusual and taxing physical conditions (and the subsequent trouble with the recovery of teams that venture there), and also considering that we had a bye last week and the Hawks have it this week . . . .

Then surely if common sense were to prevail we would have played the Hawks last week and had a bye (with Port) this week?

It seems so logical to me that if you can assist in the recovery of teams coming off a Darwin game without compromising the "fixture" (cue a snide Grant Thomas remark) then you should do it.

So the question is this . . . .

Did the AFL get it wrong?

Further adding to the point (and before the raising of "consecutive six day breaks" fanfare) it would have given the AFL the chance to put the Dees back at the 'G' (home game or not) in the traditional 2:10 Saturday slot.

Public opinion seems to be that this timeslot is sorely missed amongst the footy purists.

Edited by Clay Sampson

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    I get the point. I think it's a bit odd having us go to Darwin after the bye, not before it. But who cares, it is what it is. Once we're a powerhouse like Collingwood we won't need to worry about these kind of things anymore.

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    Yeah it would have been awesome.

    But I don't think we can complain about our fixture.

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    We've had a good fixture, but this isn't one of the good points.

    I would have thought having the bye after the Darwin game would have been on our request list, so possibly it was one thing we got rejected.

    Our last bye (the WCE game) was a very short bye week as well so I don't think we've had full benefit of the bye's this year.

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    I get the point. I think it's a bit odd having us go to Darwin after the bye, not before it. But who cares, it is what it is. Once we're a powerhouse like Collingwood we won't need to worry about these kind of things anymore.

    Is someone actually questioning the logic of the Vlad Empire ?? Since when has common sense ever applied to AFL thinking ??

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    Is someone actually questioning the logic of the Vlad Empire ?? Since when has common sense ever applied to AFL thinking ??

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