2020 AFL fixture released

[Billy ray]

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'.

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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.

WA gets the monday holiday on 27th

 

[DynamiteDons]

The Pre Season "Marsh Community Series" fixture will be released Monday arvo, The AFLW fixture released Tuesday and with the Home and Away fixture to be released Wednesday/Thursday

 

[Camry_Crow]

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.

And that's exactly my point. Yes, you were impressive come September, but the draw enabled you to build that momentum in the first place. Nearly 4 solid months of playing in the same city, with the vast majority of games at home. No early morning wake up calls. No bus trips. No hanging around in departure lounges. No criss-crossing the continent. No strange beds. No having to compensate for the regular aircraft pressurization with customized training schedules. Just the same comfortable and familiar routine week-after-week, enhanced by having every family member you want to the games, and then in the rooms after. Until a Victorian team actually experiences what interstate teams put up with every year, they really are clueless. The proof would be in the pudding: excepting Gold Coast who are hopeless, allow any of the interstate teams an unobstructed run to the finals with 8 of 9 games at home, and just watch how well they subsequently play.

 

[Lsta062]

And that's exactly my point. Yes, you were impressive come September, but the draw enabled you to build that momentum in the first place. Nearly 4 solid months of playing in the same city, with the vast majority of games at home. No early morning wake up calls. No bus trips. No hanging around in departure lounges. No criss-crossing the continent. No strange beds. No having to compensate for the regular aircraft pressurization with customized training schedules. Just the same comfortable and familiar routine week-after-week, enhanced by having every family member you want to the games, and then in the rooms after. Until a Victorian team actually experiences what interstate teams put up with every year, they really are clueless. The proof would be in the pudding: excepting Gold Coast who are hopeless, allow any of the interstate teams an unobstructed run to the finals with 8 of 9 games at home, and just watch how well they subsequently play.

Not exactly true. Port Adelaide had a month at AO and they didn’t do well during and after this run. The moment they left they got comfortably beat by Richmond, who were only at the MCG for the second time in a row. Same with Adelaide in 2018. Had a month at AO from Rounds 6-9 and then got belted by 91 points the moment they travelled a shorter distance than Melbourne to Alice Springs. Melbourne went to the Gabba two weeks prior, meaning that they travelled more than Adelaide in the past month.

If your theory was correct, then the QF at the Gabba would probably be detrimental to our momentum because we’d be so used to the MCG than any other dimensions, climate and crowd composition would have been foreign to us. The reality in my opinion is that Richmond were too good in finals because they simply were too good regardless of the fixture. It’s why they have been up there for 3 years and why they won 2 Premierships in that time.

 

[dean33]

And that's exactly my point. Yes, you were impressive come September, but the draw enabled you to build that momentum in the first place. Nearly 4 solid months of playing in the same city, with the vast majority of games at home. No early morning wake up calls. No bus trips. No hanging around in departure lounges. No criss-crossing the continent. No strange beds. No having to compensate for the regular aircraft pressurization with customized training schedules. Just the same comfortable and familiar routine week-after-week, enhanced by having every family member you want to the games, and then in the rooms after. Until a Victorian team actually experiences what interstate teams put up with every year, they really are clueless. The proof would be in the pudding: excepting Gold Coast who are hopeless, allow any of the interstate teams an unobstructed run to the finals with 8 of 9 games at home, and just watch how well they subsequently play.

This is Richmond’s run of games just prior and after the bye.
Crows away
Bye
Saints away
Suns away
Giants home
Port home
Pies away
Dees away
Blues home
Eagles home
Lions home
So our last 10 games we had 3 away games in a row followed by 2 home games in a row, 2 away games and finishing with 3 home games in a row.
Seems pretty normal scheduling I would have thought?

 

[KnaveyBlue]

Don't mind seeing Richmond play, but just get a side in there that'll make a real game of it.

