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2017 Fixture

At the break of Gawn
in Melbourne Demons

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Perhaps this is a little premature, but what are your early wishes for the 2017 fixture?

Mine would have to be:

1. St.Kilda at the MCG (so we can beat that hoodoo)

2. Geelong at the MCG (haven't played them there since 2014)

3. West Coast at the MCG (last time was round 2 2014)

4. Richmond twice

5. Essendon round 1 Friday night (saw that Essendon was proposing this. I think it'd be an awesome way to start 2017 with a win at the G on a Friday night)

 

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    No Geelong at Geelong. We have been the bunnies for long enough.

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    Round 1 Friday night would be awesome & definitely  not Stkilda at Etihad or a home game there for that matter !

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    Wouldn't mind starting with Hawthorn at the G on a Friday night. The old guard V the new. Get them early in the season too.

    Anzac Eve Tigers plus return Friday night match

    QB V Pies with a 2pm Saturday return match

    Bye after Darwin match

    No Geelong at Geelong. Time for others to go there

    Home game V Bombers with us in our proper jumper

    Some fairness in home game schedule V big Vic clubs

    Last game of the year at the G

    13 G games

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    1 hour ago, demon9 said:

    Perhaps this is a little premature, but what are your early wishes for the 2017 fixture?

    Mine would have to be:

    1. St.Kilda at the MCG (so we can beat that hoodoo)

    2. Geelong at the MCG (haven't played them there since 2014)

    3. West Coast at the MCG (last time was round 2 2014)

    4. Richmond twice

    5. Essendon round 1 Friday night (saw that Essendon was proposing this. I think it'd be an awesome way to start 2017 with a win at the G on a Friday night)

    No they can get stuffed.

    That will be a big celebration of their returning drug cheats

    Can we play them round 15

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    47 minutes ago, biggestred said:

    No they can get stuffed.

    That will be a big celebration of their returning drug cheats

    Can we play them round 15

    Agree and a home game against them would be nice - I think we've had one home game v bummers in the last 8 years.

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    I want to see every side get at least one home game on a Friday and a Saturday night.

    I want us to not play ANY home games at Etihad. 

    We have two marquee games in Queens Birthday and ANZAC eve, so we're ok there. 

    With our ladder position we should see two matches against Richmond, Collingwood, St Kilda, GCS, North or Port.  Something around that range. 

    If we saw something like this I'd be pretty happy. 

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    My biggest bugbear with the fixture is that everybody wants to play Friday night games and very few clubs want to play Sunday afternoon games.

    So wouldn't it make sense to schedule two games each Friday night and reduce the three game Sunday arvo commitments to just two games.

    That way you could even decide mid-season which Friday night game is on free-to-air and which is not and the chances of primetime massacres are reduced - remember Carlton in 2015.

    If that were the case then I'd like us to have five Friday nights, five Saturday arvos, five Saturday nights, five Sundays arvos, one Monday (QB v Coll) and one Anzac Eve (v Rich).

     

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    29 minutes ago, RalphiusMaximus said:

    I want to see every side get at least one home game on a Friday and a Saturday night.

    I want us to not play ANY home games at Etihad. 

    We have two marquee games in Queens Birthday and ANZAC eve, so we're ok there. 

    With our ladder position we should see two matches against Richmond, Collingwood, St Kilda, GCS, North or Port.  Something around that range. 

    If we saw something like this I'd be pretty happy. 

    I've got no problem with teams earning the right to play on Friday night as long as its consistent. Consistent being Richmond miss out next year and Collingwood are rained in.

    Probably thinking too much about this but what if you had finish say top 10 to get a Friday night game. Wouldn't be a popular idea but on the whole there was a lot of junk games this year.

     

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    No home game at Etihad against a team who's home ground is Etihad. For the love of God!

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    14 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    No home game at Etihad against a team who's home ground is Etihad. For the love of God!

    Exactly, against an interstate team, please! It's not that bloody difficult.

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    my wish is that essendrugs are not gifted the softest and most financialy attractivel draw of all clubs

    i have zero confidence this will happen however

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    52 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    my wish is that essendrugs are not gifted the softest and most financialy attractivel draw of all clubs

    i have zero confidence this will happen however

     

    This will 100% happen.  Along with the Cats who get the easiest draw every single season.

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    I'd like to play Essendon at the MCG on Sunday 1 May. Why? Because Anzac Day falls on a Tuesday in 2017 meaning Collingwood and Essendon will only get a five day break if the AFL ensures all teams play the next round on the traditional Friday/Saturday/Sunday slots. I'd also be happy if it were to be Collingwood, but given we play them on QB, I assume playing them in May would be less likely.

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    Don't want to play Essendon round 1 friday night. It will be like the march this year where they carried the momentum from fans and rolled us

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    No "home" games at Doglands, and particularly no home games there vs clubs whose home is at that soulless hole

    A bye after Darwin - fair for both teams involved. 

    Home game v drug cheats but not round 1 when they will be "buoyed by the return of the victims of injustice". 

    More Friday night G games than those who finished below us in 2016 NB Collingwood, Richmond, Carltank and EssUndone 

     

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    No playing Geelong in Geelong

    Any home game at Etihad is to be a Friday Night game so as to make the most of having to play there.  Against Adelaide I guess?

    No Friday Night games for Essendon.

    Keep ANZAC Day Eve.

    Saints at the MCG

    Bye after Darwin.

     

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