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It was a great game last year and hopefully it'll be the same this year

Spewing I'll miss it!

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    Who's home game will it be?

    Would be slightly annoying if it's Richmond's home game as they'd get the gate receipts 2 years in a row.

    We should at least alternate it and the AFL should acknowledge us more as the original MCG occupier for most of last Century (i.e. formerly known as the MCCFC)!
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    Brilliant to hear. Our best performance of the 2015 season after the Geelong game for mine.

    Looking forward to watching Hogan tear Rance a new one once again!

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    Up yours Eddie

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    Just a note to Mr Macguire.

    Even Christmas. ..has Christmas EVE !!!

    You just stick to playing drug cheats mate. Let us set the occasion with proper respect and solemnity.

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    You just stick to playing drug cheats mate. Let us set the occasion with proper respect and solemnity.

    Why Collingwood don't deserve to play ANZAC day.

    https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CBwQFjAAahUKEwiFkpfc_ODIAhWGGKYKHcvsAoI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthenewdaily.com.au%2Fsport%2F2014%2F04%2F22%2Fmagpies-deserve-play-anzac-day%2F&usg=AFQjCNF7-HH-36wZ6kL5kwpckl3C9BeKKw

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    Eddie complains, nothing new. Says it is like having two Christmas's. Compelling argument Eddie, everyone would hate that too.

    Go Dees!

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    Glad to see the AFL back this. I hope it's a Melb home game, I would drive up for the game, prob hire a hotel room and attend the dawn service.

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    In the overall scheme of things whether it's a home game or not is not as important as making the day memorable and a permanent fixture on the AFL calendar. We'll eventually lose the Queen's Birthday game (because I believe it's inevitable that we'll lose Queen's Birthday as a public holiday), so we need to find alternate "blockbuster" opportunities as it guarantees better prime time TV exposure and therefore the potential for higher sponsorship revenue. This has "blockbuster" written all over it...but only if supporters of both teams turn up, whether it's a home game or not.

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    Good work PJ good work MFC and RFC good work AFL oh and Eddie suck it up princess!

    Delete vacuous fools

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    In the overall scheme of things whether it's a home game or not is not as important as making the day memorable and a permanent fixture on the AFL calendar. We'll eventually lose the Queen's Birthday game (because I believe it's inevitable that we'll lose Queen's Birthday as a public holiday), so we need to find alternate "blockbuster" opportunities as it guarantees better prime time TV exposure and therefore the potential for higher sponsorship revenue. This has "blockbuster" written all over it...but only if supporters of both teams turn up, whether it's a home game or not.

    If it wasn't Melbourne vs Richmond, but two other clubs, I'd choose to watch it as an option over the Ess vs Coll game.

    Hopefully, the wider footy supporting community share similar sentiment and will embrace it as an option to help celebrate our Anzac history.

    Personally and without bias, I found the pre game program at night far more moving. It had a dawn service feel to it.

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    58,000 last year -From memory the minimum attendance required to make it a success was 50,000.

    This year should aim for 65,000 as hopefully both teams get off to a good start and more supporters will turn up after seeing the success of last years game.

    The pre match service was more reserved and slightly haunting with the flame and the last post.

    FYI Eddie - A fair amount of European countries celebrate 2 Christmas days!

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    Attempting to liken it to a standard Sunday night game is inappropriate: this precedes a public holiday.

    Tough [censored] Eddie. I can remember playing both Collingwood and EssenDrug over the years prior to your claim that it was a "tradition" for EssvColl on that day. In fact it should have been taken from EssenDrug as part of their punishment for bringing the game into serious disrepute.

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    I love how [censored] off eddie is.

    Suck a fat one eddie

    Such a [censored] bloke and a fraud. Talks about respect and the sanctity of the day and then whines as soon as he sees a threat to Collingwood's financial interests or limelight. Compares Anzac day to Xmas....WTH?

    Support the additional focus on the commemoration of the day, including it's lead up! Stop being a pathetic, swollen, little, red gnome.

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    Such a [censored] bloke and a fraud. Talks about respect and the sanctity of the day and then whines as soon as he sees a threat to Collingwood's financial interests or limelight. Compares Anzac day to Xmas....WTH?

    Support the additional focus on the commemoration of the day, including it's lead up! Stop being a pathetic, swollen, little, red gnome.

    Don't hold back diesel what do you really think?

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    "In a move which is expected to irritate Collingwood..."

    Sounds good to me.

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    Thanks for the link. A good read.
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    Don't want to start a new thread on this, but this has me fuming:

    http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/2016-afl-fixture-carlton-blues-will-not-feature-on-friday-night-20151026-gkj6qs.html

    Not that Carlton wont have Friday night exposure, but that supposedly an additional "5 or 6" clubs wont have Thursday or Friday night games. Surely that is a load of [censored] or the AFL are an absolute disgrace.

    They talk of equalisation, but if this is true, it would mean that 12 teams are getting all the prime slots, meaning that they get massive exposure benefits which leads to increased sponsorship and membership which will ultimately make the competition more uneven.

    I'm hoping its not true, as it is a most short-sighted decision which cripples clubs like ours time and time again.

    I wait with bated breath to see what the actual fixture looks like......

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    For anyone that's not bothered to open and read this article yet, do yourselves a favour and make the time to do so.

    Thanks Fork.

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    For anyone that's not bothered to open and read this article yet, do yourselves a favour and make the time to do so.

    Thanks Fork.

    I already hate them, i do not need to be pi55ed off moreso, there is no point.

    Didn't the saints play on Anzac day too in NZ?

    What happen to that?

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