THE AFL has confirmed the schedule for the first week of finals.
• Friday night – Hawthorn v Sydney – 7:50pm AEST – MCG
• Saturday afternoon – Geelong v Fremantle – 2:20pm AEST – Simonds Stadium
• Saturday evening – Collingwood v Port Adelaide – 7:45pm AEST – MCG
• Sunday afternoon – Richmond v Carlton – 3:20pm AEST – MCG
All games will be live on both Channel Seven and Fox Sports.
Ticketing information can be found here.
Tickets for competing club members go on sale today at 9am.
Tickets for the general public go on sale today at 1pm.
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CARLTON champion Chris Judd is confident that he will line up for the Blues in their elimination final against Richmond.
Judd, who was initially slated to miss the rest of the season with medial ligament injury, said that he expects to be putting his hand up for Sunday.
”I’m feeling good, so I’m expecting to put my hand up,” he said.
Team-mate Zach Touhy told Channel Nine on Sunday that Judd has resumed running again.
”He’s been running, but I think it’s just going to come down to whether or not he feels like he can train this week, and it’s a decision that is going to be have between him and the medicos,” Tuohy said.
“The football public that puts time and effort into our game every year, for this club (Collingwood) and every other club that has been training since November, should not have their chances of winning the premiership compromised because of this nonsense,” he said.
“That is a perversion of the finals fixture. I have a very, very, very burning anger.
“I’ve got to be careful what I say here of an act of treachery by the West Australian Football Commission and the West Australian state government,” he said.
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