As predicted, the Darwin fiasco has led to us losing the Friday night against the Dogs in Round 20, with a Saturday night game given instead. So Essendon v Sydney gets the Friday night slot.

Should at least be on Channel 7.

Round 19

Friday, July 23
Port Adelaide v Collingwood at Adelaide Oval, 6.45pm ACST

Saturday, July 24
Hawthorn v Brisbane at the MCG, 1.45pm AEST
Sydney v Fremantle at GMHBA Stadium, 1.45pm AEST
Essendon v GWS Giants at Marvel Stadium, 4.35pm AEST
Gold Coast v Melbourne at TIO Stadium, 6.55pm ACST
West Coast v St Kilda at Optus Stadium, 5.40pm AWST

Sunday, July 25
Western Bulldogs v Adelaide at Mars Stadium, 12.40pm AEST
Geelong v Richmond at the MCG, 1.45pm AEST
Carlton v North Melbourne at Marvel Stadium, 4.40pm AEST

Round 20

Friday, July 30
Essendon v Sydney at Marvel Stadium, 7.50pm AEST

Saturday, July 31
North Melbourne v Geelong at Blundstone Arena, 1.45pm AEST
Brisbane v Gold Coast at the Gabba, 3.20pm AEST
St Kilda v Carlton at Marvel Stadium, 4.35pm AEST
Melbourne v Western Bulldogs at the MCG, 7.25pm AEST
Adelaide v Hawthorn at Adelaide Oval, 7.10pm ACST

Sunday, August 1
GWS Giants v Port Adelaide at TBC, 1.10pm AEST
Collingwood v West Coast at the MCG, 2.10pm AEST
Fremantle v Richmond at Optus Stadium, 3.10pm AWST

Still pisses me off that the GC game has changed. 

How the fruit tingle do collywobbles get a Friday night game.

What a joke. 

Is the spin off in having prime time viewing slots being able to attract club sponsors or is there some sort of a direct monetary correlation ? 

I'd guess that both those games would now be the free to air Channel 7 matches with those time slots. Thankfully I'll be at the second one and won't have to listen to BT & Brayshaw. 

14 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

Still pisses me off that the GC game has changed. 

Why? The Suns are giving up their home game. It’s probably a bit of an advantage to us to play them at a neutral venue.

Good we get lots of night game practice for finals i guess..

Disaster for me as that means due to a family function and a wedding I cannot watch the GC game or go to the Bulldogs game. Devo.

14 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Disaster for me as that means due to a family function and a wedding I cannot watch the GC game or go to the Bulldogs game. Devo.

 

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Too early for jokes

4 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Devo.

Use your freedom of choice.

It's just annoying that we miss out on a friday night game because we have to play in darwin. 

I mean come on the top 2 teams most likely get shafted to the Saturday night game and essendon get another free hit on a friday night. 

As I said it wouldn't happen to collingwood or richmond or geelong if they were on top and have been for the season. 

Two Saturday night games - you beauty!

the dogs game should be good crowd once covid remains quiet in vic

1 hour ago, titan_uranus said:

As predicted, the Darwin fiasco has led to us losing the Friday night against the Dogs in Round 20, with a Saturday night game given instead. So Essendon v Sydney gets the Friday night slot.

 

Fair enough though, after their great win against the Crows, aren't Essendon back to premiership favourites?

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Being a smart alec

19 minutes ago, binman said:

 

? Clearly not too soon for @demonstone

(see below)

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Note to self: learn how to quote two posts at once

16 minutes ago, demonstone said:

Use your freedom of choice.

 

19 minutes ago, demonstone said:

Use your freedom of choice.

"Freedom of choice is what you've got. Freedom from choice is what you want"

The game time is most likely driven by The Dogs playing Sunday.

4 minutes ago, Pollyanna said:

The game time is most likely driven by The Dogs playing Sunday.

And the Dees coming from the tropics. 

57 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Disaster for me as that means due to a family function and a wedding I cannot watch the GC game or go to the Bulldogs game. Devo.

Never befriend anyone who gets married during the footy season. 

I don’t think we will get less people at the game being a Saturday night. In fact I think we will get more. It’s a much more family friendly and work friendly time slot. And still FTA exposure. Really no complaints and most importantly we get a decent break after that joke of a fixture in round 19!

51 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Two Saturday night games - you beauty!

the dogs game should be good crowd once covid remains quiet in vic

Don't talk too early.

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

Disaster for me as that means due to a family function and a wedding I cannot watch the GC game or go to the Bulldogs game. Devo.

Our flights back from GC were changed from Saturday arvo on the 31st to Sunday arvo on the 1st, so my family and I got dudded twice.

Heard a rumour that there will be no Thursday night games until week 1 finals.

Judging by this fixture, I think that might be true.

I don't get what the difference is between free-to-air on a Friday night and free-to-air on a Saturday night. Both are equally attractive to me.

The worst scheduling is the Saturday twilight "pink women" game this weekend. Ruins the whole idea with the poor timeslot.

1 hour ago, Pollyanna said:

The game time is most likely driven by The Dogs playing Sunday.

They could have switched the Dogs to Saturday and Syd/Freo to Sunday

Not sure if this has been asked before, but with our contract of one game in NT each season, does the GC game count, and we'll be paid in full as per contract?

1 hour ago, mauriesy said:

I don't get what the difference is between free-to-air on a Friday night and free-to-air on a Saturday night. Both are equally attractive to me.

Friday night is one game national telecast.

Saturday night... two games split telecast

Guess what our sponsors like

26 minutes ago, FireInTheBennelly said:

Not sure if this has been asked before, but with our contract of one game in NT each season, does the GC game count, and we'll be paid in full as per contract?

This is the most important question.