Fixture 2009

[Dishlicker]

Summary for dogs :

First game interstate v Frem - twilight game

Interstate games - 6 of which 2 are home games.
Sunday games - 8 of which 6 are in first 7 rounds.
Teams played twice - Rich, WC, Geel, Coll, Stk, Freo, Nth M
Home @ Etihad - 8
Home @ Others - 3
Night games - 9
Fri Night games - 5
Mon games - 1 v Richmond (H) 13th April
Split round - Play first week v PA (H) in Darwin
Twilight games - 4

What do we think peoples?? Not a big fan of travelling rd 1, but we do play 6 VIC teams twice so we get a good run in Melbourne and dont play cats at skilled which is nice

Fixture available here - http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=511808

Herald sun had it up - but seems to have been removed

**EDIT - Sorry bulldog brent just saw your post, maybe a mod can merge the two

 

[Mofra]

Not happy about the Twilight game in the last round - may impact on our preperation for the finals

 

[The Coon Dog]

1. Fremantle - Sun 29 Mar - Sub (N)
2. North Melbourne - Sun 5 Apr - MCG
3. Richmond - Mon 13 Apr - TD
4. West Coast - Sun Apr 10 - Sub (T)
5. Carlton - Sun 26 Apr - TD
6. St.Kilda - Sun 3 May - TD (T)
7. Adelaide - Sun - 10 May - AAMI
8. Melbourne - Sat 16 May - MCG
9. Geelong - Fri 22 May - TD
10. Sydney - Sat 30 May - Canberra
11. Richmond - Fri 5 Jun - TD
12. Port Adelaide - Sat 13 Jun - Darwin (N)
BYE
13. North Melbourne - Sun 28 Jun - MCG
14. Hawthorn - Sat 4 Jul - TD (N)
15. Collingwood - Fri 10 Jul - TD (N)
16. Essendon - Fri 17 Jul - TD (N)
17. St.Kilda - Sat 25 Jul - TD (N)
18. Fremantle - Sat 1 Aug - TD
19. West Coast - Sat 8 Aug - TD
20. Brisbane - Sat 15 Aug -Gabba (N)
21. Geelong - Fri 21 Aug - TD (N)
22. Collingwood - Sun 30 Aug - TD (T)


Friday x 5 (5N)
Saturday x 8 (4D, 4N)
Sunday x 8 (5D, 2T,1N)
Monday (1D)

TD x 13
MCG x 3
Sub x 2
AAMI x 1
Gabba x 1
Canberra x 1
Darwin x 1

 

[Scragger54]

Not such a bad draw. 9 of the last 10 games are in Melbourne, that's a bonus. We get most of the Interstate games done within the first half, and none of the interstate travel is back to back as it has been in the past.

AFL must be confident of the Dogs having another good year to allocate 5 Friday night games!

 

[Dishlicker]

1. Fremantle - Sun 29 Mar - Sub (N)

What time will this one be shown in Melb?? Must be a twilight....I hope.....

 

[Aker39]

What time will this one be shown in Melb?? Must be a twilight....I hope.....

Based on this year, 4.00pm Melbourne time.

 

[wotdude25]

I think we should have our games against Collingwood at the MCG. Last time we played them at the MCG we got over 65,000 people there. It irritates both bulldogs and collingwood fans. Also disapointing that our rnd 1 game is the only game that clashes with the grand prix. I do like how theres more melbourne based games at the end of the year

 

[Dishlicker]

Based on this year, 4.00pm Melbourne time.

Its at subi though - and scheduled as a night game so 7.10 earliest start WA time
Gotta be wrong.... We wont see it until 9 or 10 something like that. I would think its going to be a twilight game 4.40 WA Time?

 

[ErlendOye]

Not that bad. Good to get the Sunday games out of the way early.

I wonder which North players will have milestone games in rounds two and thirteen.

 

[mjc1173]

I like the draw. The AFL has given us a major selling point to potential sponsors 5 Friday night games against Rich, Coll, Esse, and Geel. If we play as well as we did this year and make the finals what sponsor could resist that especially a betting agency.

It is a shame we have to travel so much but that is our lot.

 

[Aker39]

I wonder which North players will have milestone games in rounds two and thirteen.

If he misses one game before round 13, their captain will play his 200th in Round 13.

 

[JorgePosada]

3. Richmond - Mon 13 Apr - TD
4. West Coast - Sun Apr 10 - Sub (T)

Pssst, dude...

 

[gs17]

Teams we play twice
Fremantle
North
Richmond
West Coast
St Kilda
Geelong
Collingwood
Teams we play once
Carlton
Adelaide
Melbourne
Sydney
Port
Hawthorn
Essendon
Brisbane (Rd 20)

 

[Aker39]

Its at subi though - and scheduled as a night game so 7.10 earliest start WA time
Gotta be wrong.... We wont see it until 9 or 10 something like that. I would think its going to be a twilight game 4.40 WA Time?

It's a 2.40pm WA start, so 4.40pm Melb time.

 

[DexterTan]

Round 1 - Freo at Subi
Round 2 - Nth Melb at MCG.

The dogs may very well start 0 and 2 .

Even if the dogs can manage to beat Freo, the subi curse will always strike and the dogs will be facing their bogey team in Nth Melb.

But if the dogs are good enough, this shouldn't matter....right?

 

[ErlendOye]

Just another thing I noticed.

We don't really have any 4-5 game patches where things are overly hard, and we don't have any patches where it's easy (for lack of a better word) either.

Will be a season where consistent form will be rewarded.

 

[always right]

Tow bloody twilight games!!! God I hate them. Otherwise the draw is fine.

 

[Gridlock'd]

Reasonable draw.

The run of Sunday games at the beginning isnt flash, but at least we get them out of the way.

Some good Friday games against big drawing clubs.

Plus a public holiday game.

Return games are against an even spread of teams, not overly difficult or hard.

 

[doggies_5]

Just when we strart to have the wood over Sydney, we only play them once after years of playing them twice.

 

[Aker39]

Just when we strart to have the wood over Sydney, we only play them once after years of playing them twice.

That is just WRONG.

2008 was the first time since 1998 that we have played Sydney twice.

 

[ALGY VOSILITIS]

QUICK check round 2 for a milestone game.

 

[Coons17]

QUICK check round 2 for a milestone game.

Well rd 13, Adam Simpson is due to play game 301. Any chance he will miss a game beforehand and play game 300 against us. I would put my house on it!

 

[X_box_X]

We feature in the last home and away game of the year. Will be huge that game against Collingwood. Absolutely huge.

 

[.M a t t.]

Im really happy with that draw. Have a reasonable start to the season and it should set up our season. Would be happy with 6 - 0 also 5 - 1

 

[Bodicifer]

Two bloody twilight games!!! God I hate them. Otherwise the draw is fine.

I agree, they are the worst games. They are pure TV Games, not for public viewing at the ground. They are the epitomy of the AFL bending over for the TV stations.