2018 Fixture

[Gridlock'd]

And a Thursday night. Pretty good overall.

Club also seeking clarification from the AFL re not getting Good Friday.

 

[BenF]

2 trips to Perth and Adelaide, but only Canberra in Round 1 apart from that. 4 Friday nights, 2 at home plus Pies away at Etihad.

Very happy

 

[ivan rassmussen]

No Qld, 2 x Perth, 2 x Adelaide. Fair trade off, I suppose.

 

[BallaratBulldog]

2 AO and Perth trips.

 

[CaptainMurphy]

Double ups:
Melbourne
West Coast
Port Adelaide
North Melbourne
Carlton

That's pretty soft.

 

[MJ_Dogs]

We again have a 6 day break on the back of going to Perth.

Overall pretty good though

 

[TommyD13]

YAY 2 games at Adelaide Oval!!

 

[TommyD13]

13 games at Eithad, 2 at the MCG and 2 in Ballarat. Pretty good if you ask me.
2 trips to Adelaide Oval
2 trips to Perth Stadium
1 trip to Canberra
Overall very happy with all of this

 

[TommyD13]

Our last home game of the year at Eithad is in round 16.

 

[SayerTheCreator]

Pretty good but weird starting with 3 Sundays then 4/5 Sundays from round 18-22. None in between.

 

[X_box_X]

Great fixture.

 

[ivan rassmussen]

Our last home game of the year at Eithad is in round 16.

1 of the last 7 as a home game (in Ballarat)! WTF is that?!

 

[Golden_6]

1 of the last 7 as a home game (in Ballarat)! WTF is that?!

A little quirk but not a big deal considering we don't leave Vic for the last 5 games and 3 of those are at Etihard.

 

[TommyD13]

1 of the last 7 as a home game (in Ballarat)! WTF is that?!

I dunno but the fact that we have a few of those at Etihad makes up for it in a football sense, but Im concerned about members and the income the club will bring in during those seven weeks

 

[TommyD13]

Also, it happened this year with Hawthorn, why do we wait all the way until round 23 to play Richmond for the first time??

 

[RedWhite&Blue]

Yep, good fixture.
4 Friday nights with 2 or them home games is better than 8 Friday night games with only 1 being a home game this year - money wise anyway.
We're back to 3 Sunday twilight games (bloody graveyard shift).
Not playing any of the good teams twice.
Cannot argue with any of that except we've been booted from Good Friday when it was our turn to host it.

 

[MJ_Dogs]

Yep, good fixture.
4 Friday nights with 2 or them home games is better than 8 Friday night games with only 1 being a home game this year - money wise anyway.
We're back to 3 Sunday twilight games (bloody graveyard shift).
Not playing any of the good teams twice.
Cannot argue with any of that except we've been booted from Good Friday when it was our turn to host it.

We have zero Sunday twilight games

 

[Ghenghis]

I looked through expecting the worst but I can't really find anything to complain about.
We get a great start to the year with a mass of home games. The secret is to get wins on the board early so this is surely a good thing.
We get away games against Collingwood and Carlton at Etihad.
NO GAME IN GEELONG!!!!
We don't get the blockbuster Friday nights like Richmond but this year is more about getting back up the ladder and winning rather than ratings.

 

[ossie_21]

Pretty happy overall, 4 Friday nights & 2 at home against Vic clubs Carlton & Geelong is a good result.
No away game to geelong, praise jeebus

Last 4 all designated away games though, that’s a bit harsh but acceptable if we take care of the home games well

 

[Ghenghis]

1 of the last 7 as a home game (in Ballarat)! WTF is that?!

It's a fair point about the away games in the run home but 2 of them are at the MCG which we will take anytime and we have the Saints, North and Carlton at Etihad. I'll take that.

I would also assume that with the 2 games in Ballarat, there will be make up games and the 2 at the MCG would suit perfectly which softens the blow

 

[Sentinel]

I dunno but the fact that we have a few of those at Etihad makes up for it in a football sense, but Im concerned about members and the income the club will bring in during those seven weeks

Better that it happens at the end of the season than the start, can you imagine if the draw was reversed and we didn't have a home Etihad game until round 8! On the flip side, 5 of our first 8 are home games at Etihad, plus another home game in Ballarat.

Good draw though. I'm pleased that the AFL didn't boot us from Friday night completely, which would have been the case in seasons gone by, and we don't get too many late Sunday games which is fortunate.

The only thing I think is missing is an extra 1 or 2 games at the MCG, but we rarely get more than 2 there in the H&A season.

 

[MJ_Dogs]

The bye before finals has been confirmed. Why aren't the media into this!!?? The advantage of the top 4 has again been stripped away!! It's unfair on those teams who deserved top 4 advantages.

 

[RedWhite&Blue]

We have zero Sunday twilight games

A 3.20pm start on a Sunday is a twilight game in my books - we've got 3 of them.

 

[MJ_Dogs]

A 3.20pm start on a Sunday is a twilight game in my books - we've got 3 of them.

The graveyard shift was always 4:40.

I agree 3:20 on a Sunday still isn't good for attendance but at least it's a free to air game for exposure

 

[Struggle]

Hopefully our ballarat replacement games are in that last stretch of mainly away games