Fixture 2025 AFL Fixture

[dominguez]

Honestly? **** em, the fixture double ups are hard sure, but you can tell the boys deep down have the hunger and drive to get the job done, I have this serious gut feeling that next year is the year that it all clicks, I may be wrong, and I'm happy to admit I'm wrong if it doesn't go well, but next year just feels different.

They can put their ducks in a row all they like, we're gonna knock each and every ****in one of them down, they haven't seen what we're made of yet, what we've shown is only a ****in glimpse.

Flagmantle is on the ****in table again baby.

Agree 100%.

The competition is more even than ever and Brisbane come back to the pack without Daniher.

We were disappointing against good teams in the last month of the season this year, but we only lost each of those games by a kick or two. Another year on the track, the addition of Bolton, Flagmantle looks a real possibility.

 

[dominguez]

I honestly don’t get the love for the “less travel” of this fixture, it’s still 10 interstate games, that’s exactly the same as we traveled pre gather round, sure moving from back from 11 the last two years makes it feel better but it’s the same as 3 years ago.

Starting the season away then an 8 day break and finishing the season away when there's a pre finals bye make a difference. Also one of our 10 away games are at a neutral venue against the Tigers who will be bottom 2, that never happened pre-gather round.

 

[The Feeder Club]

Assuming they still want to keep a 23 game season It would be pretty simple to adjust the fixtures to make it fairer by having the double up games based on the current season ladder position, not the prior season.
1. Get rid of opening round
2. Rounds 1-18 each team plays everyone once, with a bye spread across somewhere in the middle, say rounds 8-10
3. After round 18 determine the double ups for round 19-24, using whatever current secret herbs and spices mixture they used but based on your round 18 ladder position this year, not last years form
4. Have a whole comp bye between round 18 and 19 for thus to be fixtured.
5. Get rid of the prefinals bye

Any arguments this couldn't be done logistically went out the window with covid when they fixtured almost a full season on the run

 

[anchor man]

Assuming they still want to keep a 23 game season It would be pretty simple to adjust the fixtures to make it fairer by having the double up games based on the current season ladder position, not the prior season.
1. Get rid of opening round
2. Rounds 1-18 each team plays everyone once, with a bye spread across somewhere in the middle, say rounds 8-10
3. After round 18 determine the double ups for round 19-24, using whatever current secret herbs and spices mixture they used but based on your round 18 ladder position this year, not last years form
4. Have a whole comp bye between round 18 and 19 for thus to be fixtured.
5. Get rid of the prefinals bye

Any arguments this couldn't be done logistically went out the window with covid when they fixtured almost a full season on the run

Re number three, How does that work? How can the AFL not fix the future games to favour so as to not favour the VFL teams?

 

[The Feeder Club]

Re number three, How does that work? How can the AFL not fix the future games to favour so as to not favour the VFL teams?

The double up system would still be the same, in general terms if after round 18 you're top 6, your final six games of the year will be around 3 against other top 6, 2 against middle 6 and 1 against bottom 6. It's just based on this year's form, not last year's.
It will never be perfect of course unless you play every other team twice but it's still fairer than current system