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Just now, Demonland said:

 

So from this we can expect to be the other Saturday game? Just tell me if we are playing day or night. I have things to do people! haha

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    28 minutes ago, Demonland said:

     

    27 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    So from this we can expect to be the other Saturday game? Just tell me if we are playing day or night. I have things to do people! haha

    Looks like this:

    Thurs GC v Rich
    Fri Geel v Ess
    Sat day either us or Haw v Port
    Sat twi Ade v Bris
    Sat night Freo v Carl
    Sat night 2 either us or Haw v Port
    Sun early Sydney v West Coast
    Sun day Coll v St Kilda
    Sun twilight Dogs v North

    Last question is whether we're the Sat night game or whether they give it to Hawthorn v Port (Burgoyne's 400th, and my bet).

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    44 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    So from this we can expect to be the other Saturday game? Just tell me if we are playing day or night. I have things to do people! haha

    Or a 4:35pm to throw a spanner in the works.

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    19 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Or a 4:35pm to throw a spanner in the works.

    Not with Adelaide v Brisbane on Saturday.

    Radio will want a Melbourne Saturday afternoon game, not Adelaide v Brisbane.

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    1 minute ago, Demonland said:

    Another Prime Time slot gifted to Geelong

     

    If true, that will mean Geelong will have been on Thursday or Friday night for five out of six straight weeks (Rounds 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18).

    It's of course somewhat possible their Round 17 game vs Carlton will end up in prime time too. And then in Round 19 Geelong plays Richmond, another major Friday night contender.

    The rolling fixture presents good opportunities but one of the clear drawbacks is that if each week the AFL feels determined to prioritise the top sides, the same sides are going to get all of the prime time matches. 

    The way it's shaping, we're going to have had Geelong on Thurs/Fri night for something like six out of seven straight weeks).

    Richmond is also likely to feature a lot: Friday night tonight, Thursday night next week, then games vs Collinwood, Brisbane and Geelong, all of which you can easily see being in prime time.

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    32 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    If true, that will mean Geelong will have been on Thursday or Friday night for five out of six straight weeks (Rounds 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18).

    It's of course somewhat possible their Round 17 game vs Carlton will end up in prime time too. And then in Round 19 Geelong plays Richmond, another major Friday night contender.

    The rolling fixture presents good opportunities but one of the clear drawbacks is that if each week the AFL feels determined to prioritise the top sides, the same sides are going to get all of the prime time matches. 

    The way it's shaping, we're going to have had Geelong on Thurs/Fri night for something like six out of seven straight weeks).

    Richmond is also likely to feature a lot: Friday night tonight, Thursday night next week, then games vs Collinwood, Brisbane and Geelong, all of which you can easily see being in prime time.

    Our round 22 clash against Geelong will also surely be on Thursday or Friday night. 

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    3 minutes ago, Jaded said:

    Our round 22 clash against Geelong will also surely be on Thursday or Friday night. 

    Yep.

    So it's entirely feasible that in the 11 games from Rounds 13-23, Geelong will be on a Thursday or Friday night in all bar four of them. Which will be 10 total given they had three Friday nights before the bye.

    Meanwhile Richmond tonight plays its 7th Thurs/Fri night with its 8th next week.

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    Meanwhile how is it 6pm on Friday and we don't know when teams are playing next week?

    Doesn't the length of a break between games influence how a team plans its rehab/training schedule for the week?

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    7 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

    Really ambivalent about Geelong getting the prime time slots

    Just keep winning and it’ll come 

    It's not a gripe about us not getting prime time slots.

    It's about the general football population being given games on TV featuring the same sides all the time.

    It's just a heap of Geelong and Richmond.

    It's an interesting and in my view negative side effect to the rolling fixture, which almost guarantees the same sides playing all the prime time games in the second half of the year.

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    This is like waiting for the tattslotto numbers to drop.

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    1 hour ago, Jaded said:

    Still no fixture? How are teams meant to plan? This is ridiculous. 

    Can only imagine the clubs have been told by now.

    Sounds like it’s 1.45 or 7:25 for the Dees, and the AFL and channel 7 are weighing up whether to put on Burgoyne’s 400th or a finals relevant game in Melb V GWS for Saturday night.

    Quietly hoping for a good old fashioned Saturday arvo game. 

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    23 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Can only imagine the clubs have been told by now.

    Sounds like it’s 1.45 or 7:25 for the Dees, and the AFL and channel 7 are weighing up whether to put on Burgoyne’s 400th or a finals relevant game in Melb V GWS for Saturday night.

    Quietly hoping for a good old fashioned Saturday arvo game. 

    I would also prefer an early Saturday game. Finishes at a great time to still have a Saturday night out. 

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