2/3/6/7 side of the draw will happen first over Thursday/Friday, unless we get two Adelaide finals on the other side of the draw
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Week One Finals schedule prediction
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In my scenario port v demons eagles is 5 v 8 then Friday is the crows vs giants 1 v 4...
Sat arvo is swans vs bombers 6 v 7 sat night cats v tigers 2 v 3
So the power v demons/eagles winner plays the crows vs giants loser with only a 1 day gap.
The swans v bombers winner plays the cats v tigers loser of the same rest.
I don't follow your logic
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Qualifying finalsists generally (always should) play before their potential semi-final opponents, the advantage of the longer break heading into the semis goes to the team which finished higher.
Having the losing Thursday team play their semi against a team that played on the Saturday seems a touch unlikely. So it should surely be: Qual, Elim, Qual, Elim. And they can't really have two Saturday games at Adelaide Oval.
Given that, it probably should be:
Thursday night: Adelaide v Greater Western Sydney
Friday night: Port Adelaide v Melbourne
Saturday day: Geelong v Richmond
Saturday night: Sydney v Essendon
but no way will the AFL have the only MCG game on the Saturday afternoon, usually a lower TV timeslot.
So, I think they will swap the Saturday games, given Geelong-Richmond loser won't have to travel and Sydney (if they win) will.
Thursday night: Adelaide v Greater Western Sydney
Friday night: Port Adelaide v Melbourne
Saturday day: Sydney v Essendon
Saturday night: Geelong v Richmond
There is one other option, which nobody would want:
Thursday night: Geelong v Richmond
Friday night: Sydney v Essendon
Saturday day: Adelaide v Greater Western Sydney, Adelaide Oval
Saturday night: Port Adelaide v Melbourne, Football Park
No, the same competition, i did state "after such an even year things might get ugly".
I can't see either the Demons or Bombers getting within 10 goals of Port or Sydney playing away. GWS might not do any better against the Crows.
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Why is It assumed they can't play two games at the same ground in the same day?
Do port elim at 1pm, then a crows qualifying final at 7pm
Get all Ao staff to Do the clean in 1 hour
Then ready for the next game.
They did it for the aflw grand final into qclash
It would be tight. But surely doable
Bigger worry though would they have the room to stock food and drinks to last out the day
Do port elim at 1pm, then a crows qualifying final at 7pm
Get all Ao staff to Do the clean in 1 hour
Then ready for the next game.
They did it for the aflw grand final into qclash
It would be tight. But surely doable
Bigger worry though would they have the room to stock food and drinks to last out the day
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Interesting way to look at it. Adelaide lose today and Melbourne don't play finals, hence getting a better pick for Jake Lever. Do you think Frost has anything to do with this?
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Clean the AO in an hour? No way. Far too tight a schedule.
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Port will be vulnerable against any finals side & Melbourne have played well away, while Sydney/Essendon usually match up well.
No matter the final pairings, no game will be a given.
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You would have hundreds of staff with nothing to do for one to two hours between the games.
Put them all to task.
Not everywhere will have rubbish anyway.
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I take your pointQualifying finalsists generally (always should) play before their potential semi-final opponents, the advantage of the longer break heading into the semis goes to the team which finished higher.
Having the losing Thursday team play their semi against a team that played on the Saturday seems a touch unlikely. So it should surely be: Qual, Elim, Qual, Elim. And they can't really have two Saturday games at Adelaide Oval.
Given that, it probably should be:
Thursday night: Adelaide v Greater Western Sydney
Friday night: Port Adelaide v Melbourne
Saturday day: Geelong v Richmond
Saturday night: Sydney v Essendon
but no way will the AFL have the only MCG game on the Saturday afternoon, usually a lower TV timeslot.
So, I think they will swap the Saturday games, given Geelong-Richmond loser won't have to travel and Sydney (if they win) will.
Thursday night: Adelaide v Greater Western Sydney
Friday night: Port Adelaide v Melbourne
Saturday day: Sydney v Essendon
Saturday night: Geelong v Richmond
There is one other option, which nobody would want:
Thursday night: Geelong v Richmond
Friday night: Sydney v Essendon
Saturday day: Adelaide v Greater Western Sydney, Adelaide Oval
Saturday night: Port Adelaide v Melbourne, Football Park
Say the Crows win they then have to wait longer for their PF and with the new bye is that a positive? What you say makes sense though.
A richmond vs essendon final would be amazing, hope that happens
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probably better for RIC to lose today TBH. i know anything finals are a 'on the day' scenario, but it would be so RIC to win today, think they're in a strong position, then be arsed consecutively at home in the next 2 weeks against GEE and possibly SYD. reminds of when they defeated ESS in the final round in 2001 (i think) and got a bit hype going on, and then got reamed the following week against them.
an elim final against ESS in a fortnight is much more winnable for mine, and they can take that confidence to ADE or GWS the following week. then again, the elim final will probably be the last game of the week. we know how it psychologically ****s up the tigers under hardwick to sit around and wait for their final!
so what i'm saying is that RIC are probably ****ed
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They won't give out 6 day breaks in week 2.
So you can rule out both EFs on the Saturday.
I'd say that crows and port host the thurs and fri night games. The other two on the Saturday.
So you can rule out both EFs on the Saturday.
I'd say that crows and port host the thurs and fri night games. The other two on the Saturday.
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GWS could cause 6 day breaks to happen... apparently the space time continuum would be unraveled and destroy the entire universe if the Giants play a home final on Friday night.... happened last year
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Do the AFL take the NRL finals into consideration for scheduling?
Likely to be 3 finals in Sydney in the first week and you would think a couple at the SFS. Would they schedule a final at the SCG the same time as a league final at the SFS?
Likely to be 3 finals in Sydney in the first week and you would think a couple at the SFS. Would they schedule a final at the SCG the same time as a league final at the SFS?
No, it is not mathematically possible. If you win by 1 point your percentage will drop to 115.8. GWS will remain on 114.8
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Pretty sure they would, AFL and NRL will simply ignore each other unless it's impossible not to. Only scenario I could see that happening is AFL wanting to use ANZ.
I am hoping for a Swans v Crows GF. The only way I can see this happening is if the crows drop the first final to GWS (assuming Richmond win today), otherwise Swans and Crows will most likely meet in the PF.
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