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Demonland   73,875

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Another game against Essendon. Another Away game against Essendon.

Obviously we won't be wearing our regular strip so will we be allowed to wear the Royal Blue number or is will it be considered to have too much red in it?

Will we be forced to brush the mothballs off the 2017 White Clash monstrosity?

beelzebub Legend

beelzebub   23,390

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Lets wear the Red Back ;)

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Another game against Essendon. Another Away game against Essendon.

Obviously we won't be wearing our regular strip so will we be allowed to wear the Royal Blue number or is will it be considered to have too much red in it?

Will we be forced to brush the mothballs off the 2017 White Clash monstrosity?

Since 2005 we have played 1 home game against Essendon. Why is this? it is absolutely appalling. Another example of the stupid nature of the "Fixture"

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McQueen Legend

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Must be the Royal Blue one

The white has been entirely sh*tcanned hasn't it?

We beat them last year in the white... :blink:

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TeamPlayedFine39   8,525

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I would hope its the Royal Blue.

Looks good IMHO and there's no possible way of confusing the two jumpers.

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Bring-Back-Powell   15,361

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Since 2005 we have played 1 home game against Essendon. Why is this? it is absolutely appalling. Another example of the stupid nature of the "Fixture"

The MCC has requested we play Carlton and Essendon as away games at the MCG in order to play more MCG games in a given year.

The trouble is the last 2 years the AFL have scheduled our Essendon away game at Etihad. 

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Since 2005 we have played 1 home game against Essendon. Why is this? it is absolutely appalling. Another example of the stupid nature of the "Fixture"

You do realise that we have to have a balance of home vs away games for a year, don't you?

To get your wish of a home game against Essendon, it would mean we have to give up a home game against someone else.  Want to give up Queen's Birthday?  Anzac Eve when it's our turn?

I'm sure we'd all prefer to give up the Northern Territory games, but it provides an income that we currently rely on.

The only "fair" way to do a fixture (in terms of playing teams both home and away), is to have a rotational fixture over a set number of years (possibly 2 or 3).  I just hope you realise that if we do this, there will be years where we miss out on hosting our marquee games.

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Since 2005 we have played 1 home game against Essendon. Why is this? it is absolutely appalling. Another example of the stupid nature of the "Fixture"

At least many of those have been at the G to maximise the attendance through the MCC. I guess now we're stuck playing them after Anzac Day so it's almost certain to be at Etihad with Collingwood v Richmond at the G.

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At least any of those have been at the G to maximise the attendance through the MCC. I guess now we're stuck playing them after Anzac Day so it's almost certain to be at Etihad with Collingwood v Richmond at the G.

This is such a typical negative attitude.

When Anzac Day is on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, there's absolutely no reason we have to be "stuck" playing Essendon the following week.

Seriously, a lot of our supporters are as mentally soft, if not softer, as many of the blokes that get to pull on our jumper.

pewpewpew Demon

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54 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Another game against Essendon. Another Away game against Essendon.

Obviously we won't be wearing our regular strip so will we be allowed to wear the Royal Blue number or is will it be considered to have too much red in it?

Will we be forced to brush the mothballs off the 2017 White Clash monstrosity?

I always assumed that the AFL made us play away to Essendon because they didn't force Essendon to have a suitable clash guernsey hence forcing us to wear that White jumper.

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Deemented Are Go!   3,704

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20 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Since 2005 we have played 1 home game against Essendon. Why is this? it is absolutely appalling. Another example of the stupid nature of the "Fixture"

Good question Jnr. Is there an economic reason, some arrangement between the clubs we don’t know about? 

Or is it just the evil corrupt AFL head honchos in their ivory Tower conspiring to [censored] the MFC and help out the Bummers in every way possible? 

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3 minutes ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

I guess this means royal blue

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It bears repeating, but if Essendon is wearing black shorts and we're wearing white shorts, why do we even need a clash jumper? (Rhetorical question. We all know the answer which is "Because. The AFL says so, even though there isn't a good reason.")

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43 minutes ago, McQueen said:

The white has been entirely sh*tcanned hasn't it?

We beat them last year in the white... :blink:

As far as I'm aware

44 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

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Hopefully either the one on the left or the right.

Not a fan of the royal blue.

My 5yo son likes the Royal Blue jumper better than the Navy Blue one :laugh:


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53 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Since 2005 we have played 1 home game against Essendon. Why is this? it is absolutely appalling. Another example of the stupid nature of the "Fixture"

I remember reading some time ago that this was the "compromise" instituted by the AFL for always having a home game against Collingwood.

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55 minutes ago, The Chazz said:

You do realise that we have to have a balance of home vs away games for a year, don't you?

To get your wish of a home game against Essendon, it would mean we have to give up a home game against someone else.  Want to give up Queen's Birthday?  Anzac Eve when it's our turn?

I'm sure we'd all prefer to give up the Northern Territory games, but it provides an income that we currently rely on.

The only "fair" way to do a fixture (in terms of playing teams both home and away), is to have a rotational fixture over a set number of years (possibly 2 or 3).  I just hope you realise that if we do this, there will be years where we miss out on hosting our marquee games.

What a condescending post and a BS argument. No one else has to give up 'blockbuster' games, nor should we.

In any case I'd be happy to give up playing Gold Coast at the G or Frem.

In addition to Essendon, since 2005 we have only had:

5 homes games against Carlton

7 v Richmond

5 v Geelong

And for example, Carlton haven't played at Geelong since 1997, Ess since 1993 and Coll since 1999.

No wonder teams have such different gate receipts from football. We are denied access to big games against large drawing Vic clubs and its wrong.

And BTW we rotate the ANZAC day Eve game with Richmond.

 

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Watts2Hogan Demon

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1 hour ago, The Chazz said:

This is such a typical negative attitude.

When Anzac Day is on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, there's absolutely no reason we have to be "stuck" playing Essendon the following week.

Seriously, a lot of our supporters are as mentally soft, if not softer, as many of the blokes that get to pull on our jumper.

Seriously, pull ya head in, I'm not being negative nor am I mentally soft. Fact is whilst we play Anzac eve the AFL will fixture us against one of the teams that plays on Anzac Day. The Pies are out given QB, which leaves Essendon. Yes when it falls on a weekend it's a moot point, but when it's coming off a short break we'll play Essendon most likely at Docklands - which isn't a problem in my book.

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