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1 hour ago, Skuit said:

Surprised by the lack of celebration. The Tasmania-border-closure will probably be season-defining. 

I celebrated epically, and then realised we’ll still have to beat a side at Metricon Stadium that we have a 1-19 record against since round 9 2007.

This mediocre, middle of the road, average footy club beats us anytime-anywhere.

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2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I celebrated epically, and then realised we’ll still have to beat a side at Metricon Stadium that we’ve lost to 19 of the last 20 times.

Was 50-50 at Blundstone - plus all the added effects of travel. Now 80-20. Makes a big difference in an 17-round season. 

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1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I celebrated epically, and then realised we’ll still have to beat a side at Metricon Stadium that we have a 1-19 record against since round 9 2007.

This mediocre, middle of the road, average footy club beats us anytime-anywhere.

Plus 'epically' is a pretty impressive adverb. 

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8 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I celebrated epically, and then realised we’ll still have to beat a side at Metricon Stadium that we have a 1-19 record against since round 9 2007.

This mediocre, middle of the road, average footy club beats us anytime-anywhere.

Really we have only beaten them once in the past 20 outings? Wow that is a sad stat, even for us. Hopefully it means we are due for a few wins on the trot.

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10 minutes ago, binman said:

Gabba is a lot closer to their base

Well, seeing that North Melbourne’s hub facility is on the Gold Coast at the Mercure Resort, Metricon Stadium would be even closer. 

 If the game’s played at the Gabba, both clubs have at least an hour’s travel by road which would be fair in the circumstances.

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15 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY 

THATS THE OBVIOUS 

HOPEFULLY AFL SEES COMMON SENSE 

Key factor will be money. Saves all the extra flights and hotels etc for 2 clubs. That is what the AFL will concentrate on.

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On 7/25/2020 at 9:25 AM, Pinball Wizard said:

Well, seeing that North Melbourne’s hub facility is on the Gold Coast at the Mercure Resort, Metricon Stadium would be even closer. 

 If the game’s played at the Gabba, both clubs have at least an hour’s travel by road which would be fair in the circumstances.

I though the roos are in the same resort as us

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1 hour ago, Demonland said:

Does this mean Sydney & GWS will have to hub in Queensland (or another state)?

 Hopefully it’s Queensland so we don’t have to fly to play them. 

Sydney and GWS are scheduled in Queensland for the next 2 rounds, then they both have the bye in R11.

Sydney and GWS both have not played West Coast and Freo and are scheduled over there for R12 so will follow up with games against the Perth teams in the following 2 rounds R13 and 14.

Who knows after that?   The Giants still have to play Adelaide and Sydney still has to play Port so maybe they'll swing by there in R15.

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Sydney and GWS evacuating to a Qld hub tomorrow.  Will then hub in Perth for a few weeks.

Its hard to see the smaller states relaxing the border quarantine requirements so it looks like all bar SA and WA clubs will hub the rest of the season in Qld.

AFL will there work cut out to fit in NT games, Tassie games and Cairns games into the last 6 rounds still to schedule.

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1 hour ago, Pollyanna said:

Sydney and GWS are scheduled in Queensland for the next 2 rounds, then they both have the bye in R11.

Sydney and GWS both have not played West Coast and Freo and are scheduled over there for R12 so will follow up with games against the Perth teams in the following 2 rounds R13 and 14.

Who knows after that?   The Giants still have to play Adelaide and Sydney still has to play Port so maybe they'll swing by there in R15.

Sydney's played West Coast which lessens the effectiveness of sending them with GWS to Perth, but yes, I think this is what will have to happen.

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30 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Sydney's played West Coast which lessens the effectiveness of sending them with GWS to Perth, but yes, I think this is what will have to happen.

So they have - you are correct!

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GWS and Syd are scheduled to play each other in Perth at Optus in round 12.  GWS then play Freo and Eagles.  Syd play Freo.  Syd could play another team there from the next group to hub in WA or return to the east coast.

Given that Syd has played Eagles and is going over to play the NSW Derby and Freo the AFL could do the same to us.  They could send Ess to play Eagles but that is unlikely as they seem to get a dream run from the AFL.

The fairest thing to do is to send teams yet to play both Freo and Eagles:  North, Bulldogs, Richmond and Saints, especially as they have hubbed in Qld from the start and had precious little travel/disruption. 

This might be my MFCSS but we can't rule out a horror stretch in rounds 13 to 16.

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5 hours ago, DubDee said:

Has the AFL let us know where we are playing our game against north in 11 days yet?!?

Was just a reading an article and came across this DD. I can’t attach links for some reason, here’s an extract.

ROOS, DEES SET FOR VENUE SWITCH

_ Tom Morris reports..._

North Melbourne’s Round 11 game against Melbourne will now be played at the Adelaide Oval.

Foxfooty.com.au understands the Sunday evening timeslot on August 9 will remain as planned.

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10 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Was just a reading an article and came across this DD. I can’t attach links for some reason, here’s an extract.

ROOS, DEES SET FOR VENUE SWITCH

_ Tom Morris reports..._

North Melbourne’s Round 11 game against Melbourne will now be played at the Adelaide Oval.

Foxfooty.com.au understands the Sunday evening timeslot on August 9 will remain as planned.

That just seems daft!  Why fly both teams to Adelaide...

We sure are being messed about and not getting any breaks at all.

I guess we will stay in Adelaide after the Crows game.  No point flying back to Qld and a long road trip to Maroochydore and do the same in reverse a few days later for the North game.

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