GWS -unfair and advantageous early draw

[ShadeyP]

We all know with the skewed fixturing of the AFL how important the first 6 rounds are so i have to bring up how it is possible that one of the top minor round teams of the last couple of years plays 5 bottom sides from last year in the first 6 weeks . Agenda Much .

 

[ScrewInStuds]

As far as I can tell, the first 6 rounds aren't actually as important as everyone seems to think.

 

[Buzzasto DaSilva]

Would rather the hardest fixture possible. Soft draws do nothing other than build hype and faux expectation among pundits.

 

[Dez!]

So the Crows fans have moved on from Victoria to NSW now?

 

[schmuttt]

As far as I can tell, the first 6 rounds aren't actually as important as everyone seems to think.

The first 6 rounds are the worst time to get the younger and lesser teams. They’re still fresh with run and confidence, you’d much rather play a bottom 6 side in the last 1/3 of the season when they start sending guys off for surgery.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Easy opening weeks means they'll have a hard run later in the season.
Much ado about nothing.

 

[kozi]

This and Geelong having to play at the MCG are the two greatest tragedies of our time.

 

[blitzer]

The first 6 rounds are the worst time to get the younger and lesser teams. They’re still fresh with run and confidence, you’d much rather play a bottom 6 side in the last 1/3 of the season when they start sending guys off for surgery.

This is so true. Normally once these sides get a few injuries they fall off the cliff but until then they can be quite competitive.

 

[Hungry Caterpillar]

Crikey even after a win these Crows supporters whinge.

Unbelievable

 

[SdKfz 181]

Crikey even after a win these Crows supporters whinge.

Unbelievable

I’m really enjoying the banter between Port and Crow fans at the minute..

 

[Hungry Caterpillar]

I’m really enjoying the banter between Port and Crow fans at the minute..

Hopefully a few posters now know how irrational these Crow fans are and how difficult it is for Port supporters to engage in proper football discussion with them

 

[Tas]

Easy opening weeks means they'll have a hard run later in the season.
Much ado about nothing.

Not really, they don't have a particularly hard draw.

They have 7 games from the top 6 teams only playing Crows (2nd) and Swans (6th) twice from the top 6 teams, 3 are home, 4 are away.
They have 8 games from the 7-12th placed teams playing Eagles (8th) and Saints (11th) twice, 5 are home games, 3 away.
They have 7 games from the 13-18th placed teams playing Brisbane (18th) twice, 3 are home, 4 away.

They ended up getting Swans, Saints and Lions who were extremely low on their respective brackets, a bit soft for a Preliminary Finalist.

I think AFL/C7 are motivated to putting them on telly in a prime time slot as infrequently as humanly possible for a preliminary finalst than making their life easier, i think. They received a bare minimum of Victorian based teams which they can just dump on Foxtel outside of NSW.

AFL don't give a s**t how contrived the schedule is on their road to get the ratings that determine how much of a bonus they can pay themselves.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Not really, they don't have a particularly hard draw.

They have 7 games from the top 6 teams only playing Crows (2nd) and Swans (6th) twice from the top 6 teams, 3 are home, 4 are away.
They have 8 games from the 7-12th placed teams playing Eagles (8th) and Saints (11th) twice, 5 are home games, 3 away.
They have 7 games from the 13-18th placed teams playing Brisbane (18th) twice, 3 are home, 4 away.

They ended up getting Swans, Saints and Lions who were extremely low on their respective brackets, a bit soft for a Preliminary Finalist.

I think AFL/C7 are motivated to putting them on telly in a prime time slot as infrequently as humanly possible for a preliminary finalst than making their life easier, i think. They received a bare minimum of Victorian based teams which they can just dump on Foxtel outside of NSW.

AFL don't give a s**t how contrived the schedule is on their road to get the ratings that determine how much of a bonus they can pay themselves.

Also got Swans, Port, Cats away from home.
Their draw isn't massively softer than other top 6 clubs. You either get 2-3 double ups and they got 2.

Oh well. Poor whinge thread is poor.

 

[Colonial]

We all know with the skewed fixturing of the AFL how important the first 6 rounds are so i have to bring up how it is possible that one of the top minor round teams of the last couple of years plays 5 bottom sides from last year in the first 6 weeks . Agenda Much .

Bitchy much

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[Rotayjay]

GWS are the very embodiment of unfairness and the bastardisation of the game we love in order to line AFL execs' pockets, so no surprises here.

 

[Tas]

Also got Swans, Port, Cats away from home.
Their draw isn't massively softer than other top 6 clubs. You either get 2-3 double ups and they got 2.

Oh well. Poor whinge thread is poor.

They play Adelaide and Swans twice, so they will play them away by default. They play Geelong (away), Port (away) and Richmond (home) once. The Geelong game is round 7, Richmond is round 17 and Port round 18. Their harder games are well spaced out and their one-off games aren't early.

I haven't looked at the other top 6 clubs, not sure if easier or not.

We finished bottom 4 and play Swans twice from the top 6, Saints & Dogs from the middle group plus Gold Coast and Brisbane from the bottom group. So between bottom 4 and top 4 the only real difference is one less game against Crows and one extra game against GC. When you are not that far off a bottom 4 team's draw it isn't Herculean.

 

[ShadeyP]

Would rather the hardest fixture possible. Soft draws do nothing other than build hype and faux expectation among pundits.

Fair call , exposed the true level of the Crows last year .

 

[longsuffreosupp]

As far as I can tell, the first 6 rounds aren't actually as important as everyone seems to think.

It's an anomaly that the Swans got into the finals from 0-6, and it caught up with them in the end.

Most teams will be banking on getting a good start to make finals.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

They play Adelaide and Swans twice, so they will play them away by default. They play Geelong (away), Port (away) and Richmond (home) once. The Geelong game is round 7, Richmond is round 17 and Port round 18. Their harder games are well spaced out and their one-off games aren't early.

I haven't looked at the other top 6 clubs, not sure if easier or not.

We finished bottom 4 and play Swans twice from the top 6, Saints & Dogs from the middle group plus Gold Coast and Brisbane from the bottom group. So between bottom 4 and top 4 the only real difference is one less game against Crows and one extra game against GC. When you are not that far off a bottom 4 team's draw it isn't Herculean.

This is the system. It’s not being set out to favour GWS. Top 6 and Bottom 6 can have 2-3 from their own band and 0-1 from the complete other end. They got two.

Oh well.

 

[Underarm]

Have to look at the whole fixture, rather than only a quarter.

 

[Drewie11]

So the Crows fans have moved on from Victoria to NSW now?

Yep all the crows fans got together to start this thread...... just like saying all Melbourne supporters are cheese and grape eating twats

 

[kirky]

Hopefully a few posters now know how irrational these Crow fans are and how difficult it is for Port supporters to engage in proper football discussion with them

Well at least we aren’t r***st?

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

So the Crows fans have moved on from Victoria to NSW now?

To be fair it's only a minority, but yeah.

 

[HTT]

This and Geelong having to play at the MCG are the two greatest tragedies of our time.

Don’t forget interstate teams being in for the shock of their lives when they find out the GF is played at the G.

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

Last year by any objective measure we had the hardest draw in the comp. This year with double ups against the Swans, Crows, Eagles, Saints and Lions it looks a bit easier.

My only regret is we didn't get the Tigers at the G. A challenge is good and we lost to them twice there last year. We do get the Crows at AO and that's great, as is Geelong at their place. Port at home as well, and their not looking like pushovers this year.

As for every year will travel more often than any other club, and not cry about it. Unlike the OP.