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fingers crossed last season of 2 in Darwin
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2026 Fixture Discussion
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champagnesanni
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reckon a few of the players would be opposed to that unless they still did something like staying in darwin for a whole week before the game
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yeh fly up the monday and stay all week, play one game
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The Kings Ransom
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The double ups seem pretty hard.
But then I think of
Our midfield: Rowell - Anderson - Miller - Petracca - Humphrey - Witts - Graham - Zeke - Lombard - Rogers - Weller - Clohesy
And our half backs: Rioli - Noble - Powell - Jeffrey - Patterson
Kicking it to these forwards: King - JUH - Long - Walter - Read
Backed up by: Collins - Ballard - Andrew - Uwland
And think we have ability to win any game.
But then I think of
Our midfield: Rowell - Anderson - Miller - Petracca - Humphrey - Witts - Graham - Zeke - Lombard - Rogers - Weller - Clohesy
And our half backs: Rioli - Noble - Powell - Jeffrey - Patterson
Kicking it to these forwards: King - JUH - Long - Walter - Read
Backed up by: Collins - Ballard - Andrew - Uwland
And think we have ability to win any game.
MarcLocksCrustySock
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So well balanced. Would just love a great small forward.
Dusty says g'day......for 1 yr anyway til Jake takes over...
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We'll very likely start as the favourites in all matches except for (maybe) opening round against the Cats. So 6-0 is definitely possible.
Frequent flyers: How long each AFL team will spend in the air during 2026
The West Coast Eagles will rule the skies of the AFL world in 2026 - literally. The club is set to rack up nearly nine more hours in the air than any other team next season, and over 15 more hours than the closest non-Western Australia based club.
Their estimated total time in air of 78 hours and 40 minutes exceeds Fremantle's 69 hours and 50 minutes, dethroning the Dockers, who had held the title in both the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
Gold Coast will make the most trips across Australia next year, with 12 return flights seeing them accumulate 63 hours and 25 minutes in the air. It's the second year in a row they rank first in this category, being the only club to make 12 return flights last season.
Darwin is a choice by the club
It's not like we are financially independent club. I suspect AFL pushed us into it to make money as we are owned by AFL and depend on AFL money. We got highest AFL contribution.
Now with more wins, playing finals we should attract more sponsors, make more money from crowd, merchandise.
While I enjoy wins at Darwin it cost us in following games. We got tough fixture after bye post Darwin.
Hopefully we can reduce it to only one game or ideally no games starting 2027.
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Remove the Darwin games from our schedule and replace them with games at PFS and we go from 12 return flights + 63 hours in the air to a near identical situation to a near identical situation with Brisbane which becomes 11 return flights + 55 hours in the air (Brisbane have the same return flights and one less hour in the air).
The Lions don't seem to tire throughout the season so I think their schedule is about right in terms of the best we can hope for right now. It'd be even better if we could convince a Victorian team to play one of their home games against us in Queensland (like North does with the WA clubs) and/or the 20th AFL team being based in South East Queensland because then we'd be verging on a similar travel schedule to the Sydney clubs of less than 50 hours in the air each year.
What often happen when clubs aren't performing particularly well is the AFL starts to view them as a vehicle to grow the game in smaller markets and the clubs are incentivised to do so because of the money on offer. It's been the case with us for a while and it's why we're the ones that were sent to places like China. In fact, we're seeing it right now with Richmond agreeing to a deal to play games in Hobart and the same was the case 15 years ago when they agreed to play games in Cairns. The same can be said about North playing games in WA, Melbourne playing games in the NT and Hawthorn weren't doing very well when they originally agreed to the Launceston deal.
However, when Richmond were humming, they were maximising as much as they possibly could and playing at the MCG a lot. So although we've become a finals team this year, our existing contracts are hurting us in terms of maximising growth on the Gold Coast. So hopefully we address that and play less/no games in Darwin after 2026 so we can really maximise the opportunity that we have to grow the game/club on the GC during the finals window that we're currently experiencing.
I think the increase in prime time slots next year does show the AFL are serious about growing the game on the Gold Coast now that we're a finals team and I suspect they would also be in favour of us reducing Darwin home games beyond next year. Would love to see our team play on the Gold Coast more!
Two games is too many but Darwin has been good for us, including prime time channel 7 games the last couple of years. We just don't get many of them
A Friday night channel 7 game during indigenous round against a good Vic oppo followed by our bye or a Sunday game the next round? Can live with that.
A Friday night channel 7 game during indigenous round against a good Vic oppo followed by our bye or a Sunday game the next round? Can live with that.
I’m just saying you can’t complain about travel when you choose to sell games to Darwin.
I’d rather go back to selling 1 game to cairns if they’re still insisting on selling a home game
For many years the club didn’t do its self any favours to promote or earn money through external opportunities to grow their income streams just relied on the afl handouts
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I reckon we would've already reduced/stopped playing games in Darwin if we weren't undefeated when we play home games there. The fact that we're yet to lose a home game there does make it more difficult to walk away.
