Prediction 2025 Fixture

[Keys]

 

[KERRPOW]

Apparently ch7 is pushing for sunday night games.

Guessing the WA teams will cop the brunt of this.

I'd be spewing if half our home games are this timeslot.

 

[stallon]

They can get ****ed if they try to make a WA team play Sunday night most weeks. Sunday afternoon is bad enough

 

[Smeg Head]

Agreed they are both dogshit timeshots, but a small mercy is that Channel 7 do not like to have to broadcast often from outside Melbourne, and a late game here would be too late for prime time over east and flights for players back. So its unlikely imo they would be WA games.

 

[JADED]

Looks like we're on the bus for an hour to the Barossa Valley in gather round (shit teams be shunted and all). Don't really see us getting an AO game unless we play Crows/Power.

 

[flamingEMBERS]

Sunday 2.40pm is great play footy Saturday, go to the footy Sunday.
Sunday night stinks, but happy also fine if we have one

Just prefer we have games in different time slots throughout the year

 

[Keys]

If CH7 are asking for a Sunday night game to broadcast it’ll be because of the ratings potential they see

What they won’t then want is one of the two non- competitive sides of the last 3 years

 

[flamingEMBERS]

If CH7 are asking for a Sunday night game to broadcast it’ll be because of the ratings potential they see

What they won’t then want is one of the two non- competitive sides of the last 3 years

Sunday Nighy time slot so the east can watch Harley

 

[flamingEMBERS]

I find the most obvious fixture hole being Friday night double headers at the start of the season before DS ends. One on the east and one in Perth.

There’s a risk day games are too hot so you start one 7:30AEDT and 7:10WST

Sure kids on the east coast might not watch, but adults will watch at home and at the pub.

 

[KERRPOW]

I find the most obvious fixture hole being Friday night double headers at the start of the season before DS ends. One on the east and one in Perth.

There’s a risk day games are too hot so you start one 7:30AEDT and 7:10WST

Sure kids on the east coast might not watch, but adults will watch at home and at the pub.

For our home games we will get the usual sunday arvo timeslot...the occasional saturday arvo timeslot. I cant see us getting any saturday night games. Maybe 1 or 2 friday nights where its a double up.

For our away games it will be that saturday morning spot or first up sunday.

 

[stallon]

If CH7 are asking for a Sunday night game to broadcast it’ll be because of the ratings potential they see

What they won’t then want is one of the two non- competitive sides of the last 3 years

As it is currently there is multiple games crossing over on sunday.
If they added the sunday night game they could have 3 consecutive games on Sunday that don't overlap at all.

Otherwise they have to keep splitting the viewer base

 

[southcoast]

I find the most obvious fixture hole being Friday night double headers at the start of the season before DS ends. One on the east and one in Perth.

There’s a risk day games are too hot so you start one 7:30AEDT and 7:10WST

Sure kids on the east coast might not watch, but adults will watch at home and at the pub.

This is a fixturing ‘no-brainer’ - three hour time difference. Could almost fit two full games in - less the bull dust pre-game stuff.

AFL/Ch7 tried a Friday night double-header (or two) last year but after DS had finished. And to think these allegedly clever people know how to maximise TV audience and viewer numbers.

Struggle to see WA getting Sunday night games - too late in eastern states methinks.


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[flamingEMBERS]

This is a fixturing ‘no-brainer’ - three hour time difference. Could almost fit two full games in - less the bull dust pre-game stuff.

AFL/Ch7 tried a Friday night double-header (or two) last year but after DS had finished. And to think these allegedly clever people know how to maximise TV audience and viewer numbers.

Struggle to see WA getting Sunday night games - too late in eastern states methinks.


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Sunday night games are 4:30pm WST start, straight after the news

 

[Doashuey]

They can get ****ed if they try to make a WA team play Sunday night most weeks. Sunday afternoon is bad enough

Sunday arvo games are night games for the eastern states- which is all the networks care about due to population.
Not much will change from a WA perspective I reckon as we already cop plenty of graveyards. Night games in WA wont start until 8:30pm on the eastern seaboard and the networks certainly wont be interested in that.

 

[eaglevision]

 

[Spod]

Feels like a rare and genuine win-win for North and the WA clubs. Good way to get AFL to the South West too.

 

[wirra44]

Feels like a rare and genuine win-win for North and the WA clubs. Good way to get AFL to the South West too.

Am I being too petty to say I really hope we don’t get the Bunbury game , where gonna spend 4hrs in a car instead of 8hrs in a plane which yeah it’s less but you’d probably want to spend the night down there before the game, so it’s basically like playing away.

 

[JackOutback]

Am I being too petty to say I really hope we don’t get the Bunbury game , where gonna spend 4hrs in a car instead of 8hrs in a plane which yeah it’s less but you’d probably want to spend the night down there before the game, so it’s basically like playing away.

It's two hours and five minutes. Probably in a nice bus.

 

[amazingjoshy]

Nissie already working his magic at the AFL

Good to see

 

[ZergMinion]

Am I being too petty to say I really hope we don’t get the Bunbury game , where gonna spend 4hrs in a car instead of 8hrs in a plane which yeah it’s less but you’d probably want to spend the night down there before the game, so it’s basically like playing away.

Bunbury is 2 hours drive for me. Where do you live? Upper woop-woop?

 

[squashface]

It's two hours and five minutes. Probably in a nice bus.

Bunbury is 2 hours drive for me. Where do you live? Upper woop-woop?

Given Melbourne also isn’t an 8 hour flight I would say that poster means 4hrs there and back. 2hrs down and 2hrs back

 

[ZergMinion]

Given Melbourne also isn’t an 8 hour flight I would say that poster means 4hrs there and back. 2hrs down and 2hrs back

Oh that makes sense.

 

[Spod]

Am I being too petty to say I really hope we don’t get the Bunbury game , where gonna spend 4hrs in a car instead of 8hrs in a plane which yeah it’s less but you’d probably want to spend the night down there before the game, so it’s basically like playing away.

Guessing they'll rotate it and wouldn't be surprised if whichever WA club gets the SW game does a mini-camp type thing and try to run some events around it. Yeah it's not the same as playing at Optus but players could easily bring their families/etc, and the drive also doesn't involve the rigmarole of airports/etc.

 

[happy_eagle]

Just fold the club already (North that is)

 

[Barrybran]

Holy ****. I guess I'll be visiting family between March and August then.

 

[Wild Kelly]

So our membership fee will increase accordingly? With the annual increase can see mine at ~$1,000 for 2026.....