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With the fixture coming out tomorrow thought we might need a separate thread.

MFC's 'wish list' "The Demons remain hopeful their successful Anzac Day Eve clash against Richmond continues despite it being a Sunday night this year. The clash attracted 58,000 on a Friday night in 2015. The Demons want to play in Darwin and Alice Springs again and will be hopeful for an early Friday night game as they build momentum, and want to maintain the increasingly interesting Queen’s Birthday clash against Collingwood with Jeremy Howe’s defection to the Magpies adding interest. The Demons also copped seven Sunday games in the last eight rounds to finish 2015. They will be hoping for more variety in the fixture in 2016." http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-10-28/fixture-wish-list?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS+feed%3A+AFL+Latest+News

Fairly modest 'wish list' and it willl be disappointing not to get it especially when for Essendon..."After a bottom-four finish this year, the Bombers should be given a reasonably good fixture to climb up a little bit next season under new coach John Worsfold". Maybe they should win a few more games first like we have to!! Yes, equalisation at work here!!

Lets see how much the fixture helps us get better crowds (and revenue)...a few home games at the 'G' vs bigger Vic clubs with good time slots should do the trick! Not holding my breath...

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im expecting the same as the last few years. very easy draw football wise but poor financially.

start off with a lot of saturday games at the G. second half of the season is all sundays

another friday night would be nice.

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Home games against Essendon, Carlton and Hawthorn.

No Etihad home games.

NT games against interstate sides.

Home game against Geelong.

Play Collingwood twice.

2x Friday night games.

2x Saturday night games.

No Sunday 4:40pm games.

No 1:10pm game on Mother's Day.

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Let's be honest, we'll get at least 7 (maybe 8) home games against interstate sides. Most of these will be on Sundays. Aside from Collingwood, we'll get Richmond if the Anzac eve game is shared, and probably one of Carlton and St Kilda given their ladder positions. Everyone wants to host the big Victorian clubs, and we're just not a priority for the fixture team. I can't see us getting any Friday nights, certainly not as the home team.

At least if we host the interstate teams it limits the number of interstate games we have to play. If we get away with one trip to Adelaide and one to Perth it would be a good result.

Our number one request should be to get more games on Channel 7, particularly against decent sides. We were about 20 rounds in before I could watch a game at home with my son this year.

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Anyone else read this filler puff piece published on the Murdoch Press websites this morning?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/afl-2015-what-was-your-clubs-best-win-and-worst-loss-of-the-season/news-story/19c79d640164a0f8c8eda650aaef8173

Of our 7 wins last year, apparently 5 of those were the worst losses for our opponents for the year! Clearly the non-attributed Staff Writer doesn't rate us....

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Anyone else read this filler puff piece published on the Murdoch Press websites this morning?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/afl-2015-what-was-your-clubs-best-win-and-worst-loss-of-the-season/news-story/19c79d640164a0f8c8eda650aaef8173

Of our 7 wins last year, apparently 5 of those were the worst losses for our opponents for the year! Clearly the non-attributed Staff Writer doesn't rate us....

Every team that gets beaten by Melbourne is "IN CRISIS"!!!!!

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Anyone else read this filler puff piece published on the Murdoch Press websites this morning?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/afl-2015-what-was-your-clubs-best-win-and-worst-loss-of-the-season/news-story/19c79d640164a0f8c8eda650aaef8173

Of our 7 wins last year, apparently 5 of those were the worst losses for our opponents for the year! Clearly the non-attributed Staff Writer doesn't rate us....

Also didn't rate our win against the dogs.


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Anyone else read this filler puff piece published on the Murdoch Press websites this morning?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/afl-2015-what-was-your-clubs-best-win-and-worst-loss-of-the-season/news-story/19c79d640164a0f8c8eda650aaef8173

Of our 7 wins last year, apparently 5 of those were the worst losses for our opponents for the year! Clearly the non-attributed Staff Writer doesn't rate us....

To be fair, we lost to Carlton and Essendon

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Anyone else read this filler puff piece published on the Murdoch Press websites this morning?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/afl-2015-what-was-your-clubs-best-win-and-worst-loss-of-the-season/news-story/19c79d640164a0f8c8eda650aaef8173

Of our 7 wins last year, apparently 5 of those were the worst losses for our opponents for the year! Clearly the non-attributed Staff Writer doesn't rate us....

out of 17 other teams in the competition 5 had their worst loss against us. coincidence would be one or two not just under a third. , and some of these may not have been pretty but we took the points. the writer needed to give credit where credit was due

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Anyone else read this filler puff piece published on the Murdoch Press websites this morning?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/afl-2015-what-was-your-clubs-best-win-and-worst-loss-of-the-season/news-story/19c79d640164a0f8c8eda650aaef8173

Of our 7 wins last year, apparently 5 of those were the worst losses for our opponents for the year! Clearly the non-attributed Staff Writer doesn't rate us....

