Official Club Stuff 2015 fixture

[Rex_Banner]

So we play the dogs twice, both "away" games That would have to be a first. Is it all because Freo "need" to have their bloody anzac day game at home?

we play the dogs at patersons

 

[mad_eagle]

Don't mind the double up games, but really annoying that we have to play in Darwin & Hobart.

Guess you just have to take the good with the bad though.

Is it round one yet...?

 

[lmach]

first glance, looks like another soft draw. not quite as soft as 2014 - we should be hanging our heads in shame for that making finals given that fixture.

So you've said, about 1000 times.

 

[Marlin01]

Seems like a favourable fixture to me. Is travelling to Darwin harder than travelling to Melbourne?

I've never been to Darwin. I kight have to use this as an excuse.

 

[Evo47]

Seems like a favourable fixture to me. Is travelling to Darwin harder than travelling to Melbourne?

I've never been to Darwin. I kight have to use this as an excuse.

If we adjust to the humid and greasy conditions, no. Game is at 7.10pm so conditions might be tough

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Seems like a favourable fixture to me. Is travelling to Darwin harder than travelling to Melbourne?

The heat and humidity when you get off the plane would be the main issue, probably.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

Still Blacktown not even really Sydney so I won't count it.

Plus that day we played GWS out there, think in their first year, they decided to do major roadworks on the road leading into the ground, missed most of the fun in the first quarter.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

If we adjust to the humid and greasy conditions, no. Game is at 7.10pm so conditions might be tough

If we can't beat Melbourne, where ever we play, we won't be anywhere near finals. Should win comfortably.

 

[MIKE85]

we play the dogs at patersons

So we do, I read this morning that we played the dogs in Darwin, but that's Melbourne, I thought it was weird to play them twice as away games. My mistake

 

[Longwthebreeze]

Some negatives
- 6 day break after travelling to QLD (Bris) round 4
- Consecutive 6 day breaks after travelling to Tassie round 10 (tough stretch b4 bye)
- 6 day break before travelling to QLD (GC) round 18
* These are the 2 longest flights in the game, AFL did us no favours.

Positives
+ Good draw, team wise
+ 8 & 9 day breaks b4 the Derbys (no excuses)
+ If ever theres a chance for a big scalp at Subi- Geelong (8day break), Sydney (8days), Hawks (7days)
+ Good chance to gain momentum early in the season and a great run home. (I know It didn't work too well this year?)

Pound for pound its a fair draw. We`re in the mix in an even competition, if we`re good enough we`ll play finals.
Early prediction 13/14 wins = Ladder 6th/ 7th.

 

[Evo47]

If we can't beat Melbourne, where ever we play, we won't be anywhere near finals. Should win comfortably.

Yeah 100%, didn't mean it would be tough to win just tough to adjust to conditions.

If we played Melbourne on Mars, I'd back us in...

 

[King LeBron]

Round eight looks like the road trip weekend...

Friday Night Cats v Blues
Saturday Arvo Saint v West Coast
Saturday Night Hawkes v Swans (then off to Kittens)

I'm liking the week of round 12
17 June: State of Origin
19 June: Richmond vs West Coast
20 June: Carlton vs Pt Adelaide

 

[matt_bas]

Very good draw in my opinion.

 

[Public Enemy No1]

Some negatives
- 6 day break after travelling to QLD (Bris) round 4
- Consecutive 6 day breaks after travelling to Tassie round 10 (tough stretch b4 bye)
- 6 day break before travelling to QLD (GC) round 18
* These are the 2 longest flights in the game, AFL did us no favours.

Positives
+ Good draw, team wise
+ 8 & 9 day breaks b4 the Derbys (no excuses)
+ If ever theres a chance for a big scalp at Subi- Geelong (8day break), Sydney (8days), Hawks (7days)
+ Good chance to gain momentum early in the season and a great run home. (I know It didn't work too well this year?)

Pound for pound its a fair draw. We`re in the mix in an even competition, if we`re good enough we`ll play finals.
Early prediction 13/14 wins = Ladder 6th/ 7th.

