2019 Fixture released

[Dogs till i die]

That's a bit rich. I have no bitch with yours being mostly prime time given success and the size of your club.

Collingwood have travelled to Spotless a bit but we'd prefer to play you at the G. You're not the worst drawing club at our place, but also not noticeably better than the Bombers, Blues, Hawks and Cats. The Spotless non derby record is actually held by an Eagles H/A game in 2016.

Would have thought the 2016 PF v Dogs holds the Spotless non-derby crowd record. The 2016 WCE game you talk of only had 10,385 there.

http://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2016/21/gws-v-wce

 

[W.C. Fry]

Richmond always seem to have two trips to Adelaide.
We must request it for some reason.

We sure do!!

 

[Tectonic]

The real question here is, how did Norf get 4 Friday night games? God the AFL loves them. For what reason, I will never understand.

Last season we had 1 friday arvo (vs saints), no friday nights and 11 sunday games.

 

[flamethrower]

Collingwood with the hardest draw in the competition according to Champion Data. At least we don’t have to listen to the whole soft draw BS from opposition fans.

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Interesting that 3 of the final 4 teams from last year have 3 of the top 5 toughest draws, but one other has the 6 easiest draw in the competition.

Except the CD table makes no sense....

Red = top 4 - they have WCE, Richmond, Melbourne and Geelong as top 4
Pink = 5 to 8th - they have Collingwood, GWS, Hawthorn & NM
Green = bottom 4 - Fremantle, Gold Coast, St Kilda, Carlton
White = 9th to 14th - Sydney, Port, Essendon, Bulldogs, Brisbane Lions & Adelaide

Apparently it is based on points differential in 2018 rather than ladder position, which makes it even LESS relevant.

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

Would have thought the 2016 PF v Dogs holds the Spotless non-derby crowd record. The 2016 WCE game you talk of only had 10,385 there.

http://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2016/21/gws-v-wce

You're struggling hard to bring up the 2016 PF, I get that. Not hard to see I was referring to H/A games.It does, of course, make absolutely no sense to compare with finals.

 

[Underarm]

Geelong 9 home games at Kardinia Park, what a joke.They should get 3 maximum.This easy draw will mean Geelong will finish 7th or 8th again, meaning a club that deserves finals will miss out.Geelong then get smashed in the first final for the 4th year in a row.Absolute BS.

Geelong only get 5 at the MCG, so not as uneven as it was last year.

How many games have richmond got at the G ?

13. But we do only get a home ground advantage once in the first 16 rounds.

 

[flyinghi64]

Reigning premiers get 3 Friday night games and 6 other teams get more, 5 from Victoria of course.
3 teams get 5 or more including one that didn't even make finals.
At least every 2nd week isn't a Sunday avo game.

 

[TimothyJ23]

Reigning premiers get 3 Friday night games and 6 other teams get more, 5 from Victoria of course.
3 teams get 5 or more including one that didn't even make finals.
At least every 2nd week isn't a Sunday avo game.

I hate to state the obvious but the AFL's biggest market is Melbourne, of course WCE aren't going to get a flood of primetime fixtures when it takes away from ratings and dare I say interested in the better-populated cities.

 

[PHX]

Has anyone seen an excel version of the fixture?

 

[Strahany]

St Kilda getting expectedly reamed from a commercial point of view; not much can be done about that. But, for the first time in 5+ years, they haven't been shafted from the football perspective.

 

[halalsnackpack]

https://media.heraldsun.com.au/fe/sport/2019ToyotaAFLPremiershipSeasonFixture.pdf

Thanks mate

 

[Socrates2]

That's a soft troll. Richmond get 17 games in their home city, Geelong hugely duded to only get the 9.

Home city? It's 50 minutes to Melbourne, same time from dandenong to the G in traffic.

 

[halalsnackpack]

Would have thought the 2016 PF v Dogs holds the Spotless non-derby crowd record. The 2016 WCE game you talk of only had 10,385 there.

http://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2016/21/gws-v-wce

It was in 2015 or 2017. Got like 14-15k

 

[smasha]

Wrenwood get kissed on the dick for yet another year,cheats.

 

[JohnZ]

Richmond 13 games at the MCG, what a joke.They should get 3 maximum.This easy draw will mean Richmond will finish 1st or 2nd again, meaning a club that deserves a double chance will miss out. Richmond will then get smashed in the Prelim final for the 2nd year in a row. Absolute BS.

 

[Ry009]

Cats fans still dirty that even though they don't have a home game against us at Marvel, still have to play a home game against Hawthorn at their home ground?

 

[smasha]

Collingwood 14 games at Richmond Paddock,that’s the joke and their umpiring troupe.

 

[theyellowsash]

I hate to state the obvious but the AFL's biggest market is Melbourne, of course WCE aren't going to get a flood of primetime fixtures when it takes away from ratings and dare I say interested in the better-populated cities.

see, when interstate fans were saying 'why are stkilda, carlton and footscray playing primetime games, they should put good teams only' what they were really saying was 'if non victorian teams dont play every primetime game then vicco bias'

 

[Socrates2]

How many games have richmond got at the G ?

The MCG is basically everyone's home ground.Gellong probably played there 9 times last year.Kardinia park is a unique boutique home ground, with strange dimensions with no opposition supporters because you lock them out. These games agsinst interstate teams are really just free wins .What's the point making finals every year and getting knocked out week one when you shouldn't be there? The club is becoming a laughing stock.

 

[dzussy]

Does anyone know where we can see which broadcaster is showing which match?

Gave up on Channel 7 years ago. They are a broadcasting joke.
Rather pay the extra and get Fox.
I'm down to 3 dim sims & 2 iced coffee's a week now, cutting costs.

 

[Strange Cat]

Home city? It's 50 minutes to Melbourne, same time from dandenong to the G in traffic.

13 homes games at the MCG

I got no idea what you’re sooking about, 9 homes games is less than 13 last time I checked.

Don’t forget your mob gets 7 straight home games...you can hardly be complaining about other teams home ground games.

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

It was in 2015 or 2017. Got like 14-15k

I said 2017 in the post he quoted. It's not by much.

Match report: Kelly leads Giants past Eagles - http://m.afl.com.au/news/2017-08-19/match-report-kelly-leads-giants-past-eagles

 

[powerrrrrrrrrrrr]

How do Richmond again walk out with such a good draw. Win a premiership, then the following year finish 1st. Hey let’s reward them with an easy draw!

 

[Grrr]

Predicting who has to play the top sides and how many times is a lottery. This time last year everyone was dreading pAdelaide and already banking the points against North. Saints were on the up and Brissy was a nice break from the southern winter.

 

[ItsGameTime]

How did the top of the ladder Tigers get the bottom of the ladder Blues TWICE next year? Defies logic.