I can see round 1 being versus GWS or Gold Coast, to play up Trac and Clarry leaving. The media will be insufferable abut this.

Please no Thursday night games, or at the worst, as few as possible.

Opening round against St Kilda.

Get it out of the way so we can move forward.

One advantage of finishing down near the bottom is you know we’ll be getting a number of early Saturday (1:20pm) and early Sunday (1:10) MCG games. I can confidently speak for most posters here that these timeslots are the most preferred.

Aside from Anzac Eve and KB’day, I don’t see us playing a marquee timeslot (Thursday or Friday night game) in VIC in the first 15 rounds. Maybe a Saturday night at best.

15 hours ago, bing181 said:

Opening round against St Kilda.

Get it out of the way so we can move forward.

All the noise suggests St Kilda V Collingwood on Labour Day eve for opening round.

I can see a scenario where we play GC in opening round (Trac factor) and then the Saints at the G in round 1?? I think that game would get some publicity- the return bout.

As long as we miss the Cats at the [censored] Park, then it will be ok.

Hopefully the Dees get two games v Eagles and two games v Tigers.

I tend to agree with those not desperately hoping for a soft draw. Admittedly sometimes due to harder matches the eighth best team comes tenth and watches the bottom team in the eight get a shellacking in their elimination final. Actually maybe that'd be better for Melbourne who I dont think will be a real contender next year. But for those that are the ones that are 8-3 against the top 8 sides is both better prepared and probably a better standard than those finalists who had less hard games and comparably are 3-6.

6 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

As long as we miss the Cats at the [censored] Park, then it will be ok.

Hopefully the Dees get two games v Eagles and two games v Tigers.

Our new coach until a few months ago was mainly considered a Geelong person. I'm guessing thus we'll play his old team twice, orbat least continue the yearly 'tradition' playing at Geelong with crowd hoping their team beat their former alumnus.

5 hours ago, Go Ds said:

Our new coach until a few months ago was mainly considered a Geelong person. I'm guessing thus we'll play his old team twice, orbat least continue the yearly 'tradition' playing at Geelong with crowd hoping their team beat their former alumnus.

And hopefully the new coach knows how to play at that [censored] heap ground and can inspire us to win there

As a supporter living in Sydney I’d like to play the Giants at Engie stadium as I’ve never been, not a fan of the SCG at all.

Id like to have our Anzac Eve & Kings birthday on alternative years.

Geelong st the G.

People need to remember that most if not all Melbourne based clubs request to play the Pies at the G as they’re guaranteed a crowd and bigger gate takings even if their home ground is Marvel.

We need to earn the right to better time slots back.