Fixture 2024 Fixture

[Doggies_13]

Selfishly I just want us to play north in Hobart

Can guarantee we get Geelong twice and have to travel to Geelong as per usual.

Would not surprise me if our double ups are
Brisbane
GWS
Gold Coast
Geelong
Adelaide (gather round away)
St Kilda

We continually seem to get tough fixtures out of the teams in that 7-12 bracket. But then again you have to beat the best at the end of the season anyway

 

[_Cerberus_]

Hoping to play Pies and Lions from the top bracket twice. Along with Ess, Adelaide, Saints from the middle bracket. Throw in the Suns from the bottom. Just want some fresh double ups / games that should be interesting.

Play different teams in Ballarat for once. And if we play in TAS, prefer North in Hobart than it always being the Hawks up north.

Don't want Hawks or the two Sydney sides. Have a feeling they could be our future bogey sides.

 

[hutchy31]

We won’t get an Adelaide team in gather round, the AFL are incompetent but they can’t give the same team that disadvantage twice in a row. Saints and GWS are my bets for the short straw(s).

We’ll get a WA team or maybe GC at a 1200 capacity ground as the early Sunday game.

 

[Dogs 13]

Hope we don’t get double ups against the Eagles, Hawks and Suns. Don’t know if I could stand that amount of trepidation.

 

[Pugz89]

Hope we don’t get double ups against the Eagles, Hawks and Suns. Don’t know if I could stand that amount of trepidation.

I reckon Hawks and Suns will bounce up a bit. Reckon North could spike too. Eagles odds on for spoon once again I'd imagine. Freo is another that could slide imo.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Competition is real even, no easy games out there (especially for us).

 

[geoffjennings79]

Hopefully play North in Hobart. And Ballarat. And Marvel. And Gather Round.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Wish list would be:

• Double ups against Pies, Dees and Tigers. Our only chance to really play at the G.
• Drop two at a minimum of Darwin/Canberra/Launceston/Geelong away
• No Thursday night games.

 

[Eastdog]

Hopefully no Thursday games, worst night for footy. Has there ever been a good Thursday night game?

I'm not big on Thursday night.

If we win it is great but if we lose it is not so great.

I am still going when the Bulldogs play at Marvel or the MCG on Thursday night but it is a turn off for many people/families who live in the outer suburbs with it being a school and work day on the Friday.

My personal favourite time slot is Saturday afternoon. Friday and Saturday night are good as well and help a lot with the free to air TV exposure. Sunday afternoon is good as well but would prefer a 2:10pm from the 3:20pm start.

 

[Eastdog]

Getting in early.

We've been bloody crucified.

Geelong in Geelong again, FFS.
Two Perth trips in three weeks, you cannot be serious?
Only two MCG matches again, wtf do we have to do?
Four matches in total against the two Grand Finalists, yet only two combined matches against last year's bottom two.

Oh well, at least we only have three matches coming off a five day break.

I know we haven't historically drawn the biggest ever crowds but we should be playing a lot more than we do at the MCG. Marvel is our home ground but experience on the MCG is important for when we come to play finals.

Would be nice to get one home game at the G.

 

[doggiesin08]

Surely we won’t cop the gather round away game again?

 

[Libbaaaa]

I'm not big on Thursday night.

If we win it is great but if we lose it is not so great.

I am still going when the Bulldogs play at Marvel or the MCG on Thursday night but it is a turn off for many people/families who live in the outer suburbs with it being a school and work day on the Friday.

My personal favourite time slot is Saturday afternoon. Friday and Saturday night are good as well and help a lot with the free to air TV exposure. Sunday afternoon is good as well but would prefer a 2:10pm from the 3:20pm start.

The games themselves are usually a borefest as a spectacle and adding in the short breaks are just crap. 7.50 on a Friday is a crap timeslot too. Saturday anytime is my favourite.

I know we haven't historically drawn the biggest ever crowds but we should be playing a lot more than we do at the MCG. Marvel is our home ground but experience on the MCG is important for when we come to play finals.

Would be nice to get one home game at the G.

We won't getting one while we have the Ballarat away games.

 

[Eastdog]

The games themselves are usually a borefest as a spectacle and adding in the short breaks are just crap. 7.50 on a Friday is a crap timeslot too. Saturday anytime is my favourite.


We won't getting one while we have the Ballarat away games.

Yep it is a very late start on Friday night. 30 minute earlier start would be better like on Saturday night. Saturday afternoon is my favorite.

We have the 2 Ballarat home games so that probably doesn't really allow for that. Personally the experience at the MCG is so valuable and being a Victorian club we should play at the home of footy more often that we do.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Yep it is a very late start on Friday night. 30 minute earlier start would be better like on Saturday night. Saturday afternoon is my favorite.

We have the 2 Ballarat home games so that probably doesn't really allow for that. Personally the experience at the MCG is so valuable and being a Victorian club we should play at the home of footy more often that we do.

We will only play at the G v. the Pies, Tigers or Dees. Hopefully play all 3 there and evenly throughout the year. Last few years we have played both our MCG games in the first month of the year.

 

[Eastdog]

We will only play at the G v. the Pies, Tigers or Dees. Hopefully play all 3 there and evenly throughout the year. Last few years we have played both our MCG games in the first month of the year.

Yep most likley. A better spread and not just at the start of the year.

 

[Planet Dogs]

Looks like our first game is against Port on a Friday night:

Predicting what a split Round 1 fixture for the 2024 AFL season might look like

Next season could be opened over two weeks. Here's who your club might face and when👇

www.zerohanger.com

 

[Pugz89]

Looks like our first game is against Port on a Friday night:

Predicting what a split Round 1 fixture for the 2024 AFL season might look like

Next season could be opened over two weeks. Here's who your club might face and when👇

www.zerohanger.com

That looks purely like an opinion piece/guesswork. Wouldn't put too much emphasis on it tbh.

 

[bobs head soup]

That looks purely like an opinion piece/guesswork. Wouldn't put too much emphasis on it tbh.

Yeah, but it is the opinion of Amy Bonthorne of Zero Hanger.

 

[Glaeken Oracle]

So away to Port in round 1, then away to Port again for Gather Round? Sounds fair, maybe we can host a 'home' game in China with Port as the 'away' team as well.

(This is only supposition of course; the AFL would never compromise the fixt... )

 

[grassman75]

Yeah, but it is the opinion of Amy Bonthorne of Zero Hanger.

Is that that arse of a production that keeps hanging shit on us that the Essendon w***ers i used to work with keep sending me?

 

[Dog 36]

Think we are due for a home game Round 1.

Pretty sure we have not had one since 2020?

stand to be corrected

 

[lachy]

Think we are due for a home game Round 1.

Pretty sure we have not had one since 2020?

stand to be corrected

And even then there was no crowd, 2019 against Sydney was the last one with a crowd

 

[_Cerberus_]

Is the AFL fixture going to be released any time soon like it used to be? Or do we have to wait until December again, like they did last year where they dragged it out in what felt like forever?

 

[Sentinel]

Colour me shocked that the great new tradition of a Round 1 Grand Final rematch was only in place for a single season, post us getting demolished in 2021.

 

[BallaratBulldog]

Colour me shocked that the great new tradition of a Round 1 Grand Final rematch was only in place for a single season, post us getting demolished in 2021.

And everyone ignores it was a Wednesday Night, hardly ideal to go to.