2020 AFL fixture released

[WWSD]

Brisbane ya’ll gotta come down and play Hawthorn at the MCG for once.

 

[tim_saints]

Given that the Herald Sun article suggested North are travelling to QLD in rd 2, I would say it’s fair to suggest that North will be the home team against St Kilda in round 1.

Next year’s glamour side could start off with a dream opening 2 weeks with both games at Marvel. An away game in round 1 vs North and a home game in round 2.

Be nice for a change instead of fricken 1:10 Sunday time slots every second week.

 

[Farang83150]

Problem with you south Australians like western Australians is that you are so insular and not used to having opposition to your opinions nor at your grounds. You also have media that operates like state run news propaganda for the 2 clubs. So it makes having a discussion with you akin to having a discussion with a citizen of North Korea.

Actually, it's you that needs to get out into the world and see how it works re fair competitions.

 

[CarnTheScray]

AFL couldn't give a shit how you're playing.

It's crowd numbers they're interested in.

They gave us 7 Friday night games in 2017, we got one in 2019. The AFL makes the fixture based on how you did the year before. Crowd numbers also obviously depend on how well your team is playing, which we were at the start of 2017, and of course our fans showed up.

Essendon also played them this year because they wanted/needed a longer rest before the ANZAC match the week after.

 

[JayJ20]

They gave us 7 Friday night games in 2017, we got one in 2019. The AFL makes the fixture based on how you did the year before. Crowd numbers also obviously depend on how well your team is playing, which we were at the start of 2017, and of course our fans showed up.

Essendon also played them this year because they wanted/needed a longer rest before the ANZAC match the week after.

I'm pretty sure North requested to play Essendon again next year

 

[boncer34]

They gave us 7 Friday night games in 2017, we got one in 2019. The AFL makes the fixture based on how you did the year before. Crowd numbers also obviously depend on how well your team is playing, which we were at the start of 2017, and of course our fans showed up.

Essendon also played them this year because they wanted/needed a longer rest before the ANZAC match the week after.

Not really.

Essendon fans just keep turning up despite the train wreck that's been our last 20 years.

 

[CarnTheScray]

Not really.

Essendon fans just keep turning up despite the train wreck that's been our last 20 years.

Maybe because you're the third biggest Vic club?

 

[CarnTheScray]

I'm pretty sure North requested to play Essendon again next year

I'll try and find something on it. If its true then say goodbye to my hopes.

 

[boncer34]

Maybe because you're the third biggest Vic club?

Which is why we'll end up on Good Friday again.

 

[CarnTheScray]

Which is why we'll end up on Good Friday again.

Okay. I don't think you will but you're entitled to your opinion

 

[dave10]

Okay. I don't think you will but you're entitled to your opinion

Essendon will be scheduled on Good Friday. Essendon’s contribution to the event beyond simply the crowd has been well received (record fundraising, publicity, profile and the crowd). It became a sold out ‘big stage’ affair in 2019. North’s biggest rival.. Essendon and North worked well together last year to grow the occasion with success.

I’d be amazed if it wasn’t North V Essendon. I think it’s banked.

 

[CarnTheScray]

Essendon will be scheduled on Good Friday. Essendon’s contribution to the event beyond simply the crowd has been well received (record fundraising, publicity, profile and the crowd). It became a sold out ‘big stage’ affair in 2019. North’s biggest rival.. Essendon and North worked well together last year to grow the occasion with success.

I’d be amazed if it wasn’t North V Essendon. I think it’s banked.

I'll keep that in mind Dave

 

[JayJ20]

So we have North's first 2 games as the only leaks 5 days out? We usually have round 1 and a whole lot of information surrounding China, Cairns, NT, Tassie, Ballarat etc by now.

 

[manicmagpie]

I wonder who else will get ANZAC Day games this year with it falling on a Saturday. I presume Freo have put in a request to have the Len Hall game that night.

 

[Kimbo]

Essendon will be scheduled on Good Friday. Essendon’s contribution to the event beyond simply the crowd has been well received (record fundraising, publicity, profile and the crowd). It became a sold out ‘big stage’ affair in 2019. North’s biggest rival.. Essendon and North worked well together last year to grow the occasion with success.

I’d be amazed if it wasn’t North V Essendon. I think it’s banked.

Yep.

We played them in the first Good Friday match held by North Melbourne. Although Saints played them as well in 2018's game so really none of our clubs are truly entitled to be the ones to play. IMO out of the three that have played North on Good Friday, we are the most likely as we are no longer playing crap like in 2017/18, which is probably why we got shifted out in the first place.

