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I know it is only a practise game but a game in AS in February!

It will be still 40 degrees at 10.00 PM.

What gives here?

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      On 23/10/2013 at 06:49, old dee said:

    I know it is only a practise game but a game in AS in February!

    It will be still 40 degrees at 10.00 PM.

    What gives here?

    Can give you about 2.5 mill reasons.

    The handout would have had many strings attached

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      On 23/10/2013 at 06:49, old dee said:

    I know it is only a practise game but a game in AS in February!

    It will be still 40 degrees at 10.00 PM.

    What gives here?

    Absolute joke od, we are obviously doing it for the money we pay our membership then miss two home games to be played in Alice Springs and Darwin.

    I know we get make up games, but if you pay for a reserved seat in advance it's tuff [censored] and you get general admission to the make up (2) games. The other issue is we seem to fall in an even bigger heap for the next two games we play.

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      On 23/10/2013 at 06:52, RobbieF said:

    Absolute joke od, we are obviously doing it for the money we pay our membership then miss two home games to be played in Alice Springs and Darwin.

    I know we get make up games, but if you pay for a reserved seat in advance it's tuff [censored] and you get general admission to the make up (2) games. The other issue is we seem to fall in an even bigger heap for the next two games we play.

    So we must have been playing every third week in Darwin for the past 7 years?

    That explains it! Now i'm not so worried as we are only playing 2 games up north this year.

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      On 23/10/2013 at 06:56, The Song Formerly Known As said:

    So we must have been playing every third week in Darwin for the past 7 years?

    That explains it! Now i'm not so worried as we are only playing 2 games up north this year.

    Notice I said even bigger heap; the normal heap is a given.

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    I wonder if this will have much effect in regards to recovery for the subsequent games. It definitely looked as though it affected us this year though that might have been our usual shitness.

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      On 23/10/2013 at 06:52, RobbieF said:

    Absolute joke od, we are obviously doing it for the money we pay our membership then miss two home games to be played in Alice Springs and Darwin.

    I know we get make up games, but if you pay for a reserved seat in advance it's tuff [censored] and you get general admission to the make up (2) games. The other issue is we seem to fall in an even bigger heap for the next two games we play.

    Welcome to the world of the interstate member... we pay, but rarely get to see them play live unless we can afford to fork out for fares and accommodation.

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      On 23/10/2013 at 07:00, hardtack said:

    Welcome to the world of the interstate member... we pay, but rarely get to see them play live unless we can afford to fork out for fares and accommodation.

    Not happy Jan! You think the AFL will give us a bye after these games to let us recover? Not! But it is something we should be discussing with them for the future if this is going to be the norm!

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    Have I missed something or is the NT about to become our Major sponsor?

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    When are the byes roughly scheduled? We really need to push for the byes after these games if possible.

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    With two byes, it's possible we'll get both byes after each of these games, which would be nice.

    Edit: This would make our byes in Rounds 12 and 17; surely they'll be further apart than 5 weeks, so I doubt this will be the case.

    More importantly, let's hope that moving a second home game interstate means we don't get shafted with a home game at Etihad.

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    As an Alice local, this is awesome news.

    The easiest way for us to see Melbourne play is either: Adelaide, which seems like an awful thing to do given our tendency to get thumped by 12 goal margins or Darwin, which is pretty expensive to get to. The few Melbourne supporters (and Port) I know here will be pumped.

    As for the February game; it'll be just like that heat training we did last year in Darwin. That really paid off...

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      On 23/10/2013 at 07:08, old dee said:

    Have I missed something or is the NT about to become our Major sponsor?

    They seem to be throwing some money our way....and we need it so will bend over and take it!

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      On 23/10/2013 at 07:36, tonatopia said:

    How else will we pay for Roos?

    memberships

    This news sucks. If we ever want to develop into a proper football team that actually plays finals we will play on our home ground at every opportunity

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      On 23/10/2013 at 07:45, hogans_heroes said:

    memberships

    This news sucks. If we ever want to develop into a proper football team that actually plays finals we will play on our home ground at every opportunity

    Like Hawthorn, right?

    Oh...

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    I want to know how much $ in hand we get for the second game. Don't want to hear it's part of anything else, I just want cash money. Must say I did expect to be sent to Cairns to do the AFL's bidding there, so this is not a huge surprise.

    Next stop, Norfolk Island.

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      On 23/10/2013 at 06:49, old dee said:

    I know it is only a practise game but a game in AS in February!

    It will be still 40 degrees at 10.00 PM.

    What gives here?

    "The Club will host the first ever game for premiership points in Alice Springs during Indigenous Round, against Port Adelaide in Round 11."

    If it is a night match that time of year cold will be more of a problem than heat. A day game would be in very pleasant conditions.

    June / July the mean maximum is around 20 and the nights get down to low single digits.

    So if we are pushing for a bye after one of our NT games I would certainly suggest we push for it to be after the Darwin game.

    Granted, the preseason game should be a night one, assuming that there are appropriate facilities which I think there are. If they try to pull a day one on us we should site OH&S issues!! Days get into the 30s, sometimes higher, and nights to high teens in February / March.

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      On 23/10/2013 at 08:19, dees189227 said:

    Usually the darwin game falls around my birthday and so I have gone to darwin recently to use it as a holiday

    Fabulous! We are making so much from the game we'll make sure a big cake with birthday candles is supplied!

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    So we play in the NT before Queens Birthday. Great. The Filth will be rapt.

    It better wipe the debt. That's all i can say.

    The last 7 years have left a great stain on this club.

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      On 23/10/2013 at 09:33, why you little said:

    So we play in the NT before Queens Birthday. Great. The Filth will be rapt.

    It better wipe the debt. That's all i can say.

    The last 7 years have left a great stain on this club.

    The top clubs get the prime fixtures and until we kick some arse on the field we will be beggars gathering the crumbs of the likes of whorethawn, the filth,essendrug etc.

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      On 23/10/2013 at 06:52, RobbieF said:

    Absolute joke od, we are obviously doing it for the money we pay our membership then miss two home games to be played in Alice Springs and Darwin.

    I know we get make up games, but if you pay for a reserved seat in advance it's tuff [censored] and you get general admission to the make up (2) games. The other issue is we seem to fall in an even bigger heap for the next two games we play.

    And one is R11 the week before we play Collingwood on Queens Bday which, whether you like it or not, is our flagship H&A game.

    How much is this deal worth? No mention of that in the article.

    I understand why they've done this but I'm not happy about it at all.

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