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Wonder when Essendon will do their catch up game?
Weird that their games are scheduled towards the end of each week.
I thought the AFL would try to schedule them earlier so a catch up game could more easily be slotted in during the last lot of games.
Essendon and Melbourne won't get a bye.

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Regarding the fixture past this point, what we have heard is:

- Grand Final been mentioned as 17th of October

- Round 17 and 18 have been mentioned as "traditional" scheduling (Thursday through Sunday/Monday) to allow teams to prepare for finals. You would assume all teams play in this time, with no byes.

- This implies finals are traditionally scheduled as well, which would need to regular 4 week schedule.

- I'm also assuming no pre finals bye.

So working backwards:

Grand Final - October 17
Prelims - Weekend of October 10
Semis - Weekend of October 3
First Week of Finals - Weekend of September 26
Round 18 - Weekend of September 19
Round 17 - Weekend of September 12

Which leaves:
Round 13-16 - Tuesday August 18 through to Monday September 7 (21 days). Our bye would be in that time.

3 games in 21 days isn't really that bad. Should get one or two home games in that period so should be fairly manageable.

If we can get through the Round 9-12 slog with a reasonable record, we should look ok for the end period of games against Collingwood, Essendon, North, Hawthorn and Sydney.
 

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We play at the Gabba and not Metricon because Melbourne is based out of the Gabba, and so too is Geelong. They've put the Victorian strong midfield teams (Geelong, Melbourne) at a ground that they can exploit that advantage the most.

We also don't get heaps of home games because you can bet that the SMA had a whinge to the AFL about operating costs and only wants to operate the stadium for a week block at a time - so when we get a home game, Adelaide gets a home game. That's how they are going to make their budget.

Absolutely no reason why we can't win all of those games if we continue to improve. The good thing is we aren't going to be ****ed playing in the Queensland humidity like the majority of those teams.
 
The reality is, we're playing a home and away season here. Our home games will be home, our away games will be away (just not always at our opponent's actual home ground, mostly at neutral grounds).

The fact that we have played 2 home games at neutral grounds (v West Coast and GWS) is well and truly evened out by the fact that all of the Victorian teams, both NSW teams and both WA teams will have played at least that many home games on neutral territory and in most cases more than that. Note that all of West Coast and Fremantle's games at Optus are home games - this means they will be on the road again for a big block of away games at the back end of the season! The only reason they get so many in a row and we don't is the differing border restrictions.

In the wash up, the only teams who will get significantly more home venue games than us are Brisbane and Gold Coast. West Coast and Adelaide will get 1 more each, the rest will end up with less.
 
The Battle of the Bridge:

Round 12

Thursday, August 13


Sydney v Greater Western Sydney, Optus Stadium 6.10pm AWST


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So Sydney and GWS have the Bye in Rd 11 and Freo and GWS go their Bye in Rd 10 which means Sydney and GWS will fly to Perth after their Thursday and Friday night Rd 10 games, quarantine their bye in Perth, then play the battle of bridge and stay and play Freo and WCE in Rd 13 and 14. Edit WCE played Sydney at Cararra Rd 4.

So WA teams get Rds, 7,8,9, 11, 12, 13,14 at home and SA teams get SFA home games.

The WA teams deserve 5 or 6 weeks in a row at home after doing 5 weeks in Qld, they get 7 games straight, and its all complex, but the SA teams should have had 3 or 4 weeks in a row at AO
 
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and we wonder why we keep getting reamed by the victorians.

time to get some Port Adelaide people in who have some attitude and grunt instead of this nice guys attitude with Koch and KT. If opposition people don't like it, stiff bloody sh*t.
Yeah, what’s the deal with all the positivity, it’s not like it’s working for them.
 
The reality is, we're playing a home and away season here. Our home games will be home, our away games will be away (just not always at our opponent's actual home ground, mostly at neutral grounds).

