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10 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

@FearTheBeard in round 18 there’s 3 games at the MCG?

Pies/Cats or Dees/Dons for Friday night?

You’d imagine Pies v Cats would get the Friday night game but apparently Essendon are getting rewarded with prime time slots, so you know??

Normally I would say that the Pies would get the Friday night slot, but I suspect it may be given the Saturday 4:35 because that's the new AFL favourite slot (after 1 game fml) and allows people from Geelong to get to the game.

 

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11 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Jon Ralph’s article says clubs can have 3 per season, which I thought only came into effect from next year.

Ridiculous.

And short sighted. Just makes for rubbish games of football.

Does anyone know if they have 5 day breaks in the NFL and NRL?

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22 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Jon Ralph’s article says clubs can have 3 per season, which I thought only came into effect from next year.

I was very much under the impression that it is still 2 for this year. 

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16 minutes ago, binman said:

Ridiculous.

And short sighted. Just makes for rubbish games of football.

Does anyone know if they have 5 day breaks in the NFL and NRL?

In the NFL clubs will play Sunday and then back up the following Thursday night.

Clubs probably only do this once a year and probably have the bye the week after.

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46 minutes ago, Nascent said:

Fun fact, all 3 of our losses have been on a Thursday night. Makes for a tedious weekend.

Bob Geldof got his days mixed up.

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Fixture has been loaded into The Age early again:

Round 16: Brisbane V Melbourne, Friday 28 June, 7:40pm, GABBA

Round 17: Melbourne v West Coast, Sunday 7 July, 1:10pm, MCG (WOO A RED BALL GAME AT THE G)

Round 18: Melbourne v Essendon, Saturday 13 July, 7:30pm MCG

Round 19: Fremantle v Melbourne, Sunday 21 July, 1:20pm Perth time (3:20pm AEDT), Optus

Round 20: Melbourne v GWS, Saturday 27 July, 7:30pm, MCG

Round 21: Western Bulldogs v Melbourne, Friday 2 August, 7:15pm, Marvel

Round 22: Melbourne v Port Adelaide, Saturday 10 August, 7:30pm MCG

Round 23: Gold Coast v Melbourne, Saturday 17 August, 1:45pm, HB

WTF Saturday nights against interstate sides.

 

 

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FRIDAY NIGHT GAMES (RD 16-23)

3

Collingwood, Essendon

2

Melbourne, Sydney

1

Adelaide, Brisbane, Carlton, Geelong, Gold Coast, Port Adelaide, West Coast, Western Bulldogs

0

Fremantle, GWS Giants, Hawthorn, North Melbourne, Richmond, St Kilda

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4 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

Can’t complain about that from a commercial perspective. 

Other than the game against Essendon the media call that we dont bring in big crowds at the MCG is sure to get a run.

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Great fixture. A good spread of 6 to 8 day breaks. Night games against good sides. Lazy Sunday arvo games against the Perth sides.

I would've liked the Bombers on a Friday but otherwise I can't find anything to fault.

At this stage we have the best game of Round 24 too (against Collingwood), which would likely be a Friday night.

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So Ess bblessed with no 5-day break between games for the whole season🙄.

Hope they crash and burn. 

It would be fun if they lost their first final! 🤣

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The round 24 games vs my other most hated team would be a good time to wear the 'Gus helmet'.

@WalkingCivilWar  I assume no problems with the cheer squad donning such helmets this time?

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It's great that we're on FTA so much.

Unfortunately 6 of our 7 Wed/Thur/Fri night games are away games (Brisbane in Round 5 the exception). But we still have the chance to draw big crowds to the Essendon and Port Saturday night games.

We've got to be a decent chance of getting the Round 24 Friday night game, too (Brisbane v Essendon the danger).

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