Fixture 2025 Fixture Discussion

[Perrip]

The details will be confirmed when the AFL officially releases its fixture in the second week of November.
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The Cats are a chance to take on Brisbane Lions at the Gabba in the first game of the 2025 season when the Lions will unfurl their premiership flag, although it remains unconfirmed as the AFL thrash out the final fixture details over the next fortnight.

AFL Fixture 2025 news: Carlton want out of Opening Round, possible season opener revealed

 

[Dalions]

AFL Fixture 2025 news: Carlton want out of Opening Round, possible season opener revealed

Carlton want to pull out of Opening Round because of a “road heavy” start to the season.
What a pile of dribble.

 

[Grasshopper17]

Carlton want to pull out of Opening Round because of a “road heavy” start to the season.
What a pile of dribble.

Great outcome. We'd much rather play Geelong. Awesome to get them first up. We'll win or we'll learn. Hopefully both.

 

[Dalions]

Great outcome. We'd much rather play Geelong. Awesome to get them first up. We'll win or we'll learn. Hopefully both.

Happy to play Geelong, It’s Carltons excuse that is dribble.

 

[dlanod]

Carlton want to pull out of Opening Round because of a “road heavy” start to the season.
What a pile of dribble.

"We had to play across town several times last year!"

 

[Grasshopper17]

Happy to play Geelong, It’s Carltons excuse that is dribble.

Aw come on now, 2 interstate trips in the first 6 weeks will be absolutely horrendous for the poor widdle Bwoos, setting them up to fail for the rest of the season!

 

[Cubs2Lions]

Are you sure? My mail is that we're only being fixtured to play teams that finished lower than us in 2024

But which journalist is going to complain about our fixture being the easiest next year though

 

[Tom14]

AFL Fixture 2025 news: Carlton want out of Opening Round, possible season opener revealed

This bit is so so funny:

The Blues are already slated to play away games in Round 1 (Richmond), Round 5 (Gather Round) and Round 6 for Good Friday (North Melbourne) and want to steer clear of another trip away to New South Wales or Queensland for the Opening Round on March 6-8.

 

[Dalions]

This bit is so so funny:

 

[dlanod]

This bit is so so funny:

I have to admit, when I was laughing at them I didn't realise they were literally including games on the other side of town already! I'd assumed they were at least basing it off interstate games.

It's this killer mindset that will see Carlton romp to a premiership every time no doubt.

 

[Grasshopper17]

Looks like more Thursday games and some Sunday night games next year. Good outcome for those who aren't fans of overlapping games.

You would imagine we will get Easter Thursday and the Sunday before Labor Day.

 

[Perrip]

You would imagine we will get Easter Thursday and the Sunday before Labor Day.

Easter Thursday game has been locked in.

Season opener at the Gabba among early 2025 fixture options

The Lions already have their Easter Thursday clash with Collingwood locked in deeper into the season.

 

[Toffee Lion]

Not sure how I would feel about this and would mean we wouldn't attend games at home if scheduled then unless a public / shcool holiday the next day:

Attendance wouldn't be amazing but made up by I imagine far higher viewership with less Sunday overlap.

 

[Grasshopper17]

Not sure how I would feel about this and would mean we wouldn't attend games at home if scheduled then unless a public / shcool holiday the next day:

School holidays and public holidays make good sense. Between the two there are plenty of different Mondays to go round. Labor Day is on different dates depending on what state you're in, there's King's Birthday, Easter Monday etc

 

[Elixuh]

Not sure how I would feel about this and would mean we wouldn't attend games at home if scheduled then unless a public / shcool holiday the next day:

I’m happy for Sunday night and Thursday night games so long as we aren’t involved in them.

 

[Dalions]

Not sure how I would feel about this and would mean we wouldn't attend games at home if scheduled then unless a public / shcool holiday the next day:

More Thursdays and more Sunday nights might also mean more 5 days breaks for Clubs which the AFLPA won’t like.
So what Channel 7 may want doesn’t necessarily mean they will get.

 

[Grasshopper17]

I’m happy for Sunday night and Thursday night games so long as we aren’t involved in them.

Personally I'm happy to play Saturday and Sunday arvo all year long. But I doubt the club would want that. Listening to the Roar Deal last week I think, Mike Whiting mentioned the club was privately pretty miffed about being shunted off to the fixture's Bumfck Idaho after Round 15 last year.

The other Lions podcast I listen to pretty regularly has commented multiple times how they don't think having a 9 day break and then a 5 day break and then another 9 day break etc etc was very conducive to playing good, consistent footy early in the season. Which I must admit makes a bit of sense. We certainly performed better when we got into a consistent pattern of 6/7 day breaks.

 

[Dalions]

Personally I'm happy to play Saturday and Sunday arvo all year long. But I doubt the club would want that. Listening to the Roar Deal last week I think, Mike Whiting mentioned the club was privately pretty miffed about being shunted off to the fixture's Bumfck Idaho after Round 15 last year.

The other Lions podcast I listen to pretty regularly has commented multiple times how they don't think having a 9 day break and then a 5 day break and then another 9 day break etc etc was very conducive to playing good, consistent footy early in the season. Which I must admit makes a bit of sense. We certainly performed better when we got into a consistent pattern of 6/7 day breaks.

The 7 day break throughout the whole Finals Series was perfect for us.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

I really hate the 7.15pm finish on a Sunday. Now they're gonna start at 7.15...

 

[martinson]

I'm deadset against Sunday evenings but that's just based on my own personal circumstances.

Sunday evenings are there to reflect and relax in my world.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Yeah I'm not keen at watching AFL to 9:30 on a Sunday night. Hopefully 0 timeslots for us.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

I'm also not turned on by it, but it's also the biggest timeslot in the NFL these days, so maybe it actually will work?

 

[dlanod]

I'm also not turned on by it, but it's also the biggest timeslot in the NFL these days, so maybe it actually will work?

The NFL can't play Saturday games or Friday night games because of college and high school football which inherently limits them to Sundays anyway, plus Monday and Thursday nights. It's more a reflection of how big the NFL is - their regular season games outrate the finals games of MLB and NBA.

 

[Grasshopper17]

The NFL can't play Saturday games or Friday night games because of college and high school football which inherently limits them to Sundays anyway, plus Monday and Thursday nights.

I must admit it feels a bit ancient to me compared to how the AFL and NRL work here, but they still have like 10 games that start at 1pm every Sunday. More out of necessity than tradition I guess.

It's more a reflection of how big the NFL is - their regular season games outrate the finals games of MLB and NBA.

10+ million supporters per team... You could probably schedule matches at 2am on a Wednesday and still get a full house.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

I must admit it feels a bit ancient to me compared to how the AFL and NRL work here, but they still have like 10 games that start at 1pm every Sunday. More out of necessity than tradition I guess.



10+ million supporters per team... You could probably schedule matches at 2am on a Wednesday and still get a full house.

It's much more exciting IMO - for finals it makes sense to have games separated, however in the regular season having 5+ games on at the same time is ideal particularly when there's 16~ games each week