The fact that we have played 2 home games at neutral grounds (v West Coast and GWS) is well and truly evened out by the fact that all of the Victorian teams, both NSW teams and both WA teams will have played at least that many home games on neutral territory and in most cases more than that. Note that all of West Coast and Fremantle's games at Optus are home games - this means they will be on the road again for a big block of away games at the back end of the season! The only reason they get so many in a row and we don't is the differing border restrictions.

In the wash up, the only teams who will get significantly more home venue games than us are Brisbane and Gold Coast. West Coast and Adelaide will get 1 more each, the rest will end up with less.

And when WA continues to keep up its border restrictions given that Mark McGowan is an absolute lunatics, do you really see the AFL telling West Coast and Freo to go back into a hub? That ain't happening.

Outside of the crazy scheduling in terms of timing the games, the only thing the AFL have done in terms of the fixture is replaced the MCG and Marvel stadium with the Gabba and Metricon, keeping the vic teams' air travel kept to the bare minimum whilst us SA clubs cop the short end of the stick because our premier was panicking about letting all these teams into a potential hub where they would spread the virus all across our state, despite the extreme testing regime and hazard reduction schemes implemented to date by the AFL.
 
And when WA continues to keep up its border restrictions given that Mark McGowan is an absolute lunatics, do you really see the AFL telling West Coast and Freo to go back into a hub? That ain't happening.

Yes it is. Notice that West Coast and Freo are listed as home teams in all of their games at Optus? That's because they're on the road to play the rest of their share of away games later in the season.

It's not round 2 or 3 or 4 anymore where the WA and SA teams were doing the heavy lifting whilst everyone else was business as usual - every team except Brisbane and Gold Coast will be doing some form of heavy lifting for the rest of the season (almost least of all us - by round 13 or 14, it'll only be the SA and Queensland teams sleeping in their own beds).
 

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I was thinking that perhaps we could use the next three rounds (StK, Dees, Dogs) to rotate the players that need a rest. We don't need to do all in one match.

Players that need a bit more rest could even skip the next two.

I would rest the older guys, plus Rozee, and some that may have light injuries.
 
So who is getting a good go so far.

Crows get Rds 1, (Rd 2 away showdown), 7,8,10,11 at AO = 5+1 Qld home games after 12 rounds (Freo in Qld)
Port get Rds 2, 8,10,11 at AO = 4+2 Qld home games (WCE + GWS in Qld)
Port games in Qld home Rds 4,6 Away Rds 1,3,5,7,9,12

I will assume Sydney and GWS will stay in Perth and play Freo and WCE in Rd 13 and GWS stays on to play Freo in Rd 14 as WCE and Syd played each other in Rd 5 at the Cararra. WA teams get a bye in Rd 10.

WCE get Rds 1 (Rd 7 away derby) 8,9,11,12,13, = 6 + 2 Qld home games after 13 rounds (Syd + Adel in Qld)
Freo get Rds 7,8,9,11,12,13,14 = 7 + 2 Qld home games in 14 rounds (Port + StK)

Bris get Rds 2,3,4,5, 11 = 5 games at the Gabba + Rds 8,9,10 at Cararra = 8 Qld games
Away games ie jump on a plane Rds 1, 6 (gee scg) 7 (gws), 12 (NM in Hobart) = 4 away games

Gold Coast get Rds 1,2,3,4,8,9,10,11 = 8 games at Cararra + Rd 12 at Gabba = 9 Qld games
Away games ie jump on a plane Rds 5(gee kp), 6 (melb at giants) 7 (syd scg) = 3 away games

GWS gets Rds 1,2,4,5,7,8 = 6 home games at Giants stadium. NSW teams get a bye in Rd 11
away games at neutral venues Rds 6(PA), 10 (Ess) and 12 Sydney in Perth.

