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Interesting(-ish) that the Darwin game is Round 11 and the Alice game is Round 18.

Our Alice Springs game has been Round 9-11, the last weekend in May, ever since we started playing it. That's now the Darwin game.

Meanwhile since 2011 our Darwin game has been in July, in predominantly Round 17.

I wonder why they effectively have switched them.

This is also the 5th straight year we've not played West Coast at the G.

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    1 hour ago, Leoncelli_36 said:

    GIving up these games in the NT is still pi55ing me off. It’s always against an SA and WA side who gain more from playing there than we do, other than financially. The support for both sides is always far greater. It also makes it a 50:50 scenario, which would otherwise favour us at The G. When will we drop this ? 

    Yep.  We don't need to be giving the reigning premier any advantage, would rather we play St Kilda or Carlton tbh.

    Doesn't feel right that we are virtually selling our home game against the team that knocked us out in the prelim.

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    8 minutes ago, ChaserJ said:

    Yep.  We don't need to be giving the reigning premier any advantage, would rather we play St Kilda or Carlton tbh.

    Doesn't feel right that we are virtually selling our home game against the team that knocked us out in the prelim.

    would have got a 30k crowd at least for this match at the MCG if not more.

    The idea that it would be loss making holds no water any more unless we are talking of Gold Coast or Freo.

    NT just makes no sense from so many angles.

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    8 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    would have got a 30k crowd at least for this match at the MCG if not more.

    The idea that it would be loss making holds no water any more unless we are talking of Gold Coast or Freo.

    NT just makes no sense from so many angles.

    Besides the club believing the $$$ are worth it?

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    What a joke of an “organization” ....  Gil and his band of merry men are really a bunch of amateurs running a multi million dollar business.

    They have what about 6 weeks to do one thing, arrange the “draw” or fixedture more like it .... and they can’t get it right!

    Clowns ... though that is a bit unfair on clowns, as they at least are generally funny. 

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    I was hoping our financial health was strong enough to play only one gane in NT? This is a weird situation.

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    30 minutes ago, Jibroni said:

    I was hoping our financial health was strong enough to play only one gane in NT? This is a weird situation.

    It wouldn’t be a decision taken lightly and most likely would’ve been analysed by all levels of the clubs admin - the pros outweighing the cons.

    Anyway, it sure beats going to China. 

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    1 hour ago, McQueen said:

    It wouldn’t be a decision taken lightly and most likely would’ve been analysed by all levels of the clubs admin - the pros outweighing the cons.

    Or ...we where just bent over like the MFC often is. We have GOT to stop frikn playing in Darwin. Utter stupidity when we r a chance to be top 4.  I can only imagine we’ve been forced. 

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    3 hours ago, Leoncelli_36 said:

    GIving up these games in the NT is still [censored] me off. It’s always against an SA and WA side who gain more from playing there than we do, other than financially. The support for both sides is always far greater. It also makes it a 50:50 scenario, which would otherwise favour us at The G. When will we drop this ? 

    Agree.

    Will be over half a decade since we have played West Coast at the G.

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    40 minutes ago, Wells 11 said:

    Or ...we where just bent over like the MFC often is. We have GOT to stop frikn playing in Darwin. Utter stupidity when we r a chance to be top 4.  I can only imagine we’ve been forced. 

    We’re not being forced to play in the NT, they’re a major partner of ours that contributes a lot into our coffers. That said I also wish we could move on from it, or reduce it to 1 match a year alternating between Darwin and Alice. 

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    4 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

    Interesting(-ish) that the Darwin game is Round 11 and the Alice game is Round 18.

    Our Alice Springs game has been Round 9-11, the last weekend in May, ever since we started playing it. That's now the Darwin game.

    Meanwhile since 2011 our Darwin game has been in July, in predominantly Round 17.

    I wonder why they effectively have switched them.

    This is also the 5th straight year we've not played West Coast at the G.

