With Opening Round done and dusted, Round 1 sees the full AFL competition finally swing into action for 2026. Discuss all the games this week that do not involve the Dees, share your tips, and let us know which results would suit Demons best.

lions to go 0-2

thursday and friday look like total fizzers.

The only interest in Thursday is if the tigers can get a win and push the blues to further implode and be in crisis after 2 games.

Hawks will destroy the bombres .Port v North and Suns v eagles stinkers in there as well

for a league that fixes the fixture round one is a bit meh!

Come on Toiges

Blues

Hawks

Dogs

Freo

Lions

Crows

Port

Dees

Suns

$5 multi will get you $785.21 with those 9.

i'm hoping richmond beat carlton because its great entertainment seeing the blues fans lose their minds

21 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

Blues

Hawks

Dogs

Freo

Lions

Crows

Port

Dees

Suns

$5 multi will get you $785.21 with those 9.

... not that we are advocating betting....

.

2 hours ago, Neil Crompton said:

... not that we are advocating betting....

Exactly, more of a reference….

3 hours ago, Demonland said:

With Opening Round done and dusted, Round 1 sees the full AFL competition finally swing into action for 2026. Discuss all the games this week that do not involve the Dees, share your tips, and let us know which results would suit Demons best.

Random point, but the club emblems seem strange this year.

MFC navy and white with no red

Saints with no black. looks like the swans from a distance

Crows navy and white also

i’m not a fan personally

Saturday is a cracking day of footy

1:15pm until 10:30pm non stop sitting on my [censored]

Barracking hard for the tiges

Dan 'rat' Gorringe has signed a waiver saying if the blues lose, he will never go to a carlton game again. Honestly a win situation tbh

I watched Vossy live as a player lots in Brissie during the lions golden era.

I've got a real soft spot for him. Such a brave courageous player

So I hope the blues get pounded and he's let go sooner than later. I don't think he's got any hope of turning things around.

I thought he would have made a great coach, but he really hasn't delivered.

I've got a softer spot for Yze anyway.

Go Tiges

The Pies could get rolled too

Edited 19 hours ago19 hr by Brownie

4 hours ago, Bates Mate said:

for a league that fixes the fixture round one is a bit meh!

There's four "big" games so it's not too bad IMO

Dogs v Giants

Cats v Freo

Swans v Lions

Pies v Crows

No game in WA and a fizzer in SA is a potential black mark though

8 minutes ago, Brownie said:

9 minutes ago, Brownie said:

I hope the blues get pounded and he's let go sooner than later. I don't think he's got any hope of turning things around.

On that basis, I hope they appoint him coach for life. Screw Carlton and the horse they rode in on.

Gold Coast are given a 92% chance to best West Coast in that squiggle system.

That is pretty good progress for the Eagles when you consider they are 11 wins from 91 games across all opponents.

Interesting to see Squiggle just slightly favouring Collingwood over Adelaide and North over Port.

Wow, Melb v St Kilda is match of the day on Sunday.

So don’t get the swiggle predictor

surely us and the Lions are not favourites?

Lions with 5 of the biggest outs ever

Swans will belt them

6 hours ago, Bates Mate said:

Port v North and Suns v eagles stinkers in there as well

For some reason I reckon North V Port might be a decent game. Probably close.

Agree with the Suns V Eagles game. Will likely be one of the worst one sided games of the year.

19 minutes ago, DubDee said:

So don’t get the swiggle predictor

surely us and the Lions are not favourites?

The only squiggle I ever got was Mr Squiggle and even that was a worry sometimes.

2 hours ago, Demonland said:

How do these things work? Are they at all predictive?

6 hours ago, BDA said:

i'm hoping richmond beat carlton because its great entertainment seeing the blues fans lose their minds

Voss kaboom.

How good is it that we have a full round of games.

checks fixture and finds out the next time we have 9 games in a round is in round 5

Carlton’s list is poor

I reckon the Tigers will give them a shake tonight

If carlton lose tonight, look out.

Hope Adelaide can somehow win.

It's the first time Horne Francis will face nth in Melbourne since he left.