Off to WA ...

Freo… at a regional oval… 

God help us 

Perth club recruiters in the outer eyeing our WA talent.

The Dees will also play the Kangaroos in a Scratch Match a week or two prior to the Community Series match against the Dockers.

The Dees will travel to Rushton Oval in Western Australia to face Fremantle as part of the league’s formal practice matches prior to the 2025 AFL season.

The 3:10pm (local) game will consist of four quarters of 20 minutes plus time on, as per the regular home-and-away season.

The AAMI Community Series games will be ticketed events, with on-sales scheduled for Wednesday 5 February.

Club members with 2025 AFL Premiership Season entry entitlements will have access to free general admission tickets, subject to availability. Sign up now to become a Dees member ahead of 2025.  

In addition to their official practice match, the Dees will also face North Melbourne prior to their game against Fremantle in an in-formal match simulation.  

Details of this are still to be confirmed with date, time and location to be determined by the two clubs involved.

The match sim will be required to take place between Saturday 15 February and Saturday 22 February.  

North get another ‘home’ game in Perth. Lucky them. 
 

I hope our game against them is at Arden St and not in the @rse end of Cranbourne. 

So North, then Freo

Then a week off while the nonsense that is Round 0 happens

Pretty good lead in I reckon.  Intraclub match on 8th you'd imagine

An interstate practice match, what a load of Rubbish, on a ****ty little ground

Unbelievable, but typical of AFL arrogance 

All practice matches should be played in Victoria concerning The MFC…

The area that is now Rushton Park was first gazetted as a sanitation site on 20 August 1926, and was converted to a recreation reserve in September 1958, under the Mandurah Road Board

So we're playing Freo at the old sewerage farm... sounds about right

Oh well if nothing else it gives us another look at a team that has absolutely humiliated us since 2020, aside from the odd occasion.

It’s gotten to the point where Freo supporters online were disappointed on fixture release day that they only play us once in 2025 because they view us as a percentage booster. That’s simply not on.

Round 6 at the G is one day I’m keen on a bit of pay back.

And typically the Collingwood filth only has to travel to Ikon Park!

3 minutes ago, #11-TonyAnderson said:

And typically the Collingwood filth only has to travel to Ikon Park!

That Richmond V Collingwood game is now a permanent pre season fixture at Ikon park.

1 hour ago, Sir Why You Little said:

All practice matches should be played in Victoria concerning The MFC…

Why?

27 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Oh well if nothing else it gives us another look at a team that has absolutely humiliated us since 2020, aside from the odd occasion.

It’s gotten to the point where Freo supporters online were disappointed on fixture release day that they only play us once in 2025 because they view us as a percentage booster. That’s simply not on.

Round 6 at the G is one day I’m keen on a bit of pay back.

I can’t quite put my finger on why they bully us so much 

My best guess is that their mids can match us in the contest while outpacing us, meaning we frequently get opened up 

Meanwhile they’ve been elite defensively for a few years, so when we do get looks we struggle big time to score 

Thankfully I’m pretty neutral about them so I don’t get too upset, but it would be good to get one back on them this year  

2 hours ago, Demonland said:

The Dees will also play the Kangaroos in a Scratch Match a week or two prior to the Community Series match against the Dockers.

The Dees will travel to Rushton Oval in Western Australia to face Fremantle as part of the league’s formal practice matches prior to the 2025 AFL season.

The 3:10pm (local) game will consist of four quarters of 20 minutes plus time on, as per the regular home-and-away season.

The AAMI Community Series games will be ticketed events, with on-sales scheduled for Wednesday 5 February.

Club members with 2025 AFL Premiership Season entry entitlements will have access to free general admission tickets, subject to availability. Sign up now to become a Dees member ahead of 2025.  

In addition to their official practice match, the Dees will also face North Melbourne prior to their game against Fremantle in an in-formal match simulation.  

Details of this are still to be confirmed with date, time and location to be determined by the two clubs involved.

The match sim will be required to take place between Saturday 15 February and Saturday 22 February.  

Using the term 'full schedule' to describe two games, one of which being an 'in-formal (sic) match simulation' (ie scratch match) at a yet to be determined date and ground, hurts my head.

By the by, do our players have to wear a tux against the roos?

1 hour ago, demoncat said:

I can’t quite put my finger on why they bully us so much 

My best guess is that their mids can match us in the contest while outpacing us, meaning we frequently get opened up 

Meanwhile they’ve been elite defensively for a few years, so when we do get looks we struggle big time to score 

Thankfully I’m pretty neutral about them so I don’t get too upset, but it would be good to get one back on them this year  

Think you nailed the bolded bit.

Same could be said about Collingwood.

2 hours ago, #11-TonyAnderson said:

And typically the Collingwood filth only has to travel to Ikon Park!

JEELONG at the Cattery, now there's a HUGE surprise🤮

2 hours ago, Demonstone said:

Why?

Travel/Injury factors. The games are a meaningless risk

47 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Travel/Injury factors. The games are a meaningless risk

Travel is a fact of AFL life.  So are injuries.

Players get injured in intra-club games.

 

What are the odds that the North game will be in Tassie.

22 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Travel is a fact of AFL life.  So are injuries.

Players get injured in intra-club games.

 

The AFL are selling tickets to these meaningless games as well, i get it but i don’t have to agree with it 

Filth would be filthy at that amount of travel. 

5 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

An interstate practice match, what a load of Rubbish, on a ****ty little ground

Unbelievable, but typical of AFL arrogance 

All practice matches should be played in Victoria concerning The MFC…

 

4 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

The area that is now Rushton Park was first gazetted as a sanitation site on 20 August 1926, and was converted to a recreation reserve in September 1958, under the Mandurah Road Board

So we're playing Freo at the old sewerage farm... sounds about right

Gold!

6 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

The area that is now Rushton Park was first gazetted as a sanitation site on 20 August 1926, and was converted to a recreation reserve in September 1958, under the Mandurah Road Board

So we're playing Freo at the old sewerage farm... sounds about right

So it's going to be a [censored] game then?

Wouldn’t it have made more sense to have home derbies in each of WA, SA, NSW and QLD, with the rest all played in Victoria? Would be better financially and probably better crowd wise.

5 hours ago, hardtack said:

Wouldn’t it have made more sense to have home derbies in each of WA, SA, NSW and QLD, with the rest all played in Victoria? Would be better financially and probably better crowd wise.

Couldn’t agree more after all these games are really just practice matches to blow cob webs out , get match fit and trial one or two things before the real stuff begins 

It seems like the AFL love to over engineer things often and in many cases to the detriment of the clubs paid up supporters