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So personally I am loving that:

* We will get primetime slots for our games. Our games rated well.

* That we won the lot with a 'hard draw', now we ARE the hard draw.

* We travel as well as anyone, Perth is now sacred ground for us.

But most of all, every other side will be

 a, scared of us everywhere, home or away.

 b, we are scared of nowhere.

 c, will feel like they are never enough in front.

And lastly, like i predicted after GWS r3, we now have BOOMSHAKALA, am tipping we kick the highest winning score next year as well as the best percentage. 20/20 Cricket scores coming up.

 

Excellent. I love that forever and a day, whenever we play at Optus we will be able to whisper in the ears of Eagles and Dockers players, 'How many flags have you won on this ground?'

4 hours ago, AmDamDemon said:

Excellent. I love that forever and a day, whenever we play at Optus we will be able to whisper in the ears of Eagles and Dockers players, 'How many flags have you won on this ground?'

And a bit of a shout out over the boundary line to Will Schofield.

 

Given our record against lowly teams this year, the less we play them the better. 

I’m loving the thought of other teams’ supporters saying, “oh sheeet, we’ve got Melbourne this week.” Accompanied by a deep sigh and a full 360-degree eye roll. 


Hoping we get ANZAC Eve and QB as Home games as all we had the past two years was a restricted 2020 ANZAC Eve crowd.

Or maybe it is a good time to alternate with Richmond and Collingwood so we don't have the 'feast/famine' affect on our financials every other year.

Wouldn't be happy if they are both Away games in 2022.

Would love it if the QB game becomes the Pies Grand Final:cool: 

Edited by Premiers

The teams we played twice this year in the regular season were Dogs (2), Geelong (4), GWS (6), Haw (14) and Adelaide (15).

For reference, in 2021 Richmond played (from 2020) three top six teams twice, one 7-12th side once and bottom 6 side once.

So realistically, is our draw next year really going to be that much harder than in 2021 in terms of double up games?

37 minutes ago, Premiers said:

Hoping we get ANZAC Eve and QB as Home games as all we had the past two years was a restricted 2020 ANZAC Eve crowd.

Or maybe it is a good time to alternate with Richmond and Collingwood so we don't have the 'feast/famine' affect on our financials every other year.

Wouldn't be happy if they are both Away games in 2022.

Would love it if the QB game becomes the Pies Grand Final:cool: 

The Richmond Anzac eve game will be an away game for sure. We had an opportunity to get 75K there but it was the supporters faults for not turning up.

The Collingwood QB game could go either way. Yes we missed out on the MCG crowd but were still able to get a small crowd in Sydney.

 
40 minutes ago, Premiers said:

Hoping we get ANZAC Eve and QB as Home games as all we had the past two years was a restricted 2020 ANZAC Eve crowd.

So Collingwood and Richmond should miss out?

We can now genuinely lay claim to being an: anyone, anywhere, anytime team.  We have 'walked the talk.'

We dee fans can now approach every game expecting us to win so it doesn't matter who we play. 


1 minute ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

The Richmond Anzac eve game will be an away game for sure. We had an opportunity to get 75K there but it was the supporters faults for not turning up.

The Collingwood QB game could go either way. Yes we missed out on the MCG crowd but were still able to get a small crowd in Sydney.

Then lets go for option 2:  Alternate with Rich and Collingwood to smooth our revenue from year to year.

3 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

So Collingwood and Richmond should miss out?

Under normal circumstances 2021 would have been their Home games.  Rich would have played with a meagre crowd on ANZAC Eve and in Pies in Sydney.  In 'normal' circumstances 2022 is the Dees turn for 'Home' games.

Really we have all missed out on the best part of 4 games of Home crowds due to covid.

Hence why starting alternate Home games for the blockbusters would be good from next year.

2 hours ago, napster said:

Given our record against lowly teams this year, the less we play them the better. 

Ya, Crows only once. 
Pies QB - it’s their Grand Final 

Hope Cats can make September - see if we can skin them four times


Need an early home game against Essendon at the MCG.

