The NM home games against Fremantle and WCE in Perth (price $2.5M) has echoes of when we sold our home game to Brisbane.

The big complaint was by other clubs along the lines of giving Brisbane four points.

NM may as well sell two home games to Qld, SA and NSW and balance their books. Theme song could be changed to the Travelling Wilburys.

Expect Hawthorn to cover off their lost Tasmanian revenue by a taxpayer funded game or two

PS: NM will still play two home games in Tasmania in 2025

Edited November 13, 2024Nov 13 by Diamond_Jim

42 minutes ago, Redjacket said:

I really don't mind the Thursday night matches from a neutral spectator at home perspective. I don't want the Dees to get too many Thursday nights as it's not great for our crowd numbers.

Hope you enjoy watching Essendon.

 

1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Agreed. It's a hassle going to the Thu night games mainly because when you get home from the game you're still amped but still need to get up early for work. However they're to watch at home.

Sounds like we'll have somewhere between 0 and 2 Thu night games in the first 15 round block. If we're any good through May, we'll likely get a couple in the floating fixture from round 16 onwards. If we're garbage then it will be 1:45 Saturday, 1:10 Sunday and 4:40 Sunday and the occasional Saturday night game against an interstate side in July and August.

Anzac Eve is a Thursday night so we have at least 1. More than happy to watch Thursday's just don't like going and then work the next morning.

Thursday Nighs confirmed, 1 for us.

1 minute ago, FearTheBeard said:

Thursday Nighs confirmed, 1 for us.

ANZAC eve

 

So we get one Thursday night game by default (Anzac eve)

Perhaps an early indication that the AFL wants us off prime time. We might get one Friday night at best, and it will probably be away to Geelong or interstate.  

11 wins and we are basically North Melbourne.

4 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

11 wins and we are basically North Melbourne.

We finished a draw behind Essendon (with better percentage) but they've been given 4 Thursday night games to our 1. As you say, 1 is the same number of Thursdays that North's been given so far.

However, I'm happy with that. I hate it when we play Thursday night footy.

There remains Friday night footy available for prime time exposure and I much prefer that. 

2 hours ago, Redjacket said:

I really don't mind the Thursday night matches from a neutral spectator at home perspective. I don't want the Dees to get too many Thursday nights as it's not great for our crowd numbers.

Depends upon who we play. 

The Thursday night fixture for the first 15 rounds has been released.

Our only appearance is the ANZAC Eve game v Richmond.

edit:  Oops!  Already posted.

 

Thursday nights in 2025

Table with 6 columns and 16 rows.

Round	Date	Home team	Away team	Venue	Time
Opening round	March 6, 2025	Brisbane Lions	Geelong	Gabba	7.50pm
1	March 13	Richmond	Carlton	MCG	7.30pm
2	March 20	Carlton	Hawthorn	MCG	7.30pm
3	March 27	Essendon	Port Adelaide	Marvel Stadium	7.30pm
4	April 3	Collingwood	Carlton	MCG	7.30pm
5	April 10	Adelaide	Geelong	Adelaide Oval	7.40pm
6	April 17	Brisbane Lions	Collingwood	Gabba	7.30pm
7	April 24	Melbourne	Richmond	MCG	7.30pm
8	May 1	Essendon	North Melbourne	Marvel Stadium	7.30pm
9	May 8	Fremantle	Collingwood	Optus Stadium	8.10pm
10	May 15	Gold Coast	Hawthorn	TIO Stadium	7.30pm
11	May 22	Geelong	Western Bulldogs	GMHBA Stadium	7.30pm
12	May 29	Brisbane Lions	Essendon	Gabba	7.30pm
13	June 5	Western Bulldogs	Hawthorn	Marvel Stadium	7.30pm
14	June 12	St Kilda	Western Bulldogs	Marvel Stadium	7.30pm
15	June 19	Fremantle	Essendon	Optus Stadium	8.10pm

Edited November 13, 2024Nov 13 by Demonstone

1 hour ago, Clintosaurus said:

11 wins and we are basically North Melbourne.

The problem was that we were #14 in scoring this year.

The AFL and channel 7 want clubs that play attractive high scoring footy on prime time. Explains why Hawthorn have 3 Thursday nights, 2 Friday nights (in OR and round 1) and one wonders how many more Friday nights before the floating fixture takes effect.

They're obviously banking on an Essendon resurgence (3 Thu night games) more so than an MFC resurgence.

 

 

19 hours ago, BDA said:

Why is 4.40pm inconvenient? If cold is the issue then hats, scarves and mittens will solve the problem.

It's way better than 7.30 on Saturday night.

Some fixture nuggets for the first 15 rounds... The Grand Final rematch will be Round 1. Sat March 15. Syd v Bris, 4.15pm at the SCG.

FRIDAY night matches:

4x Collingwood/Hawthorn

3x Carlton/Sydney

2x Brisbane/St Kilda/Bulldogs

1x Melbourne/Richmond

Clearly being punished for [censored] game plan and unwatchable football.

So we have 1 thursday, 1 Friday, 1 Monday in the first 15 matches. Hello Red ball footy at the G :) (alternatively could be a whole heap of Sunday 3:20s again)

3 hours ago, FearTheBeard said:

Thursday Nighs confirmed, 1 for us.

