Fixture 2023 Fixture

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Round 1 - North Melbourne vs West Coast Eagles - Saturday, March 18 - 1:45PM - Marvel Stadium - FOX
Round 2 - Fremantle vs North Melbourne - Saturday, March 25 - 4:30PM - Optus Stadium - FOX
Round 3 - Hawthorn vs North Melbourne - Saturday, April 1 - 1:45PM - UTAS Stadium - FOX
Round 4 - North Melbourne vs Carlton - Friday, April 7 - 4:20PM - Marvel Stadium - Seven
Round 5 - Brisbane Lions vs North Melbourne - Saturday, April 15 - 12:40PM - Adelaide Hills - FOX
Round 6 - Gold Coast Suns vs North Melbourne - Sunday, April 23 - 4:40PM - Metricon - FOX
Round 7 - Melbourne vs North Melbourne - Saturday, April 29 - 7:25PM - MCG - Seven
Round 8 - North Melbourne vs St Kilda - Sunday, May 7 - 4:40PM - Marvel Stadium - FOX
Round 9 - North Melbourne vs Port Adelaide - Saturday, May 13 - 2:10PM - Blundstone Arena - FOX
Round 10 - North Melbourne vs Sydney Swans - Saturday, May 20 - 1:45PM - Marvel Stadium - FOX
Round 11 - Collingwood vs North Melbourne - Sunday, May 28 - 3:20PM - Marvel Stadium - Seven
Round 12 - Essendon vs North Melbourne - Sunday, June 4 - 4:40PM - Marvel Stadium - FOX
Round 13 - North Melbourne vs GWS Giants - Sunday, June 11 - 3:20PM - Blundstone Arena - FOX
Round 14 - North Melbourne vs Western Bulldogs - Sunday, June 18 - 4:40PM - Marvel Stadium - FOX
Round 15 - BYE
Round 16 - Adelaide Crows vs North Melbourne - TBC - Adelaide Oval
Round 17 - Geelong Cats vs North Melbourne - TBC - GMHBA Stadium
Round 18 - North Melbourne vs Hawthorn - TBC - Marvel Stadium
Round 19 - St Kilda vs North Melbourne - TBC - Marvel Stadium
Round 20 - West Coast Eagles vs North Melbourne - TBC - Optus Stadium
Round 21 - North Melbourne vs Melbourne - TBC - Blundstone Arena
Round 22 - North Melbourne vs Essendon - TBC - Marvel Stadium
Round 23 - Richmond vs North Melbourne - TBC - MCG
Round 24 - North Melbourne vs Gold Coast Suns - TBC - Blundstone Arena
 
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leighlee13 said:
I am thinking about travelling from Victoria to Perth for Round 2. For those of you that have done this, how hard is it to get tickets against Fremantle at Optus Stadium. Thanks in advance.
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Should be easy. They get about 35k to our games and the stadium seats 60k. A couple more may turn up to boo Logue.

I was there during that lovely round 1 game in 2019. There were still plenty of seats even though it was round 1.

P.S. Take your own tomato sauce.
 
FlyHigh18 said:
Should be easy. They get about 35k to our games and the stadium seats 60k. A couple more may turn up to boo Logue.

I was there during that lovely round 1 game in 2019. There were still plenty of seats even though it was round 1.

P.S. Take your own tomato sauce.
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Thanks so much for the info. Much appreciated.
 



Fans robbed of Horne-Francis grudge match in AFL blunder​


Jay Clark




On the surface it looks like the biggest blunder in this year’s AFL fixture.

When it comes to grudge matches this season, there will be no backward steps taken when Jason Horne-Francis locks horns against his old North Melbourne teammates for the first time in round 9.

It is when the subtle jabs from the past few months will surely manifest on the field after a missed ice bath, bad body language and homesickness, in part, led to Horne-Francis’ trade request.

In recent times, these sorts of game have been a love-in. Adam Treloar hugged his Collingwood teammates the first time they met.

Brodie Grundy will do something similar. Ditto Lachie Hunter against the Western Bulldogs.

But this situation feels different.

There will be fireworks when Horne-Francis and the “raging bull” Cameron Zurhaar, who is as equally fearless, come anywhere near each other in search of the footy in the round 9 clash.

The Power are quietly thrilled with the aggressive ball-winner after fixing a calf nerve problem which had plagued him (and went somewhat under the radar) at Arden St last year.

Port’s recruiting team were in awe of Horne-Francis when he dazzled them in his draft year for South Adelaide, slotting three goals in the SANFL preliminary final.

Both SA clubs tried to sell the farm to get him that year.

And over summer, the goalkicker been quickly whipped into the centre bounces as Port targets a return to the top-four under coach Ken Hinkley.

A massive breakout year beckons in season two for Horne-Francis after saying the competitive training environment at Port was “something I have never seen before”.

But in what might be the most unusual call in the 2023 schedule, this game is scheduled for 2.10pm Saturday at Blundstone Arena, in Hobart.

Talk about off-Broadway.

If North is ever going to receive a big Saturday night fixture this game was it, and surely the return of the No.1 pick who walked out on last year’s bottom-placed club would have drawn 30,000-plus to Marvel Stadium.

