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The Conferences are:

1. Collingwood, Carlton, Western Bulldogs, Melbourne, Richmond, Fremantle, West Coast

2. St Kilda, Geelong, North Melbourne, Adelaide, Greater Western Sydney, Brisbane Lions, Gold Coast

Past Premiers:  Western Bulldogs, Brisbane Lions.

New Teams:  Richmond, West Coast, St Kilda, Gold Coast

On paper the conferences look reasonably even.  However, it is the teams in the other conference that a club doesn't play that will be telling.  So there is a fair chance the 'new teams' will not be fixtured to play the strong teams in the opposite Conference which means we are likely to play the top teams of Conf 2:  Adelaide, Greater Western Sydney, Brisbane Lions.

The Conference system hurt us last year (and we shot ourselves in the foot a few times) but a fixture featuring those teams from Conf 2 will make finals for us a tough ask.  

The tip is we will play Collingwood in round 1:  "Industry sources suggested round one would feature a double-header at Ikon Park featuring Carlton v Richmond and Collingwood v Melbourne, as well as a meeting of the Saints and Bulldogs".

Full fixture out Tuesday morning.

 

Firstly, correction to the above post.  Adelaide were premiers in 2017, not Brisbane.

Another Update to the Conferences noted in op:

Conference A: Adelaide Crows, Gold Coast, Richmond, Brisbane Lions, Geelong, GWS North Melbourne.

Conference B:  Carlton, Collingwood, Fremantle, Melbourne, St Kilda, West Coast Eagles, Western Bulldogs.

The full fixture:  AFLW 2020 Fixture

For the Demons:

 

 

This is a very good fixture for us.  Despite my fears yesterday, of playing the top teams in Conference 2, we play a new team (GCS) and North.  Very lucky to avoid Adelaide, Richmond and Lions.

The only downer is a poor long haul travel schedule with back-to-back games in Round 6 in Alice on a Saturday and then over to Perth for a Sunday day (!!!) game.  But they are our only two interstate games so nothing to complain about.

Last years problem with the Conference system is amplified this year:  There will be 5 teams in the comp that each team does not play.  Hardly, a good way of determining the best teams to play finals which will be the top 2 teams in each Conference.

We have a very good chance of making finals in that we are in the 'easier' Conference.   The two tough teams we play are North and Bulldogs.  We must make the most of the opportunities the draw gives us this year.  Each year we have kicked ourselves out of the finals with poor goal accuracy.  Hopefully we fix that this year.

Edited September 17, 20232 yr by Lucifers Hero

Agree with you Lucifer that this looks like a good football draw for us. 
We play 3 out of the four expansion teams but only 1 of the three top teams from conference A last year. And we aren’t scheduled to play Adelaide, well, till finals anyway. 
Also there is some new player called Daisy who should be a handy addition for us, Birch will be a top 5 player and Pearce just won the Brownlow of the VFLW. 
Fingers crossed the domino’s will fall our way next year. 

PS. Does O’dea remain Captain or was she just holding onto it for the year?

Would be surprised if Daisy didn't regain the captaincy.

FIXTURE UPDATE

Melbourne will now play their Round 4 game on Friday 28th of February against Collingwood at Marvel Stadium. The game was originally fixture at Victoria Park.

It will be a double header with the men's State of Origin Bushfire Relief event.

Times TBA (hopefully not 4pm or something ridiculous).

Really glad this has come together as I wasn't looking forward to choosing between events. And glad that both comps can be involved in a very worthy cause.