It's true tho, Cats, Tigers, pies and the doggies would have expected to beat us pre game. Prob didn't lose to the other teams below us which would make ours the worse.

Also in all those games we won comfortably which means we dust just fluke the win against them.

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Anyone else read this filler puff piece published on the Murdoch Press websites this morning?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/afl-2015-what-was-your-clubs-best-win-and-worst-loss-of-the-season/news-story/19c79d640164a0f8c8eda650aaef8173

Of our 7 wins last year, apparently 5 of those were the worst losses for our opponents for the year! Clearly the non-attributed Staff Writer doesn't rate us....

We've been [censored] for a decade.

What do you expect?

EDIT: All of those loses WERE the club's worst for the year.

Brisbane - Only 4 goals for the game. We were bad but they were insipid.

Collingwood - Needed to beat us to stay in finals hunt.

Geelong - Enright's 300th, we spoiled the party

GWS - Were in the finals hunt and then got beaten around the ground against a team that hadn't won at Etihad in 8 years and had been getting smashed for weeks.

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We've been [censored] for a decade.

What do you expect?

EDIT: All of those loses WERE the club's worst for the year.

Brisbane - Only 4 goals for the game. We were bad but they were insipid.

Collingwood - Needed to beat us to stay in finals hunt.

Geelong - Enright's 300th, we spoiled the party

GWS - Were in the finals hunt and then got beaten around the ground against a team that hadn't won at Etihad in 8 years and had been getting smashed for weeks.

A win is a win....those performances just highlighted how bad some of our losses were....There were games where the team gave up...and that is putrid for a professional club...

I don't care what excuse was trotted out..& that's why those 5 clubs mentioned above would have been in shock

No one has been as bad as us for so long....

I won't mention who i blame :)

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Anyone else read this filler puff piece published on the Murdoch Press websites this morning?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/afl-2015-what-was-your-clubs-best-win-and-worst-loss-of-the-season/news-story/19c79d640164a0f8c8eda650aaef8173

Of our 7 wins last year, apparently 5 of those were the worst losses for our opponents for the year! Clearly the non-attributed Staff Writer doesn't rate us....

Lets hope there are 15 more, during the home and away season in 2016.

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We've been [censored] for a decade.

What do you expect?

EDIT: All of those loses WERE the club's worst for the year.

Brisbane - Only 4 goals for the game. We were bad but they were insipid.

Collingwood - Needed to beat us to stay in finals hunt.

Geelong - Enright's 300th, we spoiled the party

GWS - Were in the finals hunt and then got beaten around the ground against a team that hadn't won at Etihad in 8 years and had been getting smashed for weeks.

Yep our win against the filth was the nail in their coffin, and it was the "press red for Ed" round!

A beautiful day that is etched in the memory!

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What is everyone hoping for?

2 Friday night games at a minimum. Possibly 3

Hope we play the filth, Essendon and Carlton twice.

Bye after Darwin

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we won't get a friday night i don't think.

we'll get:

- sunday anzac eve night game vs tigers
- queen's birthday vs the filth

- bye BEFORE darwin (it's been that way for some time, bizarrely)

- home games against interstate rivals

- one home game at etihad

in short, it'll be okay football-wise but a disaster financially.


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we won't get a friday night i don't think.

we'll get:

- sunday anzac eve night game vs tigers

- queen's birthday vs the filth

- bye BEFORE darwin (it's been that way for some time, bizarrely)

- home games against interstate rivals

- one home game at etihad

in short, it'll be okay football-wise but a disaster financially.

Surely after moving up 4 spots on the ladder, and beating a top 5 team on our only friday night game of the season by 32 points infront of 58,000, surely we deserve a friday night game

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I'm just a little excited. Today is the day I get to plan next year's footy trips down to Melbourne.

And living in Brisbane, hopefully we get a game up here or on the Gold Coast. We haven't played up here for the last 2 seasons now.

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Hopefully we get to play both of the Queensland teams twice, which should equal four wins and two easily accessible games for you.

getting a little ahead of yourself i reckon. both teams absolutely shafted with injuries last year,

GC if fit should finish higher than us and push for finals. we should beat the bears though

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getting a little ahead of yourself i reckon. both teams absolutely shafted with injuries last year,

GC if fit should finish higher than us and push for finals. we should beat the bears though

This is the season for getting ahead of ourselves!

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I won't lie, this is the most exciting day of the year.

Sadly I agree with you.

My least productive day at work!

I don't think we'll get any Friday night games. Carlton's CEO hinted that all bottom 6 clubs will either get none or very little Friday night action.

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