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You still get the easy run home so AFL still looking after you
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Yeah that is just crazy.
Dirty Bird
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Overall thoughts
I am one of the few people that seem to have this belief that opening rd could be good..............IF DONE RIGHT
And this is an unmitigated disaster, probably the worst I've seen yet
Teams that have runs on the board with their tune up game vs fresh pigs for the slaughter:
Carlton get the advantage over Richmond in Rd 1
Gold Coast get the advantage over West Coast in Rd 1
Geelong get the advantage over Fremantle in Rd 1
Hawthorn get the advantage over Essendon in Rd 1
St Kilda get the advantage over Melbourne in Rd 1
Collingwood get the advantage over Adelaide in Rd 1
Teams that get an advantage of the extra bye:
Geelong get the advantage over Adelaide in Rd 3
Collingwood get the advantage over Greater Western Sydney in Rd 3
Brisbane get the advantage over St Kilda in Rd 3
Carlton get the advantage over Melbourne in Rd 3
Sydney get the advantage over West Coast in Rd 4
Gold Coast get the advantage over Melbourne in Rd 4
Western Bulldogs get the advantage over Essendon in Rd 4
Hawthorn get the advantage over Geelong in Rd 4
Greater Western Sydney get the advantage over Richmond in Rd 5
St Kilda get the advantage over Port Adelaide in Rd 5
That is an unmitigated disaster. No coverage to cover freak disasters like last year. Not using it to fix fixturing issues (Why not give Bris/Coll the bye together before playing each other Easter Thursday?
You can make a fixture where it doesnt give legs up everywhere. But no, you have to **** it up.
Other than Bulldogs vs GWS and Sydney vs Brisbane - Everything has been ballsed up
Also on another note with what the AFL ballsed up, that's 2 years in a row the same team has gotten a ride with true away games. Once you take out games sold and look at it as a pure home/away side of things across the vic teams. The same team has had a huge ride 2 years in a row.
6: Geelong, Western Bulldogs
5: Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Hawthorn, Melbourne
4: Richmond, St Kilda, North Melbourne
idc about neutral games where there's part time members so the crowd isn't hostile. Or games you sold. I care about pure home/away, and that's 2 years in a row North have had the best away fixture in the league........By far. Why should they get a leg up simply because they sold 2 games to Perth? BS.
Honestly - This is perhaps the worst fixture I've ever seen. And it's really making me want to see if there's any chance as a fan we can oust Dillon. This league (Both mens and womens) have taken many steps back under him. It had flaws before hand, but it feels that everything Dillon touches goes to shit.
I am one of the few people that seem to have this belief that opening rd could be good..............IF DONE RIGHT
And this is an unmitigated disaster, probably the worst I've seen yet
Teams that have runs on the board with their tune up game vs fresh pigs for the slaughter:
Carlton get the advantage over Richmond in Rd 1
Gold Coast get the advantage over West Coast in Rd 1
Geelong get the advantage over Fremantle in Rd 1
Hawthorn get the advantage over Essendon in Rd 1
St Kilda get the advantage over Melbourne in Rd 1
Collingwood get the advantage over Adelaide in Rd 1
Teams that get an advantage of the extra bye:
Geelong get the advantage over Adelaide in Rd 3
Collingwood get the advantage over Greater Western Sydney in Rd 3
Brisbane get the advantage over St Kilda in Rd 3
Carlton get the advantage over Melbourne in Rd 3
Sydney get the advantage over West Coast in Rd 4
Gold Coast get the advantage over Melbourne in Rd 4
Western Bulldogs get the advantage over Essendon in Rd 4
Hawthorn get the advantage over Geelong in Rd 4
Greater Western Sydney get the advantage over Richmond in Rd 5
St Kilda get the advantage over Port Adelaide in Rd 5
That is an unmitigated disaster. No coverage to cover freak disasters like last year. Not using it to fix fixturing issues (Why not give Bris/Coll the bye together before playing each other Easter Thursday?
You can make a fixture where it doesnt give legs up everywhere. But no, you have to **** it up.
Other than Bulldogs vs GWS and Sydney vs Brisbane - Everything has been ballsed up
Also on another note with what the AFL ballsed up, that's 2 years in a row the same team has gotten a ride with true away games. Once you take out games sold and look at it as a pure home/away side of things across the vic teams. The same team has had a huge ride 2 years in a row.
6: Geelong, Western Bulldogs
5: Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Hawthorn, Melbourne
4: Richmond, St Kilda, North Melbourne
idc about neutral games where there's part time members so the crowd isn't hostile. Or games you sold. I care about pure home/away, and that's 2 years in a row North have had the best away fixture in the league........By far. Why should they get a leg up simply because they sold 2 games to Perth? BS.
Honestly - This is perhaps the worst fixture I've ever seen. And it's really making me want to see if there's any chance as a fan we can oust Dillon. This league (Both mens and womens) have taken many steps back under him. It had flaws before hand, but it feels that everything Dillon touches goes to shit.
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Yeah coz that clearly works.
AFL sticking to their method, a soft lead in to finals = less match hardened. Can’t have cats winning can we?