We have the same break for the Sydney game. Both Geelong and Hawks have an extra day before we play them..Not sure if I consider this an advantage

 

[Billy ray]

good luck getting to patersons for a 6:10 start in round 2 v carlton - looks like the Friday night games are staring 30 mins earlier in the west, both round 2 for you guys and rounds 10 and 13 for freo...

 

[The Falcon Strike]

People need to understand that Virgin now put on direct flights for all of our games.

So Hobart is no longer a two-hopper with a delay in Melbourne.

Twilight Saturday games get a direct flight home that evening (not sure on the night games)

2 qld trips are the anomaly - one should have been scheduled the Sunday before the bye

 

[The Falcon Strike]

good luck getting to patersons for a 6:10 start in round 2 v carlton - looks like the Friday night games are staring 30 mins earlier in the west, both round 2 for you guys and rounds 10 and 13 for freo...

5 minutes stroll from the office

 

[Longwthebreeze]

Interesting reading Melbourne clubs main problems were the start time of their games- causing slight drop in attendances last year. The AFL has now catered for this and is a major selling point of this draw. Bringing forward the start times of some games by 1 hour is massively more important than any long haul travel, short breaks between games or fairness of draw issues faced by other clubs.......??
WELL BOO F#%CKEN HOO MELBOURNE TEAMS!! This is how many games they will easily be able to watch in Melbourne in 2015. (Which is similar most years...)

Collingwood -17
Essendon - 17
Geelong - 17
Hawthorn - 17 (incl. Tassie home games)
Richmond - 16
Carlton - 16

Try being a supporter of a WA or SA team without a membership. Even then its max 11 games.

 

[lmach]

Interesting reading Melbourne clubs main problems were the start time of their games- causing slight drop in attendances last year. The AFL has now catered for this and is a major selling point of this draw. Bringing forward the start times of some games by 1 hour is massively more important than any long haul travel, short breaks between games or fairness of draw issues faced by other clubs.......??
WELL BOO F#%CKEN HOO MELBOURNE TEAMS!! This is how many games they will easily be able to watch in Melbourne in 2015. (Which is similar most years...)

Collingwood -17
Essendon - 17
Geelong - 17
Hawthorn - 17 (incl. Tassie home games)
Richmond - 16
Carlton - 16

Try being a supporter of a WA or SA team without a membership. Even then its max 11 games.

But people need to get up early in the morning to get the paper!!!

 

[Longwthebreeze]

Seems like a favourable fixture to me. Is travelling to Darwin harder than travelling to Melbourne?

I've never been to Darwin. I kight have to use this as an excuse.

Great town Darwin. Perfect weather that time of year. Free buses to the game from the city and some good watering holes on Mitchell St. A real country footy feel to the TIO stadium games. Have a tinny on the grass hill, kids running around kicking the footy, good fun!

 

[Jack_the_Ninja]

Not real impressed about only getting one game at the G, and four games over here total, but good with the bad and it looks like a decent fixture for us.

We don't deserve to play there, would be an empty stadium. I know its negative but I have come to truly think this current crop of players/team don't deserve by half the fans they have, they are under achieving and as a supporter since 1987 I don't think there has been a list that plays with so little heart, excepting Beauy of course.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

We don't deserve to play there, would be an empty stadium.

If the Collingwood game was at the MCG rather than Etihad, for example, our last H&A games there have had 53K, 41K, 63K and 52K.

 

[Probitas_]

We don't deserve to play there, would be an empty stadium. I know its negative but I have come to truly think this current crop of players/team don't deserve by half the fans they have, they are under achieving and as a supporter since 1987 I don't think there has been a list that plays with so little heart, excepting Beauy of course.

You'd be surprised how many Eagles fans are at some of those games if you haven't been.

Not including the Melbourne game, but it still looked like we were close to outnumbering them there.

But yeah, I understand your point, if we play like minnows we're not going to get top billing.

 

[mick06]

AFL know we are taking cockatoo so sending us to the NT.

Happy with that draw, only one home saturday day game that ill miss due to playing.

 

[Keys]

We don't deserve to play there, would be an empty stadium. I know its negative but I have come to truly think this current crop of players/team don't deserve by half the fans they have, they are under achieving and as a supporter since 1987 I don't think there has been a list that plays with so little heart, excepting Beauy of course.

Who doesn't play at all unfortunately