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titan_uranus

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    I only like the second one, of the three.

    The club's major shift of late in relation to social media, communication and engagement with the fans is a major improvement. I love that they're asking us to vote on the Gather Round guernsey (because it's otherwise totally meaningless - I doubt we'll be asked for input on the ANZAC or SDN guernseys).

    It's a shame, though, that the designs aren't great.

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    5 hours ago, roy11 said:

    I thought this was poor, could still thank the fans in a statement.
    The crowd got around him a few times in season 2025.
    I know he's hurt but its disappointing.

    AND we host GWS in Alice Springs in 2026, so assume we play them in NSW in 2027, might be a whilst before he's in front of us at the G again.

    We actually haven’t played GWS in NSW since 2014.

    We’ve only ever had 6 away games against them in their 14 year history, and 4 of those have been at Manuka. Not sure if it’s a record but we’ve only played them at Giants Stadium twice ever.

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    A stack of completely uninformed opinions in here, which mine would be too if I tried to discuss accounting with any authority.

    “Creative accounting”, “poorly run business”, etc - are those having a crack at the club paid up members? On my reading of the documents, we lost $1M compared to 2024 in our membership drop off alone.

    That might be a sign of a bad season on field, but is it necessarily a sign of a poorly run club off field?

    And the club repeatedly says that we have to list the Goodwin and Oliver payments up front this year even though we are paying them spread out over the next 1-4 years. I have no idea what the rules are but I can at least appreciate why this might be the case. That we have to make the payments may again be a sign of bad football department decision making but is it bad corporate governance or accounting?

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    As others have said, it's pointless analysing difficulty based on double ups by 2025 ladder position. Someone next year will be this year's Adelaide/GC, or Port Adelaide/Sydney. There are other metrics I'm far more interested in.

    The timeslots are to be expected, but at least Sunday 3.15pm games are on FTA which helps.

    We lose the Geelong game but it's "traded" for another interstate game, effectively Hawthorn in Tasmania. Our Melbourne games remain 15 (12 at the G, 3 at Marvel). Our travel feels spaced out much better this year - no 6 road trips in 10 weeks this time. On the flipside, the longest span we go without travel is 3 weeks (Rounds 9-11, albeit two of those are Marvel, and Rounds 18-20, another one of which is Marvel). We never play more than two straight games at the MCG.

    On a related note, St Kilda doesn't travel after Round 13 on 7 June. One game in Geelong and every other game in Melbourne from Rounds 14-24. Double-ups are never going to be equal. Travel also can't be equal with 8 non-Victorian sides. But this is completely within the AFL's control. It's beyond a joke that any side gets the best part of three months in their own beds. Don't worry about how we, or any other Victorian club feels, how would any non-Victorian club feel travelling every second week in winter whilst St Kilda go absolutely nowhere?

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    2 hours ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

    I know it's Essendon again but as we're the 'away' team and 95% of us won't be travelling for the game anyway does it really matter who we play?

    We have now been on a pretty long run of almost always playing them only once a year and almost always 'away'. It reminds me of when we had a long run of playing Fitzroy in their home game at VFL Park instead of the Junction Oval. I only remember playing them once down there in my early years following the Dees.

    Haven’t played Essendon twice in a season since 2004, which AFAIK is the longest active such streak in the competition.

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    10 hours ago, John Demonic said:

    The inequities in the fixturing was the core reason that corbin middlemas was promulgating the idea mid season. I've come around to it like a few others.

    Why should double up games decide ladder positioning? Why should Collingwoodg sneak into 8th ahead of us because we had to play Geelong at gmhba and they didn't? At least opening up 2 extra spots will give two extra teams the chance of proving themselves against lucked out clubs above them

    More the reward for finishing 5 and 6 in this new system too. We'll see how the bye inequity impacts week 2, but I think the AFL could improve things with some kind of round 18-20 bye rounds to mitigate that.

    This doesn’t solve the problem you’re raising here.

    Double up games may still decide 6th vs 7th, and now the same argument will apply to 10th vs 11th.

    4 hours ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

    Weird that they'd rather send their supporters to Tasmania instead of Docklands for a 'home' game. It's not as if they need the money, assuming there's any on offer. If there isn't then it's extremely weird.

    Yeah but when their fans hate Marvel, they may as well cash in while they're [censored] and get the money.

    When they get good again, they'll wipe this deal and push for 11 MCG home games, and if they get a Marvel home game they'll pull 20,000 extra than they will in the next two years of being bottom 4.

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    On 10/11/2025 at 15:44, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Exactly my 2 cents worth as well.

    Although I seem to be in the minority and am actually excited to have a couple of high stakes games on the last weekend of August, as opposed to nothing. I guess I like watching football…

    Of all the arguments that get put in favour of it, this is probably the worst one.

    Got a problem with the pre-finals bye?

    GET RID OF IT!

    It shouldn't be there anyway, it should be the week before the GF, but if the problem is that we don't want a week off between the H&A season and finals, the AFL has the power to just get rid of it.

    Absolutely moronic reasoning here.

    4 hours ago, William said:

    The AFL, apart from continuing to chase $s at the expense of quality, is I guess assuming that 9th and 10th will be close to 7th and 8th in final points and percentage. But what if 9th and 10th are, for argument’s sake, 3 games (12 points) shy of 8th and/or a significant percentage gap sits between them.

    Then an elimination between these teams is unfair to say the least.

    A bit like this year? When Sydney finished 10th on 12-11 and 97% but would have made finals and got to have a crack at Gold Coast, who were 15-8 and 124.9%?

    If GC had not choked and beaten Port in Round 24, 7th would have been Fremantle, who were 16-7 and would have been percentage out of the top 4 and one win off 2nd. But Sydney, who barely broke even on the year, would have been gifted a chance to knock them out.

    [censored] me.

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    Not only has the AFL made a terrible decision, they've also managed to mangle its implementation.

    The majority public outrage tells you that this is not what fans want. Sure, some people like @Bring-Back-Powell can't get through a week without watching football, but for the rest of us, we want finals to mean something. Now you can finish 10th, in the bottom half of the competition, and make finals.

    They had the chance to say these wild card games weren't finals, to make the top 6 seem like a feat, but they haven't done that. 10th is a finalist. 10th having a rubbish year but playing a blinder against 7th credits them with a finals win.

    It is of course clear that the decision is purely monetary. You hear it when people like Greg Swann talk about it - they mention that it's good for revenue, good for broadcasters, etc. It's no wonder Kane Cornes and Gerard Whateley are so in favour of it - it means they make more money!

    The AFL makes a lot of bad decisions, but I can't recall the last time they treated the fan base so poorly. Knowing the (vast) majority don't want this, but shoving it down our throats anyway, and then gaslighting us by telling us we don't know how good it's going to be.

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    49 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    3 months off seems like a lot

    Would have been good to get a good 6 week block of training in before christmas. The season starts earlier every year so only 2 months and a bit post xmas to get a preseason in

    Not our call though, these dates will all be locked in under the CBA.

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