Preview 2020 Fixture

[chiwigi]

Port will get a bye between rounds 13 and 16. This will allow us to freshen up and get ready for a serious tilt at the finals.

We will probably make finals, so the later the bye the better. I agree.

 

[gbear]

Yeah no bye in that congested rapid fixture seems criminal

The following 4 rounds will the same. Rounds 17 and 18 will return to the weekly format before finals.

 

[JimmyBC]

Did anyone expect anything favourable ? on the list of teams AFL house like at the pointy end of the ladder we are very much low rung.

 

[scotty13]

Its nice we get to play Geelong at the GABBA, which will be their 3rd game in a row there... so basically a Geelong home ground. Thankfully they will be off a 4day break.

 

[GoTheMightyCrows]

Crap draws are far better than the season being cancelled, lovin having a footy season in trying circumstances.

 

[Del165198]

We play one home game then back to qld? Where we've played 6 already? Do they just pull this shit out of a hat?

 

[Leaveit2charlie]

We are playing 4 games against gun sides.

Go hard for 3 drop 1 give the A list break.

Maybe an understanding with Geelong depending on their situation? We both play back ends of the list?

 

[gbear]

Its nice we get to play Geelong at the GABBA, which will be their 3rd game in a row there... so basically a Geelong home ground. Thankfully they will be off a 4day break.

Shame we don’t play them off their bye

 

[El Zorro]

I assume we will be playing the last 5 games at home, right?

 

[Tibbs]

It’s a joke how the WA teams have every game in Perth and a bye and yet we still travel have a four day break and no bye at all

Nah, you are whinging about nothing. We will get the later bye, which will leave us fresher that the others leading into finals. Much better than an earlier bye, ie: the last few years after Shanghai

 

[Portwon]

It is a challenge but the whole year has been and will continue to be.

The opportunity we have is to continue building resilience and a close culture particularly amongst the young lads.

Definitely no asterix in this year's flag in my opinion.

 

[OneGreatClub]

Port will get a bye between rounds 13 and 16. This will allow us to freshen up and get ready for a serious tilt at the finals.

Will probably have half our squad injured and exhausted by then

 

[DazalenkoUBewty]

Geelong get 3 Gabba games in a row...ours being the third game.

God damn. What to say...

 

[OneGreatClub]

Shame we don’t play them off their bye

I hope we aren’t playing anyone off their bye

 

[P4Life]

Million Dollar question?
Do you strategically rest all regular players in one match to maximise winning the other 3

 

[chiwigi]

I assume we will be playing the last 5 games at home, right?

Why play games at a ground that will have decent crowds etc.

 

[Ant Bear]

Most teams getting the 4 or 5 day breaks between games. Other than the Bulldogs game, we will go into all those games with equal or more of a break than the opposition.
It will be brutal on everybody, a real test of the depth of lists.

Keep with our positive attitude, and we should be happy with going 3/2 over the next 5 games.

The run home looks juicy - Sydney, Hawthorn and North will all be tanking by then.

 

[Marmozet]

Bring. It. On.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Million Dollar question?
Do you strategically rest all regular players in one match to maximise winning the other 3

Players with any niggles or tiredeness will be rested.

 

[JimmyBC]

On the plus side playing at the GABBA more might not be bad in the long run if we have to play Brizvegas there again in a final.

 

[Schulzenfest]

So at the end of this block, we will have played 8 games this year outside of our home state, compared to Adelaide and Freo's 6 and West Coast's 5. AFL lol.

 

[LFC2010]

obviously also leaves North, Hawks, Essendon, Sydney and Collingwood left in the run home.

think we'll end up with Hawks and Roos in Tassy (given the Roos have got games in Hobart), probably Sydney in Alice or Darwin as NT lobbying the AFL for games.
2 home games max being Essendon & Collingwood

 

[Duckimus Prime]

The following 4 rounds will the same. Rounds 17 and 18 will return to the weekly format before finals.

We'll get the bye in round 17. Then play in round 18 followed by the AFL's now standard bye going into the Finals. So we'll enter finals having played 1 game in the last 3 weeks.

 

[Chewy316]

Absolutely ridiculous that we have to play 2 games at the Gabba in this next block of 4. I expected 1 game, not 2. Shafted to the hilt.

Not expecting anything better for the remaining 5 games either. Makes a mockery of the situation but when we get through it in the top 4 they won't be able to keep us away from Adelaide Oval for the finals.

 

[RossFC]

No self awareness for these Vics. Richmond have 2 AFL flags in their history and both were won with minimal travel.