It would be a big money earner to make up for our two blockbusters which I think are both away games

2 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

The teams we played twice this year in the regular season were Dogs (2), Geelong (4), GWS (6), Haw (14) and Adelaide (15).

For reference, in 2021 Richmond played (from 2020) three top six teams twice, one 7-12th side once and bottom 6 side once.

So realistically, is our draw next year really going to be that much harder than in 2021 in terms of double up games?

But things change very quickly.  For example, if the tigers were looking at their draw after their 2020 win, they'd be pretty happy to play us twice as we finished 9th and they've had our measure.  But we're a different team this year to last.

There will be teams that did not trouble us this year that may do so next year... especially with a shorter pre-season (relative to our competitors)

8 hours ago, AmDamDemon said:

Excellent. I love that forever and a day, whenever we play at Optus we will be able to whisper in the ears of Eagles and Dockers players, 'How many flags have you won on this ground?'

I like to see two games at Optus next season against eagles and dockers. It’s consecrated ground for us now. 

I believe the AFL fixture is based on a tiered system for the double ups, 1-6, 7-12, 13-18. Either have 2 in the top bracket, 2 in the middle and 1 in the bottom or 3-1-1. Generally want to limit travel to 5-7 interstate games, we probably have 7 due to our NT government sponsored games.

We will probably play 2-3 of Geelong, bulldogs, Port, Brisbane, GWS;

1-2 of Sydney, Essendon, WCE, Freo, St Kilda, Richmond

1 of Carlton, Hawks, Crows, GCS, Pies and NM.

This year we had Geelong, WB, GWS, Hawks and Adelaide twice, so our fixture will be roughly the same difficulty, just switch the Hawks/Crows to another top 12 team. 

Hoping we can start to refill the financial coffers as well 

1. Round 1 Dees home game. Unfurl the FLAG and the premiership cup.  Friday night. Lap of honour for Jetta and Jonesy. 
V the Hawks. 

2.  Dees should seek a home game v Tigers and v Magpies outside of QB and Anzac Day which are due for Dees away in 2022. 
Maybe rounds 21,22 v Tigers and v Magpies as Saturday night fixtures at the MCG. 

3. Return of the 2x NT Games given cancellations last year. One game v Port (Alice Springs) round 7 and v Freo (Darwin) round 11

4. two more Friday night home fixtures. V Essendon. V Carlton. 
Both clubs will be big on the pre season hype and expectations of finals. Dons round 3. Blues round 10. 
 

5. Hope we play Tigers, Pies, Lions, Port and Giants twice.  
 

6. Round 13. V Suns. @Gold Coast. Mid year Vic School holidays trip to sunny QLD escape.  


9 hours ago, AmDamDemon said:

Excellent. I love that forever and a day, whenever we play at Optus we will be able to whisper in the ears of Eagles and Dockers players, 'How many flags have you won on this ground?'

Yes indeed. Perth will be a special trip now

our “second home” Hopefully we always stay at the same resort 

We experienced this a little when we were 9-0 but we have officially now “the hunted”. I think this group of players is going relish this opportunity to make an even bigger statement. I just remember when we garbage and we’d come up against the top of the table and the various coaches would talk about the challenge the players had of going up against the best. We are now the best, we are the standard and everyone else is trailing behind. 

I love it!

 
3 hours ago, Premiers said:

Then lets go for option 2:  Alternate with Rich and Collingwood to smooth our revenue from year to year.

My preferred option is to share the gate on both games.  To me, that's the fairest way.

4 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

3. Return of the 2x NT Games given cancellations last year. One game v Port (Alice Springs) round 7 and v Freo (Darwin) round 11

Darwin... No thanks

Home games against Geelong, Essendon and Carlton plus Richmond and Collingwood should go a long way to squaring the ledger. Darwin not needed.

As many as possible in the first half of the season recognising that Richmond will need to be  asecond half game.

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