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Good Friday Football

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If they have it next year it will be North/Dogs as Carlton will be playing Richmond on the Thursday in the opening MCG game.

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    If they have it next year it will be North/Dogs as Carlton will be playing Richmond on the Thursday in the opening MCG game.

    Is Carlton v Rich definitively locked in for the opening game? Given where those clubs are at it shouldn't be.

    You could move Carlton in to the good Friday fixture and then have Richmond start the year with a team that plays good footy.

    Will it be the MCG anyway given the cricket world cup?

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    How about this game gets shared? Why does it have to be the same two clubs every year?

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    The way that the game was being discussed in the media today it sounded like it could be held in another state?

    I did not even consider that, but on reflection maybe the AFL would want the hold the sydney showdown on that day to annoy the NRL?

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    We have QB, I think the dogs should play north for two years and see if they can get decent crowds to the game, if not give it to another smaller club ie Saints who do not have that marque game.

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    Melbourne vs Richmond? Or was that the game mentioned as an annual game the day before Anzac Day?

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    Anyone but Melbourne (QB), Collingwood (AD, QB), Essendon (AD), Geelong (EM) or Hawthorn (EM). It's a chance for some teams without public holiday blockbusters to have some exposure. An all-Vic MCG game in the arvo and an all-interstate game at night sounds like it could work. And yes, I'm a Christian, have no problem with Good Friday football generally, though I'll always spend that morning at church and the afternoon with extended family so I would be stroppy about missing a Melbourne game if we played.

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    Don't want it, get the Anzac eve and keep the queens birthday.

    Anzac Eve would be a good get if we played Richmond, you would always expect a crowd of around 60,000, swap home game each year.

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    Not religious but not a fan of Good Friday football. These holidays are as much cultural as they are religious and I see no benefit to breaking with the tradition of a having a quiet reflective day free of external distractions. Probably an old fashioned view.

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