FearTheBeard

Means only 12 games at the G, down from 14

Rumour of 1pm. Interesting that they haven’t released round 1 first though.

No idea, saints would be my guess if the afl keeps with wanting to play all Victorian teams in Melbourne in round 1

Some fixture nuggets for the first 15 rounds... The Grand Final rematch will be Round 1. Sat March 15. Syd v Bris, 4.15pm at the SCG. FRIDAY night matches: 4x Collingwood/Hawthorn 3x Carlton/Sydney 2x Brisbane/St Kilda/Bulldogs 1x Melbourne/Richmond Clearly being punished for [censored] game plan and unwatchable football. So we have 1 thursday, 1 Friday, 1 Monday in the first 15 matches. Hello Red ball footy at the G :) (alternatively could be a whole heap of Sunday 3:20s again)

Thursday Nighs confirmed, 1 for us.

Anzac Eve is a Thursday night so we have at least 1. More than happy to watch Thursday's just don't like going and then work the next morning.

If true, they will have it made up to them by playing their final 8 games at the G and final 15 in Victoria.

Whispers are that Collingwood are going to Geelong this year in round 9. I'll believe it when I see it and then I'll ride my flying pig.

100%, they won't be sending Hawthorn there this year because its a Geelong home game on Easter Monday. They won't send Collingwood or Carlton. They probably don't send Richmond down there two years in a row. So there's 2 of the 9 teams last year who won't go there again which means 3 new teams have to go there this year. We probably play them on an arctic Thursday night in the middle of July when the V Line is down, the West Gate is shut and they make our team and supporters swim across the bay to get there.

All for Geelong to play 11 games at their home ground. The real question that should be asked is should they be allowed to play at a venue that is as wide as a bowling green and is so far off the dimensions of every other professional ground that it is almost a different sport down there?

Josh Mahoney was a cancer in the club and went to Essendon and was equally problematic.

No and if you think it will you're kidding yourself.

Yep in P26, not entirely sure why I'm going.

8.5K unreserved is final number including standing room. You could rock up at 12 and get a seat this year in the members, restricted will get the email at 11am again saying there is plenty space on level 4 and can buy a ticket for $200 (has been the case in 2022 and 2023 with Victorian teams playing).

Melbourne Storm

Andy and Laura just love to do what the footy public doesn't like. Incompetent fools who are in positions they are not qualified for.

M55 isn't a Melbourne reserved bay. Do you mean M53 which was only added last year and only half the bay is reserved for Melbourne?

I'm pretty certain the club will have been burnt to the ground by an angry Italian before we get a chance to look at a fixture.

He went to court last year to get a binding decision from a judge for the club to give him all our details.

Considering we averaged 49 inside 50s per game (often low-quality entries), no forward line is going to have much success regardless of personnel.

If anyone wants to sit in a Melbourne only area, my 2 Level 2a redlegs seats will be empty. I'll be in the Members so wont be using them.

Nope, there are 6 tickets left for sale on level 1 and they have sold all of level 4 front in 13/15 bays. crowd will be somewhere between 55-60k

Q37-Q40 are the bays on level 4 in the MCC which are next to the Ponsford and get opened up to the General Public when they expect the MCC to have excess capacity and need extra GA areas for the public. There is now a barrier in the middle of Q40 which they use to keep the public out of the MCC. For Friday they are only selling tickets in the MCC side of Q40 which usually indicates that the MCC on level 4 will not extend to Q37-other half of Q40. Hope this makes sense. This happens at pretty much every Collingwood, Hawthorn and Richmond home game at the MCG.

Around 55-58K I reckon. Ticket sales are average in the AFL and public reserve but poor in the MCC. They are going to open Q37-Q40 for the general public which I haven't seen at a Melbourne game before.

Not sure if been discussed but wanted to say well done Ray Chamberlain. Umpiring his last game on Friday and reckon he's been great value as an umpire. Loves his job, willing to put his neck on the line and speak about decisions that he and his colleagues get wrong on SEN, lovely guy and the game will be a little less without him. Hopefully, nobody responds to this by bashing him, just genuinely like the guy. Well done Razor.