FearTheBeard

14 games at the G, most we have had there in forever. Double ups are fine, Port and the Dogs to slide hopefully, Freo and West coast are good and then need to match it with Collingwood and Brisbane.

Its a good fixture.

It’s so disappointing that all our fans seem to do is complain about the fixture on here.

when we were getting Saturday and Sunday games in the arvo or twighligjt all people would do is cry for more Friday night exposure.

Now that we get Thursday/Fridays/opening games/ multiple public holidays, all people seem to do is complain.

We should be happy our team has success and is put in prime time slots. We should not be finding excuses to not watch the team we’ve all waited for decades to become good. 
 

Bring on March 7.

26 minutes ago, dl4e said:

So we play Sydney up there and play Adelaide in Adelaide as part of the collective round or what ever they call it. It looks like we will be dudded again on the draw. I will bet we play in Perth or at Geelong on the last round. Bit of salt on the wound.

Stop winging, we open the season and open gather round (that Adelaide-Carlton game was electric last year). Its great exposure for the club. I have already booked my tickets for both.

And we absolutely want west coast in Perth again because why would you want to waste home ground advantage on them?

Being dudded is all relative based on who is actually good during the season as opposed to who you think will be good 5 months before the season starts.

15 minutes ago, Lexinator said:

Have I missed something? What's this 'round zero'? Thanks in advance.

Look it up in google, articles everywhere about it. Basically we are playing Sydney in Sydney on Sunday March 10 whilst the nrl are in Vegas. 3 other games in nsw and qld as well

2 hours ago, Deebauched said:

So dees play back to back H&A games at the SCG vSwans. Wouldnt surprise me. We recently played 2 H&A games at the Gabba in 3 rounds .

Any confirmation yet on what round we get flicked down to the Cattery?

 

Why are you complaining about the Gabba and SCG? The fixture has never been about playing every interstate team at their ground in alternating years. Sydney have played us at the G every year since 2011 except 2016.

48 minutes ago, Hawk the Demon said:

Last I heard was that we would play our first game against the Dogs on Sat, Mar 16 and therefore we were not involved with Round Zero....

nah that article said our first MCG game would be against the dogs, not our first game of the year 

I would fully expect that we play Richmond on the Wednesday night for Anzac Eve and follow up with a Thursday night trip down to Geelong on the next day. 

1 hour ago, Deebauched said:

I have no confidence in the AFL fixture for 2024. Dont be surprised if we get flicked interstate in R1 or 2, punishment for going out in straight sets in '23.

Collingwoods draw will be the one to watch followed by the Swans and Bluebaggers.

Expect AFL  to show enormous amounts of love for Carlton next season. AFL want a Blues flag now that Pies snagged one.

We dont count.

 

 

Yep expect that:

• We will likely play Carlton and Collingwood twice which would be 3 Friday nights and 1 Monday
• We want front ended interstate trips so that the back end of the season has less travel and more games at the G/Marvel.

4 hours ago, poita said:

I hope people realise that if we didn't have the Alice Springs game, we'd be given a home game at Marvel instead, just as Collingwood and Richmond have. There are no extra MCG games to be had.

And a trip to Geelong likely saves us another interstate trip. I can't believe anyone wants us to be hosting games against WCE at the MCG - we'd be lucky to get 20K at the game. Much better to try and dodge Brisbane and Sydney away, and play WCE and Fremantle at Optus.

I thought the players had said they liked our bye schedule. I've certainly never heard the club say that it is a disadvantage to us. Either way if the club wants to be involved in Kings Birthday (Monday) and Anzac Eve (Wednesday), expect some short turnarounds.

Agreed with all points except the 20K against the eagles at the G.

Anzac Eve next year will likely be a 4-day break as it was in 2019 where both sides are made to play on the Saturday before and open the next round on the Wednesday night.

19 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Any danger we can actually play a final round game (ie -round 24, previously round 23) at the MCG?

The last time we played a final round game at the MCG, was 2018 against GWS and we ended up having a good finals campaign.

2019 V North at Hobart

2020 V North at Hobart in the pre covid fixture

2021 V Geelong in Geelong

2022 V Brisbane in Brisbane

2023 V Sydney in Sydney

 

Would argue that we had a pretty good finals campaign in 2021 too hehe.

Should be a stat for noise made by those turning up at games. I know we've never been a loud supporter base and crowds are good enough, but the advantage both Collingwood and Carlton had against us was massive.

We've finished 6th so we are still in the top bracket for fixturing which means we will get 2 or 3 of the top 5 twice.

My expectations are Collingwood, Brisbane and Carlton twice from the top bracket, Geelong and Adelaide from the middle bracket and North or Gold coast twice.

We will get Geelong twice so they can send us down the highway and get a game at the G against them.

Port on the Thursday night of Gather round and potentially West Coast in the Alice to ensure we never get them at the G.

13 games at the G (3 aways being Richmond, Collingwood and Carlton), 1 at Marvel and 1 in Geelong for our 15 Vic games.

Wishful thinking that we wont get Geelong at their grotty little pub ground.

Got 6 tickets in the non competing afl gold on sale. I look at it as 6 tickets not available to Collingwood scum.

