How much footy do you plan to watch this year?

juss

Brownlow Medallist
Joined
Feb 23, 2009
Posts
15,593
Likes
19,020
Location
Melbourne
AFL Club
Richmond
Other Teams
New York Jets
Thread starter #1
More? Less? Only your own team's games? Every single game you can and replays of all 9?

Il watch every Tigers game, and probably at least a quarter or a half of every Thursday, Friday night game and then quarters and halves of other games depending on how good they are and what I have on, but I wont sit through 4 quarters of a blowout if Gold Coast are down by 90 points against Geelong for example.

I've also gotten into the NRL over the last few years so that will split my channel surfing when neutral games are on.

How committed are you to watching footy this year?
 

(Log in to remove this ad.)

kid_a

Club Legend
Joined
Apr 5, 2010
Posts
1,954
Likes
727
Location
Gothenburg (swe)
AFL Club
West Coast
Other Teams
Glory, Hammarby, Ajax, NT Thunder
#4
Will watch every Eagles game, or as close to as is possible.
Will probs watch every thursday and friday game.
Other than that usually I`ll try watch a "good game" (a match up between two highly ranked or in fomr teams) if the time allows.
On average I`d say I watch 2-3 full games per week, and the highlights of another 2-3 per week when the come up the AFL app/website.
 

Ilksy

Super Chief_
Joined
Oct 4, 2004
Posts
12,253
Likes
22,841
Location
Centre Half Bench
AFL Club
Collingwood
Other Teams
Victory, Pats, Celtics, Ricciardo
#9
Will try watch all Pies games, then just depends on what I’m doing. Won’t go out of my way to watch anything else specifically, but if I’m home will throw a live game on.
 

BuffDog

All Australian
Joined
Nov 10, 2009
Posts
602
Likes
621
Location
Melbourne
AFL Club
Essendon
Other Teams
Fulham FC
#10
Was planning on watching as much as I can

Then Hooker and Daniher got injured and I watched our JLT games

Fair to say slightly less enthused
 

(Log in to remove this ad.)

RunningBounce

Premiership Player
Joined
Jun 12, 2013
Posts
3,378
Likes
6,726
AFL Club
Richmond
#12
I'll watch every Tigers game twice. And I'll put time into the other teams my family follow.

But if I have spare time for watching footy, I'll put it into the local team and juniors. I always enjoy it more leaning on a fence.
 

Isaac Cumming No 1

Premium Platinum
Joined
Mar 28, 2018
Posts
10,245
Likes
8,008
AFL Club
GWS
#13
I'll attend every Giants home game, and finals. TV is a poor second choice for me and the trip to Canberra well worn by now. Might make Hobart this year, and possibly an MCG H/A game.

Will watch every Thursday and Friday night game. I tend to watch Crows games when I can every year, and then whoever is playing attractive footy.
 
Last edited:

OhhhhhCyril

Norm Smith Medallist
Joined
Jul 11, 2012
Posts
7,201
Likes
10,240
AFL Club
Hawthorn
#14
I’ll go to as many hawthorn games as possible, and usually watch Friday night, and Saturday afternoon/night at work..

Sunday a bit less, although SuperCoach makes me more inclined to watch teams I normally wouldn’t.
 

Minka Beaver

All Australian
Joined
Feb 5, 2004
Posts
930
Likes
1,346
Location
Melbourne
AFL Club
Melbourne
Other Teams
Everton
#15
I'll try to watch every Melbourne game, either at the ground or on TV.

My wife is a Bulldogs fan, so I'll see most of their games most weeks.

Everything else is gravy. Probably an average combined total of 30 minutes to one hour across all the other games (including VFL and local footy).

So that's about 6 hours of footy per week. I think that's still a pretty hefty block of time!
 

basashi

Premiership Player
Joined
Jun 18, 2010
Posts
3,509
Likes
4,368
AFL Club
Fremantle
Other Teams
FFC Quay Club
#21
Freo don't visit Sydney this year, so I am travelling two and possibly three times to see Freo play in person. (I am referring to MY person; I am aware that the team play all their games in person themselves.)

My international travel issues mean I will get to see about another 10 to 12 or so Freo games live on tv. The remainder will be watched on delay when I am back in the country... but if they are drubbings they may be viewed on 2x speed.

Past two years my watching of neutral games has dropped right off. This is partly due to the league dramatically downgrading the Friday night slot and filling it up with games that often bottom 2 or 3 for the weekend. I will try to get a showdown or two in at a minimum and maybe a few Friday nights if the quality is good.
 

Chaisa

Premium Platinum
Joined
Jun 2, 2013
Posts
9,255
Likes
8,187
AFL Club
Sydney
Other Teams
The Exers
#22
As always as much as I can. Obviously I’ll do other things from time to time too but I have little life so....

When there’s two games on at the same time I go for the more interesting game or the closer one.
 
Joined
Feb 5, 2018
Posts
2,467
Likes
3,945
AFL Club
Hawthorn
Other Teams
Chicago Blackhawks Melb Renegades
#25
All of it. My wife can't wait.

I am out of the country for 3 weeks during winter however. Not sure how that will go in keeping up with live games. It is my honeymoon so can't really bend too many activities to find time to watch footy.
 
Top Bottom