All 4 R0 Winners Are Now 2-0. Fair?

[Lsta062]

I mean, Carlton and Sydney beat other Round 0 opponents while GWS played North in Sydney. Even Gold Coast would've been favourites against Adelaide up in Queensland. Don't think Round 0 had much impact tbh.

 

[PCORF]

It is fair because in the end they will play 23 games in the minor rounds as there will be byes from time to time throughout the season.

If the sequence is repeated next year some could be 1-1.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

But tell us your thinking. What is your rationale as to why you think it may be fair or unfair? Starting a thread saying "discuss" is quite lazy.

He's having a sook because we played like rubbish and he's looking to blame it on the league.

 

[daniel_4tw]

Should be a rule - if you participate opening round and win, then you must lose round 1 to keep the season even

Or you know, just play another team that played R0 so everyone is on equal footing. It’s not rocket science.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

All four were expected to be pretty good teams this year, yeah?

 

[Colonial]

Or you know, just play another team that played R0 so everyone is on equal footing. It’s not rocket science.

You literally get an extra home game due to gather round. Settle petal.

 

[deck]

Not all the Round 0 losers won in round 1 though.

Brisbane and Melbourne are yet to play. The other losers played teams who played last week. Although I would say those 2 games shouldn't be part of the argument.

 

[3207]

Undoubtably more so.

The AFL want the Vic cubs in the GF for media.

They only want the northern clubs to be competitive.

Not if you look at our free kick differential for the first two games, they don’t.

Clear agenda against us on the park.

 

[Colonial]

Not if you look at our free kick differential for the first two games, they don’t.

Clear agenda against us on the park.

They can’t have us winning all the time, till finals. In saying that even they couldn’t stop us these first two.
That and the Greene rule is still in effect.

 

[Piggy Smalls]

OP has a point. Adelaide would have smashed Gold Coast if they hadn’t spent the first 2.5 quarters getting re-used to the speed and physicality of the game.

Anyone who honestly thinks Adelaide, Freo, Dogs and North haven’t been shafted by the fixture needs to take their rose colored glasses off.

 

[LordLucifer]

Discuss…

Discuss what ??

 

[3207]

They can’t have us winning all the time, till finals. In saying that even they couldn’t stop us these first two.
That and the Greene rule is still in effect.

Honestly it’s sickening.

That Ash free kick against yesterday. I thought it was for running more than 15m but it was HTB - he wasn’t even *ing tackled.

these umpires.

 

[Colonial]

OP has a point. Adelaide would have smashed Gold Coast if they hadn’t spent the first 2.5 quarters getting re-used to the speed and physicality of the game.

Anyone who honestly thinks Adelaide, Freo and North haven’t been shafted by the fixture needs to take their rose colored glasses off.

Freo? Maybe. We don’t get any extra home games and it all ends up equal.
Except.
Adelaide, and Port, literally get an extra home game in this “fixture” so no nothing to do with rose coloured glasses etc.

 

[Colonial]

Honestly it’s sickening.

That Ash free kick against yesterday. I thought it was for running more than 15m but it was HTB - he wasn’t even *ing tackled.

these umpires.

If we were a traditional state club it’d be all that they would be talking about today.

 

[3207]

If we were a traditional state club it’d be all that they would be talking about today.

It’ll just keep rolling along like this and then at the end of the year someone will see us sitting at 17th for free kicks for and call us undisciplined.

Someone from the GWS coaching panel should be all over this at the moment and highlighting it in the media before it gets well out of hand.

 

[Colonial]

It’ll just keep rolling along like this and then at the end of the year someone will see us sitting at 17th for free kicks for and call us undisciplined.

Someone from the GWS coaching panel should be all over this at the moment and highlighting it in the media before it gets well out of hand.

No doubt Kingers has brought it up.

 

[3207]

No doubt Kingers has brought it up.

If he has I haven’t seen anything from the germs in green that his message has hit the mark with them.

2 weeks in and 2 x 30-odd point wins.

And already a -12 free kick differential.

Laughable.

 

[Colonial]

If he has I haven’t seen anything from the germs in green that his message has hit the mark with them.

2 weeks in and 2 x 30-odd point wins.

And already a -12 free kick differential.

Laughable.

I don’t think we will. VFL gotta VFL.

 

[3207]

I don’t think we will. VFL gotta VFL.

It will cost us once again in September.

100%

 

[Colonial]

It will cost us once again in September.

100%

Unfortunately I think you are right.

 

[3207]

Unfortunately I think you are right.

Which is why I want this highlighted from Dave Matthew’s down to the Social Media Guy at the end of each game we play.

We can’t let them keep getting away with it.

 

[Dazb86]

Discuss…

Wow you guys have played already?

 

[dumb]

there's a lot more that's unfair about the fixture than whether or not some teams have played twice before others at all. the question about whether or not it's the correct way to start the season - another thing altogether. seems kinda stupid to me. the season is not far from being one gimmick stacked on others.

 

[blitzer]

I agree that teams with a game under their belt against teams with no game played definitely held an advantage going into the game.
I suspect for most of the games it didn't matter other than Gold Coast vs Adelaide perhaps. Although Adelaide get an extra home game so I guess 2 wrongs do make a right after all.

 

[smasha]

Either way it's dumb as we're now calling round 2 round 1 (and so on)

Too much coffee drank at board room meetings.