2017 Fixture Requests

[LB#16]

So you'd move a club with a larger following, and draws larger crowds (Hawthorn) off to Tasmania so your club, which only averages 33K crowds in 2016, can get more games on the MCG because you don't like the contract your club signed to play 7 games at Docklands?

Who knows, Hawks may want to play another game in Tassie. I personally don't have a distinct preference for either stadium, I'm just repeating what is doing the rounds.

 

[FootyJunkie]

Also if we have to play the swans away again, then I'd like the match to be played at ANZ (haven't won at the $CG in 10 years)

ANZ is being discontinued as an AFL venue

 

[Mr Gurns]

Is the 2:10 Saturday game moving to 3:20?

 

[FootyJunkie]

Is the 2:10 Saturday game moving to 3:20?

the 1:45 (Channel 7 game) is, so that it can actually be shown LIVE

it will mark the end of delayed footy forever

 

[Gibbke]

If the GC has to make a long trip to Tassie every year, I don't see any reason why the Suns can't host the Hawks up here where I live in Cairns...

 

[Gibbke]

the 1:45 (Channel 7 game) is, so that it can actually be shown LIVE

it will mark the end of delayed footy forever

Not up here it won't...

 

[hawkgal02]

Is the 2:10 Saturday game moving to 3:20?

That's a shame
I love the 2:10 game.
3:20 is so late

 

[Bokonon]

I can't wait for the NAB Challenge fixture, much more interesting knowing we get to see AFL played at bush grounds around the country

I like the idea, we dont play in the bush, probably a relectìon of the depth in NSW. Unless you include Canberra. Would really like to see a game scheduled in Newcastle, which has one of the oldest Aussie rules comps in Australia but would be the Swans. For us maybe somewhere in the Riverina where AFL is strong and the locals deserve a spectacle.

 

[walhawk]

That 11 game figure includes the odds and sodds games, like easter monday, QB, anzac day etc. The thursday nights just make up the rest of those numbers to get to 11.

So, nine Thursdays then.

 

[pazza]

and who will lose game(s) at the MCG to make room?

Dare say the Saints would lose a home game at the MCG in that scenario.

The point you make later about average crowds this year is a genuine outlier given on-field performance. It is indeed likely that the 33K average you mention will increase next year.

 

[Mr Gurns]

the 1:45 (Channel 7 game) is, so that it can actually be shown LIVE

it will mark the end of delayed footy forever

RIP Red Ball footy!

 

[LightTower4]

If we must have one home game at Docklands, let it be against a side that doesn't have Docklands as it's home ground.

 

[Adz]

Hawks v Eagles round 1 next year. Lock it in.

 

[FootyJunkie]

RIP Red Ball footy!

pretty much... only 2 out of 9 games in a standard round will be using the red ball

 

[Mr Gurns]

pretty much... only 2 out of 9 games in a standard round will be using the red ball

Nobody f*cks footy like seven

 

[Cudi_420]

That's a shame
I love the 2:10 game.
3:20 is so late

 

[Mr Gurns]

Its a nothing timeslot though. Especially on a Sunday

 

[Roadto2018]

Dare say the Saints would lose a home game at the MCG in that scenario.

The point you make later about average crowds this year is a genuine outlier given on-field performance. It is indeed likely that the 33K average you mention will increase next year.

Not sure they'd shaft a club like that and give them no home games at the MCG just to give Essendon an extra home game there

 

[PerfectFooty]

3:20 is hard to get to as a country supporter, means i can't get home until 10pm

 

[JayJ20]

Any leaks yet?

 

[Wild Bill]

Any leaks yet?

They usually start after the trade period. AFL may adjust if there are any big moves like Dangerfield last year. They will want prime time for a game between old and new club - Crows v Cats was on friday night this year.

You would think Hawks V WCE will be 1 of the feature matches next year after the Mitchell trade.

 

[Ocha905]

They usually start after the trade period. AFL may adjust if there are any big moves like Dangerfield last year. They will want prime time for a game between old and new club - Crows v Cats was on friday night this year.

You would think Hawks V WCE will be 1 of the feature matches next year after the Mitchell trade.

Crows/blues and Pies/Roos would fit.

 

[flamingEMBERS]

Friday Night Hawthorn at the 'G

 

[Greasyrhys]

ANZ is being discontinued as an AFL venue

I was joking of course

 

[Bring-Back-Powell]

Any leaks yet?

Last year they released the entire round 1 fixture on Oct 24.