Bring-Back-Powell

One of the key items on the 2023 agenda is to fix our MCG performances. I believe we won just 2 of our last 8 MCG games for the year.

I haven't researched this so could be wrong but I think we're 3-20 and a draw since 1990. Absolutely deplorable by both our club and for the AFL for continually sending us down there.

I got a ticket for the Dees/Dons and Port/WB double header - for free. Seems a bit too good to be true - 2 games for $NIL??

Has anyone received an email from the club advising of the code needed to buy tickets for the Gather Round game against Essendon? Tickets are supposedly going on sale 12:30 today.

Six of our last eight games are in Melbourne I believe which is excellent. A complete contrast to this year’s disaster of Adelaide-Geelong-Alice-Docklands-Perth in the second half of the year.

Extract from AFL official statement: https://www.afl.com.au/news/871060 Tickets are not tiered or classified, so prices are capped for all matches in any seat in the venue and for all matches at the Adelaide Oval multi-day discounted passes will be available.

I'm interested in that question too. The media release says each game is free for members or $30 for the public so if you take it on its word, the ticket for the double header does not include both games and that the crowd for the Dons V Dees game would need to vacate the stadium, before allowing the Port V Dogs crowd in. Who knows?

Just assumed that clubs that play each other in Gather Round will play each other again, as there is actually no genuine home team in the fixture i.e. - the home team doesn't collect the gate proceeds. I could be wrong and we once again play Essendon just once.

Guess that means we play Essendon twice for the first time since 2005?

It most certainly won't be.

And yet St Kilda (who need the money way more than us these days) have canned "home" games interstate. (don't disagree with us playing up there BTW)

Now they're saying Magic Round to be released tomorrow. Round 1 to be released on the weekend apparently. The fixture has never been released on the weekend so I'm calling BS.

Hopefully either this game is a twilight or night game or we have a 7 day break the next week. I can’t help but think we ran out of gas against the Dogs (round 19) after playing in 25 degree heat 6 days earlier.

Any danger they can release the games and times by now?

We didn't have to travel there in 2017 - only because their stands were being re-developed. Oh and in 2020 the AFL were nice enough not to schedule us there (in the revised lock down fixture where nobody could attend the MCG!)

Happy just to play them once next year excluding finals. Losing to them twice in the one year was soul destroying in front of 50K filth each time. I find Pies supporters as a collective to be far too much to handle when they're up and about. Kind of felt like they willed their team over the line in our round 21 game.

The Herald Sun have just revealed when Grundy and the Dees will play Collingwood, but it's behind a paywall. Would find it amusing if you signed up and paid to see the article only for the Herald Sun to announce it's the Kings Birthday.

Wouldn't mind seeing him go well at the Dogs. Did nothing wrong with us other than being down the pecking order. Just hope he doesn't kick the winning goal in round 1 next year!

Well he has history. I'm sure it was reported he got involved in a Perth night club dust up just after the GF (separate to the one that the Dees and Dogs reportedly got into)

I heard the AFL are releasing the exact times and dates of rounds 16-23 (not 24) in one hit, around the mid season point.

They were ranked about 12th in scores 'for'. They're nowhere near a flag until they can improve their scoring output.

Wish it was Jase Burgoyne rather than Trent. Jase looks the goods.

Can anyone offer up a reason as to why his early season games where so much better than his finals performances this year?

I don’t understand either. A Saturday night home round 1 game against a team that we have a good recent rivalry with at the G, with the weather being mild and the game being on FTA, and yet people need to complain??

That would rely on Dogs fans attending the game in their droves and as we saw in this years game, they didn’t. They also only got 45,000 to a Richmond V Dogs MCG 2022 Saturday night game. Always good to start the season off the G with a home game. However a round 23 MCG game would be great too. Last 4 season we’ve ether been sent interstate or to Geelong to close the season.