Round 20, 2025 - Unofficial rivalry round?

[GC2015]

• Hawthorn v Carlton - Back to the 80s
• Essendon v Bulldogs - Western Corridor
• GWS v Sydney - Sydney Derby
• Gold Coast v Brisbane - QClash
• Fremantle v West Coast - Western Derby
• North Melbourne v Geelong - Any ideas?
• Adelaide v Port Adelaide - Showdown
• Richmond v Collingwood - Punt Rd
• St Kilda v Melbourne - Saints v Demons

A rivalry round? Is that what this is without an official announcement? Will the AFL bring it in officially next year if this goes well?

 

[oak79]

Sydney game should be the FTA game - league still too Vic centric

 

[terrybull]

• Hawthorn v Carlton - Back to the 80s
• Essendon v Bulldogs - Western Corridor
• GWS v Sydney - Sydney Derby
• Gold Coast v Brisbane - QClash
• Fremantle v West Coast - Western Derby
• North Melbourne v Geelong - Any ideas?
• Adelaide v Port Adelaide - Showdown
• Richmond v Collingwood - Punt Rd
• St Kilda v Melbourne - Saints v Demons

A rivalry round? Is that what this is without an official announcement? Will the AFL bring it in officially next year if this goes well?

North Melbourne vs Geelong - blue and white vertical stripes vs blue and white horizontal stripes.

 

[Chief]

North Melbourne vs Geelong - blue and white vertical stripes vs blue and white horizontal stripes.

Two more seasons and "the Stripey Stoush" will be an inviolable football tradition.

 

[MisterMarcus]

Yep Geelong's all time great modern rival Hawthorn Collingwood GWS Brisbane Sydney Richmond ....North Melbourne.....

 

[PerthBoy86]

Yes it is the Rivalry Round. Been a thing for years.

 

[SC_Power]

It’s timed to distract from no MCG games Friday or Saturday, due to the British Lions game.

Apparently the AFL doesn’t hold exclusive rights to the MCG during the year after all.

 

[Woolly Mammoth]

• Hawthorn v Carlton - Back to the 80s
• Essendon v Bulldogs - Western Corridor
• GWS v Sydney - Sydney Derby
• Gold Coast v Brisbane - QClash
• Fremantle v West Coast - Western Derby
• North Melbourne v Geelong - Any ideas?
• Adelaide v Port Adelaide - Showdown
• Richmond v Collingwood - Punt Rd
• St Kilda v Melbourne - Saints v Demons

A rivalry round? Is that what this is without an official announcement? Will the AFL bring it in officially next year if this goes well?

The Wade/Mooney/Colbert cup

 

[_Mike_]

• Hawthorn v Carlton - Back to the 80s
• Essendon v Bulldogs - Western Corridor
• GWS v Sydney - Sydney Derby
• Gold Coast v Brisbane - QClash
• Fremantle v West Coast - Western Derby
• North Melbourne v Geelong - Any ideas?
• Adelaide v Port Adelaide - Showdown
• Richmond v Collingwood - Punt Rd
• St Kilda v Melbourne - Saints v Demons

A rivalry round? Is that what this is without an official announcement? Will the AFL bring it in officially next year if this goes well?

A few games out of that list for the interstate teams but the traditional VFL rivalries would be Collingwood v Carlton, Collingwood v Essendon, Hawthorn v Geelong etc.