How is it baffling?More to the point... Why is our game scheduled for Saturday night and the Carlton V Essendon game during the day.. Given our ladder position, this is a load of crap. We are equal top, yet have the latest start to our round 23 fixture out of the top 5 teams. If we finish top or second and draw the hawks week 1, we better not be asked to play Fri night giving them an extra day to prepare. All top 8 teams have games before ours except north who are an equal time slot and the crows who are on a sunday but in 8th anyway... baffling!
Hawthorn should be the ones being annoyed. They will now be playing Collingwood on consecutive 6 day breaks.