Friday Night Football no longer a showcase?

[Paul Kersey]

5 rounds in and the highest team from 2014 that has appeared is Richmond (8th in 2014).

I can understand tonight's game but this is the third game in five weeks in which Carlton are stinking up the football. Collingwood and Richmond are middle tier at best. WCE, Melbourne and St Kilda aren't the teams to get me excited either. Collingwood v Geelong next week before we get a game which looks to be decent (North v Essendon). Calm down as normal service resumes the week after with Carlton v Geelong. Guess what follows that, Sydney v......Carlton.

We have to wait until round 14 until we have a real cracker game - Port v Sydney.

Don't worry, Carlton is back for Round 17.

Inspiring work AFL.

 

[Rob]

Are we going to expect this thread every week now?

Completely valid mind you.....

 

[boncer34]

******* hell you couldn't have posted in one of the 300 other threads?

 

[Lensen]

they're clearly trying to make saturday night the "event night" to try and show "hey we have two top rating nights now pls pay us more in 2017 tv rights"

its frustrating as i'm much more likely to watch fridays than saturdays

 

[Paul Kersey]

Are we going to expect this thread every week now?

Completely valid mind you.....

Ratings will be interesting. I've turned it over.

 

[cammo78]

Carlton have seven Friday night games this season. Seven.

I'd love to know why this is, they are far from "big 4" anymore, are nowhere near the membership of the big clubs and are just generally s**t.

 

[westy1]

5 rounds in and the highest team from 2014 that has appeared is Richmond (8th in 2014).

I can understand tonight's game but this is the third game in five weeks in which Carlton are stinking up the football. Collingwood and Richmond are middle tier at best. WCE, Melbourne and St Kilda aren't the teams to get me excited either. Collingwood v Geelong next week before we get a game which looks to be decent (North v Essendon). Calm down as normal service resumes the week after with Carlton v Geelong. Guess what follows that, Sydney v......Carlton.

We have to wait until round 14 until we have a real cracker game - Port v Sydney.

Don't worry, Carlton is back for Round 17.

Inspiring work AFL.

then the following week,freo travel to tassie to take on the hawks on the sunday morning (western time)
whilst on the friday night i think its richmond v carlton on the friday night
pick the big game there

 

[Power Raid]

Friday night should be reserved for top 6 sides

 

[coniglio_number1]

Equalisation

 

[Paul Kersey]

Carlton have seven Friday night games this season. Seven.

I'd love to know why this is, they are far from "big 4" anymore, are nowhere near the membership of the big clubs and are just generally s**t.

Carlton are more of a Sunday twilight club these days.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Equalisation

One of Carlton, Collingwood and Richmond seem to play every Friday.

 

[WCErevival]

There were plenty of floggings last year on Friday night and no doubt in the years before that. Its way too hard to predict how a game will turn out.

 

[Cmarsh]

Have'nt heard Dennis say "Looks like we've got another Friday night special, Bruce" for a while now.

 

[Cmarsh]

Friday night should be reserved for top 6 sides

Won't happen. The AFL just won't allow two non-Victorian sides to feature on Friday night.

 

[rocket18]

GAme is crap, turned over to watch the soccer, thanks alot carlton for making me watch that.

Got no idea what people see in that game. You can actually watch the grass grow inbetween something happening.

 

[HTPunter]

Carlton have seven Friday night games this season. Seven.

I'd love to know why this is, they are far from "big 4" anymore, are nowhere near the membership of the big clubs and are just generally s**t.

TV.

Seven wasn't going to pay up $$$-wise if they weren't going to get the ratings.

Carlton have routinely got away games against non-Victorian clubs in recent years, as well as North on Friday night (and St Kilda on Mondays). I'd guess this is because they consistently rate well.

It's unfortunate for us, I'm happy to watch sub-standard skills etc but I at least want it to be close, but if the TV channels are going to pay up that much, they want the return in ratings. Carlton seemingly deliver. They might not have the membership, but they seem to have the fledgling support with casual fans.

 

[Hydrurga]

I want to know why Carlton get so many Friday nights when they haven't been really deserving of it for a while

 

[RUNVS]

Friday night should be reserved for top 6 sides

It really should be. The NRL organise it so the best games are played on Friday night. Of course it is not always easy to predict which teams would be up there but anyone with half a brain would know that Carlton vs Collingwood was not going to be a good high quality game in 2015.

 

[Hammer#8]

Won't happen. The VFL just won't allow two non-Victorian sides to feature on Friday night.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Port v Sydney is played later in the year. Looking forward to that.

Could also have had Freo v Sydney. Port v Freo. All worthy.

 

[King Elvis]

Too many s**t Victorian clubs getting prime spots to try and prop them up.

Crows get s**t time slots because we draw great crowds, no matter what.

 

[tucky74]

It's time for the afl to float the idea of a roving fixture.

How did carlton recieve seven Friday night games?

 

[RUNVS]

Not a great week for matchups in general but in saying that

North Melbourne vs Hawthorn would have been a good Friday night game given the recent history between both clubs

Adelaide vs Port Adelaide would have been good as well for obvious reasons

 

[TheFVK]

Another night of Friday night footy ruined by Richmond or Carlton.

 

[bombersfan4000]

they need more Essendon games for the friday nite