My top picks would be (and we need to move Stafford on as well):

• Stewart Dew
• Brenton Sanderson
• Joel Selwood (development coach)
• Todd Goldstein (Bring in as second ruck and move to ruck coach in 2025)
• Leppitsch (but wishful thinking)
• Ratten

How many times to do we see Max get assaulted by opposition players all over the ground and nobody goes to help him. Indictment on the club.

On 9/14/2023 at 10:51 AM, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Two questions:

1) Are high 90's any chance for this game?

2) Will there be 50/50 members allocation for Brisbane V prelim opponent next week at the GABBA? Or will Brisbane members get the majority?

Imo Expecting 94, will be more than last week because the neutrals that were put off by the rain will attend.

with regards to prelim tickets, the original allocation is split 50:50. They will open up bays at the start of the on sale and we will both have around 5 bays each and they will keep opening new bays when those sell out. As our allocation won’t sell out they will get the extra bays. 

1 hour ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

That would be idiotic considering their "queue" can't determine who is waiting to purchase tickets let alone is completely random and not actually a queue. Sure once sales close reallocate if needed but give members the chance to buy in that window first FCS.

Let's say there 50k Melbourne and 50k Carlton supporters trying to access tickets all at once but due to a quirk in the system 15k Carlton supporters get through in the first 15 minutes but only 5k Melbourne supporters do - that doesn't mean there is less demand just less capacity to access the tickets due to their ****ty system.

Yes but be realistic please, there will have been 3 times the demand from Carlton supporters because they are probably three times the size of us and they are up and about. Think its very reasonable to expect that there would have been more Carlton supporters in the queue

1 hour ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Is it just me or do we seem to have about half the allocation of the Blues?!

Correct. Initially level 1, 2 and 2A were 50:50 and level 4 was about 60:40 their way.

By the end of the on sale it was 70:30 their way because we weren't filling our allocation.

36 minutes ago, praha said:

Seems about right actually. And probably what it was last Thursday.

 

Capacity: 100k

 

Club member allocation: 25% (25k)

- Melbourne: 12.5k

- Carlton: 12.5k

 

AFL Reserve: 30% (30k)

Estimated:

- Melbourne: 3k

- Carlton 20k

- Neutrals: 7k

 

MCC: 23% (23k)

Estimated:

- Melbourne: 15,400

- Carlton: 6k

- Neutrals: 2,600

 

GA: 22% (22k)

Estimated: 

- Carlton: 17,600

- Melbourne, 4,400

 

Totals: 

Melbourne: 35,300

Carlton: 56,100

Neutrals: 9,600

 

No completely incorrect. 
 

afl is 22K of which 5k is medallion club

mcc 23k.

Club allocation is about 45k and the remaining 5k are corporates.

Don’t know where your ga number is coming from there is no GA, there were about 1000 tickets left over from the member allocations and today there were none.

22 minutes ago, praha said:

You're forgetting Afl Reserve and GA. Allocation for *club members* is 50:50. Crown was probably 65:35 Collingwood's way last week because AFL Reserve and GA was made up of 90% Collingwood. This week will be no different. 

Collingwood would have had 80% of the AFL reserve and we had 80% of the MCC. That's not why the crowd was so one sided.

The club allocations start at 50:50 but do not finish at 50:50 because bays get reallocated. Calrton ended up with 70% of the public reserve and so they will have around 70% of the crowd.

9 minutes ago, Time to Deeliver said:

Do they ever close the MCC gates for walk ups? Thinking of going but won’t be able to get there early. 

In theory they run out of walk up spaces, but pretty sure they will let you in and stand on level 1 because the MCC doesn't sell standing room until the GF.

49 minutes ago, fattysback said:

What do you mean by "double-dipping"?

MCC members turn up to the game but don't use the seat they bought on Tiketek coz they go straight to the bar or stand somewhere else?

 

People reserve on Level 4 but choose to walk up and take a level 1/2/3 seat - hence double dipping because they have two seats and dont use the ones on level 4.

44 minutes ago, fattysback said:

Sorry FTB - am getting confused.

If an MCC member gets a seat in the GF ballot or not, they can come in when the gates open at say 10am, right?

Why would the club deactivate their barcode?

 

 

As of last year, on Grand Final day, if you were successful in the MCC GF ballot you could not enter the ground until after 12pm. As such, they deactivated the member barcode that was attached to the reserved seat in the ballot. Otherwise, a member with a reserved seat from the ballot could walk up and take a better seat on the day.

40 minutes ago, Ben said:

I know they have a system to prevent double dipping for the grand final, where if you don’t turn up to your balloted reserved seat you’re ineligible the following year to enter the GF ballot. I wish they could implement similar for all finals. Or change the seats that are available to reserve. Why do they put all of Q up for reserved seating? If you’re early enough of course you’ll find a spot in walk up instead of your nose bleed reserved seats.

Their current system for Grand Finals is that if you have a reserved seat your barcode is deactivated until 12pm so you can't walk up to level 1,2 or 3.

30 minutes ago, He de mon said:

I thought there were a few empty seats in the MCC upper level from where I was sitting.

Yep plenty of double dipping in the MCC for both games last week