FIXTURE: Rd 21 2021

[Clintosaurus 7,808]

[rpfc 28,221]

You know there’s a pandemic on when they send Collingwood down to Hobart…

[Mickey 4,629]

10 minutes ago, rpfc said:

You know there’s a pandemic on when they send Collingwood down to Hobart…

Geelong down there this week for the first time ever.

Yet we're there every year, it seems.

[DubDee 25,436]

Good to see the drug cheats get more Friday exposure

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[titan_uranus 24,963]

4 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Good to see the drug cheats get more Friday exposure

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Only other palatable game is ours, and we'd be on a six-day break from Queensland, which is both tiring and impossible as we need 7 days for quarantine.

[Ethan Tremblay 30,798]

Next Saturday night I’m kid free and the game is as Optus……

 

Edited July 30, 2021 by Ethan Trembley

[Lord Nev 13,512]

5 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Only other palatable game is ours, and we'd be on a six-day break from Queensland, which is both tiring and impossible as we need 7 days for quarantine.

We're flying in and out same day for GC so perhaps they class it as 7 nights rather than 7x24 hours?

It's all confirmed.

 

[DubDee 25,436]

BT reckons the Saints have got this 

[dl4e 5,851]

We should be playing on a sunday.

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,675]

46 minutes ago, dl4e said:

We should be playing on a sunday.

Actually prefer to play on the Saturday for this one.

We need a good 7 or 8 day break ahead of our the last 2 games in VIC after 2 big weeks on the road.

 

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,675]

1 hour ago, Ethan Trembley said:

Next Saturday night I’m kid free and the game is as Optus……

 

Knowing McGowan he’ll call a lockdown with 8 minutes notice.

[Left Foot Snap 2,383]

2 hours ago, Ethan Trembley said:

Next Saturday night I’m kid free and the game is as Optus……

 

Is that footage of the Eagles in lockdown?

[Ethan Tremblay 30,798]

18 hours ago, Ethan Trembley said:

Next Saturday night I’m kid free and the game is as Optus……

 

This aged well. 

[titan_uranus 24,963]

Ideally they'd push our game back to the Sunday, but Fremantle v Brisbane is already on the Sunday and they can't bring that forward to Saturday because Brisbane needs 7 days to quarantine.

So unless they do a double header at Optus next Sunday, we'll be playing the Monday night.

Which isn't ideal, as it will likely mean a six-day break into the Adelaide game the following week, and quite possibly a consecutive six-day break into the Round 23 Geelong game (the AFL may well want that game on a Saturday for TV exposure).

[Jaded No More 68,835]

37 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Ideally they'd push our game back to the Sunday, but Fremantle v Brisbane is already on the Sunday and they can't bring that forward to Saturday because Brisbane needs 7 days to quarantine.

So unless they do a double header at Optus next Sunday, we'll be playing the Monday night.

Which isn't ideal, as it will likely mean a six-day break into the Adelaide game the following week, and quite possibly a consecutive six-day break into the Round 23 Geelong game (the AFL may well want that game on a Saturday for TV exposure).

Adelaide will be Sunday afternoon because nobody will care about this game and then Geelong Saturday night for the prime time. Monday isn’t ideal for anyone but I don’t know if they’ll do two games in Perth on the same day. Too hard with telecast given the time difference. 

[old55 23,313]

Is it confirmed that WC have gone back to Perth?

[titan_uranus 24,963]

14 hours ago, Jaded said:

Adelaide will be Sunday afternoon because nobody will care about this game and then Geelong Saturday night for the prime time. Monday isn’t ideal for anyone but I don’t know if they’ll do two games in Perth on the same day. Too hard with telecast given the time difference. 

Most likely.

Back to back six day breaks into a crucial Geelong game is going to hurt. 

[Demonland 71,114]

 

[Jaded No More 68,835]

I assume we will fly back on Monday and then play Adelaide Sunday afternoon.

Monday night hopefully means a smaller hostile crowd, so that's one positive. 

[titan_uranus 24,963]

1 minute ago, Jaded said:

I assume we will fly back on Monday and then play Adelaide Sunday afternoon.

Monday night hopefully means a smaller hostile crowd, so that's one positive. 

That would be a helpful side effect of the Monday night timeslot.

Critical game, this. Win it and we're two-thirds of the way there (just have to beat Adelaide...shudder).

But if we lose, we'll be on a six-day break (but almost really a five-day break, given we don't finish in Perth until 10.40pm Melbourne time) into a must-win game, followed by an almost-certain second straight six-day break as you'd assume the AFL will want our Geelong game on at least a Saturday.

[Demonland 71,114]

ROUND 21

Friday August 6

Geelong Cats v GWS Giants, GMHBA Stadium (7.50pm)

Saturday August 7

Carlton v Gold Coast Suns, Marvel Stadium (1.45pm)

Richmond v North Melbourne, MCG (4.35pm)

St Kilda v Sydney Swans, Marvel Stadium (7.40pm)

Adelaide Crows v Port Adelaide, Adelaide Oval (7.40pm)

Sunday August 9

Hawthorn v Collingwood, UTAS Stadium (2.10pm)

Western Bulldogs v Essendon, Marvel Stadium (3.20pm)

Fremantle v Brisbane Lions, Optus Stadium (5.10pm)

Monday August 9

West Coast Eagles v Melbourne, Optus Stadium (8.10pm)

[Demonland 71,114]

6 minutes ago, Jaded said:

I assume we will fly back on Monday and then play Adelaide Sunday afternoon.

Monday night hopefully means a smaller hostile crowd, so that's one positive. 

Just our luck playing the Eagles when the heat from the blowtorch is on high. 

Also Jaded I know you like a good Doomsday scenario. How about a situation where there are cases in Melbourne forcing us to play Adelaide in South Australia. ?

 

[Demonland 71,114]

5 minutes ago, Demonland said:

ROUND 21

Friday August 6

Geelong Cats v GWS Giants, GMHBA Stadium (7.50pm)

Saturday August 7

Carlton v Gold Coast Suns, Marvel Stadium (1.45pm)

Richmond v North Melbourne, MCG (4.35pm)

St Kilda v Sydney Swans, Marvel Stadium (7.40pm)

Adelaide Crows v Port Adelaide, Adelaide Oval (7.40pm)

Sunday August 9

Hawthorn v Collingwood, UTAS Stadium (2.10pm)

Western Bulldogs v Essendon, Marvel Stadium (3.20pm)

Fremantle v Brisbane Lions, Optus Stadium (5.10pm)

Monday August 9

West Coast Eagles v Melbourne, Optus Stadium (8.10pm)

Geelong have got to be the only team to have profited from COVID.

[BDA 22,691]

Next Monday night seems like an eternity away. Going to make for a slow week and slow weekend

[Demonstone 22,182]

6 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Just our luck playing the Eagles when the heat from the blowtorch is on high. 

On the other hand, if WCE had belted Collingwood we'd probably be lamenting our luck in coming up against a team who had found some good form just in time to play us.  MFCSS Rules!