Port's commercially favorable fixture

[Rod Stroker]

Just noticed on the fixture that Port have home night games at AO for the NEXT 3 ROUNDS.
This Fri versus Tigers
Next Thurs versus the Dogs
Following Fri versus Dees

That's some massive ride they've been given commercially there, all exclusive games on FTA and don't have to compete with other matches for air time. How that sort of slanted fixturing is possible is beyond me, like so much that the AFL does these days that is incomprehensible.

Port have been given a gift from the Gils Gods, they wouldn't want to stuff it up!

 

[Macpotata]

Mr Stroker - YOU'RE WRONG!

 

[Rod Stroker]

Enlighten me on the wrong part.

 

[Quinz]

Kochie is known to be a big coffee drinker.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Don’t forget them selling a home game to China, then Kochie realising they had an 11-game contract at AO, so the AFL had to step in and make it a home game for one of their expansion clubs. How good is selling away games?

 

[BallaratBulldog]

Meanwhile Gold Coast have too play all over the joint.

 

[MWPP]

Those 3 games are their only Thursday/Friday night games for the entire year .
This isn’t a Carlton -type situation .

 

[ep2018]

Well they deserve it, they played a s**t load of games away from Adelaide before the bye, probably at request to even out the fact that they had their bye a couple weeks before everyone else.

 

[LFC2010]

Just noticed on the fixture that Port have home night games at AO for the NEXT 3 ROUNDS.
This Fri versus Tigers
Next Thurs versus the Dogs
Following Fri versus Dees

That's some massive ride they've been given commercially there, all exclusive games on FTA and don't have to compete with other matches for air time. How that sort of slanted fixturing is possible is beyond me, like so much that the AFL does these days that is incomprehensible.

Port have been given a gift from the Gils Gods, they wouldn't want to stuff it up!

hahahahahaha.

we've just had trips to Etihad, Perth, Showdown, China and Tasmania in the last month with just the showdown at home which is always a brutal contest.
Also we've had just the 1 saturday night fixture so far which was ANZAC rnd with all others being either Saturday twighlight, or Sat afternoon.

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[Gysberts2Bate]

What a shite thread

 

[DapperDon]

Well they deserve it, they played a s**t load of games away from Adelaide before the bye, probably at request to even out the fact that they had their bye a couple weeks before everyone else.

They had their bye a few weeks before everyone else because they got a 12th home game in China

 

[Adz]

Interstate clubs shouldn’t get 3 games at home unless it includes the derby in there.
It’s wrong and I don’t like it.

 

[Marmozet]

Just noticed on the fixture that Port have home night games at AO for the NEXT 3 ROUNDS.
This Fri versus Tigers
Next Thurs versus the Dogs
Following Fri versus Dees

That's some massive ride they've been given commercially there, all exclusive games on FTA and don't have to compete with other matches for air time. How that sort of slanted fixturing is possible is beyond me, like so much that the AFL does these days that is incomprehensible.

Port have been given a gift from the Gils Gods, they wouldn't want to stuff it up!

No mention of us travelling to Melbourne, then to Perth, then a Showdown, then to Shanghai, then to Launceston after a bye?

 

[ep2018]

Interstate clubs shouldn’t get 3 games at home unless it includes the derby in there.
It’s wrong and I don’t like it.

Its to even out the fact that they had an early bye due to the China game, it makes perfect sense.

 

[roacheee]

hahahahahaha.

we've just had trips to Etihad, Perth, Showdown, China and Tasmania

.

bahahahah
a trip to your home ground???


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anyhoo o/p
nothing wrong with port playing friday night games, that north melbourne 'we invented friday nights' ship has long since passed

 

[Marmozet]

bahahahah
a trip to your home ground???


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anyhoo o/p
nothing wrong with port playing friday night games, that north melbourne 'we invented friday nights' ship has long since passed

He simply means that our one game in Adelaide in the space of 6 weeks happened to be the most brutal and gruelling match-up in the sport.

 

[DrEvil_]

Just noticed on the fixture that Port have home night games at AO for the NEXT 3 ROUNDS.
This Fri versus Tigers
Next Thurs versus the Dogs
Following Fri versus Dees

That's some massive ride they've been given commercially there, all exclusive games on FTA and don't have to compete with other matches for air time. How that sort of slanted fixturing is possible is beyond me, like so much that the AFL does these days that is incomprehensible.

Port have been given a gift from the Gils Gods, they wouldn't want to stuff it up!

Port the new Carlton.

 

[Rod Stroker]

Those 3 games are their only Thursday/Friday night games for the entire year .
This isn’t a Carlton -type situation .

And what about all their Saturday evening/night games? They have quite a few of those too.

 

[Rod Stroker]

No mention of us travelling to Melbourne, then to Perth,
then a Showdown,

You were home that week, so no travel for 2 weeks

then to Shanghai,

Your choice to play there

then to Launceston after a bye?

So you had 2 weeks to prepare for it with the bye

 

[MWPP]

And what about all their Saturday evening/night games? They have quite a few of those too.

They’ve only had 1 Saturday night game so far (v Geelong )
And they don’t have any more for the rest of the year
(Saturday twilight doesn’t count from an exposure point of view, if that’s what you were referring to by “evening”)

 

[SaltPeter]

No mention of us travelling to Melbourne, then to Perth, then a Showdown, then to Shanghai, then to Launceston after a bye?

I don't understand what part the Showdown plays in your comment? It was the Power's home game, and at AO

 

[Marmozet]

I don't understand what part the Showdown plays in your comment? It was the Power's home game, and at AO

Our one game in Adelaide in the space of 6 weeks was the most brutal match-up in the sport.

 

[00Stinger]

didnt the Adelaide clubs petition hard fir Thursday night games?

Considering the bye weeks work better for Thursday night games its no suprise really

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[Marmozet]

You were home that week, so no travel for 2 weeks

Your choice to play there

So you had 2 weeks to prepare for it with the bye

My point regarding the Showdown is that our one game in Adelaide in the space of 6 weeks was the most gruelling match-up in the sport.

Yes, it was our choice and idea to play in Shanghai, but we travelled 3/4 weeks and it's a lot of travel when you add trips to Melbourne & Perth onto it.

True, we had a bye to prepare for the Launceston game, but 3 straight home games is fair and justified when 4 of our previous 5 games were on the road.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Is this about the North supporter wanting praise and thanks for inventing Friday Night Football?