2026 fixture wishlist/discussion

[Cousin Jed]

Based on the current Qld rail track works calendar the trains will be operating

Planned track closures - 12 month calendar

 

[Ray Button]

We are planning to go to the Lions v Melb game at the MCG in Round 6. Ticketing is done by Ticketek and as far as I can ascertain, sales start tomorrow on Ticketek at 10:00am for club members.

I haven't received anything from the club re member barcodes, but did get an email with barcodes earlier this month for the Suns game at Carrara (this is also handled by Ticketek).

In the absence of any imminent emails/barcodes from the club, does anyone know if the ones we received for the Suns/Ticketek will work for the Melb game?

 

[braddsey]

We are planning to go to the Lions v Melb game at the MCG in Round 6. Ticketing is done by Ticketek and as far as I can ascertain, sales start tomorrow on Ticketek at 10:00am for club members.

I haven't received anything from the club re member barcodes, but did get an email with barcodes earlier this month for the Suns game at Carrara (this is also handled by Ticketek).

In the absence of any imminent emails/barcodes from the club, does anyone know if the ones we received for the Suns/Ticketek will work for the Melb game?

search your emails, I've received a couple of emails from the club this year with member barcodes.
6-Feb: Subject: Member Ticket Pre-sale opens MONDAY!
4-Feb: Subject: Don't miss our pre-season match

 

[knaf]

We are planning to go to the Lions v Melb game at the MCG in Round 6. Ticketing is done by Ticketek and as far as I can ascertain, sales start tomorrow on Ticketek at 10:00am for club members.

I haven't received anything from the club re member barcodes, but did get an email with barcodes earlier this month for the Suns game at Carrara (this is also handled by Ticketek).

In the absence of any imminent emails/barcodes from the club, does anyone know if the ones we received for the Suns/Ticketek will work for the Melb game?

Not sure I would worry to much about missing out on a seat. I think it will be a big year for the Ds supporters at Falls Creek this year. Even if the snow hasn’t started to fall by round six.

 

[Ray Button]

search your emails, I've received a couple of emails from the club this year with member barcodes.
6-Feb: Subject: Member Ticket Pre-sale opens MONDAY!
4-Feb: Subject: Don't miss our pre-season match

Thanks braddsey, I have those emails but the 4-Feb one seems to refer exclusively to Ticketmaster, and the 6-Feb one doesn't have any barcodes but does look like access to Round 6 tickets might open tomorrow.

In the absence of any updates, I'll try the 13-Feb Suns' email which included 'member barcodes'. Failing that, I'll just try on Wednesday in the public ticket sales window (in the past this has often provided better seats than the members allocated block)!

 

[Section 5]

Thanks braddsey, I have those emails but the 4-Feb one seems to refer exclusively to Ticketmaster, and the 6-Feb one doesn't have any barcodes but does look like access to Round 6 tickets might open tomorrow.

In the absence of any updates, I'll try the 13-Feb Suns' email which included 'member barcodes'. Failing that, I'll just try on Wednesday in the public ticket sales window (in the past this has often provided better seats than the members allocated block)!

Your barcode for 2026 stays the same be it ticketek or ticketmaster

 

[braddsey]

Thanks braddsey, I have those emails but the 4-Feb one seems to refer exclusively to Ticketmaster, and the 6-Feb one doesn't have any barcodes but does look like access to Round 6 tickets might open tomorrow.

In the absence of any updates, I'll try the 13-Feb Suns' email which included 'member barcodes'. Failing that, I'll just try on Wednesday in the public ticket sales window (in the past this has often provided better seats than the members allocated block)!

Another email from the club just arrived in my inbox...

 

[haystark]

Tickets secured for the Bombers game at Marvel. Hoping I picked the right end (sec 27) for the Lions cheer squad

 

[Lace Out]

Was looking at round 6 and wondering if we might go close to outnumbering the opposition supporters at a game in Melbourne

 

[Grasshopper17]

Tell you what I will be jumping on Round 3 tickets as soon as they go on sale. There's a lot of Saints fans hiding under the woodwork and I reckon they are gonna come out for that one. Even more so if they're 3-0 coming into the game.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Would something like this ever work over gather round? Entire round at the Adelaide Oval starting on the Wednesday,1 ticket gets you an entire day on Saturday and Sunday. I don't see anything changing next year with the same teams getting booted to the sticks with the normal big Vics hogging the centre stage. Of course it's all about money with the AFL but i feel like this would have the weekend pumping.

Wednesday
Port V Saints 7:00pm

Thursday
Adelaide V Brisbane 7:30pm

Friday
Hawks v Pies 7:30pm

Saturday
North V Richmond 12:30pm
Freo V Suns 4:00pm
Geelong V Bombers 7:40pm

Sunday
GWS V West Coast 12:00pm
Carlton V Demons 3:15pm
Sydney V Dogs 7:00pm

 

[Tom14]

Would something like this ever work over gather round? Entire round at the Adelaide Oval starting on the Wednesday,1 ticket gets you an entire day on Saturday and Sunday. I don't see anything changing next year with the same teams getting booted to the sticks with the normal big Vics hogging the centre stage. Of course it's all about money with the AFL but i feel like this would have the weekend pumping.

