Fixture 2024 Fixture

[Dogs_r_barking]

Think the teams playing round 0 will have a bit of a leg up come round 1 having blown the cobwebs off.
Could also go the other way with teams with a bye round one being a bit fresher but doubt it. Will have to wait and see.

I think it gives the other teams an opportunity to review their new game plan, while theirs is still under wraps.

 

[doggies ftw]

Really no excuses this year

 

[Optimistic Dog]

I am hating the dees will have played one game against the swans before we start the season. That is a huge advantage even more so if the same applies where there is only a reserves practice match the week before seasons starts. That will mean 2 weeks gap between a practice match against another the team. A five goal advantage to the Dees.

 

[Pugz89]

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Really no excuses this year

And almost half of that is for the one Perth trip to play Freo.

 

[Libbaaaa]

9 days off leading into the Freo trip and than another 8 after it as well.

 

[grassman75]

2022: Josh Schache lining up on the wing against Ed Langdon

2023: 4-Headed-Monster feat. Lobb needing ankle surgery

What tactical curve ball will we throw at Melbourne to start our year in 2024?

The Schache to the wing was a master stroke….so good in fact that Melbourne took him off our hands

 

[grassman75]

Rd 1 @ Dees (MCG) Sun 1pm
Rd 2 v Suns @ Mars Sun 1pm
Rd 3 v WCE Sun 1pm
Rd 4 v Cats @ AO Sat 8.10pm
Rd 5 v Ess Fri 7.50pm
Rd 6 @ Saints Thursday 7.20pm
Rd 7 @ Freo Sat 7.30
Rd 8 v Hawks Sun 4pm
Rd 9 @ Richmond (MCG) Sat 7.30pm
Rd 10 @ GWS (GIANTS Stadium) Sat 4.35pm
Rd 11 v Swans Thurs 7.20pm
Rd 12 @ Coll (MARVEL) Fri 7.50pm
Rd 13 v Bris Fri 7.50pm
Rd 14 v Freo Sat 1.45pm
Rd 15 - Bye
Rd 16 @ North (Marvel)
Rd 17 @ Port (AO)
Rd 18 v Carlton
Rd 19 @ Geelong (GMHBA)
Rd 20 @ Swans (SCG)
Rd 21 v Dees
Rd 22 @ Crows (AO)
Rd 23 v North
Rd 24 v GWS (MARS)

Three trips to AO, then one to Giants Stadium, SCG, Optus Stadium and then GMHBA, if you can even call that a proper away game.

And ****ing nothing in QLD for the second year in a row. Looks like another year of donating membership $ to the club for zero live footy

 

[grassman75]

Yeah I’m pretty stoked with that, we play good footy there, have shown we can win there. Easy travel, not usually a windy slugfest like Tassie. Much prefer the trip to Tassie, NT or QLD.

Although very stiff for the qld fans two years in a row

Stiff? We’ve been bent over and the AFL has gone in without lube

 

[Bulldog rick]

The AFL better not organise a practice match with the dogs in Qld as that will totally piss me off.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Stiff? We’ve been bent over and the AFL has gone in without lube

Last year it was probably a consolidation prize for playing Port during Gather Round, but to not have it again next year they have simply forgot.

 

[Bulldog rick]

Lucky the AFL didn't try to flog off a practice match here in Qld as a pathetic olive branch sweetener.
Two years with out a game here can you believe it. Well I can't.
Probably in 2025 we will have Buckley's chance as well.
My head is feeling like Krakatoa.

All I want is to watch a real game of footy that has real meaning and real consequences!! Is that too hard to ask for AFL.???

 

[grassman75]

Lucky the AFL didn't try to flog off a practice match here in Qld as a pathetic olive branch sweetener.
Two years with out a game here can you believe it. Well I can't.
Probably in 2025 we will have Buckley's chance as well.
My head is feeling like Krakatoa.

All I want is to watch a real game of footy that has real meaning and real consequences!! Is that too hard to ask for AFL.???

And with the Gabba getting demolished we will probably have to settle for Gold Coast games but Brisbane wont play their games down there - classic QLD government….finally building a train station to service the Gabba and when it’s finished, the Gabba will get demolished

 

[geoffjennings79]

And with the Gabba getting demolished we will probably have to settle for Gold Coast games but Brisbane wont play their games down there - classic QLD government….finally building a train station to service the Gabba and when it’s finished, the Gabba will get demolished

You could have just written "classic government" - the Vic govt, if Comm Games had gone ahead, were proposing spending millions on a pool facility in Geelong, which after the games would be demolished at more cost and replaced with a downgraded facility. Not unique to any party, govts at all levels of all persuasions make ridiculous decisions.

