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2024 Gather Round

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i am less concerned about this than i am around how they structure around anzac day eve in 2024, which falls on a wednesday in 2024

in an ideal world we'd play the thursday 18 april vs peptides, have a 6 day break leading into weds 24 april, then an 8 / 9 day break into thursday 2 may or friday 3 may

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    Gather Round 2024 during the Easter holidays… just great. 🤬

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    5 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Gather Round 2024 during the Easter holidays… just great. 🤬

    It's the week after easter maybe hoping people extend the Easter break and stay in SA. I still don't see last year as a success unless it was all about money. Of course it was all about money. 

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    Cool, so our schedule will be week one Perth vs WC, home vs a Vic club, away vs Brisbane, off to SA for a home game, then away to Perth to play Freo followed by a Alice home game

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    2 minutes ago, YearOfTheDees said:

    It's the week after easter maybe hoping people extend the Easter break and stay in SA. I still don't see last year as a success unless it was all about money. Of course it was all about money. 

    I heard it was April 4 - 7 which is Easter. Anyways even if it is the week after, it’s still during school holidays. Airfares and accommodation will skyrocket, it will be worse than last year. Rex currently have flights to Adelaide during that period starting from $79. But we don’t know on which day the Dees will be playing and by the time we find out there’s no way flights with any carrier will be affordable.

    The AFL are absolutely killing any sort of incentive for fans to attend matches. I’ll be attending no matter what, but it’s probably gonna be like this year: in a car, there and back on the same day, which sucks. 

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    1 minute ago, Demonland said:

    The round will run from Thursday April 4 to Sunday April 7.

    Easter in 2024 will run from Friday March 29 to Monday April 1.

    For all intents and purposes, it may as well be during Easter. The school holidays will ensure we’re all bled dry. I’m sure folks in Adelaide are rapt to host it again but for many of us it’s beyond reach. 

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    After this year FOMO will drive a ticketing/hotel/travel rush.

    You only need 5k travelling fans from each of the non SA clubs to effectively "block book" Adelaide

    Interesting releasing the date of the weekend without the fixture. Means everyone will need a 3 day stay if they book in advance

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    35 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

    Cool, so our schedule will be week one Perth vs WC, home vs a Vic club, away vs Brisbane, off to SA for a home game, then away to Perth to play Freo followed by a Alice home game

    Sounds like Groundhog Day 

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    1 hour ago, Demonland said:

     

    SEN's tweet says, "the hugely popular Gather Round". Was it hugely popular? I didn't get the sense that it was at all popular, let alone "hugely" popular, at least, outside SA. Or is that just my bias coming through?

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    Don't know what's so "hugely popular" about 80% of the regular match going AFL public around the country not being able to go and watch their team play live. 

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    1 hour ago, YearOfTheDees said:

    It's the week after easter maybe hoping people extend the Easter break and stay in SA. I still don't see last year as a success unless it was all about money. Of course it was all about money. 

    It was a week after Easter this year, also during the school holidays.  As a teacher it worked out well for me.

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    AFL announces gather round dates and the hotels decide to [censored] over anyone who wants to come.

    $600 night for an Ibis what a joke.

    $500 for the Hilton which is normally $220 per night.

    Can't get a brand name hotel for under $450 a night unless you want to stay in Port Adelaide for the night.

    What is the point of the ACCC if hotels can rob 30,000 people who want to go across for the weekend.

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    As a South Aussie Gather Round was a great concept and glad to have it again.

    Would love to see the Dees play in the Adelaide Hills, aka Gods Country.

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    1 minute ago, Jibroni said:

    As a South Aussie Gather Round was a great concept and glad to have it again.

    Would love to see the Dees play in the Adelaide Hills, aka Gods Country.

    Absolutely and Barossa. Plenty of scope in SA. 

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    Watch us get a trip to WA the week before and end up playing Port during gather round 🙄

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    10 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    Watch us get a trip to WA the week before and end up playing Port during gather round 🙄

    That happened this year.... then the That's Good for Footy people whined about low ticket sales between the two matches for the Melbourne show.

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    2 minutes ago, Katrina Dee Fan said:

    That happened this year.... then the That's Good for Footy people whined about low ticket sales between the two matches for the Melbourne show.

    Ima start a “That’s sh!tt For Footy” group. Anyone want to join?

     

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    Blame the clubs and the players.

    AFL said... you want an extra million each and Gil was run over in the rush

    Why not have two or three gather rounds. There's six other States and two territories anxious to buy a bread and circus weekend.

    Hell why not NZ? Spread between three cities it would be a boon for tourism. Ironically airfares wouldn't be much higher

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    1 hour ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    Interesting releasing the date of the weekend without the fixture. Means everyone will need a 3 day stay if they book in advance

    Interesting, but not surprising. Even if they had the fixture sorted now they wouldn’t release it. Why give us the chance to book flights on a particular day when they can make us stay for four days (three nights)?

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    2 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

    Cool, so our schedule will be week one Perth vs WC, home vs a Vic club, away vs Brisbane, off to SA for a home game, then away to Perth to play Freo followed by a Alice home game

    and then the inevitable trip to geelong. and one to tassie for good measure. 

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    1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    SEN's tweet says, "the hugely popular Gather Round". Was it hugely popular? I didn't get the sense that it was at all popular, let alone "hugely" popular, at least, outside SA. Or is that just my bias coming through?

     

    1 hour ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

    Don't know what's so "hugely popular" about 80% of the regular match going AFL public around the country not being able to go and watch their team play live. 

    The 'hugely popular Gather Round TM" is like the '100% all beef TM' burger at McDonald's just a bunch of marketing BS.

    I can't stand this concept.  The Melbourne Vs Essendon game was hardly attended this year, because all the locals were mostly intered in the Crows game later in the day.

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