2020 AFL fixture released

[COOGRE]

easy win for my saints and its an away game for us, even better!!

 

[Milanista28]

Essendon smashed North and brought too many people it was too noisy so they asked the AFL to take us off the fixture.

 

[CarnTheScray]

easy win for my saints and its an away game for us, even better!!

I reckon it will be close, wouldn't say an easy win.

 

[Unique Name]

Happy enough with Essendon first up.

Perhaps the worst possible start for Melbourne though. After an awful 2019 season getting the toughest road trip first up in 2020.

 

[CarnTheScray]

Happy enough with Essendon first up.

Perhaps the worst possible start for Melbourne though. After an awful 2019 season getting the toughest road trip first up in 2020.

They played well against West Coast twice in 2019, I wouldn't put it past them.

 

[kranky al]

Vic clubs benefit from having the game in Melbourne?
Didn't seem to bother West Coast last year, or the Swans in 2012.

If you want to flip it around the other way, have a look at the enormous advantage non-Victorian clubs get in the home and away season. Playing in stadiums that are almost exclusively barracking for the home team. Teams like mine do not enjoy that sort of advantage throughout the year. This Vic bias is a load of BS.

We might play 1/2 our games like that - but the other half are played with games almost exclusively barracking against us.

 

[vanders]

Yay another 3:20 Sunday game

 

[Purple_Turtle]

Happy enough with Essendon first up.

Perhaps the worst possible start for Melbourne though. After an awful 2019 season getting the toughest road trip first up in 2020.

While I'm on board with seeing West Coast belting them I'm not so sure.

1. Melbourne were in both the games they played against West Coast this year.

2. West Coast don't have a great R1 record if I recall.

3. Melbourne will be coming off a longer break.

 

[Unique Name]

I reckon it will be close, wouldn't say an easy win.

When was the last time North won a Rnd1 game. Last year the North board spent all summer trolling our board about how they were going to win first up.

Somehow they let a Ross Lyon coached team kick 140+ points. Saints should go in as heavy favourites.

 

[manicmagpie]

And according to The Age, a stand-alone game on Saturday.



Doesn’t make sense, when are the other games to be played? One on Thursday, Rich/Melb on Friday night still leaves 6 other games to be played on Sunday. Can’t be right, surely.


https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/twilight-footy-on-anzac-day-next-year-20191029-p535hp.html

Yeah, that Age article looks to be garbage.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-10...ion-as-anzac-day-blockbuster-set-for-twilight

Due to a scheduled bumper day of football, the later bounce will ensure clean air around other matches and finish around 7pm local time.

 

[Unique Name]

While I'm on board with seeing West Coast belting them I'm not so sure.

1. Melbourne were in both the games they played against West Coast this year.

2. West Coast don't have a great R1 record if I recall.

3. Melbourne will be coming off a longer break.

Melbourne now have Ed Langdon kicking inside 50. It's going to be even harder for them to win now.

 

[banzai]

Do the hardest road trip in footy at a convenient time.

If its a must win game, then its at the worst possible time. However if we have top 2 or 4 locked up and cant move, then yeah its at a nice time.

 

[Dirty Bird]

Good. Only team I want to play that fixture against.

Can we bin Carlton - Richmond openers ffs? It's been a shit way to start the season for years. Literally any other fixture please.

I’d rather watch a shit game to open the season when there’s other options to entertain ones self then watch a shit game on Good Friday when there’s nothing to do with everything shut

 

[WWSD]

Welcome to Hawthorn Sunday home games at the MCG. Somethings never change.

 

[mikey127]

Yeah, that Age article looks to be garbage.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-10...ion-as-anzac-day-blockbuster-set-for-twilight

I think they mean a stand alone timeslot e.g no games overlapping

 

[Underarm]

Welcome to Hawthorn Sunday home games at the MCG. Somethings never change.

Brisbane got over 70k to that same timeslot in the last round of 2019. Can't be that bad surely?

 

[Bring-Back-Powell]

North are beating St Kilda round 1 next year.

 

[WWSD]

Brisbane got over 70k to that same timeslot in the last round of 2019. Can't be that bad surely?

Sunday 3.20pm games are not family friendly.

 

[Sauras]

Brisbane got over 70k to that same timeslot in the last round of 2019. Can't be that bad surely?

See it's these kind of posts I can't work out if you're serious or not?

 

[blueiris]

Hawthorn vs Brisbane first game at the MCG in what has it been 15 years?

 

[manicmagpie]

I think they mean a stand alone timeslot e.g no games overlapping

Probably what the AFL said and then Michael Gleeson in The Age misinterpreted it. In his article he definitely means only game on Saturday.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Hawthorn vs Brisbane first game at the MCG in what has it been 15 years?

really ? we played them away for like 8 years straight. surely 1 was at the g ?

 

[Gunf]

really ? we played them away for like 8 years straight. surely 1 was at the g ?

Tasmania

 

[cogs2hawks]

Hawthorn vs Brisbane first game at the MCG in what has it been 15 years?

Last time was 2012

 

[Benaly28]

Brisbane got over 70k to that same timeslot in the last round of 2019. Can't be that bad surely?

Hilarious.