Demonland

LIKELY ROUND 12 FIXTURE (All times AEST) Friday June 4 Melbourne v Brisbane Lions, Giants Stadium (7:50pm) Saturday June 5 Sydney Swans v St Kilda, SCG (1:45pm) Adelaide v Collingwood, Adelaide Oval (4:35pm) Essendon v Richmond, Optus Stadium (7:40pm) Sunday June 6 Carlton v West Coast Eagles, SCG (3:20pm) Fremantle v Western Bulldogs, Optus Stadium (6:40pm)

I forgot to pull you up on this on the podcast last night. We did not hub in Tweed Heads last year. I believe we were near Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast. Tweed Heads is actually officially in NSW just south of Coolangatta. Last year our short stint in a NSW Hub was in Manly.

Richmond has to be one of the clubs.

When would we have flown out to NT? Thursday? Wednesday (to do community stuff)?

That's what I thought going to Adelaide. Brisbane are a much better team than Adelaide.

Further to this we are not seeing the bleeding of unaswered goals that we used to. I would assume that the tightening up our defensive game is going to have the effect of lower scores offensively.

I would say the contemplation is based around the uncertainty of whether the AFL will need to return to a hub scenario in order to continue playing the season and avoid having to negotiate with state governments to allow for exemptions and minimise disruptions and preparation of teams subjected to a FIFO scenario. FIFO did not do us any favours last year. We played our best when we were settled in the hub. The FIFO for the North and Adelaide games in Adelaide were the exceptions to this but they were both the bottom teams. It's just a fact that interstate governments aren't going to let their teams FIFO of Victoria and we can't have teams not knowing where they are playing until midweek each week whilst the teams and the AFL scramble. This lockdown is not going to end this week and even if things ease in the coming weeks things are not going back to normal straight away. We have to get used to hubbing again for a month or maybe two.

Looking like QLD wants teams to hub for at least a week in Sydney. I doubt they will change their minds. Decisions would need to be made very soon for some of these last remaining matches that currently don't have a venue.

I guess it all depends on what the situation is in Victoria and the AFL footy landscape post QB. If we are destined for a couple weeks or a months or 2 of hubs then where is the best place to play QB? If we hub in QLD beyond QB would the Gabba be a better option than the SCG in terms of bums on seats and in turn $$$.

While we wait ....