Tough draw for us. How many hammies will go twang with these short breaks?

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Carlton just applied to change their fixture and got an extra days break.

Meanwhile Pies are still travelling to Brisbane, Adelaide etc in an unprecedented short recovery time.

Club kowtows to the AFL is all.

They did protest the Sidebottom banning, but it was timid.

It was timid because they knew to prove their case many of the holes in the story would come out in the open.

I didn’t know Carlton had sooked about their draw but it doesn’t surprise me. They are historically hardly a template to base yourself off, though.

The Eagles didn’t get off to a good start in Brisbane after Simpson sooked.

 

[stormskye]

We’ll be based in Queensland so only travel for 2 of those games.... just saying.

Travel twice? What?

we play freo then travel to Brisbane to play Sydney 4 days later (1st travel) we then fly to adel to play adel 5 days later (2nd travel) , and then fly back to Brisbane to play melb (who now aren’t leaving Bris) and have an extra 2 days break than us (3rd travel). Against melb we are going to be up against it. Melb play Sunday arvo, we play adel Tuesday night..., fly out after game (maybe) then have wed, thur, fri to recover before we play sat...

so we travel 3 times and have the least amount of rest days of any club. short turnarounds are hard enough but with travel made even worse. What’s done is done but I just can’t understand how we have to travel each game yet geel etc don’t leave bris. Having to travel makes such a HUGE impact on recovery when you only have 4 day breaks.

 

[Sea fog]

Agree with that last post, we have been dealt the worst hand and added to our key injuries and stuffed our chances for this year. Roll on 2021 and let us have a look at Murphy, Keane, Wilson and Tohill while Jordy and Howe and Kelly can recover and add to this mix. Put a line through those we know cannot take us to the next level.

 

[stormskye]

Agree with that last post, we have been dealt the worst hand and added to our key injuries and stuffed our chances for this year. Roll on 2021 and let us have a look at Murphy, Keane, Wilson and Tohill while Jordy and Howe and Kelly can recover and add to this mix. Put a line through those we know cannot take us to the next level.

I’m still confident we will contest and degoey can have an impact should We make finals, I’m just ropable about this next four week fixture. It’s just unspeakably bad. Hopefully get some respite in the last few rounds and certainly shouldn’t be required to leave Brisbane again.

 

[Sea fog]

I’m still hopeful we will contest, I’m just ropable about this fixture. It’s just unspeakably bad.

Agree it looks like the AFL has set out to put a giant hurdle up in front of us. And it is always the way despite how much we put in their coffers.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Agree with that last post, we have been dealt the worst hand and added to our key injuries and stuffed our chances for this year. Roll on 2021 and let us have a look at Murphy, Keane, Wilson and Tohill while Jordy and Howe and Kelly can recover and add to this mix. Put a line through those we know cannot take us to the next level.

We havent been dealt a bad hand no matter what you might pretend to think otherwise. Its not a return trip from Perth ...we are already based there..... so its only one long haul flight not two.

From there we are based in Qld with one travelling game away.

Over the next three weeks we will play teams that were dealt a bad hand early in the season when they were sent into hubs while the VIC teams were lucky enough to stay based in Victoria. Its now theor turn to get dealt a better hand. It all balances out.... at the end of the day every team will play each other once.

We have a good draw coming up because we are playing some weaker teams on the ladder. This balances out against a bit of travel and some short breaks, both neccesities to get the AFL season progressed.

Roll on 2020 and win a premiership. Cant believe youre looking past that.

 

[Anzacday]

Whilst not specifically about our draw, it does have the positivity I was alluding to...

Buckley refuses to rule out injured stars, predicts attack will lift

Nathan Buckley says no one will be ruled out of Collingwood's team for this season given the possibility of the finals being pushed back.

www.theage.com.au

 

[jackcass]

We are based in Perth prior to game one so only travel for one and a half of those games.... just saying.

Interesting logic. Falls down when that 1/2 a travel has you based in Coober Pedy.

 

[jackcass]

Travel twice? What?

we play freo then travel to Brisbane to play Sydney 4 days later (1st travel) we then fly to adel to play adel 5 days later (2nd travel) , and then fly back to Brisbane to play melb (who now aren’t leaving Bris) and have an extra 2 days break than us (3rd travel). Against melb we are going to be up against it. Melb play Sunday arvo, we play adel Tuesday night..., fly out after game (maybe) then have wed, thur, fri to recover before we play sat...

so we travel 3 times and have the least amount of rest days of any club. short turnarounds are hard enough but with travel made even worse. What’s done is done but I just can’t understand how we have to travel each game yet geel etc don’t leave bris. Having to travel makes such a HUGE impact on recovery when you only have 4 day breaks.

Lol, a round trip to Adelaide is 1 travel in the context of the discussion. We travel R11 and we travel In the R9/10 transition. That’s twice.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Interesting logic. Falls down when that 1/2 a travel has you based in Coober Pedy.

Its as simple as the difference between a one way ticket and a return ticket.

We dont have to travel to Perth for the Fremantle game...because we are already there.

 

[jackcass]

Its as simple as the difference between a one way ticket and a return ticket.

We dont have to travel to Perth for the Fremantle game...because we are already there.

no, but we do have to get from Perth so that is obviously "travel" in the context of this discussion.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

no, but we do have to get from Perth so that is obviously "travel" in the context of this discussion.

Not sure why you are bothering to argue sematics..

I clearly explained why I defined that we only do one and a half return trips in this period..not two.

 

[Robroy22]

Pendles: one