Sydney gets Rds 2,4,7,8 = 4 home games
away games at neutral venues Rds 5(WCE at Cararra), 6(Rich Gabba), 9( Stk Gabba), 10(Coll Gabba), and 12 GWS in Perth.

No games in NSW after Rd 8.
 
As if Collingwood and Geelong will leave QLD more than a couple times again once they get up there - unless Vic opens back up - this would be a hard and fast agreement between Ed and Gil for doing the heavy lifting and “volunteering” to head to the Wild West and save the season!
 
Did a quick spreadsheet of days breaks.

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Biggest loser for sure has to be GWS as they've effectively been cheated out of a bye. They get a 6-day break INCLUDING their bye between rounds 10-12. That's 4 days fewer than gold coasts regular break between rounds 8 and 9.

If I was a Giants fan I'd be spewing at this.
 
Biggest loser for sure has to be GWS as they've effectively been cheated out of a bye. They get a 6-day break INCLUDING their bye between rounds 10-12. That's 4 days fewer than gold coasts regular break between rounds 8 and 9.

If I was a Giants fan I'd be spewing at this.
I find it hard to ever feel sorry for GWS after all of their concessions over the years.
 
The reality is, we're playing a home and away season here. Our home games will be home, our away games will be away (just not always at our opponent's actual home ground, mostly at neutral grounds).

The fact that we have played 2 home games at neutral grounds (v West Coast and GWS) is well and truly evened out by the fact that all of the Victorian teams, both NSW teams and both WA teams will have played at least that many home games on neutral territory and in most cases more than that. Note that all of West Coast and Fremantle's games at Optus are home games - this means they will be on the road again for a big block of away games at the back end of the season! The only reason they get so many in a row and we don't is the differing border restrictions.

In the wash up, the only teams who will get significantly more home venue games than us are Brisbane and Gold Coast. West Coast and Adelaide will get 1 more each, the rest will end up with less.

You make the assumption that we won't get shafted in rounds 13-17. As we will have had only 4 games at Adelaide in the first 12 rounds I would expect to get at least 4 of the last 5 at AO. That would give us 8 games at AO in a 17 game season.

The reality is this is the AFL and if we work on the premise that the AFL never do Port any favours we will not be disappointed.
 
Reckon after round 12 (5 games to play), so we will get one bye (somewhere in the mix), and the final 5 games will be 2 x home, 1 x home (neutral venue) and 2 x away (neutral venue) in random order.

Means we would get 6 x "pure" home (AO) plus 3 x home (neutral) = 9 games out of 17 "home". Then 8 "away" games (some at other club's home and some at neutral grounds).
 
You make the assumption that we won't get shafted in rounds 13-17. As we will have had only 4 games at Adelaide in the first 12 rounds I would expect to get at least 4 of the last 5 at AO. That would give us 8 games at AO in a 17 game season.

The reality is this is the AFL and if we work on the premise that the AFL never do Port any favours we will not be disappointed.

Read my post again. We can't expect 8 games at Adelaide Oval - and no clubs except the Queensland clubs will be getting that many home city games this year.
 
Read my post again. We can't expect 8 games at Adelaide Oval - and no clubs except the Queensland clubs will be getting that many home city games this year.

Why shouldn't we expect 8 games in Adelaide? You have been around the AFL too long and are starting to defer to their logic. You make a lot of assumptions such as WCE and Freo are listed as home teams because, 'they are on the road again'. Firstly you don't know that you are assuming that is the case. Secondly If WCE, Freo, Port and the Crows are all on the road again in the last five rounds it is going to be pretty busy in Queensland as there are no games in NSW. On top of that both Perth and Adelaide are allowing 25,000 crowds into the stadiums so programming games at Adelaide Oval and Optus makes better financial sense than playing in front of a few thousand at Merticon or the Gabba.

You might be right, we may not get 8 games in Adelaide after all this is the AFL, be what you post is conjecture disguised as fact. There is a s much to suggest we will as suggests we mightn't.
 

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