jenny61_99
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Are you whinging about your draw? It's not a draw anyways, it's a fixture.
Opinion Our 2015 Fixture
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What a terrible last game. I thought we were playing Essendon at the G.
Looks like I can start planning a round 2 trip to Melbourne.
Once again, as per usual, the dreaded Kardinia Park trip. Honestly if we haven't played there at least 20 times out of our 25 years in the comp I would be shocked.
edit: just checked, next year brings up 18 seasons out of 25 that we've had to play in Geelong
jenny61_99
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We are playing a twighlight game in Brisbane the day before. Not sure either of us got the better of that. Well except it's in Brisbane. So I'm happy.
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Well going to have to have a chat about our return from Europe. We were originally coming back 8 August. Seeing as how we will be away for all of July, I so don't want to miss a Friday night game at Adelaide, even if I feel like falling asleep during the game!
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We are playing a twighlight game in Brisbane the day before. Not sure either of us got the better of that. Well except it's in Brisbane. So I'm happy.
Well we do have to play sometime on that weekend and would prefer not on Mothers Day.
I don't see much whinging, but anyway you can (cue the emotional background music) look forward to the challenge for the playing group and in the end you'll get what you deserve.
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Think you'll find that's a reference to 2013 and 2014.
Just had a quick look and everything going really well I pencilled in at least 15 wins. That's without what I consider major upsets (so wins against Top 4) and 1 showdown win.
I'm going to book a trip to melbourne to watch the pies game
You're close. We've played there 17 times in 24 years for a 3-14 record.
Geelong have come over 19 times for a 5-14 record.
R1: v North Melbourne Sunday day (H)
R3: v Melbourne Saturday day (H)
R5: v Port Adelaide Sunday twilight (H)
R7: v St Kilda Saturday day (H)
R9: v Fremantle Saturday night (H)
R11: BYE
R12: v Hawthorn Thursday night (H)
R14: v Geelong Sunday (H)
R17: v Gold Coast Saturday day (H)
R19: v Richmond Friday night (H)
R21: v Brisbane Saturday night (H)
R22: v West Coast Sunday day (H)
Good to see the AFL propaganda machine still not living up to what they said they would do when it comes to Friday night games at the AO. The scheduling is no better than what we were getting at AAMI.
Other than that it is a pretty reasonable draw, H & A.
R3: v Melbourne Saturday day (H)
R5: v Port Adelaide Sunday twilight (H)
R7: v St Kilda Saturday day (H)
R9: v Fremantle Saturday night (H)
R11: BYE
R12: v Hawthorn Thursday night (H)
R14: v Geelong Sunday (H)
R17: v Gold Coast Saturday day (H)
R19: v Richmond Friday night (H)
R21: v Brisbane Saturday night (H)
R22: v West Coast Sunday day (H)
Good to see the AFL propaganda machine still not living up to what they said they would do when it comes to Friday night games at the AO. The scheduling is no better than what we were getting at AAMI.
Other than that it is a pretty reasonable draw, H & A.
Ahhh the ol' pencilling in. The most dangerous folly.
jenny61_99
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I don't mind going to a game on Mother's Day. Gives you something to do.
Our draw is fine from a football point of view, no complaints. But commercially we are just filling in and boosting numbers in poor time slots. We could go undefeated, win a Grandfinal and the AFL would just be like "now they will definitely attend, give them all the Sunday Twlights and unwanted public holidays"
Yep, way way better than I was expecting. Pretty happy.
jenny61_99
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We got ONE Sunday twilight game.
Yep. We're being shunted to the unpopular slots because our people will turn up.
We need our own tarps ... and to reprogram our supporter base to abandon ship when things start to look average.
The Club should start pushing back on this, it's a s**t deal for Vic members, it essentially reduces the amount of games they get with the difficulty in getting in at Kardinia. It's 4 for the price of 5.
Dirty Bird
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Im going to Europe for my parents 25th wedding anniversary and I miss the Melbourne and Port Adelaide games. At least Ill be back for the St Kilda game, Parents wont be though.
First and foremost from a making the finals perspective it's a decent draw.
Away games in Melb 3x Saturday games which is much better, especially 2 on Sat afternoon which is an excellent time slot.
Only one trip west - big tick
2x Fri and 2 x Sat night home games - big tick + a Sat night away game
No Thurs night games - very strange
Only 2 Sunday twilight - phew.
Overall ok. Yes Port have some things better - 5 night games at home and 5 night games away. Strangely this includes 2 x Thurs night games, the very experiment we were trying for but missed out completely.
At this stage we are the no2 team from SA in terms of love from the AFL and we just have to turn it around.
Edit - sorry I see the Hawks game is a Thurs night.
Away games in Melb 3x Saturday games which is much better, especially 2 on Sat afternoon which is an excellent time slot.
Only one trip west - big tick
2x Fri and 2 x Sat night home games - big tick + a Sat night away game
No Thurs night games - very strange
Only 2 Sunday twilight - phew.
Overall ok. Yes Port have some things better - 5 night games at home and 5 night games away. Strangely this includes 2 x Thurs night games, the very experiment we were trying for but missed out completely.
At this stage we are the no2 team from SA in terms of love from the AFL and we just have to turn it around.
Edit - sorry I see the Hawks game is a Thurs night.
Home game breakdown:
1 Thursday night, 1 Friday night, 3 Saturday Arvo, 2 Saturday night, 3 Sunday Arvo and 1 Sunday twilight.
1 Thursday night, 1 Friday night, 3 Saturday Arvo, 2 Saturday night, 3 Sunday Arvo and 1 Sunday twilight.
I think it's deeper than that. If we turn it around, our attendances might go up 5%-10%.
If Port turns things around, they go up 150%.
When your whole business model is based on growth, even if we go 22-0 and beat Hawthorn by 200 points in the Granny, we're still going to get whatever the AFL wants to give us because our crowds are usually there.
This is overall much better this year for travelling - 1 x sat twilight and 2 x sat afternoon in Melb - much better than last year
