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AFLW: 2022 Fixture

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I think a bit tough. Adelaide, bears and Freo all at their home grounds.  The ladies bogey side, the dogs, at whitten oval.

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    16 minutes ago, dl4e said:

    I think a bit tough. Adelaide, bears and Freo all at their home grounds.  The ladies bogey side, the dogs, at whitten oval.

    We play 2/4 of last years bottom 4 teams, whereas Brisbane play them all.

    But then who knows, some teams will improve and some be worse. Particularly in the women’s game, you only need one injury to a key player and your chances of winning the comp goes down the gurgler. 

    Edited by FarNorthernD

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    You need to beat the best to be the best. The fixture is fine - we just can't afford to drop games against the bottom sides as we did last year.

    Disappointing however not to get home games against any of the big Victorian sides.

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    1 hour ago, wonnabeeri said:

    Reckon we will get a game against geelong one year soon?

    Maybe Round 10!

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    Wondering if the fixture on the AFL website is the latest?

    Bulldogs have played 6 games and by my count are scheduled to play 3 more in rounds 7 to 9.  That is a total of 9 games for the season.  (They round 10 game vs Freo was brought forward and played a few weeks ago). 

    However, I can't find a substitute game for their round 2 postponed Lions game...

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    I must say the current round has produced some disappointing contests. 

    With four extra teams coming in next year, the AFL needs to look at the disparity in strength between the top half dozen clubs and the rest and even consider a two division competition for a couple of years until things stabilize.

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    On 12/2/2021 at 8:07 PM, Dees_In_October said:

    Maybe Round 10!

    No we e play Carlton !! 

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    5 hours ago, 58er said:

    No we e play Carlton !! 

    At the time DIO made her post the round 10 fixture had not been announced.

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    6 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    At the time DIO made her post the round 10 fixture had not been announced.

    Yep. Surely we'll play Geelong next season... could even still be in 2022!

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    1 hour ago, Dees_In_October said:

    Yep. Surely we'll play Geelong next season... could even still be in 2022!

     

    8 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    At the time DIO made her post the round 10 fixture had not been announced.

    Well my fixture by Demonland was posted earlier on my phone than DIO and Wonnabeeri on the 2 Dec comments. 

    Would not have been much in it but Dland fixture for 10 rounds inc. R 10 was at 6.45 pm and the other comments after that were in my phone. DIO'was 8.07  pm. 
    But it's weird worrying about a Dees game potentially in 2023 when we haven't completed 2022. 
    Maybe  unless she lives in Geelong!!

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    1 hour ago, 58er said:

     

    Well my fixture by Demonland was posted earlier on my phone than DIO and Wonnabeeri on the 2 Dec comments. 

    Would not have been much in it but Dland fixture for 10 rounds inc. R 10 was at 6.45 pm and the other comments after that were in my phone. DIO'was 8.07  pm. 
    But it's weird worrying about a Dees game potentially in 2023 when we haven't completed 2022. 
    Maybe  unless she lives in Geelong!!

    Yep, I hadn't caught up with the Round 10 release. From memory, I'd heard they were going to keep the last round unfixtured for flexibility.

    I'm just interested because it's a quirk in the fixture that we've never played Geelong in four seasons. No big deal.

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    55 minutes ago, Demonland said:

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    Bloody annoying they have the free game on at 4pm on weekday. Really hard to get there with the kids to watch the girls play after school being in freo.   

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    The AFLW fixture is broken but it can be fixed.

    Some posters have noticed that in the hastily put together redraw of matches, the Western Bulldogs who have played six games to date, have only three games left on their fixture. Geelong have played seven matches but are drawn to play four more including the mysteriously unplayed Round 7 game v Fremantle from Sunday.

    That game is the key to the puzzle. It should be scrapped and replaced with a game between Freo and the Bulldogs which would then ultimately lead to all teams finishing the season on 10 games. The question for the AFLW is when to play the game.

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    6 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

    The AFLW fixture is broken but it can be fixed.

    Some posters have noticed that in the hastily put together redraw of matches, the Western Bulldogs who have played six games to date, have only three games left on their fixture. Geelong have played seven matches but are drawn to play four more including the mysteriously unplayed Round 7 game v Fremantle from Sunday.

    That game is the key to the puzzle. It should be scrapped and replaced with a game between Freo and the Bulldogs which would then ultimately lead to all teams finishing the season on 10 games. The question for the AFLW is when to play the game.

    By late cancellation of the Geelong vs Freo game the AFL seem to have woken up to the problem.

    You have answered the mystery by noticing the extra Geelong game and that a Freo vs Bulldogs game will fix the problem.   It can be played in round 10 as both teams currently have a 'bye' according to the afl website.

    Bulldogs are playing well so it could be a key game to determine the final ladder order. 

     

    Edit:  I just noticed that Freo and Bulldogs played their round 10 game on Feb 1 which Freo won.  So there must be a mismatch elsewhere in the fixture, at least in the one published on the afl website.

    Hopefully, the clubs know who they are playing...

    Edited by Lucifers Hero

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    I think the AFL have snookered themselves.

    To keep the season going they rescheduled games but also mixed and matched teams that weren't originally scheduled to play each other.  Somewhere in those mixes and matches they have miscalculated the number of games.

    The result (according to my summary of the season) all teams will have played 10 games except the Bulldogs who will play 9. 

    Can't see a way of fixing this that will be fair to all teams.  The teams they haven't played are Lions, North, Saints and Carlton.  It wouldn't be fair to the first two who will be in finals to play another game for no points.  And it wouldn't be fair to teams in the finals for them to play Saints or Carlton for whom it will be an exhibition match and virtually gift the bulldogs 4 pts. 

    The best thing that can happen is that after round 9 the Bulldogs are well and truly out of contention for finals or cannot progress higher up the ladder if in finals, so the 10th game doesn't matter and it is forfeited. 

    I assume someone at the Bulldogs has alerted the AFL to this rather glaring anomaly.

    Edited by Lucifers Hero

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    13 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    By late cancellation of the Geelong vs Freo game the AFL seem to have woken up to the problem.

    You have answered the mystery by noticing the extra Geelong game and that a Freo vs Bulldogs game will fix the problem.   It can be played in round 10 as both teams currently have a 'bye' according to the afl website.

    Bulldogs are playing well so it could be a key game to determine the final ladder order. 

     

    Edit:  I just noticed that Freo and Bulldogs played their round 10 game on Feb 1 which Freo won.  So there must be a mismatch elsewhere in the fixture, at least in the one published on the afl website.

    Hopefully, the clubs know who they are playing...

    Yes - just realised that - well there is a problem.

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