Thank god I need another cold winter night game like a hole in the head.

45 minutes ago, FearTheBeard said:

Some fixture nuggets for the first 15 rounds... The Grand Final rematch will be Round 1. Sat March 15. Syd v Bris, 4.15pm at the SCG.

FRIDAY night matches:

4x Collingwood/Hawthorn

3x Carlton/Sydney

2x Brisbane/St Kilda/Bulldogs

1x Melbourne/Richmond

Clearly being punished for [censored] game plan and unwatchable football.

So we have 1 thursday, 1 Friday, 1 Monday in the first 15 matches. Hello Red ball footy at the G :) (alternatively could be a whole heap of Sunday 3:20s again)

We absolutely deserve to be off prime time given what we dished up after round 5 last year.

I wonder if the Friday night game will be some random interstate game on Good Friday night against West Coast over there, or if it will be a genuine Friday night MCG game for all to turn up to.

 

@FearTheBeard any intel on round 1.

Obviously won't be Carlton, Richmond, Hawthorn, Essendon, Sydney or Brisbane.

North are rumoured to play Dogs in round 1, while Collingwood are hosting Port.

So that leaves GC, Adelaide, Freo, West Coast, St Kilda, GWS or Geelong.

I have a feeling it will be either West Coast at Optus or GWS at the MCG.

We're allegedly playing North at Marvel in round 2 on a Sunday.

AND then;

Gold Coast round 3 at the MCG (first time since 2018) on Saturday afternoon.

Edited November 13, 2024Nov 13 by Bring-Back-Powell

4 hours ago, Demonstone said:

The Thursday night fixture for the first 15 rounds has been released.

Our only appearance is the ANZAC Eve game v Richmond.

edit:  Oops!  Already posted.

 

Thursday nights in 2025

Table with 6 columns and 16 rows.

Round	Date	Home team	Away team	Venue	Time
Opening round	March 6, 2025	Brisbane Lions	Geelong	Gabba	7.50pm
1	March 13	Richmond	Carlton	MCG	7.30pm
2	March 20	Carlton	Hawthorn	MCG	7.30pm
3	March 27	Essendon	Port Adelaide	Marvel Stadium	7.30pm
4	April 3	Collingwood	Carlton	MCG	7.30pm
5	April 10	Adelaide	Geelong	Adelaide Oval	7.40pm
6	April 17	Brisbane Lions	Collingwood	Gabba	7.30pm
7	April 24	Melbourne	Richmond	MCG	7.30pm
8	May 1	Essendon	North Melbourne	Marvel Stadium	7.30pm
9	May 8	Fremantle	Collingwood	Optus Stadium	8.10pm
10	May 15	Gold Coast	Hawthorn	TIO Stadium	7.30pm
11	May 22	Geelong	Western Bulldogs	GMHBA Stadium	7.30pm
12	May 29	Brisbane Lions	Essendon	Gabba	7.30pm
13	June 5	Western Bulldogs	Hawthorn	Marvel Stadium	7.30pm
14	June 12	St Kilda	Western Bulldogs	Marvel Stadium	7.30pm
15	June 19	Fremantle	Essendon	Optus Stadium	8.10pm

I like your crptic posts, but this goes too far.

1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

@FearTheBeard any intel on round 1.

Obviously won't be Carlton, Richmond, Hawthorn, Essendon, Sydney or Brisbane.

North are rumoured to play Dogs in round 1, while Collingwood are hosting Port.

So that leaves GC, Adelaide, Freo, West Coast, St Kilda, GWS or Geelong.

I have a feeling it will be either West Coast at Optus or GWS at the MCG.

We're allegedly playing North at Marvel in round 2 on a Sunday.

AND then;

Gold Coast round 3 at the MCG (first time since 2018) on Saturday afternoon.

No idea, saints would be my guess if the afl keeps with wanting to play all Victorian teams in Melbourne in round 1

6 hours ago, Demonland said:

Hope you enjoy watching Essendon.

 

Time to schedule dinner with the in-laws lol

Thank goodness i work Thursday afternoons into the evenings. 

Bewdy!

Day games, here we come! (under the radar?)

Suits our supporters base too (not sure about the sponsors though) 

But I agree with @Clintosaurus ... we got abandoned rather quickly.  Surely we haven't regressed to Neeldesque-like proportions, have we? 

4 hours ago, FearTheBeard said:

Some fixture nuggets for the first 15 rounds... The Grand Final rematch will be Round 1. Sat March 15. Syd v Bris, 4.15pm at the SCG.

FRIDAY night matches:

4x Collingwood/Hawthorn

3x Carlton/Sydney

2x Brisbane/St Kilda/Bulldogs

1x Melbourne/Richmond

Clearly being punished for [censored] game plan and unwatchable football.

So we have 1 thursday, 1 Friday, 1 Monday in the first 15 matches. Hello Red ball footy at the G :) (alternatively could be a whole heap of Sunday 3:20s again)

Is this confirmed?

For us to be on the same tier as Richmond, the wooden spooner, and behind St Kilda, is pretty poor. I get we played poor quality football for decent chunks of this season but it’s a stark drop off.

I just saw this: https://www.afl.com.au/news/1255357

Sunday night games in 9 of the first 15 weeks, not all of which will be before public holidays. 

These are almost as hard to attend for fans as Thursday night games.