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I'm not a fan of evening matches myself and I understand the Lions aren't either, as it gives their sponsors less pre-match TV exposure and ensures the game is not broadcast on FTA nationally. I'm not sure what the Suns ' view is but if the Lions had their way their home matches would all start at 7.30pm.

EDIT: I just realised you meant 7.30 Sunday night! Apologies. Probably not great for the broadcasters I imagine, but yeah I'd be all in for that.

QClash is never going to be on national FTA anyway, so I don't think that is a big deal as far as fixture decisions go. As someone who is in Melbourne now I oppose the Sunday 7:30 fixture as we don't have this public holiday but that's pure self-interest.
 
QClash is never going to be on national FTA anyway, so I don't think that is a big deal as far as fixture decisions go. As someone who is in Melbourne now I oppose the Sunday 7:30 fixture as we don't have this public holiday but that's pure self-interest.
Well, for that matter I oppose the Queen's Birthday game as we don't get the holiday on that day either.
 

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Graffiti on the wall, just as the sun was going down
I see graffiti on the wall - up the Celts! up the Celts!
Graffiti on the wall says we're magic, we're magic
Graffiti on the wall.............................
 
Its probably worth looking back at our draw now we have a bit of an idea of what each team's performance level is (top 4 contender, top 8 contender, bottom 10, botttom 4 etc).

Double up match ups sorted by this criteria:

Top 4: Melbourne, Collingwood
Top 8: St Kilda, Adelaide
Bottom 10: Freo, Gold Coast
Bottom 4: none

St Kilda and Adelaide look better than expected, Freo worse, and gold coast about the same as I expected. But with us not having any double ups against a likely bottom 4 team (norf, Hawks, eagles), we are going to have a harder time than some of our opponents to get top 4 and top 2. Pies don't have a double up against any of them, but the Dees have north twice, and St Kilda has a pretty easy draw as you'd expect for a team that didn't play finals last year.

Really going to need 17-18 wins to have a shot at top 2 with the extra round. 18 definitely if we don't make up a bit of a percentage gap comparative to the Dees, Cats and Saints. We've got 8 more games at the Gabba and need to bank those and win 3-4 more games on the road from this point on.
 

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Its probably worth looking back at our draw now we have a bit of an idea of what each team's performance level is (top 4 contender, top 8 contender, bottom 10, botttom 4 etc).

Double up match ups sorted by this criteria:

Top 4: Melbourne, Collingwood
Top 8: St Kilda, Adelaide
Bottom 10: Freo, Gold Coast
Bottom 4: none

St Kilda and Adelaide look better than expected, Freo worse, and gold coast about the same as I expected. But with us not having any double ups against a likely bottom 4 team (norf, Hawks, eagles), we are going to have a harder time than some of our opponents to get top 4 and top 2. Pies don't have a double up against any of them, but the Dees have north twice, and St Kilda has a pretty easy draw as you'd expect for a team that didn't play finals last year.

Really going to need 17-18 wins to have a shot at top 2 with the extra round. 18 definitely if we don't make up a bit of a percentage gap comparative to the Dees, Cats and Saints. We've got 8 more games at the Gabba and need to bank those and win 3-4 more games on the road from this point on.
I thought our draw looked a lot better at the start of the year than it does now.

The bottom 3 ,particularly WC ,are so far off the pace that a double up against any of them is a huge bonus.

Still I've never been a believer in worrying too much about the draw. You can get some surprising results at times. If we're good enough we'll get there.
 
8 games in and we've only played 3 of the bottom 10 teams, having played 5 teams likely to finish top 8
The most positive part of that is that we still have 7 of the bottom 10 teams to play.
Plus 2 double ups against them teams.
 
To come >

Bombers (H)
Suns (H)
Crows (AO)
Bye
Hawks (MCG)
Swans (H)
Saints (Marvel)
Tigers (H)
Eagles (H)
Demons (MCG)
Cats (H)
Suns (Metricon)
Dockers (Optus)
Crows (H)
Magpies (Marvel)
Saints (H)
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Possible losses for me are Crows away, Demons away, Cats home, Magpies away.
 

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Crows away
I don't see it, I've been fairly underwhelmed by them as I feel like they've been beating up on teams on their off day.
 
I don't see it, I've been fairly underwhelmed by them as I feel like they've been beating up on teams on their off day.
I think we have been very underwhelming with our wining margins this year though ;)

Therefore, Lions 60+ against Adelaide :padlock:

#makeithappen
 
I don't see it, I've been fairly underwhelmed by them as I feel like they've been beating up on teams on their off day.
I'm a bit worried about that game myself. Mainly because the Crows are a bit of an unknown quantity I think. They have some very good quick players. They butcher the ball a bit but if they get a run-on they'll be tricky. And Keays and Hinge will be keen to show off.
 
I'm a bit worried about that game myself. Mainly because the Crows are a bit of an unknown quantity I think. They have some very good quick players. They butcher the ball a bit but if they get a run-on they'll be tricky. And Keays and Hinge will be keen to show off.
Hinge has been good for the Crows, would have been a handy replacement for Richy... we have that part of the ground covered now though.
 
To come >

Bombers (H)
Suns (H)
Crows (AO)
Bye
Hawks (MCG)
Swans (H)
Saints (Marvel)
Tigers (H)
Eagles (H)
Demons (MCG)
Cats (H)

Suns (Metricon)
Dockers (Optus)
Crows (H)
Magpies (Marvel)
Saints (H)
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Possible losses for me are Crows away, Demons away, Cats home, Magpies away.
6 games for me are dangerous with three of those very dangerous. 17 wins and 6 losses should see us top 4.
 
They butcher the ball a bit
We do tend to destroy those teams even on our off days... over the last few years you need to be a quality ball using team to stop Fagan's system.
 

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