    Just another example from the AFL of their sectarian interests rendering maximised profits, and underpinning poor decisions and judgement from the past. The whole fixture arrangement represents a chook raffle mentality in a crowded pub. 

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    No matter what the fixture is someone will complain, just shut up about going to the NT. We will be going there twice every year for the next 5 at least, and we will get a few 6 day breaks that does not matter, unless we get 3 in a row the team always loses the  third game. 

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    7 hours ago, Wells 11 said:

    Or ...we where just bent over like the MFC often is. We have GOT to stop frikn playing in Darwin. Utter stupidity when we r a chance to be top 4.  I can only imagine we’ve been forced. 

    Bingo

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    I agree ditch the darwin game. 

    Dam i was hoping to finally play west coast at the g. 

    Oh and on mmm this morning they said the Queens birthday game will be the pies home game.  

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    8 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    Agree.

    Will be over half a decade since we have played West Coast at the G.

    But we still get sent to Geelong nearly every year while other clubs never go there. 

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    Ironic that we're all complaining about Darwin, yet in 2018 we ended up winning 7 of the next 9 games after Darwin which included our best month of footy (rd 22 - semi final) since 2006. 

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    42 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Ironic that we're all complaining about Darwin, yet in 2018 we ended up winning 7 of the next 9 games after Darwin which included our best month of footy (rd 22 - semi final) since 2006. 

    The thing I don't like about selling the game is that it's two games we've lost home ground advantage. Particularly against someone like the Eagles we've given up a significant advantage. 

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    43 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Ironic that we're all complaining about Darwin, yet in 2018 we ended up winning 7 of the next 9 games after Darwin which included our best month of footy (rd 22 - semi final) since 2006. 

    Agreed but I'd still rather not have to travel and play in those conditions and I'd also prefer to play both Adelaide and West Coast at the G.

    And just so I can have my cake and eat it too I'll still take the $1 million from the NT and AFL. ?

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    1 hour ago, Redleg said:

    But we still get sent to Geelong nearly every year while other clubs never go there. 

    Correct. You can throw StKilda, North and Footscray into that mix but not all of those 4 sides will playdown there in 1 year. Maybe 3. If Geelong are getting 9 home games at Kardinia then they must be playing a lot of interstate clubs there which will only help their home ground advantage. Out of 9 games they may play a minimum of 5 interstate sides with the other 4 being against the above mentioned. They are given the biggest home town advantage of any club in the AFL and it stinks.

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    Just now, dl4e said:

    Correct. You can throw StKilda, North and Footscray into that mix but not all of those 4 sides will playdown there in 1 year. Maybe 3. If Geelong are getting 9 home games at Kardinia then they must be playing a lot of interstate clubs there which will only help their home ground advantage. Out of 9 games they may play a minimum of 5 interstate sides with the other 4 being against the above mentioned. They are given the biggest home town advantage of any club in the AFL and it stinks.

    They are also up there on my short list of clubs that probably bitched and complained about the draw forcing the AFL to bend over and redo the fixture.

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    We better not be sent to geelong.  I would like to think that after our great season and crowds figures can justify not sending us down there

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    1 hour ago, Demonland said:

     

    WTF?

    Looks like we're playing a Saturday game (and Tiges for that matter) and then need to back it up on the Wednesday for Anzac eve but the Pies and Bombers have been given extra 1 and 2 days recovery time for their Anzac day game..

    I was certain we'd get a Friday game this round but I guess you've got to wear it every now and then if you want an Anzac fixture.

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    Just now, McQueen said:

    WTFl?

    Looks like we're playing a Saturday game (and Tiges for that matter) and then need to back it up on the Wednesday for Anzac eve but the Pies and Bombers have been given extra 1 and 2 days recovery time for their Anzac day game..

    I was certain we'd get a Friday game this round.

    I think you're making a big assumption that the AFL aren't going to make us play on the Sunday.

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    1 minute ago, Demonland said:

    I think you're making a big assumption that the AFL aren't going to make us play on the Sunday.

    That's your off-season MFCSS kicking in.

    Back on your meds.

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