Prediction AFL Magic Round - The not so subtle way to have CFC play a 6th Interstate game.

[partypie]

What’s wrong with us playing a 6th interstate game?

Most teams play at least 10 interstate games (all interstate teams + Hawks + North)

If we truly see ourselves as the biggest club in the land, shouldn’t we be getting out and about playing in front of our fans all around the country in away games?

Without even checking fixtures I'm 100% confident that this doesn't happen in any year for any Victorian club, so let's not get too carried away here.

 

[partypie]

But then what was the second last practice game becomes the last practice game and it gets treated more or less like a competitive game ...

Ooofff...

 

[76woodenspooners]

Without even checking fixtures I'm 100% confident that this doesn't happen in any year for any Victorian club, so let's not get too carried away here.

Just checked …

… I was off by a game. North and Hawks both played 9 interstate games in 2022.

 

[jmac70]

Just checked …

… I was off by a game. North and Hawks both played 9 interstate games in 2022.

Well they are the Tassie Hawks, so that makes sense.

 

[Pie eyed]

What is the point of "magic round"?
Who is it magic for?

I am getting roundly sick of "themed" rounds.

 

[Gaspard]

The thing that hit me about this extra round was the ease with which the AFL scoured the SA government's $50 M fund for promoting sport. The rapacious nature of the AFL, which will denude any and every sport of funding to promote its own bottom line will, in the end, lead to governments abandoning it, and perhaps legislating away its precious gambling dollars.

 

[KrispyKremePie]

Just checked …

… I was off by a game. North and Hawks both played 9 interstate games in 2022.

Probably only 4 of those games were genuine interstate games and the rest were home games they sold…

I think you could argue that Hawthorn have a greater home ground advantage when they play Sydney in Tasmania compared to when Collingwood play Richmond at the MCG or St Kilda at Marvel.

If those 2 teams don’t want to play interstate games 9 times a year, then how about they try not selling their home games!


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[Timmy from Thomastown]

Just checked …

… I was off by a game. North and Hawks both played 9 interstate games in 2022.

Lol I wonder why that is

 

[Kappa]

What is the point of "magic round"?
Who is it magic for?

I am getting roundly sick of "themed" rounds.

The AFL/Clubs/Players bank balances I would guess.

I'm not complaining about an extra round of footy either.

 

[76woodenspooners]

Lol I wonder why that is

Obviously because they sell games to Tassie …

… But the point still stands, it’s a bit churlish of us to feel that there’s some conspiracy by the AFL to make the biggest club in the land, with support all around the country, to travel six times.

 

[partypie]

Just checked …

… I was off by a game. North and Hawks both played 9 interstate games in 2022.

Hawks and North both have 4 home games of their choosing to be played in Tassie for money with the home ground advantage still being theirs.

Nice try, but in the end both examples are irrelevant given the facts of their respective arrangements to play home games in Tassie.

 

[barrackers]

Wouldn’t be much different to us getting ‘another home game’ whenever we play Geelong, Essendon or Carlton at the MCG.

One big difference though, those clubs request to play us at the MCG. I don’t imagine we’d be making such a choice.

Being an AFL choice is more akin to the contract/want for a “blockbuster” that sees us annually host a Docklands tenant on their ground.

 

[Abdul_The_Bull]

That was done before any mention of this came about? Surely an extra round (game) being tacked onto the season as part of new deal would have been front and centre in the reporting.

That is assuming there were actual reporters and not propagandists for the AFL.
Alternatively, it may well have been an agreement that was kept 'silent' so that the AFL could announce it in their own time and own way.

 

[BigVic]

Not a fan of the proposal

 

[Jen2310]

Given the extra round does that mean round 1 will be starting a week earlier? Or they’ll just keep the pre season training going until the 1 pre season game a week prior?


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[Pie eyed]

Has anyone explained "magic round" yet or is just a "slogan" that sounds gnatty?

What is "magic" about it?
Do the umpires interpret the vagaries of the rules correctly that round or is there no online betting adverts every 30 seconds?

 

[Abdul_The_Bull]

Has anyone explained "magic round" yet or is just a "slogan" that sounds gnatty?

What is "magic" about it?
Do the umpires interpret the vagaries rules correctly that round or is there no online betting adverts every 30 seconds?

It'll be magic if it's a success!

 

[jmac70]

Just leave already Gil.

 

[Masked Magician]

Port vs pies on the Friday/Sat night?

 

[Jen2310]

Not sure how legit this is.. We'll see tomorrow..

 

[nahnah]

This is the dumbest idea of all the dumb ideas the AFL has had

 

[barrackers]

Not sure how legit this is.. We'll see tomorrow..

Seems pretty spot on other than the time zone. Looks like ANZAC day as helped us avoid Adelaide, although with Essendon on Saturday arvo we still could have copped Port Power. Surprisingly we avoided them too.

 

[legendstatus]

By 4:40 pm Sunday there will be 100 ppl watching - 50 more than if any other team was slotted in this time.

 

[JOELY]

Hope the surface holds up by the time we get on it. Better not be raining that weekend.

 

[lyfsux]

Gather Round WTF!!! is that