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I honestly cannot wait to finally get some fixture reward next year. It will have so many benefits from membership all the way through to getting more experience playing games on the big stage. The club has worked incredibly hard on all levels to get us to this point and I couldn't be happier we are starting to see the fruits of this labor. Well done MFC - exciting times indeed!  

 

You'd have to expect 3-4 friday night and 1-2 thursdays next year

you cannot say we are boring, we are either great to watch attacking/hard play or great to watch us choke (for the neutrals)

or just tune in for the Clarry Clinic

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1 hour ago, small but forward said:

Believe it when I see it DL

This. The AFL are beholden to all sorts of influences and have taken around 6 different stances on Friday night games and who deserves them. I don't believe anything they say.


I want more night games. Be it Friday or Saturday. We deserve the exposure ffs. 

Can make do without Thursday nights. They are hard to attend for people who work. 

Don't like Fridays from apersonal perspective but I guess it is good for the club

 
1 hour ago, jnrmac said:

This. The AFL are beholden to all sorts of influences and have taken around 6 different stances on Friday night games and who deserves them. I don't believe anything they say.

They have their agenda, and fairness and equity have absolutely nothing to do with it, whatever they say.

Lying, and making up rules on the run are part of their DNA.

I suspect that when Vlad resigned, and the search was on for his replacement, these were the top rated KPIs, and Gill met the criteria better than any.

Edited by monoccular


1 hour ago, jnrmac said:

This. The AFL are beholden to all sorts of influences and have taken around 6 different stances on Friday night games and who deserves them. I don't believe anything they say.

Agree. I think the thing in our favor is that we are high scoring and the value of a game to a tv network is a function of ratings plus advertising time (ads after each goal).

If Friday ratings are not traditionally correlated to how well a club is supported, but rather how important the game is,  or how tight a contest is expected, we might actually fit the criteria for once. 

Edited by deanox

Gotta be happy that our last 5 games are all FTA, and then add finals as well.  When we are on, we play the game in a style that is great to watch - even for neutrals!

(this post was sponsored by the anti MFCSS league)

 

If we are aiming to drop the $10m + per year from One Arm Bandits, the club will need a much stronger hook to get more out of sponsorships like SWYL says.

We only deserve to put our hand up if we make finals this year (which i think we will). Carlton absolutely MUST miss out if form is even a small part of the formula, which ofc it isnt.

Because AFL income.

Play finals this year, get more Friday and Sat night games on FTA TV in 2019, more members, more kids choose to barrack for the Dees....

Win/Win, triple win


Because Anzac Day next year is on a Thursday, we then play Wednesday night. This would mean the week before we will probably play on the Thursday or Friday night. And hopefully the Friday night night following Anzac Day against Essendon.

Edited by Damo

Im the opposite. When we play Sundays there is not much to read about in the papers as opposed to playing Friday.

Understand the monetary rewards for the club in more night games, but as someone who prefers to attend games over watching tv, it’s going to reduce the value I get out of my membership.

I guess I’m in the minority, but afternoons (preferably Saturday) is the best time to attend. Not only is the quality of footy better during the day due to lack of dew and reduced ball fumbling, pretty confident average scores for day games are well above night games. 

Day games also are much better for going out with family and friends afterwards to celebrate a win with drinks and dinner and still get home at a reasonable time.

Money overrides everything and the attending spectator is becoming increasingly irrelevant.  


7 minutes ago, The Chief said:

Understand the monetary rewards for the club in more night games, but as someone who prefers to attend games over watching tv, it’s going to reduce the value I get out of my membership.

I guess I’m in the minority, but afternoons (preferably Saturday) is the best time to attend. Not only is the quality of footy better during the day due to lack of dew and reduced ball fumbling, pretty confident average scores for day games are well above night games. 

Day games also are much better for going out with family and friends afterwards to celebrate a win with drinks and dinner and still get home at a reasonable time.

Money overrides everything and the attending spectator is becoming increasingly irrelevant.  

i'm the same

gimme a saturday arvo at the footy to go to - i understand friday nights is the 'marquee' slot, but i don't think the scoring will be that much different from day to night necessarily

football is made to be watched live, no matter day or night

personally speaking the timeslot i can't stand is the twilight spot - it's neither here nor there, and in melbourne in winter it is FREEZING

I don't really care when / where the game is, I know Friday nights mean more money however as long as we win I don't give a rat's where it is or at any time. If we won 22 games they can play them in Darwin at 9pm sunday.

1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

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It’s also young kids watching Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. 

We need to build a new generation(s) of kids who love the Demons

Exposure in Prime Time is the only way

 
8 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

It’s also young kids watching Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. 

We need to build a new generation(s) of kids who love the Demons

Exposure in Prime Time is the only way

It's not just 7.50PM games though. Lots of kids will be in bed before half time, if not earlier.

We don't have a good record on Friday nights. Maybe that is the MFCSS syndrome coming out but I would rather play at 2:10  every Saturday.


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