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2026 AFL Fixture

spirit of norm smith
in Melbourne Demons

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6 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

The AFL have today confirmed the fixture for Gather Round 2026, with Melbourne set to take on Essendon on Saturday 11 April at 1.15pm local time. 

The blockbuster match will be played at Adelaide Oval, and will be a rematch of the club’s 2025 clash. 

Blockbuster… LOL

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    I’d like to say the drip feeding of the fixture is keeping me in suspense.

    But I really don’t GAF

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    Sounds like we’re going to make our Launceston debut against Hawthorn in about round 17, according to someone on bigfooty.

    Apparently there is some absurd stat that since 1897 there’s only been 4 seasons that we haven’t played Collingwood as the home team. The most recent being 1999.

    On that basis I expect us to play Collingwood twice (again) next year as we’re the away team on Kings B’day.

    Edited by Bring-Back-Powell

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    5 minutes ago, dice said:

    Only Eagles and Dees not part of this:
    https://www.afl.com.au/news/1452342/showdown-sydney-derby-headline-run-of-six-friday-night-double-headers

    Wonder if we will get any Friday night games

    They refer to those six matches as being “double headers”, but they appear to be just two matches played on the same night, but held at different venues. That seems a new take on the term “double header”, which had traditionally referred to two matches played at the same venue, one after the other.

    So when there are three matches on say a Saturday night, all played at different venues, are they now to be referred to as “triple headers”?

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    35 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

    Blockbuster… LOL

    Another AFL decree ...

    You, the people, must observe this match as a blockbuster. No more questions. Attend!

    "But it's 13th vs 14th?"

    Remember the 10. The Top 10

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    For those that are impatient

    it will only take until July 2026 until we know the dates and times for the full fixture

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    12 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    For those that are impatient

    it will only take until July 2026 until we know the dates and times for the full fixture

    And even then we won’t know the full fixture because round 24 is a big fat secret ‘til five [censored] minutes before it starts 🤨

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    Wow so we're off to tassie to play hawthorn.

    Didn't see that coming. I'm guessing if the afl are sending us to tassie I'm not expecting a great fixture for us.

    Round 17, that would be winter wouldn't it. Just wonderful. But it looks like I'm off to tassie. Woohoo

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    Did someone say we’re off to tassie to play hawthorn 😳

    I wasn’t expecting that and now I’m not expecting a good fixture for us at all now

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    Cant believe some are hoping for a good draw?

    It’ll be a shocker no doubt, but thats the price you pay when you stink it up for consecutive years.

    Really couldn’t care less who & when we play this season. Suck it up & work towards becoming a serious football club again… oh wait weren’t we just? Ohhh…

    Anyway, looking forward to seeing our boys just getting back to playing footy without the [censored] show circus off field. Last couple years has been disgusting.

    Very excited by this club reset tbh.

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