Richmond's 7 Consecutive MCG Games

Is Richmond's 7 consecutive games at the MVG unfair?

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  • No

    Votes: 188 54.7%

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CM9000

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Does this undermine the integrity of the competition? Yes.

Richmond finished last year on top of the table with 18 wins. Their fixture as the reigning premier then looked unfair enough, but at least their games at the MCG weren't bunched together like this year. And yet, somehow, as the "best team" of 2018, they were somehow given 7 games in a row at the MCG to finish the season, and nothing is being made of it. If they didn't have such a dickride in terms of fixturing, they would not be in the Grand Final.

I made a thread earlier in the year before the run of games started, and it was promptly closed for some reason. According to Richmond fans, 7 consecutive games at their home ground was fair, because:
* They played 5 games outside of their state in the first 16 games.
* They had to walk across the road to Etihad to play 2 games.
* Games against co-tenants are the exact same as an away game, except they're still at their home ground, in their home state.

In reality, if we readjust the metrics to classify away games as those played outside your home state (as is the case for half th league), their fixture looks like this:
* 5 away games within 23 rounds, with one one those against a club who won 3 games for the year.
* 17 games in their home state, with 14 at their home ground.

So, the majority of their games were played in their home state, at their home ground.

This is the case for other MCG tenants, however. It's how the AFL usually fixtures. Collingwood once had 8 consecutive games at the MCG roughly a decade ago, though they didn't finish on top of the ladder the season before.

Given how Richmond went last year, why wasn't their fixture more punctuated with travel and non MCG games? How come they got 7 consecutive games at their home ground to compensate for their "increased travel" in the first half of the season? How is any of this fair for the rest of the competition?

What's more, for their interstate games, they played against sides that finished 17th (Gold Coast), 12th (Adelaide), 10th (Port Adelaide, 14th (Fremantle) and 7th (GWS) in the previous season - only a single top 8 side. In their MCG run, they played teams that finished 2nd (West Coast), 5th (Melbourne), 7th (GWS), and 3rd (Collingwood). They didn't play a single top 4 side away, and the majority of the toughest matches came in the 7 game run.

How did the AFL allow this fixture to eventuate in the first place?
 
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If they didn't have such a dickride in terms of fixturing, they would not be in the Grand Final.

Pretty big call given they won an away game a fortnight ago.
 
OP has jimmies rustled because a draw doesn’t read H,A,H,A etc. Tell me OP, what are your views on Collingwood having more MCG games than Richmond this season?
 
Does this undermine the integrity of the competition? Yes.

Richmond finished last year on top of the table with 18 wins. Their fixture as the reigning premier then looked unfair enough, but at least their games at the MCG weren't bunched together like this year. And yet, somehow, as the "best team" of 2018, they were somehow given 7 games in a row at the MCG to finish the season, and nothing is being made of it. If they didn't have such a dickride in terms of fixturing, they would not be in the Grand Final.

I made a thread earlier in the year before the run of games started, and it was promptly closed for some reason. According to Richmond fans, 7 consecutive games at their home ground was fair, because:
* They played 5 games outside of their state in the first 16 games.
* They had to walk across the road to Etihad to play 2 games.
* Games against co-tenants are the exact same as an away game, except they're still at their home ground, in their home state.

In reality, if we readjust the metrics to classify away games as those played outside your home state (as is the case for half th league), their fixture looks like this:
* 5 away games within 23 rounds, with one one those against a club who won 3 games for the year.
* 17 games in their home state, with 14 at their home ground.

So, the majority of their games were played in their home state, at their home ground.

This is the case for other MCG tenants, however. It's how the AFL usually fixtures. Collingwood once had 8 consecutive games at the MCG roughly a decade ago, though they didn't finish on top of the ladder the season before.

Given how Richmond went last year, why wasn't their fixture more punctuated with travel and non MCG games? How come they got 7 consecutive games at their home ground to compensate for their "increased travel" in the first half of the season? How is any of this fair for the rest of the competition?

What's more, for their interstate games, they played against sides that finished 17th (Gold Coast), 12th (Adelaide), 10th (Port Adelaide) and 14th (Fremantle) in the previous season - not a single top 8 side. In their MCG run, they teams that finished 2nd (West Coast), 5th (Melbourne), 7th (GWS), and 3rd (Collingwood). They didn't play a single top 4 side away, and the majority of the toughest matches came in the 7 game run.

