Fixture 2025 Fixture Discussion

[Section 5]

Not able to read the article but note Zorko on 277 with Neale on 272,
Footywire agrees with those numbers. So, they are Home and Away games

Maybe the HS are looking at the 300 club which is different to playing 300 games.
That might be how they get Neale to 300.
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Below are the players who have played at least 300 games at VFL/AFL level; this list of players is often colloquially referred to as "the 300 club".[1] Individuals who have participated as a player, coach and/or umpire in 300 league-sanctioned senior games – including home-and-away, pre-season, state representative and international rules games – are awarded life membership of the AFL.[2]

 

[BuntonRules]

How are we gonna play 28 games?

Drawn grand final? As much as I love Lachie.....................

 

[Section 5]

Drawn grand final? As much as I love Lachie.....................

Extra time now

 

[Grasshopper17]

I get as far as the 3rd paragraph before I crack the sh!ts.

“The two KPIs of the fixture are broadcast viewership and attendance”

Fair dinkum, they should be "equity" and "fairness", not to mention "transparency".

Every season, at the end of week 17 (which I believe is now week 18), the average NFL fan sitting on their couch at home immediately knows exactly who their team will be playing next year. And I think they even know where as well. The "when" is obviously determined later but genuinely you can barely get more transparent than that.

That's a benchmark we can only dream of here while we are still mired in this desperate quest for "viewership and attendance" instead. It's backwater bush league stuff.

Case in point. The dust has only barely settled in the 2024 regular season, with the playoffs kicking off next week, and already every team knows it's schedule, home and away, for next season.

This is the pinnacle of transparency in world sport, and what we should be aspiring to here in Australia.

 

[mpal6]

With shortened pre-season, players still coming back from injury, Big O may not be available early in the season - we may have a 2024 type home and away run here. Loss/Loss/Win/Win/Loss/Win/Win/Win. If we get to 5-3 after round 8, that'll be par in my opinion. But Collingwood beat us both times last season and they're comfortable playing Gabba so we could drop that one too - putting us at 4-4. Pessimistic run would be a 2-6, with us only winning against West Coast and Richmond.


In the second block of 7 games I'm hoping the list has settled and we are closer to everyone available and hitting some form. I hope a Win/Win/Loss/Win/Win/Win/Loss might be a realistic outcome. 5-2 optimistic, but if we drop both Adelaide away and GWS home then its a 3-4 return. Leaves the season at either 10-5 (5-3,5-2) or a 7-8 (3-4,4-4).


Last block - if we truly hit our straps it'll be a 8-0 run (yay!). Or we go on a Win/Loss/Win/Win/Loss/Win/Loss/Loss 4-4 run placing us somewhere around the 14-9 or 15-8 (if we beat the Pies) mark for the season.

We could end up in the same situation as 2024, finishing in bottom half and see where we go from there.