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FIXTURE: Rd 21 2021

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Mickey Redleg

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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.

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Lord Nev Trident

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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.

 

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2 hours ago, Ethan Trembley said:

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

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Is that footage of the Eagles in lockdown?

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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).

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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. 

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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. 

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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.

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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)

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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. ?

 

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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.

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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!

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