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It’s just bizarre that we get three prime time games after finishing third this year,while Carlton who finished ninth,gets seven prime time games,more than any other team in the competition.Why is Carlton always the apple of the AFL’s eye?
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Don't hate it. Watching Carlton lose on a Friday night is my second favourite way to start the weekend behind a Collingwood win.It’s just bizarre that we get three prime time games after finishing third this year,while Carlton who finished ninth,gets seven prime time games,more than any other team in the competition.Why is Carlton always the apple of the AFL’s eye?
It’s just bizarre that we get three prime time games after finishing third this year,while Carlton who finished ninth,gets seven prime time games,more than any other team in the competition.Why is Carlton always the apple of the AFL’s eye?
Tough start to the year - the first 4 games could be the making or breaking of our season.
Selfishly as an Adelaide dweller I'm pretty happy about 3 games in Adelaide. The Gather Round might be interesting for all teams - and the lads and lassies
I hope we have a good intro to that round like this
Given we have quite a few South Australians in the team 3 games in Adelaide might not be too bad for us.
Why? I'm confident we finish top four. Our list has improved over the break, the younger established players like Noble. Quaynor, Ginnivan, McCeery, N Daicos, JC and Murphy, will be full of confidence with another season of tough clashes in front of huge crowds under their belts.Tough draw.
Not getting double-ups against any of easy-beats North, Gold Coast, Saints or West Coast makes it difficult, especially given likely improvement from Carlton, Port and Essendon.
A ladder position of 6-10 seems likely in 2023.
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I despise Sunday football. Congrats to those who couldn't care less, but end-of-weekend footy (especially late arvo) is something I tend to avoid.
More Fri/Sat night would be grand, not least to showcase a team which played exciting football in 2022.
I wonder if any other interstate teams will be at AO 3 times in the season, obviously the Crows and Port will as it,s there home base,I think we would have better off if we had played 1 of the SA teams in the magic rd if not 1 of our interstate rivals.
And why do we play the Lions at home at Mar I do not think they have done Collingwood any favours apart from the game against Swans and that only after waiting 10 yrs for it to happen.
AFL using us to try propagate interest in Sunday arvo footy. At least 3 of them are televised games. Hopefully no more in the run home aspect of the draw.
We get the same stadium split in Melbourne every year
14 at the G (9 "home" 5 "away")
3 at Marvel (2 "home" 1 "away")
We then get 5 games outside vic, and this year the extra Gather game.
It is swings and roundabouts, we never go to CatPark or cop Hawks or North in Tassie like other Melbourne based clubs do.
Yep and we also get "away" games at the G against Geelong and sometimes Saints or Dogs.North and Hawks would specifically request not to play us in Tassie would be my guess. Their home cash cow, why waste it on a Tassie government subsidized game.
I wish we weren't the golden goose for the pathetic AFL. Part of me hopes we don't turn up attendance wise for those shocking late Sunday arvo timeslots. and the prime-time games are a flop. The arrogant tosses deserve nothing less.
I thought TV ratings were the number one priority. If so, our drawer is inexplicable.
It’s just bizarre that we get three prime time games after finishing third this year,while Carlton who finished ninth,gets seven prime time games,more than any other team in the competition.Why is Carlton always the apple of the AFL’s eye?
Yep and we also get "away" games at the G against Geelong and sometimes Saints or Dogs.
We really cant complain about a couple of Etihad / Marvel games.
NSW Pies fans got shafted. Stiff s**t if you bought an interstate this year says the AFL.
At least rotate Giants and Sydney every other year in NSW.