On 09/12/2021 at 13:17, 58er said:

A win is a win whenever or whatever It was after our best performance to date in the 2021 season of smashing the Tigers. No mean feat for our lads to storm home over Roos in Round7.after realising that we were a serious contender. 

No mean feet......

  On 09/12/2021 at 12:57, 58er said:

Amazing SD You have made a decision for about 5,000 to 6,000 of our members that NO ONE can/will  be there on the Wed night, with the flag unfurling after 57years.

In 2018 it didn't seem to matter when we made the 8 when 90,000 plus turned up over 2 successive Friday nights,

Not everyone works kids can take a half day off school and some members are rusted on enough to be there or be square. Annual leave is available for fans if they wish to attend such an event to most people it gets back to their desire.to attend.

BTW I live interstate and it doesn't worry me Wed or Friday I will be there !!

Great call 58.

Negative comments on here are living in the past, understandably I concede, but have yet to make the leap that the Dees are now a Bona Fide powerhouse on and off field. (Premiers, $10M in the bank and no debt)

Oppo teams will be breathing a sigh of relief if they play us only once.

Other teams have double games against teams I am glad we dodged - Swans, Giants, cats, Tiges. No Sydney game.

Getting Power on our home turf is a big bonus and could be our key 8 point game, ALso with Lions, both of whom are our major threats.

Go Dees.

Has anyone seen the links (AFL & AFLW) you press and the fixture magically goes into your calendar? 

Don’t ever remember Voss, Lethal or J Brown crying over a fixture. 
11 away games too. 

  On 09/12/2021 at 22:38, Jontee said:

No mean feet......

Correctly is no mean FEAT Jontee or am I missing another point? 

  On 10/12/2021 at 02:04, 58er said:

Correctly is no mean FEAT Jontee or am I missing another point? 

Just a play on words - Blundstone the boot maker hence no mean feet....sorry I cant resist....lame I know....

  On 10/12/2021 at 02:32, Jontee said:

Just a play on words - Blundstone the boot maker hence no mean feet....sorry I cant resist....lame I know....

put your foot in it there Jontee!

  On 10/12/2021 at 02:32, Jontee said:

Just a play on words - Blundstone the boot maker hence no mean feet....sorry I cant resist....lame I know....

I presume you're a Dad

  On 09/12/2021 at 22:00, titan_uranus said:

2019. They have to wear their all-red jumper against us.

It's rare: 2022 will be only our third home game against Essendon since the Troy Broadbridge memorial game in Round 1, 2005. That's right, in 17 seasons we'll have had three home games against Essendon.

Some other stats/quirks:

1. We haven't played Essendon twice in a season since 2005
2. We haven't played West Coast in Melbourne since 2014. 2022 will make it 7 consecutive seasons of us playing them in Perth (in 2015 we played them in Darwin)
3. We're playing Geelong in Geelong for the 11th time in the last 14 seasons. The three we avoided were 2014, 2017 and 2020. 2017 we were still away to them, but the game was at Marvel during GMHBA renovations. 2020 we were drawn to play them away but then COVID meant the fixture was revamped.
4. 2022 is our first away game against Fremantle since 2015, meaning it's the first time we'll play them at Optus Stadium (despite us having already played 7 games there)
5. 2022 will be the 8th time in the last 10 seasons we've played Adelaide in Adelaide. Over the same period we've played them at the MCG twice.
6. 2022 is our first away game to North at Marvel since 2014, ending a run of four consecutive away games drawn in Hobart
7. I had thought our stretch of five games in a row away from the MCG might have been a record, but we had that same stretch in 2013, when we had "home" games against Brisbane on the Gold Coast and North Melbourne at Marvel (what the [censored] happened with that season?!)
8. Our Round 11 home game vs Fremantle will make it 10 of our last 11 games against them have been our home games.

The AFL clearly have hidden agendas in the draw. i.e. not playing against Essendon as the home side, because they have not had a proper away strip until recently.

The WCE/Freo ones are the most perplexing.

Being shunted to Hobart against North and to Geelong are explainable due to crowds/finances.

We have played Adelaide in the NT.

  On 10/12/2021 at 05:30, Fat Tony said:

The AFL clearly have hidden agendas in the draw. i.e. not playing against Essendon as the home side, because they have not had a proper away strip until recently.

The WCE/Freo ones are the most perplexing.

Being shunted to Hobart against North and to Geelong are explainable due to crowds/finances.

We have played Adelaide in the NT.

I agree re: Essendon. I'm sure they try to avoid that match-up due to complaints about jumper clashes. But that's, self-evidently, not good enough.

Also agree re: Geelong, but not for 2022. We're the premiers. Hawthorn is a basket case, Collingwood is a mile off finals. In recent years Essendon and Carlton have been sent to Geelong when crowds have been available, so why not use this season as the chance to even up things and send Hawthorn and Collingwood down in seasons where you can reasonably expect them not to be in the finals?

The WC/Fremantle stuff is inexplicable. There is no reasonable basis for us to consistently play WC in Perth and not even get a return game in Melbourne.

First time in my 41yo life I've ever looked at a fixture and not given two hoots who we play twice.

the only part of the fixture I am disappointed with is that Collingwood and Hawthorn dont play in Geelong.

 

other than that, 80K round 1? 80K round 3?

FINALLY!!!

Every year I stick the H/S fixture on my pantry door. And every year I have to stick a Melbourne pic over the pic of the reigning premiers. 
NOT THIS YEAR!

 

I suspect Geelong have a big say in who they play in their 5 (?) home games at the MCG.

The North game is strange as North would probably make decent money playing us at Docklands. Do other teams think MFC fans won't go to Docklands?

