News 2018 Fixture announced

[BrutThough]

What a weird starting time.

Also this all but rules out Bulldogs for GF. It's either us or blues vs north.

it is a strange starting time because they want the AFLW Grand Final to be stand alone.

 

[LiterallyNobody]

it is a strange starting time because they want the AFLW Grand Final to be stand alone.

That's fair enough but it's a bit random. We've never had a start time of 3:35 before.

What time is the aflw final anyway?

 

[BrutThough]

That's fair enough but it's a bit random. We've never had a start time of 3:35 before.

What time is the aflw final anyway?

This year it started at 12:55, so I think it will be the same in 2018.

 

[St Kilda Death]

What shits me is the afl give essendope the crows on sat night.
Give us brissy minnows on sunday arvo.
Then point to crowd numbers.

The rich get richer. The poor get poorer

 

[BangersAndMash]

http://www.saints.com.au/news/2017-10-27/saints-to-open-season-against-brisbane


Gotta be happy with that!

 

[SaintSteele9]

What shits me is the afl give essendope the crows on sat night.
Give us brissy minnows on sunday arvo.
Then point to crowd numbers.

The rich get richer. The poor get poorer

We're on Saturday arvo. 3:35pm an odd one to accommodate the AFLW GF but it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Sunday at that time/twilight.

 

[MUFASA12]

Still not comfortable with Brisbane, could end up being a disaster and a defining moment for Richardson’s career. Hope I’m wrong, but this is a danger game

 

[joop]

Still not comfortable with Brisbane, could end up being a disaster and a defining moment for Richardson’s career. Hope I’m wrong, but this is a danger game

Calm down mate

 

[King_Steele]

http://www.saints.com.au/news/2017-10-27/saints-to-open-season-against-brisbane


Gotta be happy with that!

Stoked.

 

[#gosaintas]

Couldn't have a better Rd1 fixture. Will comfortably account for Brissy

 

[MUFASA12]

I

Calm down mate

i will if we win haha

 

[MJ_Dogs]

What shits me is the afl give essendope the crows on sat night.
Give us brissy minnows on sunday arvo.
Then point to crowd numbers.

The rich get richer. The poor get poorer

They didn't even bother to try and disguise it did they? Unfortunately you guys, dogs and north have all been handed dud opening round fixtures. Coincidence?

Also we definitely don't have good Friday. Unfortunately we dont get the liberties of a Collingwood or Richmond. One poor season and we're out to the Sunday scrap heap. Now if they go and replace us with Carlton I'll be sick.

 

[St Kilda Death]

They didn't even bother to try and disguise it did they? Unfortunately you guys, dogs and north have all been handed dud opening round fixtures. Coincidence?

Also we definitely don't have good Friday. Unfortunately we dont get the liberties of a Collingwood or Richmond. One poor season and we're out to the Sunday scrap heap. Now if they go and replace us with Carlton I'll be sick.

Well north dont have any fans really.
But give the saints or dogs a coll/ess fixture (marquee games, minimal sundays, minimal interstate trips, plenty of home games against other big clubs)
Would do wonders for attendance and membership numbers.

 

[MJ_Dogs]

Well north dont have any fans really.
But give the saints or dogs a coll/ess fixture (marquee games, minimal sundays, minimal interstate trips, plenty of home games against other big clubs)
Would do wonders for attendance and membership numbers.

Yep the AFEL say we will get big games when we attract greater crowds. Yet they give us the duldrum time slots and expect us to attract big crowd numbers whilst at the same time giving the big clubs the marquee time slots and therefore they get bigger. It's ridiculous.

Good Friday should have always been saints dogs. We would have packed the joint out last year. Although our games aren't typically spectacles it would have been 10x better than anything north can dish out

 

[SaintLex]

If i'm reading this right, we play Tigers, Giants, Melbourne, Hawthorn and North Melbourne twice

That's not too bad.

 

[SaintLex]

You'd prefer to play Hawthorn and WB twice out of our bracket and avoid Essendon twice, so we're 2/3 for that one.

North twice puts us a good chance for Good Friday.

Out of the top bracket, we've avoided Sydney, Adelaide and Geelong twice. You'd want to play the Eagles twice but Rich/GWS is the next best bet.

 

[blktreacle]

You'd prefer to play Hawthorn and WB twice out of our bracket and avoid Essendon twice, so we're 2/3 for that one.

North twice puts us a good chance for Good Friday.

Out of the top bracket, we've avoided Sydney, Adelaide and Geelong twice. You'd want to play the Eagles twice but Rich/GWS is the next best bet.

Wheres this ?

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[theprospect]

If i'm reading this right, we play Tigers, Giants, Melbourne, Hawthorn and North Melbourne twice

That's not too bad.

So we finish outside the 8 and have to play Richmond and GWS twice, whilst Essendon who finished higher only have to play Richmond from the top 6 twice? Yeah sounds about right. Talk about favourable fixturing.

 

[blktreacle]

So we finish outside the 8 and have to play Richmond and GWS twice, whilst Essendon who finished higher only have to play Richmond from the top 6 twice? Yeah sounds about right. Talk about favourable fixturing.

How dud richmond get such a good fixture?

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[SaintsSeptember]

So we finish outside the 8 and have to play Richmond and GWS twice, whilst Essendon who finished higher only have to play Richmond from the top 6 twice? Yeah sounds about right. Talk about favourable fixturing.

If Richmond are still partying after the Premiership ( Bulldogs style ) they've got it on a tray.

 

[The Punter]

If i'm reading this right, we play Tigers, Giants, Melbourne, Hawthorn and North Melbourne twice

That's not too bad.

It also means there is a chance that we do not host an Adelaide team at Etihad for the fourth consecutive season.

We could also not travel to Adelaide at all. Hmmm.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Hidden behind the paywall, but the HS has a "rumour" that we'll be involved in the Good Friday game next year. I wonder how legitimate this might be? Would be a good get.

Saints get to hand out Hotdogs at half time.

 

[SaintsSeptember]

Considering we've had a couple of games cancelled due to bad weather in the last 5 years its probably right that we get to stay in Melbourne.

Ever been to Casey Fields during bad weather? Its almost Post Apocalyptic.

 

[jwikked]

Still not comfortable with Brisbane, could end up being a disaster and a defining moment for Richardson’s career. Hope I’m wrong, but this is a danger game

Kinda reminds me of the Gold Coast round 1 game we had a few years back.

 

[STK2020]

Freo will play 13 games at Perth Stadium in 2018 . Massive advantage.