Case in point being the number of significant roundabouts installed in Ballarat in recent years - when every person and their dog knows they will be ripped up and replaced with a traffic-light intersection within 2-3 years at most. Roundabout costs a lot to install, then a lot to remove and replace.

Anyway sorry for the political diversion. I'm a keen student of politics, but the sheer idiocy in decision-making is breathtakingly repetitive.

 

[grassman75]

You could have just written "classic government" - the Vic govt, if Comm Games had gone ahead, were proposing spending millions on a pool facility in Geelong, which after the games would be demolished at more cost and replaced with a downgraded facility. Not unique to any party, govts at all levels of all persuasions make ridiculous decisions.

Case in point being the number of significant roundabouts installed in Ballarat in recent years - when every person and their dog knows they will be ripped up and replaced with a traffic-light intersection within 2-3 years at most. Roundabout costs a lot to install, then a lot to remove and replace.

Anyway sorry for the political diversion. I'm a keen student of politics, but the sheer idiocy in decision-making is breathtakingly repetitive.

Yes you are correct….nearl6 3 years in the sun and I’ve tried to forget how inept they all are.

we have the circle of death coming into Caloundra and they are proposing all sorts of lights and fly overs when the easiest thing would be to install a long slip lane heading to Brisbane that loops back over to Kawana way and make the the current roundabout lanes both turn right only….im laughing at yet another cost blow out on aa major VIC road project in the Northern Ring Road or whatever it’s called. Shoulda just built EW link

 

[Werewolf]

And ******* nothing in QLD for the second year in a row. Looks like another year of donating membership $ to the club for zero live footy

That's rough. I'm happy with three games in SA, but we play Port over here pretty much every year (except 2017). So I'd have gladly traded our away game against Port for a game in QLD.

 

[grassman75]

Looks like we are getting a “summer training camp” on the Sunny Coast next week.

that might be my one and only chance for the year to see some live Bulldog action

 

[geoffjennings79]

Looks like we are getting a “summer training camp” on the Sunny Coast next week.

that might be my one and only chance for the year to see some live Bulldog action

Until the team does a national tour to show off the 2024 cup!

 

[grassman75]

Until the team does a national tour to show off the 2024 cup!

They are up here for a week.
I emailed the club to ask if there is any more information about where they will be training outside of the two sessions at Maroochy as both are school days and my kids are desperate to see them. Answer was that the only two public session are the Tuesday and Thursday.


Looks like the kids and I are going Dog Hunting on the weekend….

 

[cleveland]

They are up here for a week.
I emailed the club to ask if there is any more information about where they will be training outside of the two sessions at Maroochy as both are school days and my kids are desperate to see them. Answer was that the only two public session are the Tuesday and Thursday.


Looks like the kids and I are going Dog Hunting on the weekend….

Just let the kids have the day off haha

 

[grassman75]

Just let the kids have the day off haha

They only just went back this week….and it was a bludge week with school swimming and Aust Day.

Actual classes start Monday

oh and I’m sick of them being home

 

[_Cerberus_]

Looking ahead at the fixture, sitting at 3-5. I predicted us to be 5-3 during the preseason, with losses to the Demons, Cats and Dockers. A strong start was crucial, as our season has two brutal patches ahead. On current form, I cannot see us getting more than 5 or 6 wins from the remaining fixture, at best.

Tigers A - Win
Giants A - Loss
Swans H - Big Loss
Magpies A - L
Lions H - 50/50 given how poor they are away.
Dockers H - Win, I reckon we get one back in the return fixture
North A - W
Port A - Big Loss
Blues H - Loss
Geelong A - Big Loss
Swans A - Big Loss, maybe worst of the year.
Demons H - Loss, we cannot beat them lately.
Crows A - 50/50
North H - Win
Giants H - Loss

Predict us to go 5-10 the rest of the season, for a 8-15 finish. Will have to have a serious turn of form and beat some good teams, something we have struggled with since 2021, to even make finals.

8-15 would have seen us finish 15th last season. With pick 4 in the draft.