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27 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

Not sure about the travel in the second half of the season, as the Rounds are 1, 6, 13 and 16. My guess is we will play Freo at Optus in Round 2.

Whatever the highest percentage that is mathematically possible is then that is the percentage of probability that we are traveling interstate in Round 2.

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Some thoughts: 2023 is the 8th consecutive year we've played West Coast in Perth. We haven't played them in Melbourne since 2014 We haven't played Essendon twice in a season since 2005

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Most Games at Kardinia Park in the AFL era (1990 to 2023)   TOTAL Melbourne 25 Brisbane 24

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Meh.  Anybody, anywhere, anytime. I'm particularly looking forward to our 2.30pm timeslot on Saturday 30th September.

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19 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Now they're saying Magic Round to be released tomorrow.

Round 1 to be released on the weekend apparently. The fixture has never been released on the weekend so I'm calling BS.

They were really thrown off by the Socceroos not progressing

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AFL Central on Instagram has put this up as the Gather Round fixture. Not official but these guys are usually very good.

 

Round 5, 2023:
Thursday night -
Adelaide v Carlton, 7:40pm, Adelaide Oval

Friday night -
Fremantle v Gold Coast, 5:10pm, Norwood Oval
Richmond v Sydney, 8:10pm, Adelaide Oval

Saturday -
Brisbane v North Melbourne, 1:10pm, Adelaide Hills
Essendon v Melbourne, 4:10pm, Adelaide Oval
Port Adelaide v Western Bulldogs, 7:50pm, Adelaide Oval

Sunday -
Geelong v West Coast, 1:10pm, Adelaide Oval
GWS v Hawthorn, 3:20pm, Norwood Oval
Collingwood v St Kilda, 4:50pm, Adelaide Oval

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13 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Something is holding up the 'Gather' Round 6 fixture which was scheduled for release on Tuesday.  I wonder if is clubs squabbling over whose Home game it will be?  And whether it is compensated somewhere else?  Or stuff like that.

It shouldn't matter whose home game it is in this 'Gather Round', aside from the two unlucky teams that get drawn to play the South Australian sides. The two South Australian teams obviously get an additional home game too. This is all because they're not playing a Showdown in this round (which they really should in order to be as equitable and fair as possible).

For all other 14 teams, the only difference is 7 have to wear white shorts (and potentially an alternative guernsey) and 7 home shorts and guernseys. Normal 'home game' benefits regarding member attendance doesn't apply with this round.

Teams still play 11 home and 11 away games each apart from this. 

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25 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Guess that means we play Essendon twice for the first time since 2005?

 

Not necessarily. We have played the once a few times early in the season and then there hasn’t been a return fixture. We also been the away team against them an inordinate amount of times of the past 2 decades.

I’m happy with that result. Could have been a home game against an interstate team. 

In addition we’re playing Adelaide Oval and haven’t been shunted to some suburban hellhole.

However if this concept is a success and the clubs are happy with the money generated then next year it will most certainly be our turn to be the home team as you would assume that clubs will have to alternate the home and away games. 

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12 minutes ago, Demonland said:

In addition we’re playing Adelaide Oval and haven’t been shunted to some suburban hellhole.

We are the third match on the Adelaide oval. Hopefully it holds up and there are no injuries. Wouldn’t want to be a Collingwood or saints player with a dodgy knee. 

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Looks like Geelong win the playing a WA team lottery and save them a trip to Perth.  Unlikely that if they play the Eagles again it will be in WA.

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Good news! Playing on Adelaide oval not some suburban ground and a Sat arvo game. Shouldn’t result in any 5 day breaks

*apologies for the positivity on the fixture thread. I’ll do better next time

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1 hour ago, Roger Mellie said:

Apart from maybe Richmond v Sydney, what a dull round!

Agree.

For the general SA and visiting i/state public there is no other match that seems worth attending.

Almost as if the bigger Vic clubs didn't want to play each other and loose a gate taking bounty back in Melbourne.  Ditto the rivalry WA, NSW and Qld 'derbies'.  The only Vic teams that play each other are Ess vs Dees and Coll vs Saints which are unlikely to be big drawcards. 

As for the opening night:  9th vs 14th (2022 ladder). 

Missed opportunity to max out crowds for the festival. There is a real risk of it being an attendance fizzer.   Our game might be one of the highest drawing crowds. 

From a crowd drawing point of view, I reckon it would have been smarter to fixture us vs Freo:  The Jackson showdown!!!!  And, at least another serious Vic vs Vic game.

Edit:  just noticed Port play WBD so that might draw a good crowd as AFL would be hoping the WBD fans will hop across the border so that is a sensible match up.

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7 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Good news! Playing on Adelaide oval not done suburban ground and a Sat arvo game. Shouldn’t result in any 5 day breaks

*apologies for the positivity on the fixture thread. I’ll do better next time

In my book everyone on DL gets one thread/topic where they go unnecessarily over the top with negativity and this one is mine 😉

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Can't see many people outside SA travelling there to watch their game or most other games.  Eagles fans fly to be flogged by Geelong?  Freo fans to go to some backwater to play GCS?  Lions or North fans to go to some backwater to watch a training run for Lions?  Collingwood fans to watch Saints?  etc etc.

I had thought the idea was to attract huge crowds to this 'Festival'.  Can't see it happening. 

A crowd drawing festival would include at lest some of the 'rivalries':

  • Adelaide vs Port
  • Freo vs Eagles
  • Syd vs GWS
  • Bris vs GCS
  • Haw vs Ess
  • etc

Boring name, boring fixture!

An own goal in the making for the AFL!

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22 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Can't see many people outside SA travelling there to watch their game or most other games.  Eagles fans fly to be flogged by Geelong?  Freo fans to go to some backwater to play GCS?  Lions or North fans to go to some backwater to watch a training run for Lions?  Collingwood fans to watch Saints?  etc etc.

I had thought the idea was to attract huge crowds to this 'Festival'.  Can't see it happening. 

A crowd drawing festival would include at lest some of the 'rivalries':

  • Adelaide vs Port
  • Freo vs Eagles
  • Syd vs GWS
  • Bris vs GCS
  • Haw vs Ess
  • etc

Boring name, boring fixture!

An own goal in the making for the AFL!

I was all up for going over and checked accommodation they are already gauging. Stuff that

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1 minute ago, Bates Mate said:

I was all up for going over and checked accommodation they are already gauging. Stuff that

I would wait and see what accommodation looks like closer to the date and the gauging may peter out. 

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2 hours ago, Demonland said:

Not necessarily. We have played the once a few times early in the season and then there hasn’t been a return fixture. We also been the away team against them an inordinate amount of times of the past 2 decades.

Just assumed that clubs that play each other in Gather Round will play each other again, as there is actually no genuine home team in the fixture i.e. - the home team doesn't collect the gate proceeds.

I could be wrong and we once again play Essendon just once. 

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