Fixture 2026 Fixture

[eth-dog]

LEAK ALERT

Bulldogs V Essendon on Easter Sunday night.

That’s the best we can do for leaks today, just 2 days out from fixture release day.

I thought the massacre was supposed to happen on Good Friday?

 

[Hawkk]

because irrelevant low crowd clubs have to sell their home games to survive

I really dislike the four games we play in Tasmania (especially with the capacity at 10,000) but to say Hawthorn is an irrelevant low drawing club is inaccurate. Not when they drew 1,000,000 plus to home and away games despite the four games in Tasmania. They drew 60,000 plus to their 14 regular season games in Melbourne also.

In an ideal world Hawthorn would be playing 11 games in Melbourne and giving West Coast and Fremantle more exposure to the MCG. It would make the competition far fairer and give Hawthorn members far better value for money.

 

[Hawkk]

LEAK ALERT

Bulldogs V Essendon on Easter Sunday night.

That’s the best we can do for leaks today, just 2 days out from fixture release day.

Presumably locks Essendon and the Dogs into the Sunday slots for Gather Round. I can’t see Essendon playing at the Barossa or Norwood though (given their enormous drawing power).

 

[JasRulz63]

7-5 against teams we played twice
10-1 against sides we played once.

You whinge a lot but if you change our double ups, we would just get more wins anyway.

It's because you went 2-4 against the teams that were in the top 6 bracket, and 5-1 against teams in the middle and bottom 6.

So yes, if you change your double ups against the better teams you played, you might've ended up with more wins.

 

[eth-dog]

Presumably locks Essendon and the Dogs into the Sunday slots for Gather Round. I can’t see Essendon playing at the Barossa or Norwood though (given their enormous drawing power).

Probably play Geelong on the Sunday. Just give us two hidings in a row, ruin the year.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Given St Kilda have been removed from Easter Sunday (the week before Gather Round) it tells me that they’ll be on Thursday or Friday night at Gather Round.

Dare I say it - Adelaide V St Kilda, Thursday night.

Saints got the Opening Round marquee game so they are fine.

 

[hawkman]

Probably play Geelong on the Sunday. Just give us two hidings in a row, ruin the year.

Normally have to wait until June for that

 

[eth-dog]

Normally have to wait until June for that

Nah it always correlates to Geelong and Dogs games, varies from year to year.

 

[BigVic]

Another primetime game for Essendon

 

[Mat Mann]

Given St Kilda have been removed from Easter Sunday (the week before Gather Round) it tells me that they’ll be on Thursday or Friday night at Gather Round.

Dare I say it - Adelaide V St Kilda, Thursday night.

That's the whisper I've heard as well

 

[EBERT THE KING]

Risky move from the saints.

All things being equal, they should comfortably beat the pies, but opting to play them at their home ground makes it more even.

They cannot afford to have a poor start with their recent recruiting spree. Ross will be under enormous pressure if that happens.

 

[LuckyBounce!]

Risky move from the saints.

All things being equal, they should comfortably beat the pies, but opting to play them at their home ground makes it more even.

They cannot afford to have a poor start with their recent recruiting spree. Ross will be under enormous pressure if that happens.

I highly doubt Ross gives a shit about so called pressure from numpties in the media or elsewhere

 

[Seattle Mariners]

Any truth to Port V St Kilda, Sunday night Gather Rd?

 

[mikey127]

The NRL draw often comes out 1 week after the AFL and they have released round 1

 

[Scholz Supremacy]

I heard on the radio this morning that there’ll be no games in Ballarat.

 

[Bulldog Brent]

Confirmed - Adelaide v Carlton to open Gather Round.

Port v St Kilda to close Gather Round.

 

[Bulldog Brent]

I heard on the radio this morning that there’ll be no games in Ballarat.

Correct, zero in 2026.

And two in each of 2027 and 2028.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Confirmed - Adelaide v Carlton to open Gather Round.

Port v St Kilda to close Gather Round.

Yuck.

 

[mikey127]

Confirmed - Adelaide v Carlton to open Gather Round.

Port v St Kilda to close Gather Round.

Interesting as Port quite often host St Kilda on ANZAC day Round

 

[Bulldog Brent]

Carlton has got the rough end of the pineapple, playing the Crows twice for Gather Round - if the AFL was genuine about equality, they would have rotated the sides playing Adelaide and Port.

 

[doppleganger]

Carlton has got the rough end of the pineapple, playing the Crows twice for Gather Round - if the AFL was genuine about equality, they would have rotated the sides playing Adelaide and Port.

Need to wait til full fixture is revealed and to see full swings and roundabouts before declaring which team may have got the rough end of the pineapple.

Each premiership is awarded independently based on that single season only, the weird view of longer term "equality" is a weird one...2024 match-ups have no bearing on the 2026 premiership.

 

[Dusty Hill]

Any truth to Port V St Kilda, Sunday night Gather Rd?

Locked, Carl v Crows to open on Thurs

 

[JPetro83]

Confirmed - Adelaide v Carlton to open Gather Round.

Port v St Kilda to close Gather Round.

Confirmed by who?

 

[JPetro83]

Confirmed - Adelaide v Carlton to open Gather Round.

Port v St Kilda to close Gather Round.

Should have been Crows v Saints

 

[Seattle Mariners]

Is there any chance they start making clubs play an SA team twice at AO in the one year?

For example Carlton play Adelaide at Gather Round in a ‘neutral’ game and then play Adelaide later in an official away game later in the year.