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Yes we play Saints at Etihad as a home game, not ideal, we also play the Bombers at the G as an away game.

The filth play two home games at Etihad, it's not just us. One vs North.

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I can stomach everything in our fixture except the 2 games at Etihad against the Saints. That is just BS from the AFL, that would never be accepted by another club.

I agree but would add the late Sunday game against the Dogs, it is like the AFL set us up to have small crowds just to justify putting us bad time slots where no one draws a good crowd.

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Hang on a minute... we only play the Bombers, Blues and Lions once

Arent all bottom 6 teams supposed to play each other twice? The AFL makes less sense with every year that passes

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Hang on a minute... we only play the Bombers, Blues and Lions once

Arent all bottom 6 teams supposed to play each other twice? The AFL makes less sense with every year that passes

Yep, we've been stitched up.

However the groupthink seems to be 'stop being crap' and we will be rewarded.

If only it were that simple...

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I've never read so much negativity. You guys are so depressing expecting the AFL to hand it to us. Who cares about the draw, and nuff nuffs who are to up themselves to go to Etihad are supporters we don't need.

I think you'll find most of those nuff nuffs are MCC members, including myself, most of which would not go near Etihad.

If they were not needed, we might have what? 12,000 members?

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What a shockingly uninformed comment. Round 23 on a Sunday (Fathers Day) at 1:10pm against a pathetic club like GWS in a year when we had played poorly in the second half. Great scheduling.

But keep blaming your fellow supporters who pay their money for memberships each year. I buy 6 memberships each year and if I choose not to go its none of your stinking business. Maybe I might not buy memberships next year and see how the club goes.

A crowd of 9,000 is a disgrace in this day in age.

It's not the late 80's - early 90's anymore. Memberships have generally increased by the year and so too should the crowds.

We should've got at least 13-15,000 that day. No excuses.

Do you think getting pitiful crowds like this one are going to help us get a better commercial draw in the future?

Sometimes we've got to help ourselves.

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A crowd of 9,000 is a disgrace in this day in age.

It's not the late 80's - early 90's anymore. Memberships have generally increased by the year and so too should the crowds.

We should've got at least 13-15,000 that day. No excuses.

Do you think getting pitiful crowds like this one are going to help us get a better commercial draw in the future?

Sometimes we've got to help ourselves.

On the contrary, terrible attendances embarrass the AFL. We refused to support the AFL's GWS@Etihad fuxture, and now it's gone.

Your argument is that to overcome terrible working conditions, one must Work Harder!

...Bullshït! Strike!!!

;)

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Hang on a minute... we only play the Bombers, Blues and Lions once

Arent all bottom 6 teams supposed to play each other twice? The AFL makes less sense with every year that passes

The bloke wot put the fixture together (using whiz-bang Canadian s/ware) was interviewed on SEN this arvo.

He claimed that the 6-6-6 arrangement had been maintained. My understanding was that, in our case, we'd play the top 6 once, the next six once, and the 5 other teams in our six twice (22 games).

Well, that's not happening.

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Yep, we've been stitched up.

However the groupthink seems to be 'stop being crap' and we will be rewarded.

If only it were that simple...

Doesn't matter we will win more games than we lose

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The bloke wot put the fixture together (using whiz-bang Canadian s/ware) was interviewed on SEN this arvo.

He claimed that the 6-6-6 arrangement had been maintained. My understanding was that, in our case, we'd play the top 6 once, the next six once, and the 5 other teams in our six twice (22 games).

Well, that's not happening.

We seemed to do better this year against the middle 6 than the bottom 6 weirdly...?

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We might need to win that last game at Geelong to make the 8....In that case we can all go down the highway and climb the fence.....seriously how are 50,000 of our fans going to get into that stupid ground!!

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I reckon I can get down to Tas for that game. Any chance of providing a couch for a fellow d'lander Gnash?

Hopefully a very sturdy couch,covered in plastic to avoid the need for degreasing,steam cleaning and disinfecting after victory.

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The bloke wot put the fixture together (using whiz-bang Canadian s/ware) was interviewed on SEN this arvo.

He claimed that the 6-6-6 arrangement had been maintained. My understanding was that, in our case, we'd play the top 6 once, the next six once, and the 5 other teams in our six twice (22 games).

Well, that's not happening.

hes ben sicking to hard on the Maple Syrup me thinks.
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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.

Missed it by that much!


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The AfL is still all about deflections of the facts.

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Won't say no to playing Norf at Bellerive though. My kids may just attend their first AFL match.

Going to be at that one too. The Dees in Hobart! Going with my mad keen Richmond mate to the Friday nighter as well.

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Also a big pat on the back to the AFL for having no interest in showcasing the best young talent in the game, Jesse Hogan, on Friday night footy in 2016.

Brilliant stuff.

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The bloke wot put the fixture together (using whiz-bang Canadian s/ware) was interviewed on SEN this arvo.

He claimed that the 6-6-6 arrangement had been maintained. My understanding was that, in our case, we'd play the top 6 once, the next six once, and the 5 other teams in our six twice (22 games).

Well, that's not happening.

No that's not how it works. If you're in the bottom 6 you play 2-3 of those in your third of the ladder twice, 1-2 of the middle third twice anf 0-1 of the top third twice. The afl would never implement a fixture that didn't leave it open to their manipulation to still get the blockbusters/derbies etc twice a year.

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I reckon I can get down to Tas for that game. Any chance of providing a couch for a fellow d'lander Gnash?

I reckon you'd scare the kids BBO.

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We might need to win that last game at Geelong to make the 8....In that case we can all go down the highway and climb the fence.....seriously how are 50,000 of our fans going to get into that stupid ground!!

1987 revisited?

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