Wednesday
Port V Saints 7:00pm

Thursday
Adelaide V Brisbane 7:30pm

Friday
Hawks v Pies 7:30pm

Saturday
North V Richmond 12:30pm
Freo V Suns 4:00pm
Geelong V Bombers 7:40pm

Sunday
GWS V West Coast 12:00pm
Carlton V Demons 3:15pm
Sydney V Dogs 7:00pm

Why are you trying to sign us up for a genuine extra away game against the crows???

 

[Perrip]

Would something like this ever work over gather round? Entire round at the Adelaide Oval starting on the Wednesday,1 ticket gets you an entire day on Saturday and Sunday.

Magic Round has every game at the 1 venue, Suncorp. So, it's possible. But, Gather Round is unqiue in that we do it at multiple venues, something Magic Round could copy in the coming years

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Magic Round has every game at the 1 venue, Suncorp. So, it's possible. But, Gather Round is unqiue in that we do it at multiple venues, something Magic Round could copy in the coming years

Barossa and Norwood are not acceptable venues. May as well play on a school oval

 

[dlanod]

The argument that SA is the only state that it can be played in is BS. Either play it in states at grounds with fully seated venues or can the BS concept that now rewards the SA teams with an additional home game.

This.

SA has one AFL standard oval.

SE Qld has two plus multiple AFLW standard. Sydney has three that have hosted AFL games plus another four AFLW standard.

There's nothing special about the current location - the original concept was for it in NSW, it's just that SA muscled it with straight up cash offers to switch it over. It's why we all got stuck with Opening Round instead.

 

[MSB ROYS]

You can't tell me that a junket to the Gold Coast wouldn't be better than one to Adelaide. Games in Brisbane and Carrara, parties on the GC.

Problem with AFL (there are many) is that they want to stick with a formula. Perhaps play every second of gather round in SA and elsewhere the other years. Also, rotating between SA, WA, Qld and NSW would work as well.

 

[braddsey]

You can't tell me that a junket to the Gold Coast wouldn't be better than one to Adelaide. Games in Brisbane and Carrara, parties on the GC.

Problem with AFL (there are many) is that they want to stick with a formula. Perhaps play every second of gather round in SA and elsewhere the other years. Also, rotating between SA, WA, Qld and NSW would work as well.

They’ll be desperate to give a gather round to Tassie once the stadium is built (if not before). Ensure the government is rewarded for the massive investment in stadium(s).

 

[M Malice]

2027- No opening round shite, mid season bye over 2 weeks maximum, gather round is rebranded, moved to SE Qld and is called Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen round or don't you worry about that round.

 

[Groo2]

With the talk of playing Lions at ẢO next gather round but having low traveling fan base, I rekon you can lock in a game v Adelaide or Port in GR2027

 

[GenericUsername202]

I like gather round. In fact, i think there should be 2 in a year. Have it in adelaide at the opening round, and have one in the middle of the year in NSW, QLD or WA.

 

[Tom14]

With the talk of playing Lions at ẢO next gather round but having low traveling fan base, I rekon you can lock in a game v Adelaide or Port in GR2027

 

[Grasshopper17]

With the talk of playing Lions at ẢO next gather round but having low traveling fan base, I rekon you can lock in a game v Adelaide or Port in GR2027

I get really grumpy about this "low traveling fan base" rubbish... how do we know? How does anyone know? People talk about "no Lions fans ever come to Gather Round". Well why is that I wonder? Could it be that only very few of us were able to get tickets to their match??

Are we really in the bad books for not coming to Gather Round especially so we could go watch every team except our own?

 

[Full Wingspan]

It makes commercial sense to have us playing Norf each Gather Round. Clearly, interstate teams from Northern states are going to have a smaller pool of fans committed to making the trip to Adelaide once year.

Should that deprive us of the opportunity to take centre stage at AO? Arguably not.

Selfishly, I've really enjoyed watching the game at Norwood and Barossa Park. It has presented a unique opportunity to view AFL standard football in a local/country atmosphere. I would go as far to say it exceeded the experience of watching the game at Adelaide Oval (which is a truly beautiful arena).

For example, I went along to the Geelong v WCE game at Norwood got flipped off by Bailey Smith

3

Bailey Smith

Age

25

Ht

185cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

18.3

5star

K

8.5

3star

HB

9.8

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

3.8

5star

CL

2.7

4star

D

19.8

5star

K

9.6

4star

HB

10.2

5star

M

1.8

2star

T

3.2

4star

CL

3.2

4star

D

14.8

4star

K

7.6

3star

HB

7.2

5star

M

2.0

3star

T

3.4

5star

CL

1.6

4star

. This was only possible as Bailey was able to clearly hear me congratulate him on finding his headband from the middle of the MCG last September.

You simply can't get that level of intimacy at a large stadium.

 

[braddsey]

For example, I went along to the Geelong v WCE game at Norwood got flipped off by Bailey Smith. This was only possible as Bailey was able to clearly hear me congratulate him on finding his headband from the middle of the MCG last September.

I hope you caught it on camera, so it can be strategically deployed to your preferred social media platform, about 4 days before our round-17 trip to Geelong.

 

[Full Wingspan]

I hope you caught it on camera, so it can be strategically deployed to your preferred social media platform, about 4 days before our round-17 trip to Geelong.

Honestly, I would prefer the little squib play against us. That turnover king would be our second best player behind Harris.