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Ranking Club KM's travelled Road Trips (1+ Hour) Flights
1 Western Bulldogs 15340 3 6
2 Carlton 16928 0 6
3 St Kilda 17490 1 7
4 Essendon 18600 0 5
5 Collingwood 18832 0 6
6 Hawthorn 21138 1 10
7 Port Adelaide 23770 0 10
8 Geelong 25150 7 7
9 Richmond 25196 1 7
10 Adelaide 26312 0 9
11 North Melbourne 27016 1 10
12 Melbourne 28394 0 7
13 Sydney 28488 0 11
14 GWS 30736 0 14
15 Brisbane 49616 1 11
16 Gold Coast 59608 1 13
17 Fremantle 73436 0 11
18 West Coast 74136 0 11

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    Thanks Demonland Interesting that we travel interstate km’s on par with Sydney and GWS. WCE, Freo, Brissie & GC do the heavy lifting due to distant locations and Bullies, Blues, Bummers and Pies do the least. Sounds Fair.!!

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    One thing I wonder with the WA teams, have the AFL ever considered fixturing them for two away games and then two home games each to limit the travel?

    They could come stay in Melbourne for a week, play two games and then have two home games. Or you could do Melbourne and Sydney so there is only a small flight inbetween.

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    Doesn't tell the full story. The chart above suggets St Kilda have a cruisy run, but it's wrong. St Kilda played at 7 different venues in the first 9 rounds. This includes trips Geelong, Launceston, Canberra and two different venues in Adelaide. Those a short trips so they don't show up as KMs travel, but they've had no continuity. After Round 14 they will have played at 9 venues.

    They end the season with something like 8 of 9 games being at Marvel, but by that time their season will be done.

    On the other hand we just played 4 straight at the MCG. Our trip to Adelaide sucked for a range of reasons, but at least it was at Adelaide Oval both times.

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    5 minutes ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

    One thing I wonder with the WA teams, have the AFL ever considered fixturing them for two away games and then two home games each to limit the travel?

    They could come stay in Melbourne for a week, play two games and then have two home games. Or you could do Melbourne and Sydney so there is only a small flight inbetween.

    That will likely put too much strain on the fixturing algorithm as its already heavily loaded up attending to revenue,profit and appeasing Collingwood.

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    Our round trip to Alice makes this look far worse for us than it actually is.

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    I assume the number of flights is actually double...that is "there and back". Is that correct? Which raises a separate question: Do any clubs play a triangular (three flights) trip, such as Perth to Melbourne to Sydney then back to Perth, for example? 

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