https://www.afl.com.au/news/528623/full-time-footy-is-back-20-min-quarters-afl-to-reveal-floating-fixture

Great news.

And every round to be announced by the end of the year. First 6 round to be announced in full. Remainder will be floating.

By December, the AFL has committed to releasing a fixture that will be scheduled fully up until round six, which includes Anzac Day.

It was December 10 days ago. 

The rest of the season's match-ups will also be set, however rounds seven to 23 won't include the date, timeslots and choice of TV broadcaster. Clubs have been informed the release of the rest of the season will be on a flexible basis in line with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic with hope to give clubs at least four weeks' notice before each fixture 'drop'.

What do dates, timeslots and the choice of tv broadcasters have to do with the covid-19 pandemic ? If we're drawn to play West Coast in Perth in round 7 will an outbreak in WA dictate whether we play at 7.50 pm on a Friday shown on CH 7 or 2 pm on Sunday shown on Fox ? 

Is  20 minute normal time?  Thought it was 25 plus time on

A great by-product of this is that AFLW will no longer have the farcical conference system and will go back to a single ladder.

21 minutes ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

Is  20 minute normal time?  Thought it was 25 plus time on

Yep, since 1994.

Good. Will give our millstone midfield a proper chance to grind others into dust, and the necessary rotations will mean that our glut of midfielders will get proper minutes in their best positions.

After last night’s hit telecast of the draft they should also televise the announcement of the fixture. Round by round, 10 minute intervals in between. Ask the captain how they feel about travelling to Perth round 1. 

Almost Christmas and not a single fixture stuck on the fridge, feels so wrong. 

Great,  back to normal and hopefully not to see shorten quarters again. 16  extra  minutes of entertainment is bang for your buck! 

 

 

 

14 minutes ago, nosoupforme said:

Great,  back to normal and hopefully not to see shorten quarters again. 16  extra  minutes of entertainment is bang for your buck! 

 

 

And with normal length quarters back, Petracca can now spend the last 5 minutes of quarters resting inside forward 50.....  rest of the competition will be helpless as he averages 28 possessions and kicks 40 goals next season.

God help the teams that don"t do so well in the first six rounds they have got no hope of getting good time slots.

Once again the media have got their way. I fixture picked before the season starts does not suit them. We had better start the a season well or our sponsors will get very little air time.

Poor danger won’t be happy, think he knows him and his older teammates can’t run out longer quarters, 16 minutes suited them perfectly 

11 minutes ago, old dee said:

God help the teams that don"t do so well in the first six rounds they have got no hope of getting good time slots.

Once again the media have got their way. I fixture picked before the season starts does not suit them. We had better start the a season well or our sponsors will get very little air time.

We definitely need to be 4-2 at the end of 6.

A 2-4 start which is so often the case will do nothing.

Now for the debate over receipts sharing for Anzac Eve. (It may not be pretty)

3 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

We definitely need to be 4-2 at the end of 6.

A 2-4 start which is so often the case will do nothing.

Now for the debate over receipts sharing for Anzac Eve. (It may not be pretty)

Surely there will be some sense of fairness brought into this. We need the AFL to step in I think. 

This is silly. Don't the magical vaccines get rolled out in march. If this is the case and we have been told it is then they can release a full fixture with times venues and even t.v. slots.

Just remember it was the pollies telling us about the vaccines. ?????

2 hours ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

Is  20 minute normal time?  Thought it was 25 plus time on

Welcome to Australian rules football did you just come out of a time wrap, has been 20 minutee for 3 decades

3 minutes ago, dl4e said:

This is silly. Don't the magical vaccines get rolled out in march. If this is the case and we have been told it is then they can release a full fixture with times venues and even t.v. slots.

Just remember it was the pollies telling us about the vaccines. ?????

I think there will be a floating fixture from now on, remember when Carlton got heaps of Friday nights and stunk it up.

1 minute ago, don't make me angry said:

I think there will be a floating fixture from now on, remember when Carlton got heaps of Friday nights and stunk it up.

You maybe right but it sucks.

1 hour ago, brendan said:

Poor danger won’t be happy, think he knows him and his older teammates can’t run out longer quarters, 16 minutes suited them perfectly 

Cameron was the best thing every to happen to Geelong, it will mean when they fall they will stay down for longer, they would have gotten 3 Frist rounds last night they only got 1 but gave up next year's first round, to get it.

The whole AFL media will look stupid, they all think Geelong is going to be top 4 for another 3 years, they say Hawkins has another 3 years, his already 34 has 1 year left at most, how the media thinks  that Higgins has 3 good seasons left in him, at 33 I don't know.

1 hour ago, old dee said:

God help the teams that don"t do so well in the first six rounds they have got no hope of getting good time slots.

Once again the media have got their way. I fixture picked before the season starts does not suit them. We had better start the a season well or our sponsors will get very little air time.

Conversely perhaps they will actually reward performance with exposure instead of just giving primetime games to Collingwood/Carlton/Essendon

Has this been published anywhere??

Not yet.

Subject discussed in this thread.

 

1 minute ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Not yet.

Subject discussed in this thread.

 

Thanks Luci

Rumour going around that it will be released 23 December.

1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Rumour going around that it will be released 23 December.

I hope that post round 6 we will at the very least know when we have home and when we have away games, even if the timeslot and venue are not 100% decided. Not just from a planning perspective for the club, but for supporters too.

I plan holidays (which lets be honest, where the hell am I going in 2021 other than my backyard?) around the fixture to make sure I miss the least amount of home games possible. I am sure lots of people are in the same boat, not to mention those that want to travel interstate for matches. 

2 hours ago, Jaded said:

I hope that post round 6 we will at the very least know when we have home and when we have away games, even if the timeslot and venue are not 100% decided. Not just from a planning perspective for the club, but for supporters too.

I plan holidays (which lets be honest, where the hell am I going in 2021 other than my backyard?) around the fixture to make sure I miss the least amount of home games possible. I am sure lots of people are in the same boat, not to mention those that want to travel interstate for matches. 

The AFL.com article suggests that all matchups and venues will be revealed after round 6 but not the dates.

So we'll inevitably know that we'll have North Melbourne at Hobart in round 23 but we won't know the exact day of the game.

Not ideal but you can plan you holidays with a bit of (COVID free) confidence.