How did the AFL allow this fixture to eventuate in the first place?

We had the lowest number of home games of any side in the competition, with a total of 6 homes games played up until round 16, including our obligatory 1 at Marvel.

No one complained about our fixture prior to the 7 games at the 'G.
 

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What's more, for their interstate games, they played against sides that finished 17th (Gold Coast), 12th (Adelaide), 10th (Port Adelaide) and 14th (Fremantle) in the previous season - not a single top 8 side. In their MCG run, they teams that finished 2nd (West Coast), 5th (Melbourne), 7th (GWS), and 3rd (Collingwood). They didn't play a single top 4 side away, and the majority of the toughest matches came in the 7 game run.

GWS round 3. You absolute turnip.
 

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What's more, for their interstate games, they played against sides that finished 17th (Gold Coast), 12th (Adelaide), 10th (Port Adelaide) and 14th (Fremantle) in the previous season - not a single top 8 side. In their MCG run, they teams that finished 2nd (West Coast), 5th (Melbourne), 7th (GWS), and 3rd (Collingwood). They didn't play a single top 4 side away, and the majority of the toughest matches came in the 7 game run.

Your argument would hold more water if it was accurate.

GWS (who finished 7th in 2018) hosted Richmond in Round 3 in Sydney; which Richmond then had to back up and travel to Adelaide to play Port in Round 4. These two back to back games early in the season when we were still trying to get into the season and during the start of our 'injury crisis' (Remembering that Richmond was missing Rance, Riewoldt, Cotchin & Martin in Round 4) could also be an example of where the fixture disadvantaged us.

The AFL should've had one of the Giants or Power games away late in the season instead of playing both teams away early in the year and at home later in the season; but that's the way the fixture works.
 

CM9000

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Pretty big call given they won an away game a fortnight ago.

No offence to Brisbane, but I think your side was quite a bit off due to the lack of finals experience. It made you a bit easier to beat then the other top 4 sides.

We had the lowest number of home games of any side in the competition, with a total of 6 homes games played up until round 16, including our obligatory 1 at Marvel.

No one complained about our fixture prior to the 7 games at the 'G.

Must be difficult having to play against co tenants, when half the competition have to travel interstate every second week. Must be hard walking across the road to Etihad.
 
No offence to Brisbane, but I think your side was quite a bit off due to the lack of finals experience. It made you a bit easier to beat then the other top 4 sides.

Wow rude
 
No offence to Brisbane, but I think your side was quite a bit off due to the lack of finals experience. It made you a bit easier to beat then the other top 4 sides.



Must be difficult having to play against co tenants, when half the competition have to travel interstate every second week. Must be hard walking across the road to Etihad.

We had also travelled the most of any Victorian side up until that point too (Including Geelong).
 

CM9000

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GWS round 3. You absolute turnip.
Your argument would hold more water if it was accurate.

GWS (who finished 7th in 2018) hosted Richmond in Round 3 in Sydney; which Richmond then had to back up and travel to Adelaide to play Port in Round 4. These two back to back games early in the season when we were still trying to get into the season and during the start of our 'injury crisis' (Remembering that Richmond was missing Rance, Riewoldt, Cotchin & Martin in Round 4) could also be an example of where the fixture disadvantaged us.

The AFL should've had one of the Giants or Power games away late in the season instead of playing both teams away early in the year and at home later in the season; but that's the way the fixture works.

Fixed. A single away game against the side that finished 7th last year more than makes up for the fixture.
 

CM9000

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We had also travelled the most of any Victorian side up until that point too (Including Geelong).

Yes, and that definitely means that your hardest games for the year should come at the end of the season in consecutive games, at your home ground. I'm pretty certain no other side got this.
 
Probably unfair yes.
But so was having five home MCG games in the first 15.
Nobody ever comments on that.

Make it 3 in 13 sounds worse given we started with 2 games at the G Rd. 1 and 2.
 
But so was having five home MCG games in the first 15.

What is the footballing difference between a home MCG game and an away MCG game?
 
* this is a load of dross

We didn't get a proper home game until round 12 go make a thread about that.

Afl fixturing has always been s**t, you know what would have happened if we got more home games earlier in the season when we had half a team out with injuries we would have won even more games.

No one gave a s**t when we were outside the 8 at the bye and looking like missing finals but now it's a big deal.
 
From rounds 3 to 16, we played as many games at Marvel Stadium as we did af the MCG...
 
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