Fixture 2022 Fixture

[Doctor Feel]

From the club's website article. Confirm's no national TV showdown.

• Port Adelaide season opener – Round 1 v Brisbane at the Gabba (7.10pm Saturday 19 March)
• Port Adelaide first home game – Round 2 v Hawthorn at Adelaide Oval (7.10pm Saturday 26 March)
• Thursday night football – Round 4 v Melbourne at Adelaide Oval (7.10pm 7 April)
• AFL Anzac Round at Adelaide Oval – Round 6 v West Coast (4.05pm Saturday 23 April)
• Friday night football – Round 8 v Western Bulldogs at Adelaide Oval (7.00pm 6 May)
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• Port Adelaide on the MCG – Round 5 vs Carlton (1.40pm Sunday 17 April); Round 13 vs Richmond (Date and time TBC); and Round 20 vs Collingwood (Date and time TBC)
• Port Adelaide home Showdown – Round 23 v Adelaide Crows (Date and time TBC)
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• A minimum FIVE Ch 7 National free-to-air games –
• Round 1 vs Brisbane (7.10pm Saturday 19 March); no one else playing that Saturday night.
• Round 2 vs Hawthorn (7.10pm Saturday 26 March); Russell Ebert tribute game and GC v Melb also on.
• Round 4 vs Melbourne (7.10pm Thursday 7 April); only game on.
• Round 7 vs St Kilda (7.25pm Saturday 30 April); only because its in Cairns, part of Qld push.
• Round 8 vs Western Bulldogs (7.00pm Friday 6 May) Like the showdown there is a later Friday night game.

This doesn't bother me personally, but it seems pretty s**t given some games are free-to-air sacrosanct.

 

[Andre]

HAHAHA
Of course it was too good to be true for the Fri night showdown.
It's a double up Friday night - Melb game is on 7, showdown on Fox

I don't mind this. Every Friday should be a double up, one on 7, the other on Fox.

My weekly fixture would be:
Thursday night (any club getting more than one as a home game gets at least one of them before a Friday public holiday or during school holidays). No club gets more than 2 unless they specifically ask for them

Friday night x 2 - With 23 rounds every club gets 1 home game broadcast on 7, 1 home game broadcast on Fox. The remaining 10 games go - sides 3 - 8 from the previous year get 3 Friday night home games, 1st and 2nd get 4 Friday night home games. Everyone gets a fair crack, but reward success as well.

Saturday afternoon x2
Saturday night x2
Sunday afternoon x1

Piss off the Sunday Twilight slot of s**t.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I don't mind this. Every Friday should be a double up, one on 7, the other on Fox.

My weekly fixture would be:
Thursday night (any club getting more than one as a home game gets at least one of them before a Friday public holiday or during school holidays). No club gets more than 2 unless they specifically ask for them

Friday night x 2 - With 23 rounds every club gets 1 home game broadcast on 7, 1 home game broadcast on Fox. The remaining 10 games go - sides 3 - 8 from the previous year get 3 Friday night home games, 1st and 2nd get 4 Friday night home games. Everyone gets a fair crack, but reward success as well.

Saturday afternoon x2
Saturday night x2
Sunday afternoon x1

Piss off the Sunday Twilight slot of sh*t.

7 might pay $100-150 mil less in a 6 year x 23 rounds TV deal if they don't have exclusive Friday night games.

 

[Chewy316]

Four 6 day breaks from our first nine scheduled games. 3 of these 6 day breaks include a form of travel coming off an interstate game to return home. The 6 day game opponents are Adelaide, Melbourne, West Coast and the Bulldogs. Granted all of these are at Adelaide Oval but it is a pretty tough opening part to the fixture. Toughest is easily coming back from Cairns to back up against the Dogs on the Friday night.

Even if theyre 6-3, after the first 9 they then play Geelong at Kardinia Park, soon enough have the bye and straight back into it against Richmond at the G and then Sydney at home.

This is the draw that critics of the senior coach have been wanting for many a year. There is no hiding with this draw, not going to make top 4 by solely beating up bad teams.

If this coach can get the most out of this team - the draw honestly won't matter.

 

[Papa G]

7 might pay $100-150 mil less in a 6 year x 23 rounds TV deal if they don't have exclusive Friday night games.

I wish Channel 7 would * off. They really suck at sport production.

 

[Andre]

7 might pay $100-150 mil less in a 6 year x 23 rounds TV deal if they don't have exclusive Friday night games.

Then keep it as each side 2 Friday night games, except 3-6 have 3 and 1 and 2 have 4 and let them choose who they want. Since all they really care about are Melbourne TV ratings, if a round is Richmond v. Sydney on 7, will they really give a * if the Fox game is Port vs. St. Kilda?

