Thé fixture

[Seeds]

Sorry couldn’t find any other news on this.

do we have any idea when the next dates for games will be released? We only have the next 4 rounds.

they are all telling us to go on holidays but it’s not possible to organise week-end footy trips without knowing when the games will be on.

and yes before the Covid hall monitors respond, we do know that dates could change at any moment due to new outbreaks. It doesn’t mean we can’t aim for certain dates though.

if anyone has info it would be great.

 

[00Stinger]

tomorrow or Wednesday I thought I heard on the radio today

 

[00Stinger]

Having said that, with the covid situation in Brisbane I reckon we might not get the next part of the fixture for a week or so

 

[Seeds]

tomorrow or Wednesday I thought I heard on the radio today

Awesome. Let’s hope they follow through.

 

[lewdogs]

Just a note on the fixture...

Geelong and the Dogs play North twice from the bottom 6.
Meanwhile St Kilda play Sydney twice.

The unevenness of the fixture turns the competition into a bit of a joke doesn't it? Some clubs just getting a free leg-up into the finals.

 

[Sentinel]

Just a note on the fixture...

Geelong and the Dogs play North twice from the bottom 6.
Meanwhile St Kilda play Sydney twice.

The unevenness of the fixture turns the competition into a bit of a joke doesn't it? Some clubs just getting a free leg-up into the finals.

Bulldogs and Geelong are gifted a super easy draw by playing a side twice who finished 17th, meanwhile St Kilda have to play a side twice who finished...16th. Oh the humanity. All of these clubs also play 3 other clubs twice of varying skill but we'll focus on 1/4 and call it a free ride.

There's absolutely no point whinging about this unless the AFL runs a 17 or 34 round season. Some years it's in your favour, some years its not. Usually it's only in hindsight that you can see how difficult/easy a draw is for a particular club.

 

[lewdogs]

Bulldogs and Geelong are gifted a super easy draw by playing a side twice who finished 17th, meanwhile St Kilda have to play a side twice who finished...16th. Oh the humanity. All of these clubs also play 3 other clubs twice of varying skill but we'll focus on 1/4 and call it a free ride.

There's absolutely no point whinging about this unless the AFL runs a 17 or 34 round season. Some years it's in your favour, some years its not. Usually it's only in hindsight that you can see how difficult/easy a draw is for a particular club.

Make the most of yours, because after you finish in the top 5 the AFL will do you slowly.

 

[HTT]

Bulldogs and Geelong are gifted a super easy draw by playing a side twice who finished 17th, meanwhile St Kilda have to play a side twice who finished...16th. Oh the humanity. All of these clubs also play 3 other clubs twice of varying skill but we'll focus on 1/4 and call it a free ride.

There's absolutely no point whinging about this unless the AFL runs a 17 or 34 round season. Some years it's in your favour, some years its not. Usually it's only in hindsight that you can see how difficult/easy a draw is for a particular club.

To be fair St Kilda's other double ups are Geelong, Port, Richmond and West Coast which is pretty hard to top for difficulty.
But if the saints expect to be competing for the flag, then they should be able to overcome that.

 

[Sentinel]

To be fair St Kilda's other double ups are Geelong, Port, Richmond and West Coast which is pretty hard to top for difficulty.
But if the saints expect to be competing for the flag, then they should be able to overcome that.

On paper that does look difficult, but the point stands that unless the fixture meant every team played each other exactly once or twice then this will always be the case.

The AFL have a criteria for creating the draw with the 3 different buckets based on ladder position the previous year. North obviously don't look to be much good this year whilst Sydney seen to have improved, it's not up to the AFL to predict that when creating the draw though. Under the league's criteria St Kilda get a more difficult draw then most (on paper) due to finishing top 6.

Swings and roundabouts though, some years it works in your favour, some years it doesn't. Also sometimes a hard draw on paper turns out relatively easy, and vice versa.

 

[Billy ray]

If only 4 premiership points were available in each match up.
like say the 5 double up games being worth 2 premiership points

 

[footyfan1978]

It's been clear for some time that the most sensible approach is not to decide which teams play a few other teams twice before the season has started.
Every club should play each other twice and then the final five rounds is programmed by a fair system based on making it as even as possible in last five rounds so whatever teams you play twice is spread around as evenly as possible from different parts of the ladder. In the last twelve months with fixture never being able to be programmed far in advance due to circumstances, you would hope they make that change going forward.