15 hours ago, KozzyCan said:

Nah they will feature teams that played finals last year.

A premiership fancy vs a rebuilding side isn't going to bring many eyeballs.

Absolutely see you point there. And there will be highly marketable games on opening round such as Brisbane V Geelong or GWS V Hawthorn as hypothetical examples.

However, they might make an exception here with the Trac rivalry with his former club being the reason it brings many eyeballs (as you said) to a largely stand alone game that opening weekend.

Furthermore, rebuilding sides such as Essendon and Richmond have been scheduled to play GC up there for opening round, and we fit that demographic next year.

I don't expect us to play GC in opening round next year but I wouldn't be shocked either if we did.

16 hours ago, Engorged Onion said:

As an aside from the other father son thread currently doing the rounds. Will Christian play 100 games for the Gold Coast, and... if selected, where would a son or daughter play.

I cbf looking it up re: GAJr... he'd surely be in the same boat.

He don’t think he likes us

2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Absolutely see you point there. And there will be highly marketable games on opening round such as Brisbane V Geelong or GWS V Hawthorn as hypothetical examples.

However, they might make an exception here with the Trac rivalry with his former club being the reason it brings many eyeballs (as you said) to a largely stand alone game that opening weekend.

Furthermore, rebuilding sides such as Essendon and Richmond have been scheduled to play GC up there for opening round, and we fit that demographic next year.

I don't expect us to play GC in opening round next year but I wouldn't be shocked either if we did.

I just don't think there's much of a rivalry to sell. The club let him go, it would be played at the Gold Coast so there'd be only a small handful of Melbourne supporters there and the club have vastly different prospects for the year. Would almost certainly be a complete fizzer.

Essendon and Richmond are both big victorian clubs. We are not.

I predict that we'll see Hawks, Geelong, and two of Dogs, Adelaide or Carlton. Collingwood will get their wish and sit out for a year.

5 minutes ago, Billy said:

He don’t think he likes us

given it's just a job, held no doubt steer any offspring to the filth, his first love