 

[Andre]

The fixture algorithm just fixtures based on weightings. One of those is "minimize travel of victorian teams" the second is "maximize timeslots for victorian teams" and the last one is "ensure port plays in all the backwaters'

Pretty much. Fixturing is:
1. Give the Victorian teams the best leg up. Which is a combination of your first two.
2. Give what the AFL consider the 'big' team in each state a reasonable draw to maximise revenue - I.e. Brisbane, Sydney, West Coast and Adelaide.
3. Use Port, Freo, GC and GWS to fill in all the shitty away games and crappy timeslots doing the above leaves.

Short of getting less Vic sides and blowing that whole system up, we can at best only hope to move from 3 to 2. This we can only accomplish by actually winning a flag and consequently having more crowds then Adelaide across a non-crowd affected year. Good luck with that with Hinkley.

 

[Marmozet]

The Top 2 teams from 2021 are squaring off in Alice Springs and not the MCG.

 

[Andre]

All things considered I like this draw. As others have noted we can't avoid the top sides and hard games and still finish top 2 IMO.

The other one that leaps out to me, is even if it's not a Friday night exclusive Showdown, with it the first one with such an important time slot it screams an early season What Happen Power? just waiting to happen.

 

[TeeKray]

Tough draw. All of our double ups except the Crows are against strong teams and we have our two kryptonite games (Brisbane @ the GABBA and West Coast @ Adelaide Oval) early in the fixture which we are just about guaranteed to lose. It's only a good draw from a Sack Hinkley perspective.

Also, we yet again avoid playing GWS in Sydney. Haven't done so since 2013 and won't until at least 2023 lol.

 

[afl2004]

5-5 by round 10 I got

 

[chiwigi]

Lol. They just couldn't do it properly could they?

Joke of a competition. Absolute joke.

 

[jdeezy]

A side note, but once again there's a few rounds where they AFL, despite arguing that the flexible schedule allows for the best games in Prime time slots, have scheduled 3 games at the same venue in one round, meaning one of them will get the Friday night slot regardless.

For example, Round 18, we play Melbourne, and even if that's a first v second match, it won't be Friday night because the AFL will need to schedule 1 of Bulldogs v Saints, Essendon v Gold Coast, or North v Richmond then because they're all scheduled for Marvel that weekend. Round 19 is a similar story - even if Port v Geelong firms as a blockbuster, the spot will end up going to Bulldogs v Melbourne, since there's 3 Marvel games that weekend too.

Similarly there's 3 MCG games on the weekend of Richmond v Port at the MCG in Round 13, but it's Queens Birthday so one is Collingwood v Melbourne on the Monday, but it's a bye round and both us and the tigers have the week off before so we're probably locked into the Thursday game or Friday game there.

What's the point of the "floating" fixture with all this s**t anyway? Just give us the whole thing.

 

[ibd77]

It's going to be a no excuses season, if any coaching or admin official give excuses for missing finals 2022, then hand in your resignation.

 

[Andre]

In an 18 team competition, if we were bog average we should have won 1 flag by the end of 2022. Which is generous actually considering GC and GWS haven't been in the whole 18 years (by the end of 2022, since our 2004 flag). How far our club has fallen when we can't even crack average.

 

[JohnHinckleyJr]

The floating fixture makes it easier to control the narrative

 

[gbear]

Good to see Davies highlight the lack of first round home games in many years.

 

[VineValerian]

After playing Collingwood in Melbourne twice last season the afl have rewarded us by letting us play them in Melbourne again in our only match up.

Have they even played us at adelaide oval yet?

Against AFL protocols - like us wearing the PB's

 

[VineValerian]

Kind?

Playing in QLD first up and the the past two premiers in double ups. Playing in almost every state and, playing Geelong at the Cattery.

It's almost the worst draw possible.

The only reason we are getting a double up against a sh*t team is because we HAVE to play the Crows twice.

No match in Gold Coast, so we play in Cairns.
Only one match in Perth, so we play in Alice Springs.
No Ballarat match, so we play in Launceston.

Evens out pretty much.
Plus we get 3 MCG games, which isn't all bad.

 

[AFC AFeederClub]

Well fully expect Hinkley will get sacked at the end of the year, because we won’t make the finals.

That’s a win.

its like a festivus premiership

 

[AFC AFeederClub]

Double ups against
Essendon
Geelong
Richmond
Crows
Melbourne

This is a tough draw.

yeh, but someone has to lose right?

 

[JimmyBC]

Tough draw is good nowhere to hide for old mate.

 

[240volt]

This is the draw we had to have if we had this draw last year I doubt we would have made the top 4. If we make it next year it’s because we are a good side.

 

[Coobk001]

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Those necklines are a huge improvement.

 

[PowerBaz]

Tough draw is good nowhere to hide for old mate.

is that why he’s been hiding of late?