Fixture 2022 Fixture

[The Prosecutor]

Expecting a relatively mediocre year in terms of W/L next year followed by the big jump in 23.

 

[boncer34]

Thanks Jade.

I'm not Jade

I stick around when my predictions fall apart.

 

[boncer34]

Expecting a relatively mediocre year in terms of W/L next year followed by the big jump in 23.

Pull your head out of your ass

 

[TheUnicorn]

Expecting a relatively mediocre year in terms of W/L next year followed by the big jump in 23.

This, Although i was quite surprised with last year perhaps they have more surprises for me this year!

 

[boncer34]

Guys we can't even fit our first draft pick into the side until 2024. We're fine.

 

[boncer34]

PS North have been creamed commercially.

 

[JayJ20]

AFL 2022 fixture difficulty (Easiest to hardest) according to Fox footy. They used percentage to assess difficulty:

1. Carlton
2. Adelaide Crows
3. West Coast Eagles
4. Gold Coast Suns
5. Hawthorn
6. Collingwood
7. North Melbourne
8. Richmond
9. Sydney Swans
10. Fremantle
11. Brisbane Lions
12. Geelong Cats
13. Port Adelaide
14. St Kilda
15. GWS Giants
16. Western Bulldogs
17. Essendon
18. Melbourne

 

[TheUnicorn]

AFL 2022 fixture difficulty (Easiest to hardest) according to Fox footy. They used percentage to assess difficulty:

1. Carlton
2. Adelaide Crows
3. West Coast Eagles
4. Gold Coast Suns
5. Hawthorn
6. Collingwood
7. North Melbourne
8. Richmond
9. Sydney Swans
10. Fremantle
11. Brisbane Lions
12. Geelong Cats
13. Port Adelaide
14. St Kilda
15. GWS Giants
16. Western Bulldogs
17. Essendon
18. Melbourne

**** carlton

 

[TheGrizz]

AFL 2022 fixture difficulty (Easiest to hardest) according to Fox footy. They used percentage to assess difficulty:

1. Carlton
2. Adelaide Crows
3. West Coast Eagles
4. Gold Coast Suns
5. Hawthorn
6. Collingwood
7. North Melbourne
8. Richmond
9. Sydney Swans
10. Fremantle
11. Brisbane Lions
12. Geelong Cats
13. Port Adelaide
14. St Kilda
15. GWS Giants
16. Western Bulldogs
17. Essendon
18. Melbourne

Carlton get a bottom 6 draw and we finish in the finals and in the same bracket as Richmond, Sydney.

The first 3 weeks (Geel, Bris, Melb) are brutal, and we may be 0-3 quite quickly.

 

[rumply]

AFL 2022 fixture difficulty (Easiest to hardest) according to Fox footy. They used percentage to assess difficulty:

1. Carlton
2. Adelaide Crows
3. West Coast Eagles
4. Gold Coast Suns
5. Hawthorn
6. Collingwood
7. North Melbourne
8. Richmond
9. Sydney Swans
10. Fremantle
11. Brisbane Lions
12. Geelong Cats
13. Port Adelaide
14. St Kilda
15. GWS Giants
16. Western Bulldogs
17. Essendon
18. Melbourne

Looks like the AFL are expecting big things of us, nice to have their confidence for a change

 

[rumply]

PS North have been creamed commercially.

how so? 2 Friday night games early & reasonable Sunday timeslots

 

[boncer34]

how so? 2 Friday night games early & reasonable Sunday timeslots

1 of those Friday night games is away in WA. Not exactly commercially beneficial.

2 home games in Melbourne in the first 9 rounds. Seems rubbish to me.

 

[rumply]

1 of those Friday night games is away in WA. Not exactly commercially beneficial.

2 home games in Melbourne in the first 9 rounds. Seems rubbish to me.

Someone had to suffer so we could stay in Melbourne

 

[boncer34]

Someone had to suffer so we could stay in Melbourne

Oh for sure mate. I'm happy we're benefiting.

 

[Milanista28]

We haven't been a team that routinely wins the games we're "meant to" for a while so I'm not too fussed on who/when/where we play, We're good enough on our day to beat most of the comp, we just need more "our days".

 

[84859300]

That run home is killer.

if we need to squeek 2 wins into the last 4 games, it's gonna be tough.

 

[TDay]

Happy with this. It's a fixture that says: if we make finals we will be a good shot to win one

 

[boncer34]

Carlton get a bottom 6 draw and we finish in the finals and in the same bracket as Richmond, Sydney.

The first 3 weeks (Geel, Bris, Melb) are brutal, and we may be 0-3 quite quickly.

That run home is killer.

if we need to squeek 2 wins into the last 4 games, it's gonna be tough.

Starts tough, ends tough, so the middle is a cakewalk?

 

[Skipper_]

Double-ups look challenging but then again the likes of Richmond, West Coast and St Kilda would’ve appeared to be much more difficult this time last year than they turned out to be.

 

[Mercurial89]

Probably can't judge it too much difficulty wise.

We don't know how good these teams are, every year a team falls into a hole early where whoever plays them belts them and it looked harder in the off season.

We don't know the back end in respect of 5 day breaks, longer breaks etc.


I'm not too fussed about whether it is hard or easy, it should be mid table as that's where we finished. I don't want a easy draw only to make a final and get smashed.

If we are fit healthy and going in the right direction it should be an ok year. I'm not expecting greatness just want consistency and glimpses of growth in our game both as a team and individual players.

 

[TheGrizz]

Starts tough, ends tough, so the middle is a cakewalk?

Probably not.

We have double ups against Sydney, Brisbane, Port Adelaide (all finalists), Richmond (who will be looking to bounce back) and Collingwood (that's ok).

So I is probably just going to be a really tough year. But that'll happen when you finish 8th and we got a pretty good draw last year.

It is no surprise that of 6 the six 'easiest draws' according to Fox Footy, 5 of them belong to teams that finished in the bottom 6.

When the league groups them together like they do when making the draws we were always going to cop it and have to play double ups interstate against good teams as a result of making 8th and interstate teams wanting to play us interstate due to our ability to pull crowds.

 

[rumply]

I'll confess to never really caring about draws, they are what they are & once the season starts you want to be facing those good opponents much more than bottom 4 strugglers, win & it feels great, lose & you get to know where you are.

 

[windyhill]

daniher r2. This will be epic. Coming back to The Club where he couldn’t handle the heat. Don’t blame him for leaving as it was obviously too big a job for him. Some thrive, others wither and **** off to brisbane.

 

[boncer34]

daniher r2. This will be epic. Coming back to The Club where he couldn’t handle the heat. Don’t blame him for leaving as it was obviously too big a job for him. Some thrive, others wither and fu** off to brisbane.

That's the spirit.

 

[Yoda_]

Not nearly as bad as what it could be. Richmond on the decline (and surely we’re due to beat them), Collingwood were a bottom 4 side, Sydney a similar age demographic to us so could split them 50:50, Port is a team whose had the wood on us so that’ll be a good test. Brisbane are always beatable on there (off) day too.

We’re young, development still left in the young guys, the prime movers still have plenty left in the tank we should be firmly knocking on the door of the 8 again.


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