The average margin over the last four years is only 27 points. I hope you were crying just as loudly for Richmond to have the fixture taken off them when they were continually getting 10 goal hidings to open the season?

 

[_M_16_]

Can someone please direct me to 2020 fixture thread? Seems I've somehow made my way into the 2019 fixture whinge thread

 

[JPetro83]

Lock it in: West Coast vs Adelaide Round 1. Sunday twilight/Night.

 

[LiterallyNobody]

Lock it in: West Coast vs Adelaide Round 1. Sunday twilight/Night.

Source?

 

[Baggers]

The Pre Season "Marsh Community Series" fixture will be released Monday arvo, The AFLW fixture released Tuesday and with the Home and Away fixture to be released Wednesday/Thursday

Finally, someone has posted something relevant to this thread. Cheers.

 

[Bring-Back-Powell]

Lock it in: West Coast vs Adelaide Round 1. Sunday twilight/Night.

Sounds legit given West Coast are due for a round 1 home game, and Adelaide an away game.

 

[dave10]

Sounds legit given West Coast are due for a round 1 home game, and Adelaide an away game.

Richmond play Port as the home team at Marvel.
They also play at Marvel V Saints away in round 3.

 

[Bring-Back-Powell]

Richmond play Port as the home team at Marvel.

I'd imagine the club's supporters will be furious with that.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

be nice to actually have 11 home games next season, not ten plus an away 'home' game in farkin china.
and seeing how port can't even take full ownership of it how about pissing them off and getting someone else up there. or play somewhere we might get just a bit of a crowd, like denpasar.
can't see why the club can't just denounce the chinese regime - the afl would drop us from the game like a hot potato.

Get the cheersquad waving some taiwanese, HK, Tibet flags

 

[Tiger Toffee]

Richmond play Port as the home team at Marvel.
They also play at Marvel V Saints away in round 3.

Is this confirmed, because if it is it will mean we go home-away-away in the first 3 weeks. Hope round 2 is a road trip, wouldn't mind getting away for an early season weekender.

 

[Martin#4]

Is this confirmed, because if it is it will mean we go home-away-away in the first 3 weeks. Hope round 2 is a road trip, wouldn't mind getting away for an early season weekender.

Round 2 will be against Collingwood in Tasmania because we get too many MCG games.

The wineries and seafood in Hobart are excellent on a weekend away.

 

[tim_saints]

Is this confirmed, because if it is it will mean we go home-away-away in the first 3 weeks. Hope round 2 is a road trip, wouldn't mind getting away for an early season weekender.

Interesting we play you guys so early on at Marvel, assuming it will be a Saturday night game being Maddies Match and all.

Usually later on in the year!

 

[LiterallyNobody]

Interesting we play you guys so early on at Marvel, assuming it will be a Saturday night game being Maddies Match and all.

Usually later on in the year!

Is it even confirmed? I've seen nothing anywhere to suggest that - the only thing I've seen confirmed is North off to the Gabba round two after playing us at Marvel round one.

 

[tim_saints]

Is it even confirmed? I've seen nothing anywhere to suggest that - the only thing I've seen confirmed is North off to the Gabba round two after playing us at Marvel round one.

No idea

Guessing something was leaked somewhere for it to be brought up.

 

[Milanista28]

I hope they have 1 full bye round instead of 3 affected bye rounds.

For fantasy related concerns...

 

[Baggers]

 

[Aussie_boy]

Weird that they're playing the Dogs vs Roos game at Marvel. Ballarat or Arden Street would've been perfectly suitable for a pre-season game.

 

[Coach_Required]

AFL is a joke, can't believe we have to travel to Wagga Wagga and play our last preseason match there …..

 

[Nelso]

Richmond play Port as the home team at Marvel.
They also play at Marvel V Saints away in round 3.

No chance of that happening considering Port are due to play at home in round one

 

[mikey127]

No chance of that happening considering Port are due to play at home in round one

Don't think it round 1 tho