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Posted
3 hours ago, beelzebub said:

might be just me missing it...

context ? :huh:

The whinging about where it is being played. It's an away game. Against an Etihad tenant. 

Not our home game, means no whinging.

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Posted
9 hours ago, A F said:

He's [censored] off because we shouldn't be relegated to Sunday twilight, particularly two up and coming teams. That hurts sponsorship potential, but at least it's not our home game. If it's a commercial failure ticketing-wise, it falls on St Kilda.

Spot on.

 

Posted
9 hours ago, A F said:

He's [censored] off because we shouldn't be relegated to Sunday twilight, particularly two up and coming teams. That hurts sponsorship potential, but at least it's not our home game. If it's a commercial failure ticketing-wise, it falls on St Kilda.

Not entirely. Low crowd hurts media exposure, which hurts memberships, which hurts branding, which hurts merchandise sales, etc etc.

There are bigger ramifications.

I still predict a crowd in the 40k range. It was 31k when we played on a Sunday in Round 1 in 2014. Both clubs are better placed and there's more riding on this. Don't imagine it'll be a small crowd. Book your seats.

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Posted
43 minutes ago, praha said:

Not entirely. Low crowd hurts media exposure, which hurts memberships, which hurts branding, which hurts merchandise sales, etc etc.

There are bigger ramifications.

I still predict a crowd in the 40k range. It was 31k when we played on a Sunday in Round 1 in 2014. Both clubs are better placed and there's more riding on this. Don't imagine it'll be a small crowd. Book your seats.

Poor time slots hurt sponsorship though and I think that's why he'd be most [censored] off.

Posted

May not be too disastrous.

plenty of people in town for GP and not all like to stay at the track.

imaginative marketing and maybe packaging provides plenty of potential to build interest.

Align with a GP team with red and blue colours and adopt them for the weekend.

players in celebrity shots with high profile visitors, promotional tickets at discounted rates for celebs. Packages for Melb members including discounts for GP tickets

Associate with the high performance and quality of an International team.

Maybe get some joint sponsorship arrangement with existing GP team, and enhance above appearances.

Build the crowd with AFL and govt major events people. Put our club in a positive light.

All better than a minor match against an interstate team.

Oh and prepare and select the team that will match up and beat St Kilda

WIN

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Posted (edited)

not a twilight game.  there is a game in WA so theyll be 4:40 you'd think.

we'll be the old 3pm game, which I dont mind.

Only 5 months of this thread to go!   :o

Edited by DubDee
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Posted
8 minutes ago, DubDee said:

not a twilight game.  there is a game in WA so theyll be 4:40 you'd think.

we'll be the old 3pm game, which I dont mind.

Only 5 months of this thread to go!   :o

Yep, read somewhere it's a 3.20 game. Twilight-ish. But could mean we get the free to air TV spot?

 


Posted
1 hour ago, praha said:

Not entirely. Low crowd hurts media exposure, which hurts memberships, which hurts branding, which hurts merchandise sales, etc etc.

There are bigger ramifications.

I still predict a crowd in the 40k range. It was 31k when we played on a Sunday in Round 1 in 2014. Both clubs are better placed and there's more riding on this. Don't imagine it'll be a small crowd. Book your seats.

2014 was a night game

Posted
5 hours ago, stuie said:

Yep, read somewhere it's a 3.20 game. Twilight-ish. But could mean we get the free to air TV spot?

 

We appear to be the middle Sunday game so I can't see how it wouldn't be a channel 7 game.

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Posted
1 minute ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

We appear to be the middle Sunday game so I can't see how it wouldn't be a channel 7 game.

Up against live free to air telecast of the Grand Prix..... what a bonanza for our sponsors

However you spin it we have been once again allocated the graveyard shift !!!

 

Posted
10 hours ago, dpositive said:

May not be too disastrous.

plenty of people in town for GP and not all like to stay at the track.

imaginative marketing and maybe packaging provides plenty of potential to build interest.

Align with a GP team with red and blue colours and adopt them for the weekend.

players in celebrity shots with high profile visitors, promotional tickets at discounted rates for celebs. Packages for Melb members including discounts for GP tickets

Associate with the high performance and quality of an International team.

Maybe get some joint sponsorship arrangement with existing GP team, and enhance above appearances.

Build the crowd with AFL and govt major events people. Put our club in a positive light.

All better than a minor match against an interstate team.

Oh and prepare and select the team that will match up and beat St Kilda

WIN

Your name is very appropriate :)

Posted

The full 2017 AFL fixture comes out on Thursday.

New opponents in NT for us:  We play GCS as a twilight game in Alice in round 10 and Adelaide in round 17 in Darwin.  http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-10-25/new-nt-foes-for-demons

Given that our club has deemed that we play there, I don't mind those opponents.  If the AFL change our opponents each year it gives us a better chance at a home ground advantage and having the majority of the people at the game supporting us on the night.

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Posted (edited)

So that confirms we wont have the bye on the return game from Darwin.

Should have been the absolute #1 priority for us.

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Posted

Thank god we don't have to play Port in Alice Springs.

That game was like a genuine away game given that the crowd was 75/25 Port's way.

Playing Adelaide in Darwin is neither here or there. At least they've never played up there so it may give us an advantage. The bad news is that it's round 17 like this year so no bye either side of the game.

Posted
1 hour ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

The full 2017 AFL fixture comes out on Thursday.

New opponents in NT for us:  We play GCS as a twilight game in Alice in round 10 and Adelaide in round 17 in Darwin.  http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-10-25/new-nt-foes-for-demons

Given that our club has deemed that we play there, I don't mind those opponents.  If the AFL change our opponents each year it gives us a better chance at a home ground advantage and having the majority of the people at the game supporting us on the night.

2 teams that we don't normally draw much of a crowd to at the G so if we have to play in the NT those aren't the worst options.

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Posted

I reckon we're going to be pleasantly surprised by our fixture for 2017, especially given we're widely seen as now ready to push into finals...

Posted

Would be nice to get at least one Friday night game

Posted
11 hours ago, DeeZee said:

Would be nice to get at least one Friday night game

we get the Monday night before Anzac day against Richmond ..... will be lucky to get another game in anywhere near prime time

Perhaps we could get an interstate game on a Thursday night but don't hold your breath

Posted
20 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

we get the Monday night before Anzac day against Richmond ..... will be lucky to get another game in anywhere near prime time

Perhaps we could get an interstate game on a Thursday night but don't hold your breath

It'd be an absolute disgrace If the Monday night against Richmond is the only real free to air prime time game we get. We haven't had a Friday night game since 2012. Surely we're deserving of one now considering we're one of the many teams expected to push for finals next year.

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