2016 AFL Fixture Official Announcements [Fixture - pg 20]

[Wild Bill]

I can't find the GF date? is it the 1st Oct?

Yep - a bye before finals start.

 

[LeverPuller]

Dees ouch on the doubles - Port, Collingwood, Hawthorn, St Kilda and GC twice.

 

[Tiger71]

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no tears from me mate lol. You have a soft start, will be at beast 6-2 and then like a few years ago, by the end of July may very well shit the bed and be 6-8. Your run home is 50/50 too.

I'm happy, little tougher at the start, nice run in the middle and the end isn't bad, 6 Friday games, heaps of FTA coverage as well. Top 4 is ours to lose.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

If they've added a bye before the finals why not just add the second bye during the season the players want?

Edit: In the media conference they did say they weren't sure of MCG availability in October until last night.

 

[Tony Harrison]

Richmond and Carlton both sent to Tasmania. Will Essendon and then Collingwood be sent here in future years?

I think Richmond get sent there because they draw a fair size crowd of tassie fans.
Eddie would be ropable if the Pies got sent there.
Could see an Essendon North game there in the future.

 

[Demonic Ascent]

Dees ouch on the doubles - Port, Collingwood, Hawthorn, St Kilda and GC twice.

Not too bad, Hawthorn hurts but the rest are meh. Would rather play Collingwood twice than Geelong or Bulldogs next year for example. Port could go either way and we generally play OK against them.

 

[Montana2Rice]

Anzac day footy with a yellow ball, **** off AFL, just **** off

The COLOUR of the ball gets people upset?

Surely the fact that the afl react in a knee-jerk fashion yet again, trying to fix a problem that only exists in the minds of a few media people, or that they then persist with a now obviously redundant floating fixture for the last round are just 2 of the things that are more upsetting that the COLOUR of the ball in one game.

Yellow ball? Wow.

 

[Marley10]

Could be worse, you could be like us play Crows, Freo, Port and West coast all at there home grounds next year, like us.

We play West Coast, Adelaide, Port, Fremantle and Sydney all away.

You guys don't play Adelaide away.

 

[Tiger71]

I think Richmond get sent there because they draw a fair size crowd of tassie fans.
Eddie would be ropable if the Pies got sent there.
Could see an Essendon North game there in the future.

Its also because we are a caring club. Someone needs to help North break even profit wise, it might as well be us. Besides, we have a lot of supporters in Tassie.

 

[Demonic Ascent]

If they've added a bye before the finals why not just add the second bye during the season the players want?

Edit: In the media conference they did say they weren't sure of MCG availability in October until last night.

Because they want to prevent teams resting players before finals. Not sure it will work, teams have rested players more than a week out of finals anyway.

 

[MaddAdam]

Hah, the AFL changed the rules because of us.

 

[Tiger71]

We play West Coast, Adelaide, Port, Fremantle and Sydney all away.

You guys don't play Adelaide away.

Your right, sorry, confused them with Port. All the SA sides look the same to me

 

[bungwahl]

Really don't like the bye before the finals - just seems an unnecessary break in the sport's momentum. Plus we'll have to listen to two weeks of media dribbling about how team 7 or 8 is the biggest chance ever to make it to the GF.

 

[Tiger71]

Hah, the AFL changed the rules because of us.

Yeah, your 2 finals wins now have a * beside them. Bombers want to welcome you to there club

 

[NarniMagic]

North kissed on the dick again by the AFL. I wonder what pic's Bradshaw has of Gil to always give them a bottom 4 draw ? lol

How is doubling up against Sydney, Bulldogs, Adelaide, Hawthorn and St Kilda a bottom 4 draw?

 

[Tiger71]

Really don't like the bye before the finals - just seems an unnecessary break in the sport's momentum. Plus we'll have to listen to two weeks of media dribbling about how team 7 or 8 is the biggest chance ever to make it to the GF.

I actually like it. Makes it more even, ie gives sides that might be a little beat up a weeks rest to get over any niggles. The swans this year could have used an extra week rest to get some of your injured players on the park, then the North game might have been different.

Also great opportunity for finals sides to have open training sessions to get the kids involved. I like it.

 

[ThirtyThr33]

So if you finish top 4, and win your first final. That team will only play 2 games of footy in one month!?

 

[LeverPuller]

So if you finish top 4, and win your first final. That team will only play 2 games of footy in one month!?

Yup.

 

[walhawk]

What's the point of the floating Round 23 fixture with a weeks break afterwards?

Reckon a couple of games with teams not in 8 might play that 2nd weekend.
Also can see a Thursday night final.

 

[jjsmitty8]

I understand the theory behind having a bye before the finals start, but I don't think it'll stop teams from resting players in the last game of their fixture. Particularly if their ladder position is set!

 

[Tas]

Only 2 games at the MCG (funnily enough, back to back).... Complete BS!!! Every team should at least play 3 there

We only play at the MCG once.

 

[TigerTime3]

Love how they hype up the fixture release as if they're naming the AA team or something.

"Watch it LIVE as we release the 2016 Fixture! OMG!1!!"

Next they'll be asking insignificant, moronic questions like: "Who won the fixture?"

Some thoughts:

- Very happy for the Bulldogs to get 3 FN games. Would have liked to see them get 4-5 even, but 3 is good.

- VERY happy to play Essendon twice

- Pleased to received 13 marquee night matches across the season, should keep us wealthy and allow us to earn more from our sponsors.

- Once again, the big clubs and our massive supporter bases are being used as cash cows to prop up the pathetic little irresponsibly-managed clubs which nobody care about, in order to generate false crowd sizes and misperceptions of relevance for them (case in point: Round 1 Richmond vs Carlton allows Carlton to retain that feeling of being relevant).

 

[Tas]

I understand the theory behind having a bye before the finals start, but I don't think it'll stop teams from resting players in the last game of their fixture. Particularly if their ladder position is set!

I don't think it would be desirable having a player sit out for 2 weeks unless they are injured.

 

[Giants FC]

With the week off before the finals, why the floating last round? Having a Sunday before the finals no longer stuffs you around with a short break before the finals; so there's no reason those games couldn't have been locked in.

 

[Borderline]

The COLOUR of the ball gets people upset?

Surely the fact that the afl react in a knee-jerk fashion yet again, trying to fix a problem that only exists in the minds of a few media people, or that they then persist with a now obviously redundant floating fixture for the last round are just 2 of the things that are more upsetting that the COLOUR of the ball in one game.

Yellow ball? Wow.

It's not a proper afternoon game was what I mean, afl is shitting on tradition