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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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    13 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

    Question is how many more 5-day breaks are we going to get vs the other teams. Some teams haven’t even had 1 yet. 

    We’ve had 2, can’t have any more.

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    1 minute ago, FearTheBeard said:

    We’ve had 2, can’t have any more.

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

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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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    Just had a sneaky peak at the age website:

    The Essendon, GWS and Port games are on Saturday nights.

    The West Coast and Freo games are Sunday games.

    The Lions and Dogs games are on a Friday night.

     

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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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    Our Friday night game against the Dogs starts at the early time of 7:15pm.

    Neither us or the Pies play on Sunday in round 23 which should mean we'll play them on Friday night of round 24, you would think??

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