The Roos topped that crowd figure only twice last season at Docklands (in the Good Friday game against Western Bulldogs and against Carlton) but are certain to be a lot more competitive on the field under Alastair Clarkson this year.

The irony in all this is the former Tasmanian premier Peter Gutwein lambasted the games Tassie had been given this year as “crap”.

“Should send this lot back so they can have another go,” Gutwein said.

Labor leader Rebecca White agreed, saying “the AFL certainly hasn’t done us any favours with that fixture” as the league looks to secure the Federal Government stadium funding required to tick-off a new Tassie team.

But the truth is the North versus Port Adelaide battle on top of Clarkson’s first game against Hawthorn in round 3 (where this no love lost either) will have more spice than a Sri Lankan curry.

North could start favourite against the Hawks in that one and, as much as they will play it down, Clarkson and Sam Mitchell would surely love to take the four points against one another.

Remember, Hawthorn picked the apprentice over the master two years ago, in what the club believes was no doubt was the right call.

But Clarkson is a competitor, and the signs in North’s match simulation in recent weeks are very encouraging about the Roos’ upwards trajectory.

See the growth of Charlie Comben, Paul Curtis, Will Phillips, Griffin Logue and Harry Sheezel, for example.

They are the new Roo guard, and Horne-Francis didn’t want a bar of it.
 
In Herald-Sun today there are rounds 1-6 predictions, and we are predicted to lose all but the WC game, seating at 1:5 after round 6, with the Hawks predicted to be 3:3. As much as I'd like to ask what they are smoking down there at HUN, proof will be in the pudding.
 
Event Horizon said:
In Herald-Sun today there are rounds 1-6 predictions, and we are predicted to lose all but the WC game, seating at 1:5 after round 6, with the Hawks predicted to be 3:3. As much as I'd like to ask what they are smoking down there at HUN, proof will be in the pudding.
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Kingy was on the wireless with Korn last week predicting Poo-oort's first five games.
Kingy 1 - 4
Korn 3 - 2

North B.F - 0 - 5
 

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Event Horizon said:
In Herald-Sun today there are rounds 1-6 predictions, and we are predicted to lose all but the WC game, seating at 1:5 after round 6, with the Hawks predicted to be 3:3. As much as I'd like to ask what they are smoking down there at HUN, proof will be in the pudding.
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We know what they’re smoking f ing leaf mate, mouldy kiff from the bottom of the last bag dick heads
 
Event Horizon said:
In Herald-Sun today there are rounds 1-6 predictions, and we are predicted to lose all but the WC game, seating at 1:5 after round 6, with the Hawks predicted to be 3:3. As much as I'd like to ask what they are smoking down there at HUN, proof will be in the pudding.
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Frustrated Clint Eastwood GIF

This did not age well Hun
 



All 18 AFL clubs have been given an extra half-million dollars in their salary caps as a result of the huge influx of money stemming from the extra game in Gather Round.

Senior AFL sources confirmed that the 18 clubs would receive $750,000 each for Gather Round in South Australia and that, of that amount, $500,000 would go to the players at every club - potentially easing some of the fiscal and salary-cap pressure on players and clubs.

They said the players would be paid on a pro-rata basis, meaning that every player would get paid in proportion to his 2023 salary.

The clubs would spend the remaining $250,000 on football staff, with the AFL boosting the soft cap on football department spending by that amount. The soft cap had been slashed from nearly $10 million before the pandemic to between $7 million and $8 million in 2023.

The large, one-off increase in clubs’ salary caps is the result of the millions that the AFL has reaped by creating the Gather Round – based on a similar initiative of the NRL – in South Australia and of the huge ticket sales for the nine matches, six of which will largely fill the Adelaide Oval.

The salary cap for every AFL club is $13.54 million and so the increase will boost the player payments for each club to more than $14 million.

All tickets to the Melbourne v Essendon game on Saturday afternoon and the subsequent Port Adelaide v Western Bulldogs at night – the first of two double-headers at Adelaide Oval – have been sold. Richmond and Sydney are playing in another high-stakes clash at Adelaide Oval on Friday night.

There are only about 300 tickets left for the later Sunday double-header, which starts with Geelong v West Coast (1.10pm Melbourne time) and then concludes with Collingwood’s huge clash with the unbeaten St Kilda (4.50pm Melbourne time).

The South Australian government has contributed financially to the AFL’s coffers as part of their successful tender to have the Gather Round in the state. Two games – Fremantle v Gold Coast (Friday twilight) and Greater Western Sydney and Hawthorn – are being played at the suburban Norwood Oval, while the Adelaide Hills town of Mount Barker is hosting the Brisbane Lions v North Melbourne game.

All told, AFL officials said they had sold close to 190,000 tickets for the round, with an estimated 60,000 sold to people - mainly from Victoria - from outside of the host state. A sizeable number of fans have travelled across the Victoria-SA border by car.

The financial gain for the clubs and players makes it a virtual certainty that the extra round in one state will be continued next year under Gillon McLachlan’s successor as chief executive of the AFL.
 
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