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Revised 2020 Fixture

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2 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

One thing they are waiting for is the logistics to be determined for the SA round 2 game. SA govt are refusing to allow people such as umpires TV cameramen etc to fly in. They will need to be locally based.

That’ll be interesting, I could be wrong but I believe SA only has two locally based AFL umpires. 

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    26 minutes ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

    geelong's home games will be against: adelaide, brisbane, fremantle, gc17, port, sydney, meth coke and us

    If ever a poster resembled his avatar ... cheer up Andrew!!  ☺️

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    I know the draw matters, but I'm honestly getting to the point that I don't care who we play where, I just want to see us play again and start building some winning form.

    I hope that the long break to Rd 2 has given our boys time to stew on things and get super hungry to play and for some success.

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    On 5/21/2020 at 5:52 PM, McQueen said:

    We will play either:

    Dogs

    Saints or;

    Roos

    Because the AFL will set the other big Victorian clubs up to play each other first up. 

    If the latest reports are correct you’re on the money Steve. Details emerging it could well be Hawks v Cats in R2.

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    I posted this on another thread but if the WA and SA clubs get away with calling all games in the Qld hub away games the impact is dramatic....

    "If Eagles etc have only played away prior to Round 8 they will have played away 7 times. At most they will need to play away two more times and of course one of those away games could be against Freo in Perth. It will then mean that following Round 7 Melbourne teams will on average be playing interstate once every two weeks while the likes of Crows and Eagles will not travel again.

    The Eagles will have their revenge not to mention a massive home  ground advantage. It is lucky that Brisbane are an okay team or we could quite likely see the Eagles going 8-0 and then having 8 or nine games in Perth."

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    On 5/22/2020 at 2:29 PM, Ethan Tremblay said:

    My money is on us playing St Kilda at Marvel on the Sunday in our first game back. 

    Blockbuster!

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    On 5/22/2020 at 2:29 PM, Ethan Tremblay said:

    My money is on us playing St Kilda at Marvel on the Sunday in our first game back. 

    Blockbuster!

    This is the murderer's time to shine now.

    I reckon we'll see some more stupid rules introduced, shorter quarters (for the players welfare of course) and my money is on a night grand final.

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    On 5/22/2020 at 2:29 PM, Ethan Tremblay said:

    My money is on us playing St Kilda at Marvel on the Sunday in our first game back. 

    looking forward to Kent playing the best game of his career and tearing us up.

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    We’ll either be playing the following for round 2:

    Carlton, Essendon, GWS, North, St Kilda, Sydney or Bulldogs.

    We should be able to beat any of those sides aside from GWS if last year was an aberration. Whether we do is another story...

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    There are no crowds so it shouldn’t matter, at all who or where we play. 
     

    Edited by Sir Why You Little

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    Knowing the history of the Afl & how it treats the MFC they will crucify us with more interstate travel & Sunday games & tigers , pies will get 14 home games 

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    [censored] west coast love to whinge dont they.

    any game we play in qld is an away game

    cant we have more than 25 staff like everyone else

    VFL bias

     

    you dont hear this from any other club

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    5 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    I posted this on another thread but if the WA and SA clubs get away with calling all games in the Qld hub away games the impact is dramatic....

    "If Eagles etc have only played away prior to Round 8 they will have played away 7 times. At most they will need to play away two more times and of course one of those away games could be against Freo in Perth. It will then mean that following Round 7 Melbourne teams will on average be playing interstate once every two weeks while the likes of Crows and Eagles will not travel again.

    The Eagles will have their revenge not to mention a massive home  ground advantage. It is lucky that Brisbane are an okay team or we could quite likely see the Eagles going 8-0 and then having 8 or nine games in Perth."

    This won’t happen as the AFL cant be guaranteed that WA will open their borders.  They have already come out and said they might not open until October 

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    32 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

    This won’t happen as the AFL cant be guaranteed that WA will open their borders.  They have already come out and said they might not open until October 

    think about it.... if all the Qld games before round 8 are away games then even if they are stuck in Qld their remaining "home games" will be in Qld.They wont have to travel. It's a guaranteed win. Same for the SA teams if they get a similar ruling.

    Will the AFL allow it... who knows..... but the Eagles football manager was quoted as saying that was his understanding of how it would work.

    "The Eagles are ramping up their preparations for their month-long stint at the Gold Coast high performance centre, with no players so far making themselves unavailable for the trip.

    Vozzo said he understood the games in Queensland will all be considered 'away' games for the Eagles."

    https://www.afl.com.au/news/435737/eagles-apply-for-special-dispensation-for-more-staff

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    6 hours ago, Demonland said:

     

    For a number of seasons, the rationale behind the AFL’s draw has been that the more lowly teams should have the benefit of an easier draw. This was reflected in the number of highly placed teams you played from the year before that you played twice but that’s not a consideration when you only play each team once. 

    It stands to reason therefore that this year the lower placed sides should get 9 home games rather than 8. However, “reason” rarely applies to AFL fixturing even when the size of crowds don’t matter. 

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    31 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

    For a number of seasons, the rationale behind the AFL’s draw has been that the more lowly teams should have the benefit of an easier draw. This was reflected in the number of highly placed teams you played from the year before that you played twice but that’s not a consideration when you only play each team once. 

    It stands to reason therefore that this year the lower placed sides should get 9 home games rather than 8. However, “reason” rarely applies to AFL fixturing even when the size of crowds don’t matter. 

    It will depend entirely on how much money can be generated each week. 
    bills need to be paid

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    1 hour ago, Whispering_Jack said:

    For a number of seasons, the rationale behind the AFL’s draw has been that the more lowly teams should have the benefit of an easier draw. This was reflected in the number of highly placed teams you played from the year before that you played twice but that’s not a consideration when you only play each team once. 

    It stands to reason therefore that this year the lower placed sides should get 9 home games rather than 8. However, “reason” rarely applies to AFL fixturing even when the size of crowds don’t matter. 

    One would hope that would be the case, remembering though that should we play Richmond, Collingwood, Hawthorn, and potentially Blues away they could be MCG games so “sort of” home games. Given we have already got one interstate trip out of the way, we really shouldn’t be traveling that much for the rest of the year. 

    Its interesting with the Kangas bleating about Tassie that there has been literally nothing said about the Alice Springs game, should we assume that just isn’t happening?

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    6 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    We’ll either be playing the following for round 2:

    Carlton, Essendon, GWS, North, St Kilda, Sydney or Bulldogs.

    We should be able to beat any of those sides aside from GWS if last year was an aberration. Whether we do is another story...

    while I'm in the "it wasn't an aberration" crowd, I don't think a win or loss would tell us either way. The only way we can truly determine whether or not it was an aberration is to look at the same sample size. Our performance across the year will tell us.

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