If we want these games we need to get a reputation as a team that has a large away supporter base. I'm sure the numbers are crunched.

  On 09/12/2021 at 12:57, 58er said:

BTW I live interstate and it doesn't worry me Wed or Friday I will be there !!

With the kids and going to work / school the next morning?

Edited December 10, 20213 yr by dworship

  On 10/12/2021 at 07:17, dworship said:

With the kids and going to work / school the next morning?

Sorry dworship. Apparently all 'real' supporters are going to be there regardless. You are being disloyal by pointing out that it could be difficult. 

Edited December 10, 20213 yr by Sydney_Demon

  On 10/12/2021 at 07:24, Sydney_Demon said:

Sorry dworship. Apparently all 'real' supporters are going to be there regardless. You are being disloyal by pointing out that it could be difficult. 

It's ..... interesting, that people who aren't in these predicaments seem to have all the answers and don't mind telling us about them.

  On 09/12/2021 at 23:13, Demon17 said:

Great call 58.

Negative comments on here are living in the past, understandably I concede, but have yet to make the leap that the Dees are now a Bona Fide powerhouse on and off field. (Premiers, $10M in the bank and no debt)

Oppo teams will be breathing a sigh of relief if they play us only once.

Other teams have double games against teams I am glad we dodged - Swans, Giants, cats, Tiges. No Sydney game.

Getting Power on our home turf is a big bonus and could be our key 8 point game, ALso with Lions, both of whom are our major threats.

Go Dees.

Hello Demon17. Whether Melbourne has won 17 Premierships or 17 Wooden Spoons in a row I think is totally irrelevant to expressed views on next year's Draw for Melbourne. Whether opposition teams think playing Melbourne is a good or bad thing is likewise irrelevant.

I totally respect your view that as a collective playing one game only against each of the Swans, Giants, Cats and Tigers is better than as a collective playing one game only against each of the Bulldogs, Port, Lions and Dockers, but I think most people would disagree.

We don't get to play Port on our home turf. We play them in Alice Springs as our home game. They play their home game against us in Adelaide. Obviously, that's totally fair (not). If you're saying that playing the top teams is potentially a good thing because they are 8 point games, fair enough. I guess it works both ways. It certainly helped us 2021. Again, I think that's irrelevant as regards whether we have a good draw or not.

The point I was trying to make, however clumsily,  in my original post was that it would be harder for Melbourne supporters, particularly those that live in the Country or Interstate, to get to Wednesday night's opener, as opposed to if it had been on the Friday. Are you disagreeing with that assertion? Do you think Wednesday is better than Friday because it's the first game of the season? Do you think St Kilda and Collingwood are more deserving that Melbourne and Western Bulldogs of the Friday night fixture? I welcome your and 58's views.     

 

  On 03/12/2021 at 21:41, BDA said:

The club agreed to it and i don't understand why. If money was the driver (highly likely) then why not push for the Friday night game. We are well within our rights to make that demand. Not a good decision by the club at all

Unfortunately we don't get to make demands. We do what the AFL tells us to do. Gary Pert's responsibility of course is to talk up the game, but clearly to say the AFL had reasons to put St Kilda vs Collingwood ahead of Melbourne vs Western Bulldogs for the Friday night game and that we accepted that argument is pretty poor.

  On 08/12/2021 at 23:00, BDA said:

I really like the Port fixture in Alice Springs

Why? We should be playing them in Melbourne since they are hosting us in Adelaide. It's a big advantage to play Port In Melbourne. We should be playing a Victorian team in Alice Springs, preferably one that also plays home games at the MCG, so we don't lose our home ground advantage. 

  On 09/12/2021 at 04:06, Jontee said:

Interesting spin by the MFC

In addition, our travel schedule, will allow a large number of our interstate members and supporters to get along to the football and see the Demons in action in their home states.

Unless you live in Sydney.

  On 10/12/2021 at 09:31, Sydney_Demon said:

Why? We should be playing them in Melbourne since they are hosting us in Adelaide. It's a big advantage to play Port In Melbourne. We should be playing a Victorian team in Alice Springs, preferably one that also plays home games at the MCG, so we don't lose our home ground advantage. 

Go find a Victoria club that would agree to play us up there with no cash reward. 
For an interstate club it’s neither here nor there and means they don’t have to play us at home. 
We sell this game for money not because it’s any sort of help when it comes to winning games. 
 

 

  On 10/12/2021 at 09:33, Sydney_Demon said:

Unless you live in Sydney.

Or Canberra. 

Although you did get the Lions and QB clash in a Flag year so maybe ease up.

  On 10/12/2021 at 05:30, Fat Tony said:

The AFL clearly have hidden agendas in the draw. i.e. not playing against Essendon as the home side, because they have not had a proper away strip until recently.

The WCE/Freo ones are the most perplexing.

Being shunted to Hobart against North and to Geelong are explainable due to crowds/finances.

We have played Adelaide in the 

The hidden agenda is that, despite being the premier sporting code in a country of 25mln sports mad people, it is still bereft of enough financial expertise to ensure a fair and even draw (over say 4 years) so it has to sacrifice its intergrity for money. Its amateur hour/decades. 

 

Edited December 10, 20213 yr by Jjrogan

  On 10/12/2021 at 09:31, Sydney_Demon said:

Why? We should be playing them in Melbourne since they are hosting us in Adelaide. It's a big advantage to play Port In Melbourne. We should be playing a Victorian team in Alice Springs, preferably one that also plays home games at the MCG, so we don't lose our home ground advantage. 

We sell games because they are not profitable in Melbourne. It defies logic to play a fellow Vic team in Alice, we play the low drawing interstate sides like Suns, Port, Freo, GWS