Chris Fagan acknowledged this advantage for the lions in 2024.
Maybe we should sook as hard as Brisbane did so we get a better fixture.
All we’ve heard from Brisbane is Wah Wah Wah we got the hardest draw ever, meanwhile you can’t beat North.
Why would the lions want easy teams?
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manicmagpie
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Big Footy maths:
Share your home ground with 5 other teams and play 14 games there = disgraceful, an outrage, the competition is rigged etc.
Share your home ground with just 1 other team and play 13 games there = brilliant, deserved, should be more actually etc.
Every single year people whinge about this.
The simple fact is that Collingwood has contractual obligations to play a set number of games at the MCG and Marvel Stadium.
Every single year Collingwood play:
14 games at the MCG (9 home, 5 away)
3 games at Marvel (2 home, 1 away)
1 game at Adelaide Oval (Gather Round)
5 games at interstate venues (5 away)
Dirty Bird
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Also - How ****ing petty is the SACA?
Scheduling Womens ODD at AO the weekend on Rd 1
Scheduling Womens ODD at AO the weekend on Rd 1
Dirty Bird
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1 of the 2 fixtures that should be torn to shreds.
Maybe GWS should sign a contract with ENGIE Stadium to play 23 games there.
Then see what the AFL does.
And if the AFL says no, bring up the Collingwood contract.
There should be zero contracts in the league that dictate away games.
Said to a mate the other day, we didn't know how good we had it with Gil McLaughlan. I'd even take Andrew Demetriou at this rate.
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Dirty Bird
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I hoenstly dont even care if Collingwood get 14 games at the MCG.
11 home, then away games vs Haw/Melb/Rich etc.
Im fine with it
But having a contract that states it is what I'm against.
Clubs should only be allowed to sign their home games away.
Similar to what Richmond did to get that Tassie game.
But away games? I'm against that.
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ANZAC Day in Tassie too for Collingwood
Where did you get that 3 from for North? I can see 9x games outside of Victoria, take away 2x sold and 1x Gather round, that’s 6. Could at a stretch take away the Hawthorn game at Launceston, that’s still 5 bonafide away games (Port and Adel at AO, GWS at Manuka, Sydney at SCG, West Coast at Optus).
Collingwood haven't played University since Round 14, 1914. That's a gap of 111 seasons.
For the record, the Pies won by 80 points in front of 8,028 at the MCG.
(Well, you did say any teams)
Collingwood fans need to just be quiet. You have a great fixture every year and every year it is biased towards you. You know that and we know that.
Stop claiming that your club breaks our minds just because you exist. We all know that you are the biggest club and the afl bows to that every year.
Your contract with the MCC is a blessing for you and is the only one upheld by the afl (the afl breaches Hawthorns and Melbournes contract with the MCC every year).
It is not a case of other supporters having a sook for the sake of it, it is us complaining because some clubs are massively advantaged by a fixture that is meant to assist with the levelling with the completion.
Stop claiming that your club breaks our minds just because you exist. We all know that you are the biggest club and the afl bows to that every year.
Your contract with the MCC is a blessing for you and is the only one upheld by the afl (the afl breaches Hawthorns and Melbournes contract with the MCC every year).
It is not a case of other supporters having a sook for the sake of it, it is us complaining because some clubs are massively advantaged by a fixture that is meant to assist with the levelling with the completion.
Dirty Bird
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oops, missed one. still 4 true away games and best in the league 2 straight years
I was just asking how you would fix it, we hear all the time it is an issue what is the solution?
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Why do people think removing whatever contract there is will decrease the number of Collingwood games at the MCG? If they didn't get pretty much guaranteed 70k for MCG games, more depending on the opponent, the AFL would have tried to get rid of that contract. The AFL probably hate that Melbourne have to play all or most of their home games at the MCG because they have an average home attendance of less than 40k. Contract or no contract, Collingwood ain't playing less than 14 MCG games per season. Every club wants to play them there, the AFL wants every club to play them there. It isn't their fault they have so many rusted on supporters. And it certainly doesn't mean the fixture is biased towards them when teams ask to play them there.
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I laugh how the VFL"s difficulty fixture rating system doesn't take travel into account
how convenient
'we have such a tuff draw sook sook'
checks fixture yep 16 games in Victoria
hilarious
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Finally.....someone who knows.
Travel more.
Ok so how, we don't sell interstate games so excluding that we are playing ONE less game interstate than the other 50% of Vic clubs, Richmond without selling games play 4 interstate, less than us. So yep Travel more how does that work, should we play the 6 other MCG tenants interstate or at a neutral venue, can you actually give us a proper solution "travel more" is a statement not a solution, should we somehow play 4 games in WA, 3 in QLD let us know ?
Agreed, the Vic's think we are not disadvantaged with the 50 odd thousand k's we travel every year without allowing for recovery etc and travel fatigue.
Brainwashed are they who don't think it through.
Not difficult , there are soon to be 19 teams so only one more Vic team.
Don't tell me it can't be organised that Vic teams travel the same amount of times as Interstate teams.
Just means there would not be as many games in Vic.
Heaven forbid, that would mean it would be a NATIONAL comp.
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