Collingwood and the Dees are set to be denied a Friday Night Round 1 Blockbuster game.

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Saying we are playing lions at gabba in round 2, so you would assume we get a home game round 1 

Round 1 V Adelaide a possibility?

It's Adelaide's turn to travel and add in the Jake Lever factor.

 

JLT games:

Sat Feb 24 - 2:05pm

North V Melbourne - Kingston Hobart

Thu Mar 8 - 7:05pm

Melbourne V St Kilda - Casey Fields

 

Surprising if we play crows r1 and its in Melbourne, would've thought they'd want that match in Adelaide. Although if we're playing Gabba R2 would be a bit rough to start the year with back to back interstate games.

7 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Surprising if we play crows r1 and its in Melbourne, would've thought they'd want that match in Adelaide. Although if we're playing Gabba R2 would be a bit rough to start the year with back to back interstate games.

Would be unprecedented if a VIC club starts the season with two interstate trips. Has never happened.

So lock it in that we'll be playing West Coast round 1 in Perth, then Brisbane round 2 at the GABBA.

28 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Would be unprecedented if a VIC club starts the season with two interstate trips. Has never happened.

So lock it in that we'll be playing West Coast round 1 in Perth, then Brisbane round 2 at the GABBA.

Round 3 - port at adelaide

round 4- sydney at scg

round 5 - gws at spotless

round 6- Adelaide at Adelaide 

 and finally in round 7 a home game against 

St Kilda at ........ Etihad!

38 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Cats go to Townsville in the middle of cyclone season...enjoy the trip.

1 hour ago, Dirts said:

Round 3 - port at adelaide

round 4- sydney at scg

round 5 - gws at spotless

round 6- Adelaide at Adelaide 

 and finally in round 7 a home game against 

St Kilda at ........ Etihad!

Scary enough as you could be right. But I think we will have a game in vic in between founds 3 and 4.

So round 4 would be cats at simmonds.

2 hours ago, Dirts said:

Round 3 - port at adelaide

round 4- sydney at scg

round 5 - gws at spotless

round 6- Adelaide at Adelaide 

 and finally in round 7 a home game against 

St Kilda at ........ Etihad!

We usually get a lot of home games early then do a tour of Aus in the second half of the year. Wouldn't mind if it's reversed next year.

3 hours ago, Demonland said:

Saints will be happy to play at casey against us. Practically could run their family day there that night. Casey and that region is St Kilda heartland and will never be Melbournes anything 

4 hours ago, Demonland said:

Collingwood and the Dees are set to be denied a Friday Night Round 1 Blockbuster game.

Thread for actual news not wishes.

I still can't get used to seeing the words 'Melbourne' and 'Blockbuster' in the same sentence!

things on the up

Damn, I would have liked the 'Pies first-up. Hope it's not the Crows. Then it'll become all about Lever which puts unnecessary and unfair pressure on the kid. 

5 hours ago, Go the Biff said:

Damn, I would have liked the 'Pies first-up. Hope it's not the Crows. Then it'll become all about Lever which puts unnecessary and unfair pressure on the kid. 

Also the Crows going flat chat to redeeming themselves to their fans.

We are playing geelong round 1 Sunday arvo 

Our Round 1 game in 2018 is a home game against Geelong at the MCG on Sunday March 25 @ 3:20pm.

AFL Round 1, 2018

Thursday, March 22

Richmond v Carlton, MCG, 7.25pm

Friday, March 23

Essendon v Adelaide, Etihad Stadium, 7.50pm

Saturday, March 24

St Kilda v Brisbane Lions, Etihad Stadium, 3.35pm

Port Adelaide v Fremantle, Adelaide Oval, 4.35pm

Gold Coast v North Melbourne, Cazaly’s Stadium, Cairns, 7.25pm

Hawthorn v Collingwood, MCG, 7.25pm

Sunday, March 25

Greater Western Sydney v Western Bulldogs, Canberra, 1.10pm

Melbourne v Geelong, MCG, 3.20pm

West Coast v Sydney, Perth Stadium, 7.10pm

Tough way to start the year but hey it’s not in Geelong. 

yessss we get to be the first to crush dangerwoodblett

No issues with that. Home game on our home ground. A great way to start the season and test ourselves. 

Will be a huge turnout. Very happy. 

Massive first game.  60 plus at the G.

Demons to smack the Cats, Hogsn to kick 7. 

3 Brownlow votes - C Oliver 

Thats a great test first up.

We would have beaten them earlier in the year if we didn't lose Gawn during the game.  They ran over us in the end, but we had them covered until 3 quarter time.

Lever vs Ablett? 

Huge first game, and our first game at the G against then in four years, since 2014?

Hope we kick better this time around than last time.