And the Dogs, apparently, didn't do the work off-field.

 

[CarnTheScray]

Yep.


And the Dogs, apparently, didn't do the work off-field.

2017 and 2018 were record breaking for the Good Friday Appeal so if that's what you're referring to then its quite invalid.

 

[MadMundy]

Can the AFL just let us play one of the bigger teams away in Round 1 so we get the dreaded away trips out of the way early? Would also be a good test to see how our new look team under Longmuir will go.

 

[mikey127]

Brisbane ya’ll gotta come down and play Hawthorn at the MCG for once.

I would love that. Apparently there is something in your Tassie contract where you have to play 2 Vic teams down there each year but cause of our Fitzroy heritage we count as a Vic club.

 

[Bring-Back-Powell]

I wonder who else will get ANZAC Day games this year with it falling on a Saturday. I presume Freo have put in a request to have the Len Hall game that night.

The last time Anzac Day fell on a Saturday (2015) they had the standard 5 games, including a GWS v GC that attracted just 5,000 people!!

 

[Kimbo]

2017 and 2018 were record breaking for the Good Friday Appeal so if that's what you're referring to then its quite invalid.

I believe that - Dogs didn't make enough effort - was the AFL perspective, like it or not.

 

[manicmagpie]

The last time Anzac Day fell on a Saturday (2015) they had the standard 5 games, including a GWS v GC that attracted just 5,000 people!!

The history of non Ess/Coll games played on ANZAC Day (pre and post 1995) doesn't exactly back up claims that 'ANZAC Day = automatic huge crowd'.



Interesting to note that ANZAC Day one of the few public holidays where there is no extra day given if it falls on a weekend. No extra bonanza for the AFL on the Monday.

 

[Camry_Crow]

Name any interstate team that shares their ground with 5 other teams? You can’t because it just hasn’t happened.
Name an interstate team that has 9 other teams in their state? You can’t, because it just hasn’t happened.

Sigh. Apart from avoiding the question, you've also missed the point completely. Forget about the Melbourne-based clubs. In the last 9 weeks of the season, Richmond played GWS, Port Adelaide, West Coast and Brisbane ALL AT HOME. What should've happened (if the draw was fair) is that they play at least half of those games at home in the first half of the season, which would've meant at least some meaningful travel in the run home. The AFL are fully aware of the co-tenancy arrangements, and deliberately manipulate the draw to suit the VFL interests. The flavor of the last few years is undoubtedly the Tigers. Just 2 games interstate in 15 weeks this year was farcical, especially when you consider that, irrespective of what finals position they fill at the end of the minor round, ANY MCG co-tenant is guaranteed a Grand Final on their home ground.

 

[Camry_Crow]

You can always go back to following the sanfl if you don't like our competition. Remember the sanfl, the one South Australians said was better than the vfl?

We could, but then at some point we'd be asked to rejoin, if only to again fulfill Ross Oakley's wish and prop up the endlessly poor-performing VFL clubs with licence fees.

 

[Camry_Crow]

Problem with you south Australians like western Australians is that you are so insular and not used to having opposition to your opinions nor at your grounds. You also have media that operates like state run news propaganda for the 2 clubs. So it makes having a discussion with you akin to having a discussion with a citizen of North Korea.

"Media that operates like state run propaganda for the 2 clubs"? Are you delusional? Ever heard of Eddie McGuire? Or Caroline Wilson, whose Tiger's bias is legendary. As painful as it will practically be, have a look in the mirror sunshine....

 

[dean33]

Sigh. Apart from avoiding the question, you've also missed the point completely. Forget about the Melbourne-based clubs. In the last 9 weeks of the season, Richmond played GWS, Port Adelaide, West Coast and Brisbane ALL AT HOME. What should've happened (if the draw was fair) is that they play at least half of those games at home in the first half of the season, which would've meant at least some meaningful travel in the run home. The AFL are fully aware of the co-tenancy arrangements, and deliberately manipulate the draw to suit the VFL interests. The flavor of the last few years is undoubtedly the Tigers. Just 2 games interstate in 15 weeks this year was farcical, especially when you consider that, irrespective of what finals position they fill at the end of the minor round, ANY MCG co-tenant is guaranteed a Grand Final on their home ground.

We had all our travel at the first half of the season and again I didn’t hear opposition fans complaining when we were 7-6 at the bye. The fact we won games away in those first 2 months were just as much a reason for us finishing top 4 as our run of mcg games at years end. Seriously the way we finished the year it would not have mattered who we played or where, like a wrecking ball when we hit September as our dismantling of the 2nd best team post bye on their home deck proved.