19 minutes ago, Jibroni said:

 

And we had our last three at the G and no travel issues hence why I can see the AFL scheduled as they did.

If the game was today do you think we would have won based on yesterdays rubbish?

 

No. But that was not my point

3 hours ago, binman said:

Ill preface this comment by saying im not in any way excusing yesterdays performance. We were woeful, partic in that first quarter.

But it was completely unnessary for the afl to give us a six day break. And unfair given the likely stakes they were aware of when deciding the schedule that our opponent had 7 days.  And inequitable given how many 6 day breaks they had already given us.

Our competition was with the Richmond-St Kilda game and they gave preference to Richmond over us (and St Kilda over Collingwood, too, given St Kilda was in contention for finals but Collingwood was not).

Makes sense, even if it was frustrating.

3 hours ago, praha said:

Unfortunately the schedule just didnt work in our favour because of last week's games. Richmond was alway going to get 7 days because of the late Perth game last week. However given the ladder position of Freo and Collingwood, it would have made more sense to swap the Essendon and Melbourne games. End of the day it was a flip of the coin. It was a tougher turnaround for us because we played a co-tenant. The only game that could have been swapped was these two games. Essendon has an 8 day break. It's an astonishing oversight by the league.

How can they swap our game with Essendon's? Richmond-St Kilda is at the G, that's the problem - we couldn't have played at 1.10pm today with that game on.

4 hours ago, praha said:

Unfortunately the schedule just didnt work in our favour because of last week's games. Richmond was alway going to get 7 days because of the late Perth game last week. However given the ladder position of Freo and Collingwood, it would have made more sense to swap the Essendon and Melbourne games. End of the day it was a flip of the coin. It was a tougher turnaround for us because we played a co-tenant. The only game that could have been swapped was these two games. Essendon has an 8 day break. It's an astonishing oversight by the league.

Why do you think it was an oversight?  Don't you, like many here myself included, believe in conspiracy theories?

37 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Our competition was with the Richmond-St Kilda game and they gave preference to Richmond over us (and St Kilda over Collingwood, too, given St Kilda was in contention for finals but Collingwood was not).

Makes sense, even if it was frustrating.

 

No it doesn't. If saints had played tigers yesterday both teams would have been coming off a six day break. Which is fair. We were coming off a six day break and pies a seven day break. Which is totally unfair given they had a viable alternative.

And making it worse in terms of favoring the tigers and saints with that decision we have been very harshly treated in terms of six day breaks this season and neither the saints or tigers have

what is fair, we all have different draws, and play some teams twice and others once. some play interstate more than others, some like geelong and interstate sides have huge home advantages. we cannot make this totally fair. our players need to turn up and play regardless of where, when or who.